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By Capt. Brian Villiard, MCIOC Public Affairs, Marine Corps Information Operation Center MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. Four Marines from the Marine Corps Information Operations Center returned home Sept. 6 after a six-month deployment to Afghanistan. Information Operations planners, Maj.…
FORT WORTH, TXRyan Walker Grant, 34, of Kennedale, Texas, has plead guilty to one count of murder-for-hire. He faces a maximum statutory sentence of 10 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release. Sentencing…
TULSA, OKLA. The National Response Team (NRT) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), along with ATF special agents from the Dallas Field Division were requested by the Tulsa Fire Department to join in the investigation of…
ALBUQUERQUE Chief United States District Judge Bruce D. Black sentenced Douglas F. Vaughan, 64, of Albuquerque, to 12 years in federal prison for wire and mail fraud charges that involved a Ponzi scheme in which Vaughan fraudulently obtained more than…
Washington The U.S. Marshals Service is selling a luxury motor home, one of Rita Crundwells assets, via an online auction starting Tuesday. The auction for the 2008 Liberty Coach Motor Home will run through noon Sept. 25. Crundwell, 59, the…
Albuquerque, NM - On September 4, 2012 the United States Marshal Service in New Mexico arrested Janis Deanna Casaus. Casaus was a Federal fugitive wanted after a federal grand jury indicted her on charges of being a felon in possession…
WASHINGTON - A British citizen was sentenced to 30 years in prison for producing child pornography. Simon Jasper McCarty, 39, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright of the District of Hawaii. In addition to his prison sentence,…
by Capt. Martha L. Petersante 376th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs TRANSIT CENTER AT MANAS, Kyrgyztan (AFNS) -- When the 22nd Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron crew stepped into their large tanker aircraft for a recent mission and departed the Transit…
Presidio, Texas - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working at the Presidio port of entry seized 19 pounds of cocaine Tuesday. A Presidio man was arrested in the case. This is significant because we dont see cocaine very…
A Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a large crack cocaine conspiracy. Lonnie Goodrich, also known as "Daniel Watkins" and "Verdell Goodrich," 58, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge…
by Lt. Col. Robert Carver North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AFNS) -- Four Airmen died and two others were seriously injured when a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped C-130 Hercules crashed July 1 while fighting a woodland…
The Justice Department will monitor primary elections on May 29, 2012, in Fort Bend, Harris and Jefferson Counties in Texas, to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other federal voting rights statutes. The Voting Rights Act…