Democrats’ $1.5 Trillion Shutdown Scheme: Benefits to Border-Crossers, Americans Abandoned
Coast Guard offloads nearly $94.5 million in illegal narcotics in Fort Lauderdale from Operation Pacific Viper
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Operation Pacific Viper: U.S. Coast Guard Announces Largest Drug Offload in its History
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Mar 4, 2008
Washington, D.C. - Home Depot has agreed to pay a $1.3 million penalty and implement a nationwide compliance program to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. The settlement resolves alleged violations that were discovered at more than 30…
Feb 19, 2008
Kansas City, Kansas-Forty-three people have been indicted on charges of drug trafficking in Leavenworth, Atchison, metropolitan Kansas City and Independence, Missouri. Operation Stonewalled, a joint investigation by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, was revealed when three indictments were…
Feb 19, 2008
PHOENIX Uawndre Fields, 31, of San Diego, and DePaul Brooks, 27, of National City, California, were found guilty by a federal jury of two counts of Child Sex Trafficking and two counts of Interstate Transportation of a Minor for Prostitution.…
Feb 9, 2008
Charges Include Racketeering Conspiracy, Extortion, Gambling, and Theft Following Joint Investigation by Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement BROOKLYN, NY An eighty-count indictment charging sixty-two defendants associated with the Gambino, Genovese, and Bonanno organized crime families of La Cosa Nostra,…
Feb 5, 2008
PHOENIX David Raymond Saksik, 32, of Aubervilliers, France, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee to seven years in federal prison. Saksik pleaded guilty on May 29, 2007 to travel in interstate commerce with the intent to engage…
Feb 5, 2008
WASHINGTON - A joint venture between Bechtel Infrastructure Corp. and PB Americas Inc., known as B/PB, and certain design consultants have agreed to pay the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a total of $458 million to settle allegations…
Jan 15, 2008
A new life saving technique is gaining national recognition as an easier and more effective alternative to traditional CPR. Cardiocerebral Resuscitation or CCR is a cutting edge alternative to CPR that emphasizes chest compressions and eliminates mouth-to-mouth breathing. A team…
Jan 10, 2008
EL PASO, Texas -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers performing anti-terror inspections at ports of entry in El Paso, West Texas and New Mexico made 36 drug seizures this week, confiscating 6,486 pounds of marijuana in 35 busts…
Jan 9, 2008
FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq (AFPN) -- More than 40 targets were hit after precision air strikes destroyed reported al-Qaida safe havens Jan. 10 in Arab Jabour, Iraq. The precision air strikes supported Operation Phantom Phoenix, the overarching operation that…
Jan 7, 2008
MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and MARK J. MERSHON, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI New York Field Office, announced that PHILIPPE and MILANA MURCIA of Greenwich, Connecticut, were…
Jan 6, 2008
On Friday, January 4, 2008, members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) arrested Richard SILLS, Jr., age 54, of Encinitas, California, in connection with the University of California San Diego (UCSD) hoax bomb incident that occurred on Wednesday, December…
Jan 1, 2008
By Marcia Wood Pumpkin pie, sweet potatoes and many other holiday favorites are rich in vitamin A, a nutrient essential for good health. Now a study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) nutrition scientists has shown, for the first time, that…