Irma Yolanda Munoz Soto sued Union Pacific Railroad
Company and two of its employees, Scott King and Robert Finch
(collectively Union Pacific parties), for wrongful death (premises
liability and general negligence) after Soto’s 16-year-old daughter
was struck and killed by a freight train on an at-grade railroad
crossing in Santa Clarita. The court granted the Union Pacific
... More...   $0 (02-16-2020 - CA)

Houston, TX - The United States of America charged Mitchell Gregory Schoemaker with possession of a machine gun and impersonating a federal agent.

A 33-year-old Cypress resident has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for illegally possessing a machine gun and impersonating a federal agent.

U.S. District Court Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. handed Shoemaker a 78-mont... More...   $0 (02-15-2020 - TX)

Statesville, NC - The United States of America charged Ronnie Dean Brown with possession of child porn.

Ronnie Dean Brown, 36, of North Wilkesboro, N.C., to 121 months in prison on child pornography charges, announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina. Brown was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervised release and was ordered to register as a sex offe... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - NC)

Greensboro, NC - The United States of America charged Tyler Lloyd Grantz with knowingly possessing a stole firearm, drug possession and discharging a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.

A jury in federal court convicted a Kernersville man of four felony charges related to shooting at a state trooper.

Following a three day trial in Greensboro, the jury found TYLER LLOYD GRAN... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - NC)

Raleigh, NC - The United States of America charged Preston Obryan Miles with drug distribution and felony firearms possession.

PRESTON OBRYAN MILES, 35, of Kittrell was sentenced to 78 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. MILES was named in a two-count Indictment on July 10, 2019, charging him with possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine and po... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - NC)

Industrial Welfare Commission wage order No. 7-2001
(Wage Order 7) requires employers to pay their employees a
minimum wage for all “hours worked.” (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 8,
§ 11070, subd. 4(B).) “Hours worked” is defined as “the time
during which an employee is subject to the control of an
employer, and includes all the time the employee is suffered or
permitted to work, w... More...   $0 (02-14-2020 - CA)

Philadelphia, PA - The United States of America charged Anthony Rocco Major with sexually exploiting a child.

Anthony Rocco Major, 47, of Willow Grove, PA was sentenced to 325 months’ imprisonment and 20 years’ supervised release by United States District Court Judge Joel Slomsky for multiple child exploitation offenses.

In July 2019, the defendant pleaded guilty to multiple coun... More...   $0 (02-13-2020 - PA)

Houston, TX - The United States of America charged Shan Shi with stealing trade secrets.

The head of a Houston-based company that was the subsidiary of a Chinese company that developed stolen trade secrets was sentenced to 16 months in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $330,000.

Shan Shi, 55, of Houston, Texas, had previously been found guilty of conspiracy to steal trade s... More...   $0 (02-13-2020 - DC)

Trenton, NJ - The United States of America charged Jesus Zavala-Torres with distribution of metha.

A California man today admitted shipping approximately 30 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and conspiring to send an additional 5 kilograms of fentanyl into New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

Jesus Zavala-Torres, 34, of San Jacinto, California, pleaded guilty befo... More...   $0 (02-12-2020 - NJ)

Syracuse, NY - The United States of America charged John Angwin with possession and distribution of child pron.

John Angwin, age 30, of Holland Patent, New York, was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for distributing and possessing child pornography. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith; Kevin Kelly, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Offic... More...   $0 (02-12-2020 - NY)

Brooklyn, NY - The United States of America charged Anton Bogdanov with wire fraud conspiracy and computer intrusion.

Anton Bogdanov, age 34, a citizen of Russia, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and computer intrusion in connection with a scheme in which he and others used stolen personal information to file federal tax returns and fraudulently obtain more than $1.5 million in tax... More...   $0 (02-12-2020 - NY)

Baldwin & Sons, Inc.; Baldwin & Sons, LLC; Sunranch Capital Partners, LLC;
USA Portola Properties, LLC; Sunrise Pacific Construction; USA Portola East, LLC;
USA Portola West, LLC; and SRC-PH Investments, LLC (collectively, Appellants)
appeal from an order compelling compliance with investigative (or administrative)
subpoenas issued by the State Water Resources Control Board (State... More...   $0 (02-12-2020 - CA)

Bangor, ME - The United States of America charged William Stewart with possession of child porn.

A Waterville man was sentenced in federal court in Bangor for possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.

U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. sentenced William Stewart, 64, to 80 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release. Stewart was also ord... More...   $0 (02-11-2020 - ME)

Birmingham, AL - The United States of America charged Quincetta Yvonne Cargill with mail fraud, wire fraud and witness intimidation.

Following a three-day bench trial, a Birmingham woman was convicted on charges of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and intimidating a witness, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Andrew M. Thornt... More...   $0 (02-11-2020 - AL)

Jacksonville, FL - The United States of America charged Harlon David Prater with producing child porn.

Harlon David Prater (28, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to two counts of producing images depicting the sexual abuse of children, and one count of transporting images of sexual abuse of a child. Prater faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to 80 years, in federal prison... More...   $0 (02-11-2020 - FL)

Miami, FL - The United States of America charged Andrew Melendez-Gonzalez with transferring of obscene material to minors, selling or buying of children, activities relating to materials constituting child porno and interstate domestic violence.

U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks sentenced Andrew Melendez-Gonzalez, 22, of Loxahatchee, Florida, to 20 years in federal prison, follow... More...   $0 (02-11-2020 - FL)

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged the defendant with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: LA4, POSSESSION OF STOLEN VEHICLE, in violation of 47 O.S. 4-103
Date of Offense: 03/05/2018
Party Name Disposition Information
JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER DEWAYNE Disposed: DEFERRED, 04/06/2018. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: POSSESSION OF STOLEN VEHICLE(LA4)
Violation of 47 O.S. 4-... More...   $0 (02-10-2020 - OK)

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Brent Dean Brown with:

Count # 1. Count as Filed: FE1A, ENDANGERING OTHERS WHILE ELUDING POLICE OFFICER, in violation of 21 O.S. 540A (B)
Date of Offense: 08/16/2019
Party Name Disposition Information
BROWN, BRENT DEAN Disposed: DEFERRED, 02/05/2020. Guilty Plea
Count as Disposed: ENDANGERING OTHERS WHILE ELUDING POLICE OFFICE... More...   $0 (02-10-2020 - OK)

Kenneth Ray Manzanares, 42, of Santa Clara, Utah, pleaded guilty to one count of murder in the second degree for the July 2017 killing of his wife, Kristy Manzanares, onboard the cruise ship Emerald Princess in the U.S. Terri... More...   $0 (02-09-2020 - AK)

Sacramento, CA - The United States of America charged Jai Vijay with:

CONSPIRACY TO PAY AND RECEIVE HEALTH CARE KICKBACKS

Jai Vijay, 54, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty to conspiring with the owners of home health care agencies and a hospice agency to pay and receive illegal kickbacks in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals.

According to court documents, Jai Vijay’s... More...   $0 (02-09-2020 - CA)

Los Angeles, CA - The United States of America charged Guiqiong Xiao Gudmundsen, a.k.a. “Kimi” Gudmundsen, of Anaheim Hills with:

18:1347: Health Care Fraud; 18:2: Aiding and Abetting and Causing an Act to be Done
(1-4)
18:1347: Health Care Fraud; 18:2: Aiding and Abetting and Causing an Act to be done
(5)
18:1347: Health Care Fraud; 18:2: Aiding and Abetting and Ca... More...   $0 (02-09-2020 - CA)

A trial court may certify a class in a proposed class action
lawsuit only if, among other things, the court finds a “‘community
of interest’” among the proposed class members (Duran v. U.S.
Bank National Assn. (2014) 59 Cal.4th 1, 28 (Duran)), which in
part means that “‘“common questions of law or fact”’”
“‘“predominate”’” because “the elements necessary to establish
liabil... More...   $0 (02-09-2020 - CA)

Davenport, IA - The United States of America charged Jeffrey Scott Walter with receiving and distribution child porn.

United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Jeffrey Scott Walter, age 57, of Burlington, to 104 months in prison for receiving and distributing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Walter was ordered to serve five years of ... More...   $0 (02-08-2020 - IA)