Prosecutors were able to prove the violent nature of the club when witnesses testified to a range of criminal activity including armed robbery, attempted murder, conspiracies to kill witnesses, use of firearms during acts of violence, and the distribution of large amounts of marijuana, cocaine, and steroids.
Read More →Violent crimes fell 5.5 percent and property crimes declined 4.9 percent compared with 2008, according to the preliminary report. An overall decline in reported crimes came for the third straight year.
Read More →The FBI described Melvin as a "middle man" who talked about arresting drug traffickers to confiscate their drugs for re-sale. Federal agents obtained wire-tap recordings of Melvin talking to two dealers on his cell phone.
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Authorities interviewed the owner of the vehicle, who said the1993 Nissan Pathfinder was sold on Craigslist during a transaction that occurred in a Connecticut shopping mall. The seller couldn't remember the name of the purchaser, and told authorities he was either Middle Eastern or Hispanic.
Read More →The 25-year-old Alejandro Enrique Ramirez Umana (a.k.a. "Wizard") shot and killed two brothers in December 2007 in Guilford County, N.C.
Read More →Agent Leslie Larsen didn't bring her notes on the case, and was scolded by the federal district judge, who said she shared the defense's frustration that Larsen "doesn't know anything."
Read More →Federal agents collected bomb-making manuals, suspected steroids, and a copy of Adolph Hitler's "My New Order" during the late-March raid of the Hutaree Militia.
Read More →The heinous 2002 execution-style slayings of a Livonia, Mich., jeweler and his family provided federal agents a key informant in major crackdowns on two Detroit-area motorcycle gangs.
Read More →Some 200 American law enforcement agents cracked down Thursday morning on a notorious gang in El Paso, Texas, in an attempt to determine whether its heavily armed members were behind the shooting deaths of three people connected to the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez over the weekend.
Read More →The FBI announced Thursday morning that it has opened two new civil rights investigations into the post-Katrina actions of New Orleans police officers, adding to a growing list of inquiries.
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