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• Authorities arrest 8 people accused of links to drug ring operating in Riverside, LA Authorities on Thursday arrested eight defendants named in a federal grand jury indictment alleging their involvement in a drug trafficking organization operating in Los Angeles and Riverside counties that distributed large quantities of methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl and other narcotics across the United States. Those eight and nine others who are still being sought by authorities are charged in the 20-count indictment that outlines an 18-month investigation that led to multiple seizures of narcotics, firearms and $1.5 million in drug proceeds,…
• Man charged with smuggling after California crash kills 13 A Mexican man was charged Tuesday with coordinating a smuggling effort that left 13 people dead when their overloaded SUV was struck by a big-rig after crossing the border into California. Jose Cruz Noguez, 47, of Mexicali, was arrested Monday night as he crossed into the United States at the Calexico Port of Entry. He appeared Tuesday in federal court in El Centro and faces conspiracy and smuggling charges involving serious injury or placing lives in danger, according to a…
• Man charged with smuggling after Southern California crash kills 13 By ROBERT JABLON | The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A Mexican man was charged Tuesday with coordinating a smuggling effort that left 13 people dead when their overloaded SUV was struck by a big-rig after crossing the border into California. Jose Cruz Noguez, 47, of Mexicali, was arrested Monday night as he crossed into the United States at the Calexico Port of Entry. He appeared Tuesday in federal court in El Centro and faces conspiracy and smuggling charges involving…
• CA man sentenced for plot to smuggle meth to Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji SAN FRANCISCO — A Rocklin resident was sentenced last week to five years and two months in federal prison for what prosecutors called a scheme to smuggle six pounds of meth overseas in three separate shipments, court records show Rakesh Roshan, 47, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge William Alsup. He has been in custody since December 2019, according to jail records. In court filings, prosecutors wrote that “Roshan used the United States as a hub” to sneak…
• Matt Gaetz advocated for drug testing recipients of public assistance, but a new report alleges the lawmaker used ecstasy Summary List PlacementAccording to a new report concerning a Justice Department investigation into GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, sources familiar with the events told The New York Times the Florida lawmaker took ecstasy, an illicit drug. The Times report, which was published Thursday, cited several unnamed sources who said Gaetz paid women via cash apps. Sources told The Times the women said they were paid for sex. Gaetz has denied ever paying for sex and said that all of…
• Prison introduces petting zoo to help inmates escape stress of jail sentence Inspectors praised HMP Hindley’s ‘imaginative initiatives’ to help rehabilitate inmates (Picture: Google)Men serving time at a prison with a rising drug and violence problem are being offered animal therapy. HMP Hindley, in Bickershaw near Wigan, has created a small petting zoo for inmates when they need to ‘escape the stresses of time’. The prison was once described by an official watchdog as having one of the worst regimes that inspectors had seen across the country, with some inmates locked up…
• Matt Gaetz's claim that the DOJ's sex-trafficking probe into him is part of an extortion scheme doesn't add up Summary List PlacementFlorida Rep. Matt Gaetz took to Twitter and the conservative media airwaves on Tuesday to push back on news that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was investigating whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and broke federal sex-trafficking laws. On Twitter, Gaetz said the investigation was based on "lies" being pushed against him by a former DOJ official in an effort to extort his family. But the lawmaker's statements about the alleged extortion scheme don't…
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• JSO arrests officer accused of hitting handcuffed man who spit on him The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Thursday announced the arrest of an officer who’s accused of repeatedly striking a handcuffed man who spit in his face over the weekend. Officer Alexander G. Grant, a five-year veteran, is charged with battery, a first-degree misdemeanor, Undersheriff Pat Ivey said at a news conference held at the Police Memorial Building downtown. The officer’s employment status wasn’t immediately clear at the time of the briefing. The charge stems from an incident March 27 at BestBet…
• Chicago man accused of torching police SUV amid rioting now charged in federal court A Chicago Police Department SUV burns near State and Lake streets in the Loop on May 30, 2020, as thousands of protesters in Chicago joined national outrage over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times fileJacob Fagundo’s lawyer said last year that Fagundo had gone downtown to protest the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd and to stand in solidarity with others protesting police brutality.  A man previously accused of setting a Chicago police…