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Major federal law enforcement raids in Kentucky have taken down dozens of dangerous illegal aliens and executed a large-scale deportation operation. 81 illegal aliens were arrested in a four-day sweep as part of “Operation Take Back America.” ... United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Kentucky confirmed that 25 of those arrested are now facing serious federal criminal charges. The crackdown, based out of Louisville, saw immigration enforcement officers detaining individuals from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, India, and Palau. Among them, 25 are now charged with crimes such as unlawful reentry, illegal firearm possession, and drug-related...

In order to make the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list, an "individual must have a lengthy record of committing serious crimes and/or be considered a particularly dangerous menace to society due to current criminal charges." You might say that Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales, a senior leader of the MS-13 gang, fits the bill. ... Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales is wanted for his alleged involvement in the direction of MS-13 activity in the United States, Mexico, and El Salvador. He is alleged to be a senior leader of MS-13. Roman-Bardales has been charged with several offenses for his alleged role in ordering numerous...

A Milwaukee woman is on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list, and a reward of up to $100,000 has been offered for information that leads to her arrest and conviction. Shanika Minor is wanted in the shooting deaths of a pregnant woman and her unborn child. According to a criminal complaint, . Minor is the seventh person from Wisconsin and the first from Milwaukee to make the list. She is only the 10th female to appear on the list since its creation in in March 1950, FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Shields said.

The FBI added a former D.C. private school teacher who has been on the run from police in the District and Maryland since 2008 to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list Tuesday. Eric Justin Toth, 30, who taught third grade at Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Elementary School, is wanted for possession and production of child pornography after a fellow teacher found sexually explicit photos of a boy on a school-owned camera Mr. Toth had been using in June 2008. Mr. Toth was charged with producing child pornography in Maryland and elsewhere in U.S. District Court in Maryland, and warrants were...

In a new afterword to his memoir, 1960s radical William Ayers describes himself as a "family friend" of President-elect Barack Obama and writes that the campaign controversy over their relationship was an effort by Obama's political enemies to "deepen a dishonest narrative" about the candidate. Ayers describes phone threats and hate e-mail he received during the campaign, and he bemoans Obama's guilt by association. During the campaign, Ayers' friendship with Obama was a favorite subject of conservative bloggers and talk show hosts who insisted the two were closer than the candidate was admitting. Ayers' new description of the relationship seems...

Fugitive arrested, accused of killing cop Tuesday, December 24, 2002By Ken KolkerThe Grand Rapids Press WYOMING -- One of Puerto Rico's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives -- accused of killing an off-duty police officer in Puerto Rico nearly two years ago -- was stopped and ticketed by police in West Michigan a half- dozen times since January, state records show. But a Michigan driver license obtained under a false name allowed him to evade the law -- until Monday. Federal agents arrested Yelin B. Otano-Matos, 22, just before 10 a.m. Monday outside an apartment complex in Wyoming after learning he had...