Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Shooting Sports Foundation , the trade association for the firearms industry, are seeking information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the burglary and theft of firearms from Express Pawn, in Columbus. ATF is offering a reward up to $5,000, which will be matched by the NSSF for a total reward up to $10,000.
A Turkish lawyer was alleged in court papers to have provided thousands of dollars to corrupt a prison guard into smuggling cellphones and alcohol to a wealthy Turkish gold trader who was awaiting trial, according to charges brought Thursday against the guard and comments by a lawyer who represented the trader. Victor Casado , a Manhattan federal prison guard, was not immediately released on $200,000 bail to face charges that he accepted over $45,000 in bribes to funnel contraband to the trader, Reza Zarrab.
A Kentucky congressman says federal officials have given the green light to build a prison in an Appalachian county hard hit by the coal economy's downturn. U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers says the Federal Bureau of Prisons has signaled its intent to move forward with the prison project in Letcher County in southeastern Kentucky.
A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for threatening to kill Vice President Mike Pence. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, three witnesses said Dunbar made the statements days before the vice president, a former governor of Indiana, was set to appear as a keynote speaker at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., on Sept.
The White House announced Friday that President Donald Trump has pardoned a Navy sailor who took photos of classified areas inside a submarine and served a year in federal prison. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Kristian Saucier was pardoned by Trump and the president was "appreciative" of his service to the nation.
An Oklahoma woman convicted of using a counterfeit check has received a reduced sentence after getting medically sterilized at the suggestion of the judge. The Oklahoman reports that U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot showed leniency to 34-year-old Summer Thyme Creel during her sentencing Thursday because she had surgery to prevent pregnancies.
OAKLAND >> A man charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting the person he thought had killed his sister was sentenced Friday to nearly three years in federal prison, after he admitted to selling stolen guns throughout the East Bay. Diontae Valentine, who pleaded guilty to stolen gun possession and selling guns without a license, was one of eight Oakland men indicted on federal conspiracy and gun trafficking charges in December 2016, after an investigation by the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
About 120 vacant jobs at the federal prisons in Victorville are expected to be lost in 2018 as the government cuts staffing nationwide. The head of the union that represents employees at the federal prison in Victorville said he plans to carry to Washington next week his concerns that nationwide staffing cuts will endanger the safety of guards, inmates and the public.
Ohio investigators in the case of a 2-year-old girl found unresponsive on a porch in freezing weather await autopsy results to learn how she died. Ohio investigators in the case of a 2-year-old girl found unresponsive on a porch in freezing weather await autopsy results to learn how she died.
A federal judge in Austin sentenced three Houston men on Friday for a money laundering scheme involving millions of dollars, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas. Nathaniel Itimi, 46, was ordered to 97 months in prison and also must pay more than $1.6 million in restitution.
Jaboree Williams was a pimp and drug dealer who brutally abused and psychologically tortured his victims. And thanks to the joint efforts of the FBI and local law enforcement, he will spend the next 30 years in federal prison.
In this Jan. 15, 2018 photo, Honduras' new national Police Chief Jose David Aguilar Moran, center, leaves after a ceremony that transferred command to him in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. When Aguilar took over as Honduras' new national police chief, he promised to continue reforming a law enforcement agency stained by corruption and complicity with drug cartels, but a confidential government security report obtained by the Associated Press says Aguilar himself helped a cartel leader pull off the delivery of nearly a ton of cocaine in 2013.
Thousands of federal employees began their weekends gripped with doubt, uncertain of when they'll be able to return to work and how long they'll have to go without being paid after a bitter political dispute in Washington triggered a government shutdown. Many government operations will continue - U.S. troops will stay at their posts and mail will get delivered.
A West Virginia man whose son was killed in the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades says a former coal executive's candidacy for U.S. Senate has brought up some bitter memories for his family. Robert Atkins' 25-year-old son, Jason Atkins, died in the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion that killed 29 men in southern West Virginia.
President Donald Trump attends a meeting on potential changes to the federal prison system last week in the District of Columbia. In the wake of a new book, he also spent last week defending his capabilities on Twitter.
Former Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown's longtime chief of staff has begun a four-year federal prison sentence in Maryland. The Florida Times-Union reports that 52-year-old Elias "Ronnie" Simmons arrived Monday as scheduled at a medium-security federal prison in Cumberland, Maryland.
PETALING JAYA: A 59-year-old Malaysian man was sentenced to one year and nine months in a federal prison in the United States after being convicted of managing a brothel in Georgia. Chow Kong Chow and two others from China - Xiaohong Huang and Biyun Gong - were said to have operated the brothel for two years at a large apartment complex in Doraville, Georgia that lured women from around the U.S. to work as prostitutes.
In this Dec. 17, 2015, file courtroom sketch, from left, defense attorney Baruch White, pharmaceutical entrepreneur Martin Shkreli, defense attorney Jonathan Sack and co-defendant Evan Greebel appear in court in New York. Greebel, a lawyer accused of helping Shkreli cover up a financial fraud, was convicted of conspiracy charges on Wednesday by a federal jury in Brooklyn.