The race to save a missing Chicago snorkeler off Puerto Rico began Dec. 8 and became a four-day marathon, and the sea won. On Saturday, the US Coast Guard suspended the hunt for Joanna Rebis, 38. She was last seen Wednesday around 1 p.m. on the ...
The girlfriend of a Texas man wanted for threatening to assassinate three prominent Jewish rabbis has been charged with pointing a gun at a federal agent when they came to arrest him on Wednesday, Dec. 8. Both Christopher Stephen Brown, 37, and ...
A self-proclaimed anti-cop Boogaloo Boi who mugged with a firearm at the Alamo and told followers he was waging a war against the FBI will spend the next two years behind bars. On Thursday in San Antonio, US District Court Judge Jason K. Pulliam ...
A New Mexico guide who could’ve paid a $530 citation for leading a hunt for bighorn sheep in the Carson National Forest took his case to court and ended up with a $7,600 fine and 18 months of federal probation. A federal judge in Albuquerque ...
A Michigan man who allegedly bragged online that he “Fucked those cops up” during the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot has been arrested for attacking police officers with chemical spray, federal filings reveal. According to a charge sheet unsealed ...
The US Coast Guard is in a race against time to save Joanna Rebis, a Chicago snorkeler who’s gone missing off Punta Arenas in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Rebis, 38, was last seen in a long-sleeved white shirt and black shorts while snorkeling near the ...
A commissioned Navy officer from the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln sued his bosses Tuesday over the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, arguing that he’s naturally immunized after catching the virus and the shots might hurt his health. In ...
William Daly Harrington was the police chief in East Helena, Montana, when he used Facebook to distribute child pornography, according to his plea agreement. Harrington, 43, faces between five and 20 years in federal prison, plus a $250,000 fine, ...
A father’s discovery of graphic text messages allegedly sent by a Florida cop to the man’s son has triggered a federal indictment. Prosecutors charged Sewall’s Point Police Officer Juan Antonio Garcia, 30, Friday with attempting to prod the ...
A federal correctional officer in California wooed a female inmate with jewelry and engaged in oral intercourse with her while posting another prisoner as his lookout, federal prosecutors say. The suspended safety administrator at the low-security ...
A refill clerk at the Fort Leonard Wood PX pulled a knife on the supervisory pharmacist Friday, Dec. 3, stabbing the Army staff sergeant repeatedly before fleeing the scene, federal prosecutors said. Robert E. Sapp, 63, stood before US Magistrate ...
Federal agents last week arrested two more men accused of tangling with cops during the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill. Prosecutors say James Haffner, 53, of Sturgis, South Dakota, sprayed some sort of aerosol substance in the face of a police officer, ...
Federal investigators have opened a civil rights probe into the Mount Vernon Police Department, the law enforcement agency that serves a mostly-Black community in the New York City suburb north of the Bronx. Damian Williams, the US attorney for ...
A corrupt correctional officer took bribes to smuggle narcotics and contraband tobacco to Maryland prisoners, according to a plea deal that will put him behind bars. Maurice Antonio Bull, 43, of Seaford, Delaware, pleaded guilty Thursday, Dec. 2, ...
A doped-up California man who stole an Army Humvee and led cops on a joyride through Pomona will spend nearly three years behind bars. On Thursday, Dec. 2, US District Judge John A. Kronstadt in Los Angeles sentenced Armando “Dice” Garcia to 34 ...
Lauded as the trailblazing Detroit Fire Department "Woman of the Year" in 2019, Verdine Day admitted Thursday, Dec. 2, to stealing $220,043 in Detroit-firefighter-union funds, splurging on airline tickets, luxury resorts, fancy cruises, and boozing ...
Three weeks after a Louisiana jury convicted him of sex crimes against young boys, ex-St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain pleaded guilty Wednesday, Dec. 1, in federal court to taking bribes tied to a corrupt work-release program. It’s been a ...
A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, man who injured a cop by hurling a concrete block through a police vehicle’s window during a 2020 Iron City riot will spend a year behind bars. On Wednesday, Dec. 1, District Judge Arthur J. Schwab sentenced George ...
The wanted fugitive who got shot on April 9 while trying to run over a federal agent in a Colorado convenience store’s parking lot will spend the next nine years behind bars. As first reported by Coffee or Die Magazine, Dallas Michael Theiss, 24, ...
A California man who used a high-intensity laser to temporarily blind an aircrew flying a law enforcement helicopter has been convicted. Again. Eric Jayson Suarez, 47, has pleaded guilty to aiming a laser pointer at “Duke 1,” an Orange County ...
Federal agents have arrested two New York men accused of “bum-rushing” cops during the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill. Gregory Purdy, 23, of Hopewell Junction, and his uncle, Robert Turner, 39, of Poughkeepsie, face felony charges for civil disorder ...
US Virgin Islands Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. has ordered all territorial flags to be lowered to half-staff following the Monday, Nov. 22, death of firefighter emergency medical responder Kasey Callwood. Callwood, 31, was traveling alongside his ...
A Missouri man is behind bars without bail Wednesday, Nov. 24, charged with making threats against Pennsylvania State Police troopers nearly a year after they gunned down a man during a controversial standoff on a highway overpass. Damian ...
The US Coast Guard halted a Monday, Nov. 22, search for an overdue fishing boat after the vessel was found ashore on Puerto Rico and federal agents had nabbed four of its passengers. Agency watchstanders on San Juan, Puerto Rico, were informed by ...
An assault charge is being dropped against Julia Crews, the ex-police officer who said she mistook her pistol for a Taser when she gunned down an unarmed shoplifting suspect in 2019. The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announced ...
Corrupt Florida cop Andrew Christian Hammock will spend most of the next two decades behind bars for trying to get a girl to engage in sexual acts and send him explicit photos. On Tuesday, Nov. 16, US District Judge Marcia Morales Howard sentenced ...
Targeted by an undercover sting investigating potential pedophiles at the 2020 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, a South Dakota man faces life behind bars for trying to entice a girl over the internet. A federal jury on Nov. 3, 2021, found Christopher ...
“Operation Kuluna” has netted a pair of federal grand jury indictments that shine a spotlight on the often shadowy trade of Africa’s most endangered animals. Spanning more than a year and two continents, the federal sting operation joined US law ...
The US Navy released new details Tuesday, Nov. 16, revealing the role that a squadron best known for its secret missions hunting enemy submarines played in the Thursday rescue of six missing mariners in Micronesia. “It was incredibly rewarding to ...
The search for missing Seattle Deputy Fire Chief Jay Schreckengost ended in the afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 14, after his body was discovered in the Cascade Range near Cliffdell, Washington. Foul play isn’t suspected, according to Kittitas County ...
