Greenbelt, MD - Maryland MS-13 Member Ordered to Serve Two Consecutive Life Sentences for Federal Racketeering Conspiracy, Murder, and Other Violent Crimes

Also Pleaded Guilty to Illegal Reentry After Deportation and Sentenced to Six Months in Prison

U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Raul Ernesto Landaverde-Giron, a/k/a “Humilde,” a/k/a “Decente,” age 28, of Silver ... More...   $0 (08-14-2018 - MD)

Alexandria, VA - Jamaican Woman Sentenced for Lottery Scam Targeting Elderly Victims

A Jamaican citizen was sentenced today to six years in prison for orchestrating a lottery fraud that scammed elderly victims out of approximately $385,000.

“The financial and emotional harm these scams cause elderly victims and their family members can be devastating,” said G. Zachary Terwilliger... More...   $0 (08-14-2018 - VA)

Virginia law criminalizes the possession, purchase, or consumption of alcohol by someone who has been interdicted by a Virginia court. Interdiction is a civil order designating that a person is a “habitual drunkard” or has been convicted of driving while intoxicated. In this case, a group of homeless people suffering from alcoholism challenged the constitutionality of Virginia’s interdiction statu... More...   $0 (08-14-2018 - VA)

Bangor, ME - Guatemalan Man Sentenced to Time Served for Illegal Entry into the United States

Edwin Antonio Paiz-Morales, 27, of Guatemala, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to illegally entering the United States and was sentenced by U.S. Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison to time served (ten days).

Court records reveal that on July 29, 2018, the defendant entered the Un... More...   $0 (08-12-2018 - ME)

Albany, NY - Salvadoran Citizen Sentenced for Illegal Re-Entry


Roberto Alexander Herrera Carballo, age 27, and of a citizen of El Salvador, was sentenced today to time served (116 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.

The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Thomas R. Decker, Director of the New York Field Office of Immigr... More...   $0 (08-10-2018 - NY)

A U.S. Border Patrol agent standing on American soil
shot and killed a teenage Mexican citizen who was walking
down a street in Mexico. We address whether that agent has

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qualified immunity and whether he can be sued for violating
the Fourth Amendment. Based on the facts alleged in the
complaint, we hold that the agent violated a clearly
e... More...   $0 (08-09-2018 - AZ)

Corpus Christi, TX - Mexican National Sentenced for Smuggling 53 Aliens in Tractor Trailer

A Mexican National who was on a visitor visa has been ordered to federal prison for attempting to smuggle illegal aliens behind a load of produce.

U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos handed Valero-Carrizales a 30-month sentence. Not a U.S. citizen, Valero-Carrizales is expected to f... More...   $0 (08-05-2018 - tx)

At his arraignment, the trial court advised appellant as to the range of
punishment for the offense of murder, but it did not provide any further
admonitions. Appellant testified that he discussed his case at length with his trial
counsel, including all potential defensive theories and strategies. However, despite
his trial counsel’s presentation of various possible defensive... More...   $0 (08-02-2018 - TX)

Fan Wang, a citizen of the People’s Republic of China, obtained lawful permanent resident status in the United States on April 29, 2010, and worked as a trading assistant in a financial services firm. In 2011, without authorization, he purchased oil futures contracts using the firm’s trading account and transferred those contracts between firm accounts. In company records, Wang marked these cont... More...   $0 (08-02-2018 - PA)

Jerrid Allen petitions under the Administrative Procedure
Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 551 et seq., for review of a decision by
the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt, Germany to deny a visa to
his wife. Allen claims that the consular officer committed
legal error in denying Mrs. Allen a visa, and that the error
was “arbitrary, capricious, . . . or otherwise not in accordance
with law.” ... More...   $0 (07-29-2018 - CA)

Lambus and Fuller are accused of being leaders and organizers of a
16 group of individuals that referred to itself as the Paper Chasing Goons or POV City
1 and was a drug trafficking organization (or the "DTO"). Beginning in 2015, Lambus
2 and Fuller, along with 10 others, were indicted principally on charges of conspiring
3 to distribute and possess with intent to distribute hero... More...   $0 (07-27-2018 - NY)

Gulfport, MS - Former Gulfport Resident Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography

Gregory A. Mclin, 45, a former Gulfport resident who now resides in Huntsville, Alabama, pled guilty on July 24, 2018 before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola to one count of knowingly possessing visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

An investigation conducted in ... More...   $0 (07-25-2018 - MS)

Brownsville, TX - Meth Smuggler Ordered to Federal Prison

A 19-year-old U.S. citizen who resided in Matamoros, Mexico, was ordered to prison for smuggling methamphetamine through the local port of entry. Brenda Guerra Rios pleaded guilty Jan. 17, 2018, to possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.

Today, U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen ordered... More...   $0 (07-25-2018 - TX)

On November 28, 2017, Huerta was arrested for an alleged Class C misdemeanor
theft offense and detained in the Lubbock County jail. Bail was not posted. On November
29, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an immigration
detainer, against Huerta.1 A Department of Homeland Security administrative “warrant
for arrest of alien” also was signed. More...   $0 (07-24-2018 - TX)

According to his application, appellant pleaded guilty to burglary of a building
on March 15, 2017, and the trial court sentenced him to community supervision.2
On November 13, 2017, appellant filed an application for writ of habeas corpus
challenging the voluntariness of his guilty plea based on allegedly ineffective
assistance of counsel. Appellant argued that his trial att... More...   $0 (07-23-2018 - TX)

Houston, TX - 24 Defendants Sentenced in Multimillion Dollar India-Based Call Center Scam Targeting U.S. Victims

Twenty-one members of a massive India-based fraud and money laundering conspiracy that defrauded thousands of U.S. residents of hundreds of millions of dollars were sentenced this week to terms of imprisonment up to 20 years. Three other conspirators were sentenced earlier th... More...   $0 (07-21-2018 - TX)

Miami, FL - Port St. Lucie Resident Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison for International Firearms Trafficking

A Port St. Lucie resident was sentenced today to more than 12 years in prison for unlawfully exporting firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition from South Florida to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Benjamin G. Greenberg, United States Attorney for the Southern Distric... More...   $0 (07-19-2018 - FL)

Seattle, WA - Registered Sex Offender Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Receipt and Possession of Images of Child Rape
Defendant Preyed on Young California Teen, Inducing her to send Images over Internet

A registered sex offender with prior convictions for raping a 12-year-old girl he met via the internet, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 20 years i... More...   $0 (07-19-2018 - WA)

San Diego, CA - Convicted Alien Smuggler Sentenced to 97 Months in Custody for Event that Left Two People Dead

Jorge Luis Martinez-Hernandez, a Mexican citizen with a prior alien smuggling conviction, was sentenced in federal court yesterday to more than eight years in prison for his role in a smuggling incident that left two undocumented immigrants dead.

The sentence was handed ... More...   $0 (07-19-2018 - CA)

Lexington, KY - Mexican National Pleads Guilty To Distribution Of Methamphetamine And An Immigration Offense

Jose Jesus Navarro-Rios, a.k.a. “La Daga,” a Mexican National illegally residing in Lancaster, Ky., has pled guilty to three counts of distributing more than 500 grams of Methamphetamine and to unlawfully reentering the United States after previously being deported.

In hi... More...   $0 (07-16-2018 - KY)

Tulsa, OK - Locust Grove Man Sentenced To 41 Months in Prison for Attempted Possession of Child Pornography

District Judge Claire V. Eagan, sentenced Trevor James Thompson, 32, of Locust Grove to serve 41 months in federal prison for Attempted Possession of Child Pornography, Thompson must also pay a special monetary assessment totaling $100. After release from prison, Thompson was ordere... More...   $0 (07-15-2018 - OK)

Alexandria, VA - Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Murder of U.S. Consulate Official

A California man pleaded guilty today to shooting a U.S. diplomat stationed at the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico.

“The Vice Consul was targeted and shot because he represented the United States,” said G. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. “No one should ... More...   $0 (07-14-2018 - VA)

Lincoln, NE - Nebraska Man Sentenced to Prison for Viewing Child Pornography

A Nebraska man was sentenced on July 12, 2018 to 76 months in prison for accessing with an intent to view child pornography.

Donald Blevins, 65, of Norfolk, Nebraska, pleaded guilty on April 4, to accessing with the intent to view child pornography. U.S. District Court Judge John M. Gerrard of the Dist... More...   $0 (07-13-2018 - NE)

In Vanderklok v. United States, 868 F.3d 189 (3d Cir.
2017), we declined to imply a Bivens cause of action against
airport screeners employed by the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) in part because they “typically are not
law enforcement officers and do not act as such.” Id. at 208.
We now must decide a related question that we anticipated, but
did not resolve, ... More...   $0 (07-13-2018 - PA)