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Troopers Seize Over $750K During Routine Traffic Stop
Fort Lee, Bergen County - Troopers from the Totowa Sub-station made a large cash seizure on Thursday, April 19th. More than $783,000 was confiscated and two Bronx men were charged with money laundering and conspiracy.
The incident began when Trooper Stephen Spitaleri saw a blue Ford Expedition driving erratically on Interstate 95 southbound near milepost 121. The investigation that followed l.... |
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NJ to collect payments in the Dominican Republic
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey has added the Dominican Republic to the 21 countries it has agreements with to enforce child support orders.
Department of Human Services Commissioner Jennifer Velez says New Jersey is the first state to gain the enforcement tool to collect payments from parents living in the Caribbean nation.
Velez says the agreement, announced last week, means New Jersey and the Do.... |
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Swiss Bank Allegedly Conspired to Hide More than $1.2 Billion from the IRS
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain entered a default judgment and final order of forfeiture for over $16 million seized from the U.S. correspondent account of WEGELIN & CO., a Swiss private bank. The funds will be deposited in the Treasury Forfeiture Fund.
WEGELIN was indicted in Febru.... |
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Washington state man nabbed in federal crackdown on illegal firearms found guilty
Roman Rosas-Martinez, 31, arrested during a three-month federal crackdown on illegal firearms and violent repeat offenders in King County was found guilty Thursday by a federal jury. Now faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 15 years in prison.
The crackdown, called "Operation Center of Attention," targeted suspects in the White Center neighborhood of King County, resulted in 50 arrests and .... |
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US agents seize large cocaine shipment off Puerto Rico’s north coast
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Federal authorities in Puerto Rico say they have seized 320 pounds (145 kilograms) of cocaine and arrested six people from the Dominican Republic on suspicion of trafficking drugs.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency says in a statement that authorities seized the drugs several miles north of Puerto Rico after a customs plane detected a ship traveling toward.... |
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Dominican Senate apologizes to Barack Obama for insulting racial comment by former President Mejia
The Dominican Senate issued yesterday an apology to United States president, Barack Obama, for the insult said in public by former president Hipolito Mejia, in a political event organized by U.S. senator Rev. Ruben Diaz, giving his support to Mejia in the next presidential elections in DR.
In the video, senator Ruben Diaz laughs to Mejia racial comment against Barack Obama.
The apology d.... |
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Philadelphia Pair Charged with Conspiracy to Rob Alleged Drug Dealer
Elchin Aliyev, 22, and Yves David Weche, 25, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were charged today by indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, one count of attempted Hobbs Act robbery, and one count possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
If convicted of all charges, each defendant faces a.... |
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Haiti: Senator Edo Zenny Urges Martelly to File Complaint against Dominican Journalist Piera
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (defend.ht) - The senator from the southeast, Edwin Zenny (Sud-Est/Independent) encouraged President Michel Martelly to file a complaint against the Dominican Journalist Nuria Piera for her allegations of corruption against the Head of State.
With most Parliamentarians avoiding to comment on the corruptin scandal, indeed on Thursday, Senator Zenny characterized the repor.... |
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Former FBI agent sentenced in NY
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ADRIAN BUSBY, a former Special Agent with the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to one year and one day in prison for making false statements.
BUSBY was convicted in November 2011 after a five-day jury trial. U.S. Dis.... |
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Jury Convicts Providence Woman of Possession of 33 Kilos of Marijuana
Attorney General Peter Kilmartin announced that a Providence County Superior Court jury found Elizabeth Mendez (DOB: 12/14/84), with a last known address of 27 Narragansett Street, Providence, guilty of possession of a controlled substance; in excess of 5 kilos of marijuana. The eight day trial was presided over Superior Court Associate Justice William Carnes.
During the trial, the State proved.... |
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Cops nab Vaseline Bandit suspect
Luis Gonzalez, 40, of the Bronx, the dominican was busted late Wednesday in 14 burglaries where he smeared the peepholes of apartments near the one he was targeting so the neighbors couldn’t seem him.
Gonzalez confessed to the crimes but told detectives he’s really the Lip Balm Bandit because that’s what he used to mess up the peepholes, not petroleum jelly, police sources said.
Gonzalez, .... |
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DANBURY ATTORNEY SENTENCED TO PRISON IN CONNECTION WITH A MORTGAGE FRAUD CONSPIRACY
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUCY DeMELO, 39, of Danbury, Connecticut, was sentenced on April 4, 2012 by Senior United States District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to six months and a day in prison to be followed by six months of home confinement for participating in a mortgage fraud conspiracy. The home confinement was ordered as .... |
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STAMFORD MAN SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR SELLING CRACK
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUAN ALVAREZ, also known as “Los,” 33, of Maple Tree Road, Stamford, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 180 months of imprisonment, followed by eight years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
This matter stems from “Operation.... |
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Dangerous criminals captured by ICE will be deported
ICE informed it has arrested 3,168 aliens. The arrests include fugitives; aliens who illegally re-entered the United States after having been removed, and at-large criminal aliens. Among the captured were:
-Rodolfo Jesus Munoz-Pineda, 55, a national of El Salvador, who was residing in Norcross, Ga., a criminal alien who illegally re-entered the country after having been removed in Sept. 1986.... |
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ICE arrests 145 convicted criminal aliens and immigration fugitives In New England
NEW ENGLAND.- ICE arrests 145 convicted criminal aliens and immigration fugitives in New England States; Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
This six-day operation, the largest of its kind, involved the collaboration of more than 1,900 ICE officers and agents from all of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations' (ERO) 24 field offices, assistance from .... |
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