Tag: Q1 2009
Predator Gets 20 Years: Teens Targeted
⏱ 3 min read Manuel Rodriguez, 29, is headed to federal prison for two decades. The Pasco, Washington man was sentenced March 11, 2026, after being convicted of preying on teenage girls online. It began in late 2022 with a 15-year-old high school student, but quickly spiraled into a pattern of grooming and sexual assault…
Fentanyl Dealer Dumped Gun, Drugs
⏱ 3 min read Derrick Thomas Martin, 33, is facing a lengthy federal sentence after a frantic attempt to ditch a deadly payload backfired. On November 25, 2024, D.C. police went to Martin’s apartment on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue SE – acting on a warrant from Maryland – and he responded by hurling a backpack out…
Hatchet Attack Lands VA Man in Federal Prison
⏱ 3 min read A camping trip to Shenandoah National Park turned into a nightmare last year when Khalil Bougria, 31, of Springfield, Virginia, snapped, allegedly during a late-night argument with his girlfriend. He attacked her with a hatchet, leaving witnesses to report screams and blood-stained hands as they rushed to summon help. The incident…
SC Woman Pleads Guilty to Filming Child Abuse
⏱ 2 min read Florence, South Carolina – Alaina Ny’sha Thomas, 24, confessed in federal court today to filming the sexual abuse of a child. The FBI uncovered the sickening content – two videos showing Thomas engaged in sexual activity with a minor – lurking on a dark web forum this June. The abuse itself…
Park Nightmare: Hatchet Attack Lands Man in Fed Lockup
⏱ 3 min read Soufiane Bougria, 31, of Springfield, Virginia, is facing serious federal time after a jury found him guilty of a savage hatchet attack on his girlfriend while camping at Shenandoah National Park last August. The assault took place at Mathews Arm Campground on the night of August 24, 2025, turning a peaceful…
Fresno Gun Runner Gets 6+ Years for ‘Ghost Gun’ Ammo
FRESNO, CA – Felipe Macias, 28, is trading the Central Valley for a federal cell after a Wyoming judge handed down a six-year, five-month sentence Thursday. The charge wasn’t building the gun itself, but illegally possessing ammunition – specifically, cartridges designed for a privately manufactured firearm, commonly called a ‘ghost gun.’ For Macias, a convicted…
Wyoming Coke Ring: Last Dealer Gets Federal Time
TETON COUNTY, WY – The last domino fell today in a three-year federal probe into a cocaine ring that saturated Teton County and beyond. Federal prosecutors secured a conviction and sentencing for the final member of the operation, bringing a close to a case that stretched across multiple Wyoming counties. This wasn’t a handful of…
Bell, Architect of Spy Law, Dies at 88
Tallahassee, FL – Griffin Bell, the former Attorney General whose name became synonymous with the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), is dead at 88. Bell’s passing, announced today, draws a line under a career deeply entangled with the expansion of federal surveillance powers and, paradoxically, a noted commitment to civil rights. While the feds…
ICE Officer Bitten in San Diego Struggle
⏱ 3 min read San Diego – A five-minute struggle with a federal agent ended with a bite. Robert Antonio Bastardo Llovera, 32, a Venezuelan national living in the US illegally, was sentenced today to eight months and two days in federal prison for assaulting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officer near Mission…
Grave Robbery: WV Cemetery Owner Admits Fraud
⏱ 2 min read RELATED: NOLA Man Packed Heat & Poison: Fed Indictment WHEELING, WV – Jeffrey Phares, 65, wasn’t laying loved ones to rest. He was robbing the grieving. The Fayetteville man, who ran four cemeteries across North Central West Virginia – Greenlawn Memorial Park (New Martinsville), Elkins Memorial Gardens, Greenlawn Memorial Cemetery (Clarksburg),…
