Crime

A two-decade Baldwin Park City Council veteran will spend the next 18 months in federal prison after an FBI investigation uncovered a sprawling corruption scheme, complete with tens of thousands in bribe money hidden in his own backyard. Ricardo Pacheco’s downfall, and that of former Compton City Councilman Isaac Jacob Galvan, spotlights just how entrenched […]

Three Indiana residents stand accused of crossing state lines to break into cemeteries, pry open mausoleum niches, and steal valuables from the dead, in what Florida authorities describe as a “disturbing” series of thefts now under investigation across at least nine states. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida announced the arrests of Drake Lee […]

A man identified by authorities as Xavier Felix Rivera-Goucher was shot and killed after reportedly entering a home in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, around 2 a.m. Sunday morning. Deputies said the homeowner opened fire after the alleged intruder entered the residence, leaving Rivera-Goucher dead at the scene. Two other residents of the home also sustained […]

Roy Cooper, Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate and former North Carolina governor, is now calling for strict limits on data-center expansion as concerns mount over surging energy costs and the impact on local communities. Cooper has begun pushing for data centers to pay directly for their energy use and to build their own power sources, […]

The William Jewell College community is mourning after 20-year-old running back MicahJo Barnett collapsed and died following a touchdown during the team’s season-opening football game. The tragedy unfolded on Saturday, August 29, at Greene Stadium in Liberty, Missouri, as Barnett suffered a sudden medical emergency on the sidelines, just minutes after scoring for the Cardinals. […]

Four young men pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to torching a car park full of Jewish charity ambulances in one of London’s most prominent Jewish neighborhoods, an attack prosecutors told the court had a “terrorist connection,” yet one that British authorities have still not formally classified as terrorism. Hamza Iqbal, 20; Rehan Khan, 19; […]

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles announced the arrest of a Honduran national on two felony counts tied to fraudulent voter registration, marking the first case in what the Trump Justice Department says will be a broader campaign to root out noncitizen voting in California and beyond. Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores, a green card holder who […]

A federal judge in Minnesota sentenced two men to prison Wednesday for running a fake child nutrition site through the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, part of a quarter-billion-dollar pandemic fraud scheme that prosecutors called a “cash pipeline” built on fabricated lists of children who never received a meal. Ahmed Ghedi drew more than five years […]

Attorney General Todd Blanche announced federal indictments against 81 alleged members of a Puerto Rican drug trafficking organization, capping a sweeping operation that put 70 of them in handcuffs in a single day. The arrests targeted Los Baja Deo, a gang prosecutors say flooded public housing projects on the island’s western coast with narcotics for […]

Federal prosecutors arrested Massachusetts State Rep. Francisco Paulino early Wednesday morning on an 11-count indictment alleging he ran a scheme to steal more than $700,000 in pandemic relief money, making him the second Democratic officeholder in the state charged with COVID fraud this month. U.S. Attorney Leah Foley announced the charges alongside details of a […]