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Following months of investigation, a married San Jose couple faces a long-list of charges after Mountain View police said multiple search warrants in the Bay Area led them to discover more than 1,500 pieces of stolen mail. Mountain View police said the case started with a mail theft case in the 500 block of W. Middlefield Road. “During the investigation, Crime Suppression Unit (CSU) detectives worked in coordination with patrol officers to develop actionable leads,” said police in a statement to KRON4. “Subsequent follow-up by CSU detectives resulted in the identification of two suspects.” The suspected duo, identified as Terri...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Albuquerque Police Department’s Impact Task Force seized five guns and a variety of drugs following a reported road rage incident involving a white Ford F150. Officers responded Tuesday when a victim reported a man threatened him with a handgun. Police say the suspect, Francisco Solis, was identified through APD’s Real Time Crime Center. Police say Solis admitted involvement but claimed he pointed pliers, not a gun. He was arrested and charged aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Detectives searched Solis’ residence, and say they seized the following items: 5 handguns, to include one matching the description...

The majority approved language that would replace the elected Controller’s role with an appointed CFO, potentially stripping away independent oversightIn a move that has ignited fierce backlash, the Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission voted 9-2 on Thursday to advance a proposal that would effectively eliminate the independent City Controller’s office, shifting its core functions—including audits, accounting, payments, revenue forecasting, and fraud investigations—to a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) appointed by Mayor Karen Bass and accountable to the City Council. This reform, framed by supporters as a consolidation of financial operations to address the city’s ongoing budget crisis, comes just weeks...

In the wake of Vice President JD Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, announcing that some Medicaid funding going toward Minnesota would be paused due to fraud concerns, Governor Tim Walz claimed that "the person who’s angriest about this fraud is me." "I don’t know why this is so hard to understand, and I will continue to say this. You can trust me on this. The person who’s angriest about this fraud is me. There is certainly no political upside to having fraud in your state, and it undermines the very...

In 2023, Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old female who identified as male, shot and killed three children and three adults at the Covenant School in Nashville before being killed by police. A 2019 shooting at a Denver STEM school involved a transgender-identifying individual. The would-be assassin of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh identifies as transgender. On February 10, Jesse Van Rootselaar, 19, killed a parent and half-brother before going to the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada, killing eight more people, injuring 27 others, and committing suicide. On February 16, Robert Dorgan, 56, who underwent gender-reassignment surgery in 2020,...

Two alleged members of the Venezuelan-linked gang Tren De Aragua (TdA) were charged in an ATM jackpotting conspiracy that included robberies and attempted robberies across New England, according to federal prosecutors. Moises Alejandro Martinez Gutierrz and Lestter Guerrero, both 29, have been charged with conspiracy to commit bank theft, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts said in a news release. Officials said both men are in the U.S. illegally. The duo is accused of robberies and attempted robberies at ATMs in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island. They allegedly installed malware directly into the ATM's...

An alleged Sinaloa Cartel leader has been charged with narcoterrorism and drug trafficking, and a reward of up to $5 million each is being offered for information leading to his capture, as well as the arrest of his brother, federal prosecutors in San Diego said Thursday. Narcoterrorism is a new charge and term that stems from the Trump administration's designation of some cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, including the Sinaloa Cartel. Mexico has also worked with this administration to send some people to the U.S. for prosecution. Rene Arzate-Garcia, also known as "La Rana," is described by prosecutors in court...

“Nobody knows nothin’.”—Jack BogleThe legendary Jack Bogle was referring to the financial market, but his sentiment also applies to crime statistics: Nobody really knows the actual crime rate — or who’s committing the crimes.For about 10 years, I did PR for a fintech company that specialized in cybersecurity. You’d think online crimes would be the easiest to verify, but most of the crime stats were manufactured: We’d extrapolate data from Category A and project it to Category B.They were almost always statistical projections.Look, if we can’t accurately quantify crime stats in a closed ecosystem like cybersecurity, we don’t have a...

Actor Crispin Glover, most well-known for playing the iconic role of George McFly in arguably one of the greatest films of all time, Back to the Future, now faces allegations of battery and fraud in a new lawsuit filed by an unnamed woman who claims he “essentially held her captive and used her for sex and free labor.” Anyone who has followed Glover’s career, both on screen and off, probably won’t feel surprised by the allegations. The guy has always been an oddball. Do a quick YouTube search of his late-night talk show appearances and you’ll see exactly what that...

BRANSON, Mo. — Two men are facing felony charges after Branson police said they threatened two Black residents during a Feb. 10 disturbance and displayed what appeared to be firearms. According to online court records, Chaz Royal Beck, born in 2007, of Branson, and Dylan Eric Julian, born in 2003, are each charged with first-degree harassment, a Class E felony.

ORT SUMNER, N.M. — New Mexico State Police arrested two suspects accused of shooting at an officer along US-285 on Monday near Vaughn.Jovan Martinez and Makaela Johnson were arrested in the Fort Sumner near Billy the Kid Drive and Shady Tree Drive in Fort Sumner. The location is near the grave of Billy the Kid. Police say both suspects were wanted on warrants including conspiracy to commit murder. DeBaca County Crime Stoppers was offering a $7,000 reward for information leading to a conviction.

(The Center Square) – Federal agents continue to pursue visa fraud and forced labor crimes across the U.S. perpetrated by Americans and noncitizens who exploited a border crisis and loopholes in a weak visa system, prosecutors argue. The prosecutions come as Mexican smuggling operations at the northern border continue to be thwarted, The Center Square reported. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington announced this week 61 indictments against six people in the Tri-Cities and Yakima areas for extensive visa fraud, victim tampering, aggravated identity theft, mail and wire fraud, visa fraud and other charges. Two people...

President Trump referred to public benefits fraud in Massachusetts during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, promising a “war on fraud” after several SNAP schemes were uncovered in the Bay State along with recent whistleblower allegations of a lackluster response by state officials. “There’s been no more stunning example than Minnesota. Where members of the Somali community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion from the American tax bill, we have all the information. And in actuality, the number is much higher than that,” said Trump. “And California, Massachusetts, Maine, and many other states are even worse. This is...

The scope and depth of the evil now coming into plain view across the Western world defies comprehension. More baffling still is the fact that, in many cases, the West brought this evil upon itself. Monday on the social media platform X, British politician Rupert Lowe, Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth, posted a “Statement from the Rape Gang Inquiry” filled with shocking details of police behaving as “active perpetrators” in the extreme sexual abuse and murder of young British girls “predominantly perpetrated by Pakistani-heritage men.” Lowe’s statement described testimony from a survivor of Pakistani rape gangs whose ordeal began...

On Feb. 13, property theft detectives with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office received a report regarding a theft involving a package that was never delivered two days prior, authorities said in a Facebook post. An investigation into the alleged theft resulted in authorities identifying 27-year-old Tyran Jackson, a FedEx delivery driver, as a suspect in the case. Authorities also learned the missing package was located inside a storage unit at the 10500 block of Perkins Road in Baton Rouge, according to police. While executing a search warrant for the storage unit, investigators discovered approximately $62,000 worth of stolen...

Thousands of California’s convicted pedophiles have been released from prison Sacramento Sheriff Jim Cooper slammed California Governor Gavin Newsom’s “elderly parole program” Monday, which is allowing David Funston, a serial child rapist to be released from prison. Funston terrorized Sacramento neighborhoods by luring very young children with candy. He kidnapped, brutalized and raped children as young as age 3, then would toss them to the side of the road when he was done. A judge called him “the monster parents fear the most.” Thanks to Gov. Gavin Newsom, Funston will be on the streets again. And now Gavin Newsom is...

President Donald Trump’s guests for his State of the Union address will include Sage Blair, a young woman who was separated from her parents at age 14 after school officials attempted to secretly transition her to a male, the Daily Caller has exclusively learned. Blair, who is now reunited with her parents and attending Liberty University, will be joined by her mom, Michele, a White House official shared with the Caller. The president plans on telling Blair’s story Tuesday during his State of the Union address where he will also call on states to ban sex transitioning operations for minors....

Four people were fatally stabbed by an irate man during a reported violation of a no-contact order in an affluent waterfront community in Washington state on Tuesday morning. Three victims died at the harrowing scene at a cul-de-sac in Gig Harbor – a tourist hotspot just 45 miles outside of Seattle. A fourth was rushed to a nearby hospital, but succumbed to their injuries, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. The 32-year-old wielding the knife was shot and killed by the lone responding deputy on the street lined with homes ranging from 600,000 to $800,000, authorities said. The relationship...

The investigation revealed Banks allegedly crashed into the family, who were out on a walk with the Harlow in a pink wagon, the Lansing State Journal reported, citing court documents. According to security camera footage cited in court documents, Banks then emerged from the vehicle, dropped a backpack and allegedly opened fire on the family, striking all three members. He then seemed to reload the gun and allegedly began shooting the family again, per investigators.

Transgender individuals commit “disproportionate shares of mass public and active shooting attacks,” a Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) report shows.