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U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox announced that a 40-year-old Ore City, Texas man has been sentenced to 840 months in federal prison for child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas. Jeremy OKieth Kyle, also known as Corey Webster, also known as Rick, also…
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Tamara Jo Nyachira, of Pittsburg, Kansas, was sentenced today to three years’ probation, a $5,000 fine and 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty to obtaining narcotic opioid prescription drugs with forged prescriptions before Chief United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel. According to…
Read More Kansas Pharmacist Sentenced for Presenting Forged Prescriptions Ppioid and Anti-Malaria Drugs
BERGEN COUNTY, NJ. – A New Jersey, man was charged with distributing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today. Joseph Ganaro, 42, Lodi, New Jersey, is charged by complaint with one count of distribution of child pornography. He appeared by videoconference…
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Ihor Radionov, 51, Alpharetta, Georgia, was arrested pursuant to an indictment charging him with conspiracy and smuggling goods out of the United States in violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. If convicted on all counts, Radionov faces a maximum penalty of 20 years…
Read More International Firearms Trafficker Arrested In Georgia
BALTIMORE, MD. – Calvin Henry Sampson, III, age 21, of Baltimore, Maryland, has been charged with four counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. According to the indictment, between July 26, 2019 and February 26, 2020, Sampson exploited…
Read More ‘HORRENDOUS’ Baltimore Maryland Man Indicted Producing Child Porn
Along the northern Gulf Coast, the combination of a dangerous storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by rising waters moving inland from the shoreline. The water could reach the following heights above ground somewhere in…
Read More Hurricane Zeta Eyes On Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida
With 10 confirmed cases, hospitalizations, and one death in Florida, there is still no reported brand or specific deli meat that has been identified in the Listeria outbreak. The CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food…
Read More Listeria Deli Meat Outbreak Stands at 10-Cases with One Death in Florida
Publix announced today it will expand its distribution center in Greensboro, North Carolina, to include a dry grocery warehouse, which will add more than 1.2 million square feet of space. In February 2020, Publix broke ground on the distribution center’s first phase, a refrigerated warehouse,…
Read More Publix Announces Expansion of North Carolina Distribution Center
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ (FDACS) Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement (OALE) made an arrest after an investigation into a credit card skimming operation in Levy County. On October 21, OALE investigators took David Ortiz-Barban into custody — he was booked into the Hernando County Jail, and bond was set at $30,000.…
Read More Florida Department of Agriculture Makes Arrest in Gas Pump Skimmer Investigation
U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan Monday sentenced Lonnie Lawrence Mercer, Jr. 42, Jacksonville, to 20 years in federal prison, and a 15-year term of supervised release, for possessing images of child sexual abuse. Mercer had pleaded guilty on July 5, 2020. According to court…
Read More Florida Man Gets 20-Years for Sexually Exploiting Child Under 12