Blog Posts in December, 2010
Posted on Dec 20, 2010 By admin
A United States Attorney announced that federal juries returned guilty verdicts, in two separate trials, against eight defendants accused of drug trafficking. U.S. v. Amaro et al.; 2:07-cr-00248-WBS ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 By admin
Federal authorities announced the indictments of 16 men who allegedly accessed a password-protected Internet forum on child pornography containing thousands of graphic images and videos of young boys. ...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2010 By admin
Following an announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder in Washington, D.C., representatives of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force in Los Angeles, including the United States Attorney, ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2010 By admin
Federal law enforcement authorities arrested 14 of 22 federal defendants linked to a Riverside street gang engaged in the trafficking of methamphetamine and other federal offenses that include ...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2010 By admin
A United States Attorney announced that Mauricio Mendez was sentenced in federal court in San Diego by United States District Court Judge Janis L. Sammartino to serve 318 months in custody, based on ...
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Posted on Dec 3, 2010 By admin
Federal authorities have arrested a Beverly Hills woman on federal wire fraud charges for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme that collected nearly $11 million from scores of Southland victims who were ...
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Posted on Dec 1, 2010 By admin
A federal appeals court overturned the 1984 murder convictions of an alleged serial killer dubbed the "Skid Row Stabber," calling the government's chief witness an "infamous" jailhouse informant and a ...
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