Killeen Police officials dispute allegations that an officer issued a criminal trespass warning to a disabled military veteran wrongly booted from a motel for checking in with a service dog. On Tuesday, Feb. 15, US Attorney Ashley C. Hoff ...
A man in and out of a boozy blackout who bit and kicked a federal law enforcement officer in Arizona will stay behind bars for the next two years. On Monday, Feb. 14, in Phoenix, Chief US District Judge G. Murray Snow sentenced Marcus BlueCloud ...
A career criminal might spend the rest of his life behind bars for possessing a pair of pistols stolen from a retired Pittsburgh cop. Frankie Leon “Que” Morrison, 55, pleaded guilty Monday, Feb. 14, to three federal firearms violations before ...
A Texas motel that called the cops on a disabled military veteran in a wheelchair after he tried to stay overnight with his service dog has settled a discrimination case with the US Department of Justice. J&J Executive Suites LLC — based in ...
A convicted sex criminal who supported an anti-government group in Idaho has pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal agent and illegally possessing firearms. Erik Konrad Ehrlin, 33, is slated to be sentenced on May 31 in Boise by US Judge Bill R. ...
The emergency management director of one of Pennsylvania’s largest universities stole thousands of medical masks at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and sold them on eBay. Christopher D. Casamento, 42, the ex-emergency management director for ...
A New York man who terrorized Langley Air Force Base last year with bomb threats, forcing military officials to shut down portions of the Virginia installation temporarily, is going to prison. On Friday, Feb. 4, US District Judge Arenda Wright ...
A retired Rhode Island firefighter with a grudge against his old department and local cops faces federal charges for a seven-year online campaign threatening violence against scores of officials. On Wednesday, Feb. 2, US District Court Magistrate ...
Another day, another guilty plea from a retired Navy leader snagged in the Fat Leonard corruption scandal. On Wednesday, Feb. 2, in San Diego, US Judge Janis L. Sammartino accepted ex-Capt. Donald Gayle “Bubbles” Hornbeck’s plea deal he inked with ...
A Maine man who downloaded child pornography while serving as a US Navy sailor in Guam will spend more than five years behind bars. On Wednesday, Feb. 2, US Chief Judge Frances M. Tydingco-Gatewood in Hagatna sentenced Austin Jacob Dodge to 65 ...
A Florida man who peddled mislabeled erectile dysfunction pills won’t do hard time. On Monday, Jan. 31, US Magistrate Judge Patricia D. Barksdale sentenced US Army veteran Timothy Terrance DeJoris, 42, of Ponte Vedra, to six months of probation ...
A woman who allegedly quit teaching Kansas schoolchildren to teach kids in Syria how to use suicide belts and AK-47 rifles is being held without bond following a Jan. 31 hearing in federal court. On Friday, FBI agents overseas took custody of ...
The Washington State Patrol trooper who resigned rather than receive a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine, defiantly telling his governor to “kiss my ass” on the way out, has died. Local news outlets reported that COVID-19 killed Robert D. LaMay II. He ...
A US Navy commander who dished classified ship movements for nights with prostitutes, champagne feasts, bowls of caviar, tropical resort rooms, and luxury watches is the latest of the brass to get tarnished by the Fat Leonard scandal. Ex-Cmdr. ...
The Navy officer who commanded minesweepers before he became a gun-toting meth dealer in Texas will spend the next 19 years behind bars. On Thursday, Jan. 27, US Senior Judge Janis Graham Jack in Corpus Christi also ordered Lance Esswein, 58, to ...
A high-ranking Florida lawman swindled an old lady out of her money and then lied to FBI agents about it, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed Tuesday, Jan. 25, in Pensacola. Scott Peter Haines, 49, of Milton, Florida, was arraigned ...
An upstate New York cop who repeatedly kicked a handcuffed, shackled, and defenseless Utica man in the back of his police van has pleaded guilty to a sole federal charge. Ex-Utica Police Officer Matthew Felitto, 37, faces sentencing May 22 in ...
A pair of US Border Patrol agents, both military veterans, foiled a plot by a Texas driver to smuggle undocumented Mexicans into the US inside a flag-draped coffin. The Galveston defendant, Zachary Taylor Blood, pleaded guilty Tuesday, Jan. 25, to ...
An early Monday blaze in an abandoned rowhouse killed three firefighters and left a fourth battling for his life in a Baltimore hospital. Baltimore City Fire Department Lt. Paul Butrim, firefighter-paramedic Kelsey Sadler, and emergency medical ...
A federal agent who got caught trying to hide nearly $100,000 from his wife during their divorce will now report to a probation officer. On Tuesday, Jan. 18, Chief Judge Robert F. Rossiter Jr. in Omaha, Nebraska, sentenced ex-Bureau of Alcohol, ...
The ex-sheriff who federal authorities worried would hole himself up in a Tennessee arsenal and kill anyone who tried to take him alive is behind bars in Kentucky, pending transport to stand trial there on fraud and theft charges. According to ...
The Louisville father of a murder suspect faces charges for shooting at federal agents after they busted into his home to arrest his son. On Jan. 14, 2022, a grand jury indicted Donald A. Simonton, 68, for assaulting federal officers with a ...
An ex-sheriff from Kentucky squirreled away an “arsenal” of guns and ammo and has vowed to never be taken alive to face fraud and theft charges, according to federal prosecutors in Tennessee. Ex-Greenup County Sheriff Keith Cooper, 68, has been ...
Accused of withholding liberty until midshipmen got COVID-19 booster shots that aren’t even mandated by the Pentagon, US Naval Academy officials fired back at critics Wednesday, Jan. 19, defending their decision to peg future time-off perks to ...
A prison chaplain who smuggled cigarettes, Gucci sunglasses, and pornographic magazines to a Pennsylvania inmate will spend the next few years reporting to a federal probation officer. On Jan. 14 in Scranton, US District Judge Robert D. Mariani ...
A message from the US Naval Academy’s 89th Commandant of Midshipmen has sparked questions about whether the Annapolis brass curtailed liberty to coerce future officers to get COVID-19 booster shots that aren’t even required by the ...
Federal prosecutors in California late Thursday, Jan. 13, charged four suspects tied to both the Florencia 13 street gang and the Jan. 10 robbery and slaying of off-duty Los Angeles Police Officer Fernando Arroyos, who was gunned down while house ...
Prodded by heavy snowfall, Alaska’s hungry moose are on the move, prompting scientists, law enforcement officials, and military leaders to warn everyone to avoid the massive mammals, because a pissed-off moose will straight-up murder your ...
On Tuesday, Jan. 11, federal prosecutors in New York sued 35 gods and goddesses, but they don’t expect the deities to put up much of a fight. They’re antiquities, mostly statues, believed to have been looted from Cambodia and other Asian nations ...
A New Jersey convict has copped to his role in a gang that used drones to airlift contraband into the federal prison at Fort Dix. US Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced Monday that Johansel Moronta, 29, of Linden, became the second member of an ...
