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Thirty-six 36 persons believed to be members and associates of the Nuestra Familia organization were arrested in California on drug trafficking charges, and two federal indictments were unsealed charging 15 individuals with one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, or to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine.

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Josue Ostolaza, a former deputy sheriff with the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, was arrested on charges of accepting more than $14,000 from a man in exchange for protecting the man from domestic violence investigations and possible arrests; and unlawfully accessing a protected computer for the purpose of private financial gain and in furtherance of a criminal act.

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Joseph Blimline, of Dallas, Texas, pled guilty to conspiring to defraud investors in an oil and gas scheme that involved more than $485 million and 7,700 victims throughout the U.S. Blimline also pled guilty to defrauding investors in a second oil and gas scheme based in the state of Michigan that involved more than $50 million obtained from investors.

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A jealous cyberstalker escaped with a 17-year prison sentence Tuesday for killing a 23-year-old Bronx mother of two he wooed on the Internet.

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Detectives are investigating whether the bullets that killed a St. Lucia soccer star were meant for one of four women with him, police sources said Tuesday.

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Two men say they were injured by NYPD cops indiscriminately swinging their batons after a wild shootout last month at a Harlem block party.

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The accused ringleader in the synagogue terror bomb plot coldheartedly told an FBI informant that it didn’t matter how many Jewish New Yorkers he killed.

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The lawyer for accused cabbie-stabber Michael Enright threw a wrench in the hate case Monday by claiming a reporter snuck at peek at a defense file in the case.

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Boston-based real estate executive Martin Raffol, of Natick, Massachusetts, was charged with engaging in a scheme to conceal illegal campaign contributions made to federal campaign committees. In total, Raffol allegedly caused over $12,000 in illegal campaign contributions to candidates running for federal office, and over $30,000 in illegal contributions to candidates running for state and local office.

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Geoffrey A. Gish, of Marietta, Georgia, and Myra J. Ettenborough, of Roswell, Georgia, were indicted in connection with their operation of a $29 million Ponzi scheme.

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