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HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY Fla. – Ford Motor Company is issuing one safety compliance recall and two safety recalls in North America. Safety compliance recall for multiple 2020 model year vehicles for intermittent rearview camera operationAffected vehicles have insufficient electrical conductivity within the printed circuit board internal…
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Gregory Lynn McKnight, Jr., 28, of Clintwood, Virginia, was sentenced on September 29, 2020, by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, Senior U.S. District Judge, to serve 180 months in federal prison for attempting to coerce a minor to engage in sexually explicit…
Read More Virginia Man Sentenced to 180-Months in Prison, Child Porn Production
NEWARK, NJ. – FBI Seeking Individual Who May Have Information Regarding the Identity of a Child Sexual Assault Victim exploitation investigation. Photographs and an informational poster depicting the unknown individual, known only as John Doe 42, are being disseminated to the public and can be…
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NEW YORK, NY. – RICHARD MENDOZA was charged in an indictment with conspiring to distribute fentanyl on behalf of a drug trafficking organization. MENDOZA was charged by complaint and arrested in Arizona on September 23, 2020, after law enforcement found approximately nine kilograms of fentanyl…
Read More California Man Charged Transporting Large Quantity Of Fentanyl to New York
COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. – Special agents with the FDLE Fort Myers Regional Operations Center and deputies from the Collier County Sheriff’s Office arrested Luis Enriquez Ortiz-Rodriguez, 23, of Collier County, yesterday on multiple outstanding arrest warrants. Ortiz-Rodriguez was wanted in Puerto Rico for homicide. He…
Read More FDLE and Collier County Sheriff’s Office arrest homicide fugitive from Puerto Rico
NEW YORK. NY. – Charged Yesterday in the Yonkers broad daylight shooting, Darren Smith, 24, for attempting to murder a federal law enforcement officer. On September 25, 2020, after law enforcement officers attempted to stop Smith’s car, he fled on foot with a handgun. As…
Read More Attempted Murder Of FBI Task Force Officer NY Man ChargedSACRAMENTO, Calif. — John Maasen, 64, of Olivehurst, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to 10 years in prison for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Maasen pleaded guilty in June 2020, and according to the plea…
Read More 64-Year-Old Yuba County Man Sentenced to 10-Years in Prison for Child Porn
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KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A man who trafficked methamphetamine in the metro Kansas City area was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. Michael Pruitt, 50, Kansas City, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with…
Read More Kansas Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 20 Years
ALBUQUERQUE, NM. – Kevin Vigil, 54, of Española, New Mexico, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Sept. 22 for sexually abusing a six-year-old child. A federal jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, returned a guilty verdict against Vigil on Aug. 23, 2019, following…
Read More New Mexico Man Sexually Abuses 6-Year-Old Child, 30-Years in Prison