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Jun 3, 2008
Phoenix, Arizona Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Edward Burke has ruled that Virtual Realty Funding Company (VRF) and its owner Kenneth D. Perkins violated the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act and state banking laws and ordered them to pay $1.2 million…
May 30, 2008
Detroit U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Ambassador Bridge discovered 23.9 kilograms of ecstasy and five kilograms of methamphetamine in the spare tire of a car, attempting to make entry into the U.S. via the Nexus lane. The…
May 23, 2008
Washington - U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Air and Marine announced two major recent cocaine seizures totaling more than four tons of cocaine made possible by the surveillance operations of CBP Air and Marine. The two loads of…
May 22, 2008
Phoenix, Arizona Rodney Fielding, 50, and Lisa Fielding, 46, of Tempe, pleaded guilty in a land investment fraud scheme that cost investors more than $1.87 million. Rodney Fielding pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud, and Lisa Fielding pleaded guilty…
May 20, 2008
Mother Nature seems intent on teasing us this year with roller coaster temperatures. Triple digits hit this past Sunday with a high of 105. Monday broke the previous record with a searing heat of 110. A record of 108 was…
May 20, 2008
WASHINGTON Fourteen alleged members of a former paramilitary and drug-trafficking group known as the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), including high-ranking former leaders, have been extradited from Colombia to the United States to face drug trafficking charges. Defendants face charges…
May 20, 2008
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal judge has ordered two persons to pay more than $49 million for their role in a Canada-based scheme that duped American businesses into paying for business directories and listings they…
May 15, 2008
Searches and Arrests Cap Year-Long Investigation Portland, Ore. - On Thursday, May 15, 2008, several hundred local and federal law enforcement officers served 17 arrest warrants and 13 search warrants on locations from Portland to Woodburn, Oregon, in a major…
May 15, 2008
The FBI and JTTF have an open investigation concerning the May 4, 2008 bombing of the U.S. District Courthouse. No person has yet been charged for that crime. On Thursday, May 15, 2008, at approximately 2:47 p.m. Rachelle Lynette Carlock,…
May 13, 2008
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology would like to inform the general public that the text message currently circulating in the Philippines about a prediction by a certain US Geological Society of a magnitude 6.8 earthquake to hit Philippine…
May 13, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The American people, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), have provided $500,000 to the International Federation of Red Cross for the procurement and delivery of emergency relief commodities, as a result of the devastating earthquake…
May 11, 2008
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (Lockheed), a Denver-based business unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation, has agreed to pay the United States $10.5 million to settle allegations that it submitted invoices for payment it was not entitled to receive on a…