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BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Richard C. Miller, 53, of Forestville, NY, who was previously convicted of receipt and possession of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison and lifetime supervised release by U.S. District…
Read More New York Man gets 20-Years for Child Porn
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD. – Wilber Vigil-Benitez, also known as “Solitario,” of El Salvador, was arrested today on an outstanding arrest warrant from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, announced Michael R. Sherwin, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia;…
Read More Maryland MS-13 Gang Leader Charged with Firearms Trafficking
DALLAS, TX. – Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez, aka “El Gato,” has been added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. A reward of up to $1 million is being offered by the U.S. Department of State’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program for information leading directly…
Read More $1,000,000 Reward for “El Gato” Texas Man and FBI Most Wanted
PORTLAND OREGON – Bruce Emerson Sawhill, a convicted sex offender, is wanted for committing sexual acts on a minor. Approximately in 2001, Sawhill allegedly sexually assaulted a young female child on more than one occasion, in Jefferson County, Missouri. Sawhill had previously befriended the victim’s…
Read More $25,000 REWARD for Info On Location and Arrest of Child Sexual Assault Offender
DALLAS, TX – A Fort Worth man who videotaped the sexual assault of an infant was sentenced to 30-years in federal prison, the statutory maximum, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. Chester Devin Leban, 34, pleaded guilty in January…
Read More Texas Man Videotaped the Sexual Assault of 5-Month-Old Infant, Gets 30-Years
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A federal jury convicted a Loudoun County man on charges of producing and distributing child pornography. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Kevin Hewlett, 34, was a farrier, a craftsman who trims and shoes horses’ hooves. He was hired…
Read More Virginia Man Convicted for Producing Images of Child Sexual Abuse
KLAMATH COUNTY, OREGON – On June 1, 2019, at approximately 2:30 a.m. Pacific Time, unknown suspect(s) using high-caliber firearms shot at a transformer and power regulators at a Mid-State Electric Cooperative substation in Klamath County, Oregon. The “Mowich” substation is located off Highway 58, three miles west of Highway 97. …
Read More $5,000 Reward for Info of The Person That Shot Substation – FBI
LOS ANGELES, CA. – The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Los Angeles Field Office and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying an individual responsible for the arson of a LAPD kiosk at The Grove, a retail complex in…
Read More FBI Offering Up to $10,000 Reward Info on Arsonist – Set Fire to LAPD Kiosk
PHOENIX, ARIZONA – On October 9, 1995, the Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train was derailed at around 1:35 a.m. in a remote desert area approximately 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, Arizona. This incident resulted in the death of one Amtrak employee, serious injuries to 12…
Read More $310,000 Reward, FBI Continues Investigating Sunset Train Derailing
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – On the night of October 11, 2001, at approximately 10:40 p.m., Thomas Crane Wales was killed in his home in Seattle, Washington. Wales worked for the Western District of Washington as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) for over 18 years, prosecuting…
Read More U.S. DOJ $1,000,000 Reward For Info On Who Murdered Thomas Crane Wales