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A former leader of a far-right extremist group has been arrested on federal charges in California after allegedly making violet threats against a Brooklyn-based journalist.Nicholas Welker - the former leader of the Feuerkrieg Division, a mostly-online group of neo-Nazis - was cuffed in San Jose on Tuesday afternoon, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The killers of an Ozone Park businessman were sentenced by a federal judge in Brooklyn to a combined 242 years in prison Wednesday, Feb. 9, For the "ruthless" fatal shooting of 64-year-old Hani Kasem in 2017.Ppassim "Big Sam" Elder, 42, of Staten Island, and Wilbert Bryant, 57, of Brooklyn were convicted on murder and extortion charges in October following a three-week trial before U.S. District Judge William Kuntz.

A reputed member of a violent Chicago street gang known as the "Goonies" pleaded guilty just hours before his racketeering trial was set to begin Tuesday, admitting that he supplied a stream of guns to his fellow gang members that were later used in murders and other shootings.Nathaniel McElroy, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy in a plea agreement with prosecutors that does not include any expectation of cooperation.

(CNN)A father and his middle-school-aged daughter have filed a federal lawsuit against a former school security guard in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after he put his knee on the child's neck while trying to break up a cafeteria fight last year.The security guard, Shawn Guetschow, also was a Kenosha police officer but was not on police duty at the time of the incident at Kenosha's Lincoln Middle School on March 4, officials have said.

A Los Angeles man received a 12-year federal prison sentence Friday for attempting to transport 5 pounds of methamphetamine through LAX last year, the U.S. attorney's office said.Kiyonte Levell Sowell, 22, pleaded guilty in September to one count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance in the February 2022 incident.

A California movie producer was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday after admitting to running an international prostitution ring in a case in which several women accused him of being abusive and drugging them, according to court records and the Associated Press.Dillon Jordan, a 50-year-old Los Angeles native, originally faced decades in prison for a raft of prostitution, money laundering and conspiracy charges, but he reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors in New York last year.

Crime Fellow passengers tackled Francisco Severo Torres and helped the flight crew restrain him, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.A Leominster man was arrested Sunday after he allegedly tried to open an emergency exit on a United Airlines flight to Boston and attempted to stab a flight attendant in the neck.

A Los Angeles man has been arrested and charged on suspicion of hacking into Instagram accounts belonging to female influencers in an effort to extort money and engage in sexual video chats during a nearly four-year period, federal prosecutors said.Amir Hossein Golshan, 24, was charged Thursday with two counts of wire fraud, one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information, one count of accessing a computer to defraud and obtain value, one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of threatening to damage a protected computer, prosecutors from the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of California said in a statement.

I have to admit I was wrong about something.For most of Nancy Pelosi's period as the Democratic Leader in the House (whether Speaker or Minority Leader), I mocked the way that Republican leaders in the House could not count votes without her help.I continued that mockery as Kevin McCarthy struggled to win the Speakership through 15 rounds of voting, until he won finally because six radical Republicans, including Matt Gaetz and Andy Biggs, voted present rather than against McCarthy finally.

A Minnesota man was arrested and charged with arson after fires at two Minneapolis mosques last week, federal prosecutors announced on Sunday.The suspect, Jackie Rahm Little, 36, was also accused of a series of acts of vandalism in January, including to a police vehicle assigned to a Somali officer, a shopping center known as the Somali Mall and the Minneapolis district office of a congressional representative, according to an affidavit filed in the U.S. District Court in Minnesota.

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The executive director of the San Jose police union imported opioids from overseas in a scheme to distribute the drugs in the U.S., federal prosecutors say.Joanne Marian Segovia was charged Tuesday with attempting to import a controlled substance in a scheme that took place from 2015 to 2023.

A Los Angeles fugitive who was facing more than a decade in prison for an $18-million pandemic relief scam was extradited Monday from Montenegro to the United States, according to Montenegrin police.The U.S. Marshals Service took custody of Tamara Dadyan, 41, at the airport in Podgorica, Montenegro's capital, police said.

Federal investigators sought and were granted access to Northwest Side Ald. Jim Gardiner's text messages a little over a year after he took office, as part of an investigation into whether he accepted a $5,000 payment from a developer in exchange for stalling a housing development in the ward, according to a search warrant application unsealed this week.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Amazon for allegedly failing to properly record work-related injuries and illnesses at six facilities around the country, including one in Waukegan.Amazon failed to properly record workplace injuries at its MDW8 facility in Waukegan, OSHA said in a news release Friday.

Two men broke into a dozen Ring home security camera accounts across the U.S., placed bogus emergency calls to police, then livestreamed officers' armed responses on social media, authorities said Monday.Kya C. Nelson, 21, of Racine, Wis., and James McCarty, 20, of Charlotte, N.C., were indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles for the "swatting" incidents in California, Michigan, Montana, Georgia, Virginia, Texas, Illinois, Florida and Alabama.

The promise was simple: Follow them and get rich.Eight influencers, based from California to Florida, promoted themselves on social media as financial gurus who could pick winning stocks.But in reality, federal authorities said, it was a "pump and dump" scheme, in which the perpetrators work to inflate the prices of stocks while pushing them as good investments before dumping them for profit.

A New Hampshire man pleaded guilty Friday to using stolen identities from Puerto Rican Americans to buy nearly $100,000 in cars.Ricardo Acevedo, 34, of Manchester, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and false representation of a social security number.

A Worcester husband and wife have been arrested in connection with several sex trafficking charges.Kiersten Soto, 29, and Moises Soto, 30, allegedly trafficked a victim for commercial sex in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island from February through May of this year, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Crime The "Route 91 Bandit" has allegedly robbed 14 banks and credit unions in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Connecticut since September 2021.A Chicopee man believed to be the "Route 91 Bandit" who allegedly robbed 14 banks and credit unions across New England over the past year was arrested Thursday.

Local Judge Shelley Joseph was accused of helping a man who was living in the U.S. illegally flee a courthouse as an ICE agent waited in the lobby.The suspension of a judge accused of helping an undocumented immigrant evade a federal agent was dropped this week, clearing the way for her to return to the bench.

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, testifies during a congressional committee hearing in Washington on Dec. 8, 2021.Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday after the U.S. filed charges against him following his company's collapse.(Alex Wong/Getty Images) Police in the Bahamas have arrested former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, the country's attorney general said on Monday, adding that the Bahamas has received formal notification from the United States of criminal charges against him.

Prosecutor Jeff Schenk speaks as former Theranos Inc President Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani appears before US District Judge Edward Davila during his sentencing at federal court in San Jose, California, US December 7, 2022 in a courtroom sketch.Vicki Behringer, Reuters A US judge on Wednesday sentenced former Theranos Inc President Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani to 12 years and 11 months in prison on charges of defrauding investors and patients of the blood testing startup led by Elizabeth Holmes, a spokesperson for the US attorney's office confirmed.

The captain of the Conception dive boat, which caught fire and sank off the California coast more than three years ago, leaving 34 people dead, will face trial next month, according to authorities.Jerry Nehl Boylan, 68, pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge of misconduct or neglect of a ship officer, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of California.

A national catalytic converter theft ring that generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue was taken down in an unprecedented federal investigation, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.The operation included arrests, searches and seizures in California, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, North Carolina and Virginia.