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True Crime in America
By Jim Kouri
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
For the second consecutive year, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation increased, and for the fourth year in a row, the estimated number of property crimes decreased.
By Steve Miller
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Clark County Court Executive Officer Charles J. Short failed to mention in the following apology letter that a Clark Co. Detention Center officer employed by Las Vegas Metro Police was also seen snapping a souvenir photo of Simpson as he entered the car that took him from the jail to the Palms and then to the airport. The uniformed officer jumped in front of Simpson's attorney's car to take his snap shot. It is very obvious by this apology that Mr. Simpson is receiving special treatment by our local court system.
By Jim Kouri
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
United States immigration and State Department officials fear that their newly developed, high-tech visas are being sold on the Mexican black market. The US government hoped the newly designed visas would help in curtailing rampant illegal immigration at the Mexican border, but investigators believe many of them are being bought or rented by Mexicans seeking illegal entry into the US.
By Jim Kouri
Friday, September 7, 2007
Six members of a Guatemalan family and three associates have been indicted for their roles in a sex trafficking ring that recruited young women in Guatemala with false promises of high-paying jobs, smuggled the victims into the United States, and forced them to work as prostitutes to pay smuggling fees.
By Jim Kouri
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Jose Ramon Hinojosa Santos, the head of an international drug ring that shipped heroin and cocaine to the United States, Western Europe, and Canada, was extradited to the United States from the Dominican Republic late Sunday evening.
By Jim Kouri
Sunday, August 19, 2007
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Fort Worth, Texas Safe City Commission Crime Stoppers jointly announced the arrest of a 41-year-old convicted child sex offender who had been deported for that crime, and was also wanted for parole violations.
By Jim Kouri
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Human trafficking is a transnational crime whose victims include men, women, and children and may involve violations of labor, immigration, antislavery, and other criminal laws.
By Jim Kouri
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
A third individual was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering arising from a scheme involving bribery, conspiracy and money laundering related to Department of Defense contracts in Iraq and Kuwait, according to a report released by Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and Assistant Attorney General Thomas O. Barnett of the Antitrust Division.
By Jim Kouri
Monday, July 30, 2007
Alvin Woody, a Mooresville, North Carolina pharmacist, and four additional defendants from Vermont, Wisconsin, New York, and California have been indicted on drug distribution and money laundering charges in connection with an alleged unlawful prescription drug operation, according to Gretchen C.F. Shappert, US Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Scott Newark, Primetimecrime.com Exclusive
Saturday, July 28, 2007
We have this quaint saying in the criminal justice business that used to characterize our work; "The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth." The recent 2006 Crime Statistics put out, by some strange reason, the Minister of Industry are indicative, however, that for some, truth has become a casualty of self interested spin.
By Jim Kouri
Thursday, July 12, 2007
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Las Vegas police officers recently arrested You Zhi Li, Yang Shen, and Jun Hu, on charges of Involuntary Servitude.
By Jim Kouri
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Twenty-two known Nuestra Familia/Nuestra Raza/Northern Structure/Norteno gang members and associates have been nabbed as a result of a nearly two-year investigation by the Stockton Violent Crimes Task Force (SVCTF), an FBI-led Safe Streets Task Force which consists of agents from the FBI and officers from the Stockton Police Department and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
By Jim Kouri
Monday, July 2, 2007
Bonnell Hughes, 57, of Crossville, Alabama, entered a guilty plea to eight counts of a federal indictment. Hughes was one of six men indicted in May 2007 in connection with an explosives recovery in Northeast Alabama.
By Jim Kouri
Friday, June 29, 2007
One of the US National Drug Control Strategy's priorities is to disrupt the illicit drug market. To this end, the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security provide ships and aircraft to disrupt the flow of illicit drugs, primarily cocaine, shipped from South America through the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean -- an area known as the transit zone.
By Nathan Tabor
Saturday, June 23, 2007
A recent headline points out why it wouldn't be a bad idea to post the Ten Commandments in our schools.
By Steve Miller, AmericanMafia.com
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
LAS VEGAS - The Sin City legal
community is buzzing over garage owner Buffalo Jim
Barrier winning three motions in Clark County District Court last
Thursday against his landlord, convicted racketeer Rick
Rizzolo.
By Jim Kouri
Sunday, June 17, 2007
The owner of the Los Angeles-based Numero Uno supermarket chain, his brother and two associates alleged to be part of a racketeering conspiracy have been taken into custody during a two-day operation that also resulted in the seizure of approximately $1.25 million in cash and more than 60 vehicles.
By Nathan Tabor
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
An alarming statistic splashed across the Internet the other day--violent crime is on the rise in the U.S. for the second straight year.
By Jim Kouri
Thursday, June 7, 2007
A federal grand jury in Greenbelt, Maryland, has charged leaders of the violent street gang known as MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, with federal racketeering crimes, including two men who allegedly ordered murders inside the United States from their prison cells in El Salvador, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales announced yesterday.
By Jim Kouri
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Two defendants -- one soldier and one capo of New York's Genovese Organized Crime Family -- pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court, before United States Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman, to conspiracy to commit murder and extortion.
By Steve Miller, Sunday, May 27, 2007
Buffalo Jim's Harassment Lawsuit may be reopened
LAS VEGAS - Last month's festive Going
Away Party held in Newport Beach revealed that convicted racketeer Rick
Rizzolo and his lawyer Tony Sgro have a sense of humor. But it
also revealed that the federal court has no funny bone after Judge
Philip Pro considered the party a reason for denying Sgro's motion to
keep his biggest client out of prison.
By Jim Kouri
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Fernando Gutierrez-Cancino, a key participant in the Cali Cartel's efforts to launder its vast cocaine proceeds, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 40 months in prison on money laundering charges, according to the federal law enforcement officials in New York City.
By Jim Kouri
Saturday, May 12, 2007
An Iranian-born United States citizen was sentenced here yesterday in US District Court to two years in prison and six months of home confinement for illegally exporting US military aircraft parts to Iran via associates in Germany and the United Arab Emirates.
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