A federal grand jury in El Paso, Texas indicted 11 individuals in connection with a large-scale corruption investigation which began in 2004. To date, 13 individuals have pled guilty to criminal conduct stemming from the investigation.
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David Mejias was arraigned Thursday on charges of stalking and reckless endangerment after being arrested late Wednesday night by Nassau County cops.
Darius McCollum says he often took buses for joyrides, gave lifts to his friends and once cruised as far as North Carolina – always returning the vehicles without anyone suspecting a thing.
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Casey Nanez, a former Noel, Missouri police officer, pled guilty to sexually exploiting a child and to possessing child pornography.
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Dalia Preldakaj, 52, faced up to 30 years after she was convicted in April of taking some $300,000 from more than 50 illegal immigrants starting in 2000.
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Lashawn Ruff, of Stratford, Connecticut, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for trafficking heroin in the Bridgeport area.
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Albert Lawrence Vaughan, of Loveland, Colorado, was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for the armed robbery of a bank in Salina, Kansas.
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Andre Whitfield, of New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on charges of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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A federal grand jury in San Francisco, California indicted 11 defendants for participating in three separate but related conspiracies to distribute controlled substances through online pharmacies outside the scope of professional medical practice.
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David Yen Lee, a former chemist for paint manufacturing company Valspar Corp., pled guilty in Chicago, Illinois to theft of trade secrets, admitting that he stole numerous formulas and other proprietary information valued up to $20 million as he prepared to go to work for a competitor in China.
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