Pleads
A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection employee has pleaded guilty to his wife’s kidnapping that resulted in her death. The United States Department of Justice announced that 38-year-old Eddy Reyes admitted to orchestrating his estranged wife’s 2016 kidnapping after suspecting she had an affair. The victim — identified as 21-year-old Claudia Sanchez Reyes — […]
William Woods was homeless and living in Los Angeles when he learned that someone was racking up debt using his name. But when he reported his concerns to the branch manager of a bank, he wound up spending nearly two years locked up, accused of identity theft himself. As he continued to insist he was […]
By Max Matza BBC News, Seattle 40 minutes ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The bald eagle was once considered endangered throughout much of the United States, but has made a comeback A US man accused of killing thousands of protected birds has pleaded guilty to conspiring to hunt and traffic bald and golden […]
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A Washington state man accused of helping kill thousands of birds pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to shooting eagles on an American Indian reservation in Montana and selling their feathers and body parts on the black market. Travis John Branson pleaded guilty to conspiracy, wildlife . . .
A former Customs and Border Protection officer who worked at a Texas port of entry pleaded guilty this week to letting undocumented people into the U.S. and allowing what he thought was cocaine into the country, officials said. Emanuel Isac Celedon pleaded guilty in two federal cases Monday — one dealing with smuggling people into […]
A Washington state man accused of making more than 20 swatting calls across the U.S. and in Canada, leading to law enforcement responses to his false reports of bombings, shootings and other crimes, pleaded guilty. Ashton Garcia, 21, pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to two counts of extortion and two counts […]
WASHINGTON – A U.S. businessman pleaded guilty today to evading his federal income taxes. Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves for the District of Columbia made the announcement. According to court documents and statements […]
Ex-US cop accused of fatally shooting black teen pleads guilty Washington: A former police officer in the US city of Memphis who was accused of fatally shooting a black teenager earlier this year, has pleaded guilty to two of the four federal charges he was facing. The 33-year-old Desmond Mills Jr., was . . .
Desmond Mills Jr., 33, was one of five former Memphis police officers accused in the death of Tyre Nichols in January this year, as reported by CNN. Updated On – 10:34 AM, Fri – 3 November 23 Washington: A former police officer in the US city of Memphis who was accused […]
One of the five US police officers charged in the beating death of a young African-American man in the southern city of Memphis pleaded guilty Thursday, the Justice Department announced. Bodycam footage of the January incident showed the officers, who are all Black, repeatedly kicking and punching Tyre Nichols, 29, during a traffic stop close […]