#federal-charges

#federal-charges

Prosecutors claim Angel Guzman helped butcher a man while deep inside the Angeles National Forest in 2017 - stabbing him more than 100 times, carving out his heart with a machete, and dumping his body into a canyon, the LA Times reported. Now, Guzman and three other alleged members of the notorious MS-13 Fulton gang are facing federal charges tied to a bloody string of murders that cops say turned the LA County mountains into execution grounds.

In the cellphone video, the man can be seen holding a large rock with one hand, aiming, and throwing it directly at the monk seal, prosecutors said a criminal complaint. The rock, described by a witness as the size of a coconut, narrowly missed the seal's head, but caused the "animal to abruptly alter its behavior," the complaint said.

According to an indictment, the men, along with another suspect, posed as UPS, pizza delivery and DoorDash drivers to gain access to victims' homes. Prosecutors allege they were armed with guns, duct tape and zip ties, and in at least one incident forced a victim to give up cryptocurrency account information while threatening to cut off the victim's finger.

Gannon Ken Van Dyke was part of a highly classified team that planned and carried out an operation in Venezuela that led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro.

Williams arrived at the meeting location, a recording studio in Dallas, with eight accomplices, including his father Lontrell Williams Sr. and fellow rapper Rodney Wright Jr., aka Big30.

The scheme began in March 2023, when Rambhai Patel, then 36, carried out staged armed robberies with co-conspirators at at least six convenience stores, liquor stores, and fast food restaurants in Massachusetts and other states. Prosecutors said the robberies were designed to help store clerks falsely claim they were victims of violent crimes in applications for U nonimmigrant status, commonly known as a U visa.

Kenya Chapman is facing federal charges in connection to the sale of the the weapon to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former Army National Guard member who yelled "Allahu akbar" before opening fire at the Virginia school on Thursday, according to authorities.

Wearing a gray suit, Billups entered his not-guilty plea on Nov. 24 on federal charges connected to a rigged poker game that had enveloped the attention of the NBA and the rest of the sports world. He's facing money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy charges, both of which carry a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.

On Friday a federal judge dropped two of the four charges against Luigi Mangione the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson making his case no longer eligible for the death penalty. Mangione is accused of killing Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024 on a street in midtown Manhattan as he was walking to his hotel for UnitedHealth Group's annual investor conference.

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a grand jury indicted a Bay Area woman, Reshma Kamath, on Nov. 13 on several charges related to the alleged assault of a flight crew. On June 28, Kamath boarded Air India flight 173 from New Delhi to San Francisco International Airport. Federal prosecutors alleged that during the flight, she verbally abused, threatened and struck two flight crew members.

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count for which he could face the death penalty, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare's chief executive. In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, the lawyers said prosecutors should also be prevented from using at trial his statements to law enforcement officers and his backpack where a gun and ammunition were found.

Anibal Hernandez-Santana, the 64-year old suspected shooter, was arrested by the FBI on Saturday, one day after he opened fired on ABC 10 in Sacramento in a drive-by shooting. Hernandez-Santana had posted $200,000 bail earlier on Saturday before he was arrested by the FBI for violating a statute that says no one can interfere with any communication of any station licensed by the U.S. Government, KCRA 3 reporter Peyton Headlee reported on Sunday.