All Latest Smuggling News
Crime is a serious issue, but from time to time, we run into a case that sounds more like a comedy sketch.
Jason Keith Bruce, a 51-year-old man from Galt, Calif., pleaded guilty after trying to smuggle an endangered Ladakh urial trophy into the United States, according to a recent plea agreement obtained by The Daily Muck.
Three Russian nationals were charged in an indictment returned on Jan. 7 with crimes related to operating two cryptocurrency mixing services, Sinbad.io and Blender.io, according to a DOJ press release. Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik, 44, and Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko, 55, were arrested on Dec. 1, 2024, but Anton Vyachlavovich Tarasov, 32, has not yet been apprehended […]
Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, a Japanese national and Yakuza Leader, pleaded guilty on Jan. 8 to his part in a conspiracy to traffic nuclear materials to other countries from Burma, along with weapons charges and narcotics trafficking, according to a DOJ press release.
On Dec. 31, a federal court found Joel Smithers, a former doctor from Martinsville, Va., guilty of multiple charges after a three-week jury trial. This was an affirmation of a previous conviction for the same crimes. A judge ordered the second trial after a U.S. Supreme Court decision changed how judges should instruct juries in […]
Remember when you’d ask your black sheep Uncle Otis what his cell number was, and he would reply, “B Block, Number 126?” Ask him now, and the answer is more likely to be “555-987-6354.”
Jack Danaher Molloy, 24, a dual citizen of the United States and the Republic of Ireland who formerly lived in Pittsburgh, was arrested on Dec 6, 2024, and then transported to Pittsburgh by the U.S. Marshals Service on Dec. 30, 2024, according to a DOJ press release. A grand jury formally indicted Molloy on Jan. […]
Fresh Mark, Inc., entered a non-prosecution agreement with the Northern District of Ohio’s U.S. Attorney’s Office after multiple investigations led to arrests between 2013 and 2018, according to a Dec. 31, 2024, DOJ press release. Among those arrested was Yelwin Omar Munoz-Solis, 43, from Salem, Ohio, who was accused of crimes related to identity theft […]
Two Columbus, Ohio, police officers have been sentenced to four years in prison for their part in a scheme to sell stolen cocaine.
Lavante Wiggins, 30, the Dean of Students at Pittsfield High School and Theodore Warren, aka Monty, 42, both from Pittsfield, Mass., were arrested on Dec. 11 on charges of conspiracy and trafficking cocaine in Western Massachusetts, according to a DOJ press release.
A federal district judge has sentenced Danny Ray Boree, 39, of Keystone Heights, Fla., to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to a Justice Department press release.
A federal jury convicted Gabriel Donato-Mendez, a 48-year-old man from Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Nov. 20 for his participation in a conspiracy to export controlled United States defense articles and for attempted smuggling of AR-15 rifles.
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