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Posted on May 16, 2012 By admin
Federal agents said a drug smuggling case in which TSA screeners allowed luggage with drugs inside through checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport represents a serious security breach. A man ...
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Posted on May 13, 2012 By admin
A San Marino, California businessman was sentenced to over 10 years in federal prison for operating a scheme to defraud banks, where he used straw borrowers with fake documents to obtain about $9 ...
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Posted on Apr 28, 2012 By admin
Drug operators running an online narcotics marketplace through a virtual network facilitated sales of illegal drugs to 3,000 people in 34 countries and every single state in the United States, ...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2012 By admin
Kinde Durkee, who used to be a campaign treasurer for Democratic candidates in California, pleaded guilty to five counts of mail fraud after an FBI investigation found she pilfered more than $7 ...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2012 By admin
For five years, an employee at Santa Monica based Lionsgate Entertainment arranged for the company to pay a cardboard salesman more than $2 million for marketing display boxes he never delivered. Both ...
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Posted on Mar 17, 2012 By admin
A North Hollywood, California man was sentenced to 64 months in a federal prison for submitting a false loan application, obtaining a credit card in somebody else's name and running up charges on ...
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Posted on Mar 13, 2012 By admin
The girlfriend of mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger has agreed to plead guilty to various federal crime charges related to helping him avoid capture for 16 years. Catherine Greig will plead ...
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Posted on Feb 19, 2012 By admin
Around $100 million worth of PCP was seized this week in Los Angeles and Culver City in what police described as a major bust of a national drug trafficking organization. Police said they discovered ...
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Posted on Jan 26, 2012 By admin
Local police and federal agents arrested more than 100 suspected gang members throughout San Diego County as part of an investigation into racketeering , firearms trafficking and drug distribution ...
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Posted on Jan 5, 2012 By admin
In San Diego, California, former drug kingpin Benjamin Felix pleaded guilty to federal racketeering and money-laundering conspiracy charges. This marks the end of a decade-old case that targeted ...
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Posted on Jan 1, 2012 By admin
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted six foreign nationals for running an elaborate money laundering scheme that scammed hundreds of customers out of more than $4 million in fake Internet ...
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Posted on Dec 19, 2011 By admin
In San Francisco, California, A federal judge sentenced baseball star Barry Bonds to probation, 30 days confinement in his Beverly Hills home and community service, but placed the sentence on hold ...
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Posted on Nov 26, 2011 By admin
A United States Attorney announced that Jose Alberto Marquez was sentenced to life in prison, based on his federal jury trial conviction for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2011 By admin
A United States Attorney announced the sentencing of two men in two separate cases in federal court in San Diego related to sex trafficking of children. In one case, Malcolm Allen was sentenced to ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Jerry Kastler
Three men were arrested after the United States Border Patrol said was an attempt to smuggle over 1,400 pounds of marijuana worth about $729,000 into the United States aboard a 25-foot panga boat. Two ...
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Posted on Nov 14, 2011 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, a West Covina woman who admitted running an investment ponzi scheme that took in almost $7 million from about 150 victims has been sentenced to 108 months in federal ...
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Posted on Nov 3, 2011 By admin
A former police officer from Imperial County, California, was charged with of possession of child pornography after police searched his residence in Temecula and found about numerous child porn images ...
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Posted on Nov 1, 2011 By admin
Halloween 2011 in California marked an aggressive crackdown by state and local police on sex offenders. Riverside County officials approved measures prohibiting all registered sex offenders from ...
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Posted on Oct 28, 2011 By admin
A medical marijuana advocacy group has sued the United States attorney general and other federal prosecutors in Northern California. They are asking a federal court to stop raids and threats of ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2011 By admin
A federal indictment in Los Angeles has charged 14 people that includes an 88-year-old doctor and two operators of a Los Angeles clinic, with running an illegal insurance fraud scheme to obtain and ...
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Posted on Oct 7, 2011 By admin
A federal judge sentenced a drug-dealing doctor, Al Bussam, who was once California's top prescriber of narcotic painkillers and other abused prescription drugs to seven years in a federal prison. ...
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Posted on Sep 19, 2011 By admin
A Compton, California man bound for Japan has been charged with federal drug trafficking after Transportation Security Administration officials at Los Angeles LAX Airport discovered almost 5 pounds of ...
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Posted on Sep 12, 2011 By admin
A Hollywood producer and businessman pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to federal charges of stock fraud and bilking an investor. Drew Levin, of Pacific Palisades, conspired to inflate the revenue and ...
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Posted on Sep 8, 2011 By admin
In San Diego, California, a United States Attorney announced that David McElmurry was convicted after a jury trial for charges related to child pornography . A federal jury convicted him of one count ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2011 By admin
Matthew La Madrid was sentenced to serve a federal prison term in connection with his operation of the Plus Money Premium Return Funds and related real estate investment and mortgage fraud schemes. He ...
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