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President Trump has followed through with the veto on the annual defense bill, as Congress plans to return from their holiday break to potentially override him for the first time in his 4-year administration. “My Administration has taken strong actions to help keep our Nation…
Read More President Trump Vetoes U.S. Defense Bill, Congress May Override
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA – A man who was arrested with ten pounds of methamphetamine in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was sentenced December 21, 2020, to more than twelve years in federal prison. Malik Sekou Sahid Buchanan, age 40, from Burlington, Iowa, received the prison term after…
Read More Iowa Man With $75,000 Worth of Meth, Earns 12-Years in Federal Prison
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK. – The FBI Oklahoma City Division and the Oklahoma City Police Department are seeking the public’s help with identifying the suspect who robbed the North May Avenue MidFirst Bank in Oklahoma City, on Monday, December 21, 2020. The suspect is described as…
Read More FBI: Bank Robber Wanted in Oklahoma City
BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Chojnacki, 27, of Cheektowaga, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.…
Read More Former New York State Corrections Officer Going To Prison, 5-Years On Child Porn Conviction
BOSTON, MA. – A Worcester man was charged yesterday with cocaine and firearm possession. Rodney Hall, 36, was charged by criminal complaint with one count of possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. According to…
Read More Convicted Felon Charged with Cocaine and Firearm Possession
On Tuesday, President Trump announced the appointment of individuals to key administration posts, and Florida made the list. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd was appointed to the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Sheriff Judd said, “I am honored to have been appointed…
Read More Trump Appoints Florida’s Grady Judd, Pam Bondi to Administration Posts
On Tuesday night, Trump urged lawmakers to make a number of changes to the COVID-19 relief measure, including bigger direct payments to individuals and families. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, agreed with his call for $2,000 payments. “Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President…
Read More Democrats Agree With Trump’s “Tuesday Surprise” U.S. Stimulus for Americans, Whaddya Say Mitch?
LOS ANGELES, CA. – A Covina man pleaded guilty today to federal cyberstalking charges for his multi-year internet harassment campaign against two teenage girls who rejected his sexual advances. Carl De Vera Bennington, 34, pleaded guilty via videoconference to two counts of cyberstalking. According to his…
Read More California Man Admits to Cyberstalking Two Teenage Girls
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Chester Hammond, age 44, of Manlius, New York, was arrested yesterday and charged with distributing child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau…
Read More New York Man Arrested on Child Pornography Charges
The owners of over a dozen New York-area pharmacies were charged in an indictment unsealed today for their roles in a $30 million health care fraud and money laundering scheme, in which they exploited emergency codes and edits in the Medicare system that went into…
Read More 2-Owners of New York Pharmacies Charged in a $30 Million COVID-19 Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Case