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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
National News
Oct 31, 2006
TUCSON, Ariz. Fernando Arango, 52, of Rio Rico, Ariz., an officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, pleaded guilty on October 25, 2006, to Attempting to Possess with Intent to Distribute Cocaine. Arango was arrested by the FBI and OPR…
Oct 17, 2006
WASHINGTON Congressman Robert W. Ney has pleaded guilty to a two-count information charging him with conspiracy to commit multiple offenses including honest services fraud, making false statements, and violations of his former chief of staff's one-year lobbying ban and with…
Oct 17, 2006
WASHINGTON Christopher Kevin Weaver, a charter boat captain from Panama City, Fla., was sentenced on October 10, 2006 to two years of probation and a $1,000 fine for violating the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) by knowingly and unlawfully…
Oct 17, 2006
WASHINGTON Gheevarghese Pappen, a retired U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employee pleaded guilty on October 12 in Savannah, Ga., to soliciting and accepting nearly $50,000 in illegal gratuities, announced Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division. Pappen,…
Oct 3, 2006
Los Angeles, CA - Joe Davies had no idea the life he enjoyed as a semi-pro golfer in California was going to change due to small talk between two law enforcement officers attending a professional conference in August more than…
Sep 19, 2006
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- A federal grand jury in Phoenix returned August 30, 2006 a one count indictment against Lawrence Moreno, age 65, of Lakeside, Arizona, for Misappropriation of Postal Funds. The indictment alleges that since August 26, 1989, Moreno was…
Sep 14, 2006
If you were surprised by the strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake that shook offshore Florida on the morning of September 10, 2006 you´re not alone. This event was centered far offshore -- about 250 miles south-southwest of Apalachicola, Fla. -- yet…
Sep 5, 2006
Imposes Tariff on Dumped Paper Products Washington, D.C. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced on August 31, 2006 its final decision in the antidumping duty investigation of lined paper products from China. The Department found that Chinese companies are selling…
Aug 15, 2006
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Wesley Elvis Peden, 47, of Oroville, California, was held in custody on August 10, 2006, and ordered removed to the Eastern District of California following his arrest in Cottonwood, Arizona, on August 7, 2006. Peden is charged…
Aug 15, 2006
Conviction is 4th stemming from 1994 murder of Special Agent Richard Fass PHOENIX Agustin Vasquez-Mendoza was found guilty on Tuesday, August 8 in Maricopa County Superior Court for the first-degree murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent Richard E.…
Aug 15, 2006
TUCSON, Ariz. A federal grand jury in Tucson, Ariz. returned an eighteen count indictment against Sergio Renteria of Willcox, Arizona, his wife, Sandra Renteria, also of Willcox, and their daughter, Kayla Taylor, for conspiring to impede and impair the functions…
Aug 1, 2006
A website known as www.namgla.net was closed for business Tuesday, July 25 by the FBI as part of its Innocent Images National Initiative targeting child pornography networks operating globally using the Internet. The announcement was made by J. Stephen Tidwell,…