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Posted on Feb 24, 2011 By admin
A task force of FBI agents and officers with the Oxnard Police Department arrested 22 people linked to the Colonia Chiques street gang on federal and state narcotics charges. The arrests are the ...
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Posted on Feb 7, 2011 By admin
A federal judge sentenced a South Los Angeles gang leader to life in prison without parole, capping a years-long investigation into a large drug-trafficking operation run out of Los Angeles and San ...
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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 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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Posted on Nov 22, 2010 By admin
A Hollywood, California based drug trafficking ring that used chartered planes to ship hundreds of pounds of cocaine and millions of dollars between Los Angeles and Baltimore was broken up as a ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2010 By admin
Federal authorities arrested more than two dozen Los Angeles-area residents for their alleged roles in a nationwide scheme to bilk Medicare out of more than $160 million. The investigation, dubbed ...
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Posted on Sep 20, 2010 By admin
A retired special agent for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and his wife, who also worked for the federal agency in Los Angeles, were arrested on charges of stealing from the ...
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