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Article Index: First Quarter 2025 Category: Chronological Archive Page Sections: January · February |
| January | Title | Details |
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| Wednesday, 1 January 2025 | ||
| 1 January 2025 | Tail Lights: Artificial Intelligence Revisited Last time the major theme was “Garbage In, Garbage Out,” or how dumping all kinds of data into AI models without the computer knowing what's fact or fiction yields terrible results. | Commentary (text) Publisher: The Crittenden Automotive Library Byline: Bill Crittenden |
| Tuesday, 7 January 2025 | ||
| 7 January 2025 | Jury convicts South Texan for transporting people in the tractor’s cab At trial, the jury heard from some of those being transported who explained that smugglers had driven them to a remote area where a tractor-trailer was waiting. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas  Topic: Lisandro Vasquez-Gomez |
| Wednesday, 8 January 2025 | ||
| 8 January 2025 | Automotive News Briefs January Federal Grand Jury 2024-A Indictments Announced | Automotive News Briefs (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Oklahoma |
| 8 January 2025 | Florida Man Sentenced to Prison for Filing False Tax Returns Jeremy Charles DeWitte filed individual income tax returns for 2017 and 2018 that materially understated the revenue he received from operating his business. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Orlando, Florida Topics: Jeremy Charles DeWitte, Metro State Special Services |
| 8 January 2025 | Philadelphia Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Committing Two Armed Carjackings Hours Apart In September, the defendant pleaded guilty to an information charging him with the carjackings, as well as one count of aiding and abetting the brandishing of a firearm during a crime of violence. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 8 January 2025 | Oglala Man Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison for Killing an Infant in Automobile Accident In August 2023, Sheldon Flute drove while intoxicated with his 25-day-old infant son in the car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Rapid City, South Dakota |
| 8 January 2025 | Poplar man who stole truck after stabbing driver on Fort Peck Indian Reservation sentenced to 57 months in prison In court documents, the government alleged that the victim, identified as John Doe, was contacted by his sister who asked him to pick up Brandon Lee Romero and give him a ride because she didn’t want him at her residence. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Great Falls, Montana |
| 8 January 2025 | United States Files Civil Complaint Against New York Online Seller of Illegal Vehicle Emission Control Defeat Devices Spectrum Wholesale, Inc. and its principal sold over 600 defeat devices that increased harmful vehicle emissions. | Press Release (text &  document)Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York Byline: John Marzulli & Danielle Blustein Hass |
| Friday, 10 January 2025 | ||
| 10 January 2025 | 12 ½ Year Prison Term for Man Who Killed 13-Year-Old Karon Blake Jason Lewis is seen on video leaving his house, aiming and firing at two young people who were fleeing their involvement in breaking into cars. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 10 January 2025 | Pitt County Man Who Brandished Gun at State Trooper After High-Speed Chase Sentenced to Nearly Nine Years in Prison According to court documents and other information presented in court, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol attempted to stop Kenneth Charles Kinard for driving 90-mph in a 70-mph zone on I-587 in Pitt County. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 10 January 2025 | Queens, New York Man Sentenced to 18 Months for Human Smuggling According to court records, Luis Fernando Barragan-Palacios completed approximately 30 smuggling trips, shuttling nearly 100 migrants who entered the country illegally from the Canadian border into Vermont, to the New York City area. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Rutland, Vermont |
| Monday, 13 January 2025 | ||
| 13 January 2025 | Man Admits Staging Auto Accidents to Commit Insurance Fraud He went to the emergency room complaining of “non-determinative pain that required expensive tests that never identified any particular injury.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| Tuesday, 14 January 2025 | ||
| 14 January 2025 | East Bay Arsonist Admits To Attempting To Firebomb Oakland Federal Building And Firebombing University Police Car Casey Robert Goonan also admitted to placing a bag containing six Molotov cocktails underneath the fuel tank of a marked University of California Police Department patrol car at UC Berkeley, lighting the bag on fire and fleeing, causing the patrol car to catch on fire. | Press Release (text &  images)Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California Dateline: Oakland, California |
| 14 January 2025 | FACT SHEET: Safeguarding America from National Security Risks of Connected Vehicle Technology from China and Russia Today, President Biden is announcing strong and decisive actions to safeguard America from national security risks associated with the exploitation of U.S. connected vehicle supply chains by the People’s Republic of China and Russian Federation. | Press Release (text) Publisher: The White House |
| 14 January 2025 | St. Louis County Man Admits Defrauding Online Sellers with Prop Money Aaron Montgomery would then take the property, which included cars, SUVs, trucks, five pairs of Air Jordans and audio equipment, before the sellers discovered that he had not provided them with real money. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| Wednesday, 15 January 2025 | ||
| 15 January 2025 | Central Ohio men sentenced to 25 years & 13 years in prison for crimes related to armed robberies, I-70 shootout Columbus police officers then located the stolen vehicle on I-70 traveling eastbound. The men reached speeds more than 125 miles per hour near rush hour while attempting to flee law enforcement. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio Dateline: Columbus, Ohio Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 15 January 2025 | Hino Motors, a Toyota Subsidiary, Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay Over $1.6B to Resolve Emissions Fraud Scheme This unlawful conduct allowed Hino, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, to improperly secure approvals to import and sell, and cause to be imported and sold, more than 110,000 diesel engines in the United States from 2010 to 2022. | Press Release (text & documents) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Topic: Hino |
| Thursday, 16 January 2025 | ||
| 16 January 2025 | As Carjackings Decline in D.C., Defendants Face 57-Count Indictment for Spree of Armed Carjackings and Shootings December 2024 had fewest carjackings in months; January may see greater decline. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 16 January 2025 | Attempted Attack on the White House with a Rented Box Truck Results in 8-Year Sentence for Missouri Man Sai Varshith Kandula of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 96 months in federal prison for an attempted attack on the White House with a rented truck, an attack that aimed to overthrow the democratically elected government of the United States in order to replace it with a dictatorship fueled by Nazi ideology. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 16 January 2025 | Chicago Man Convicted of Kidnapping, Carjacking, and Firearm Offenses Evidence at trial revealed that Andrew Anania kidnapped an Uber driver on March 8, 2021, in Darien, Illinois. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois |
| 16 January 2025 | New Federal Charges Filed In Carjacking And Murder Case; One Individual Pleads Guilty Kevin Ocasio Justiniano made plans with Jordanish Torres Garcia to conduct the carjacking and kidnapping of K.A. and to rob her of $170,000 in drug proceeds that were being laundered. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Orlando, Florida |
| 16 January 2025 | New Jersey Man Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison According to documents in the case, in December 2023 Juan Aquino obtained four kilograms of cocaine from Colorado and was transporting it back to New Jersey in hidden vehicle compartments when he was stopped by law enforcement on the Indiana Toll Road. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Indiana Dateline: South Bend, Indiana |
| 16 January 2025 | New Orleans Man Guilty of Murder in Connection with Staged Automobile Collisions in the New Orleans Area According to court filings, Ryan J. Harris admitted to acting as a “slammer” in a scheme in which he and his co-conspirators intentionally staged automobile collisions in the New Orleans metropolitan area. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 16 January 2025 | Tractor-Trailer Driver in Deadly 2022 Smuggling Event Pleads Guilty The driver of the tractor-trailer used to smuggle at least 64 undocumented individuals resulting in the deaths of 47 adults and six children in 2022 entered a plea of guilty today to multiple counts arising from the fatal incident. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: San Antonio, Texas Topic: Homero Zamorano Jr. |
| Friday, 17 January 2025 | ||
| 17 January 2025 | Activity in the U.S. Attorney's Office Alexander Villanueva of Las Vegas Nevada, pled guilty to reckless driving, failing to comply with a traffic control device, possessing an open container of alcohol in a vehicle, and refusing to submit to a test of his breath. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Wyoming Byline: Lori Hogan |
| 17 January 2025 | Former West Michigan Business Owners Sentenced To Prison Those businesses operated under several names, including Hites RV, Alpine Trailer Sales, Great Lakes Recreational, Great Lakes Trailer, GLR Transport, and Great Lakes Trailer Manufacturing. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Michigan Dateline: Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| 17 January 2025 | Four Members Of Charlotte-Based Multi-Million Dollar Auto Theft Ring Are Sentenced To Prison The defendants stole high-end automobiles from dealerships across the United States. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina Dateline: Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 17 January 2025 | Nashville Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Federal Prison for Multiple Robberies and Carjackings Jesse Jose Rucker pulled into a parking space next to the victim, pointed a gun at the victim, and stated, “I want your car.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Tennessee Byline: Mark H. Wildasin Dateline: Nashville, Tennessee |
| Tuesday, 21 January 2025 | ||
| 21 January 2025 | Lebanon, Virginia Town Councilman, Sister, Automotive Companies Settle with Federal Government The pair have interests in several automotive groups and previously made money winning bids to do work for the Town of Lebanon. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Virginia Dateline: Abingdon, Virginia Topics: Leonard Automotive Group, Appalachian Collision & Auto Parts |
| Wednesday, 22 January 2025 | ||
| 22 January 2025 | Man Indicted for Involuntary Manslaughter on Bois Forte Reservation Vehicle debris at the scene included pieces from a dark blue vehicle and pieces of plastic that appeared to be headlights or turn signals. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: Duluth, Minnesota |
| Wednesday, 29 January 2025 | ||
| 29 January 2025 | Armed Drug Trafficker Sentenced to Over Twenty Years in Federal Prison for Fentanyl, Meth, and Cocaine Charges After High-Speed Police Chase Lamone Lauderdale eventually came to a stop after striking two other vehicles and popping his tire on a median near Michigan Road in Indianapolis. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Indiana Dateline: Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 29 January 2025 | U.S. Attorney's Office Secures Sentencing of Las Cruces Man for Carjacking and Firearms Offenses According to court documents, officers from the Las Cruces Police Department attempted to stop a black Cadillac sedan with no visible license plate. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 29 January 2025 | Union County Man Sentenced To 57 Months In Prison For Stolen Vehicles Conspiracy Nathaniel Bell was the leader of a criminal conspiracy that obtained stolen vehicles from New Jersey, New York, Florida, and other states, obtained fraudulent titles for the stolen vehicles, and altered vehicle identification numbers to conceal the fact that the vehicles were stolen. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Newark, New Jersey |
| Thursday, 30 January 2025 | ||
| 30 January 2025 | East St. Louis Woman Sentenced to Serve 10 Years in Prison for Transporting Controlled Substances to Pemiscot County Court records reflect that Georgia R. Phillips was pulled over for a traffic violation on Interstate 55 in Pemiscot County last May. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: Cape Girardeau, Missouri Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 30 January 2025 | Mexican Citizen Pleads Guilty To Illegally Transporting Undocumented Aliens The vehicle’s odometer showed that the mileage at the time of the stop was 401,996. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Jacksonville, Florida Topics: Interstate Highway System, Ford Explorer |
| 30 January 2025 | Winter Garden Man Who Backed Vehicle Into Business And Stole Six Firearms Sentenced To Four Years After smashing the front door and wall of the business, Edward Camacho entered the business and broke a glass case where multiple firearms were housed. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Orlando, Florida |
| Friday, 31 January 2025 | ||
| 31 January 2025 | Armored Truck Robber Sentenced To More Than 11 Years Surveillance video showed the vehicle also following the armored truck to other locations before conducting the robbery at the gas station in Ellenton. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
| 31 January 2025 | Convicted of a Drive-By Shooting and Fentanyl Trafficking, Member of ‘21st and Vietnam’ Crew Sentenced to 161 Months After finding what they believed to be appropriate targets, both Briyon Shuford and Trevon Palmer opened fire from the vehicle, shooting indiscriminately into the parking lot of the Circle 7 Food and Grocery Mart without regard for innocent bystanders or passing cars. | Press Release (text &  photo)Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 31 January 2025 | MILHORN PLEADS GUILTY IN DUI DEATH ON NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY Law enforcement Rangers were dispatched to a collision involving a Hummer H3 and a Toyota Tundra. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Mississippi Dateline: Oxford, Mississippi |
| 31 January 2025 | U.S. Attorney’s Office Secures 15-Year Sentence for Deadly 2022 DWI Crash that Killed Three People According to court documents, Cody Allen Charlie, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna, was driving intoxicated at 116 miles per hour while using his cell phone when he crashed into another vehicle on Interstate 40, near mile marker 130. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| February | Title | Details |
| Sunday, 2 February 2025 | ||
| 2 February 2025 | Tail Lights: Data Burning This time it is not as dramatic as physically emptying a library into a pile in the middle of a torchlit plaza and lighting a bonfire. But the digital erasure of trans people from U.S. government data archives has begun. | Commentary (text) Publisher: The Crittenden Automotive Library Byline: Bill Crittenden |
| Monday, 3 February 2025 | ||
| 3 February 2025 | Alleged Armed Carjacker Charged After Arrest The victim told the officers that the defendant approached him as he sat in his vehicle, pointed a black handgun at him and told him to get out of the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 3 February 2025 | Gardner business owner sentenced to prison for failing to pay taxes As the owner and operator of Marvin's Tow Service, Inc. in Gardner, Kansas, Marvin Vail failed to pay employment taxes for at least 23 calendar quarters between 2012-2017. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Kansas Dateline: Kansas City, Kansas Topics: Marvin Vail, Marvin's Tow Service |
| Tuesday, 4 February 2025 | ||
| 4 February 2025 | Four Defendants Indicted for Carjacking FBI investigated each case. Assistant U.S. Attorneys John G. Camp, Daniel S. McBrayer, and Darius C. Greene are prosecuting these cases. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Alabama Dateline: Birmingham, Alabama |
| 4 February 2025 | Georgia Man Indicted for Firearm Charge in 2023 Shooting of SCHP Trooper Derrick Gathers has been charged in state court for a number of other charges related to the incident. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Carolina Dateline: Columbia, South Carolina |
| 4 February 2025 | St. Louis County Man Admits Drug Robbery, Carjacking Walter C. Moore pulled out a handgun, grabbed the Oxycodone pills and ordered the seller out, threatening to shoot her. Moore then sped off in her car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| Wednesday, 5 February 2025 | ||
| 5 February 2025 | Guatemalan Nationals Charged for Alleged Possession of Firearms Following IH-35 Road Rage Complaint According to court documents, Anderson Morales-Calderon and Ever Morales-Calderon were subjected to a traffic stop by officers from the Troy Police Department and Lorena Police Department as response to a road rage complaint called into 911. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: Waco, Texas |
| 5 February 2025 | Madison Carrig Imprisoned For Employer Embezzlements According to the information, beginning in September 2022 and continuing until February 2023, Madison Carrig was employed as the office manager of two automobile dealerships located in central Vermont. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Burlington, Vermont Topic: Madison Carrig |
| 5 February 2025 | Sorrento Man Indicted For Circle K Robberies In Lake And Orange Counties United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Jose Flores Avila with two counts of interference with commerce by robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Ocala, Florida Topic: Circle K |
| 5 February 2025 | Texas man arrested for possessing child pornography while working as school bus driver in Fairbanks According to court documents, in December 2024, the Fairbanks Police Department received information that a USB drive found in the business center of a Fairbanks hotel allegedly contained child sexual abuse materials. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Alaska Byline: Reagan Zimmerman-Hartzheim Dateline: Fairbanks, Alaska Topic: Scott O’Toole |
| 5 February 2025 | U.S. Attorney's Office and U.S. Border Patrol Announce Arrest in Smuggling Case Involving Unaccompanied Juveniles According to the complaint,, Border Patrol agents encountered Jesus Antonio Rodriguez-Bermudez, a Mexican national who had entered the United States illegally in December 2024, driving on New Mexico State Road 26, a highway that has been exploited by smugglers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 5 February 2025 | U.S. Attorney’s Office Secures 51-Month Sentence in Vehicular Homicide Case A Sanostee man was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $8,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to two counts of involuntary manslaughter for a fatal drunk-driving crash that occurred on the Navajo Nation. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Thursday, 6 February 2025 | ||
| 6 February 2025 | Former Reno Police Officer Indicted For Civil Rights Violations According to allegations contained in the indictment and statements made in court, Tyler Michael Baehr willfully deprived an individual of the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure by taking her cellular phone during a routine traffic stop and unlawfully seizing sexually explicit photos of her from her phone. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nevada Dateline: Reno, Nevada |
| 6 February 2025 | Organizer of Nationwide Rental Car Theft Scheme Sentenced to 90 Months in Prison Tyrell A. Oliver hatched a scheme in which he reserved luxury rental vehicles using stolen credit card information and stolen identities. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 6 February 2025 | Three Metro East Men Sentenced to Federal Prison for Wire Fraud in Gas Pump Scheme A federal judge in southern Illinois sentenced three men to prison for their involvement in a scheme to use counterfeit credit and debit cards to fill up tanks for gas station patrons in exchange for cash. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Illinois Byline: Lauren Barry Duncan Dateline: East St. Louis, Illinois |
| Friday, 7 February 2025 | ||
| 7 February 2025 | Activity in the U.S. Attorney's Office Boston Heil pled guilty to speeding, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, and refusal of a motor vehicle operator to provide a breath test while in Grand Teton National Park. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Wyoming Byline: Lori Hogan |
| 7 February 2025 | Mexican National Charged With Illegally Transporting Undocumented Aliens According to the complaint, on February 3, 2025, a Florida Highway Patrol Trooper stopped an SUV on Interstate-75 for a traffic violation. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Jacksonville, Florida Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| Saturday, 8 February 2025 | ||
| 8 February 2025 | New Orleans Man Sentenced for Possessing Stolen Car and Drug and Weapons Violations According to court documents, law enforcement tracked a brand new, $80,000 Ford F-150 Raptor stolen from the Norfolk Southern Railyard to Mervyn Lucas’s residence. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana Topic: Ford F-150 |
| Monday, 10 February 2025 | ||
| 10 February 2025 | Armed Carjacker Detained Pending Trial for March 2024 Carjacking Miquel Beasley entered the victim’s car, asked if the victim wanted to purchase marijuana, and the victim handed Beasley approximately $250. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 10 February 2025 | South Florida Car Dealer Turned Carjacker Sentenced to Eight Years in Federal Prison When the victim was late on payment one, the finance company enforced the claw-back provision, demanding that Guru Auto return roughly $13,000. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida Dateline: Miami, Florida Topic: Guru Auto Sales, Erik Hadad, Honda Accord |
| 10 February 2025 | St. Petersburg Man Sentenced To More Than 14 Years For Role In Fraud Scheme To Obtain Titles To Vehicles The conspirators submitted fraudulent and counterfeit documents and fake certified mail receipts to Florida tax collector offices to make it look like the vehicles had towing and storage liens, which enabled the conspirators to obtain clear titles to the vehicles and sell the vehicles to unsuspecting buyers for profit. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
| Tuesday, 11 February 2025 | ||
| 11 February 2025 | Adair County Resident Pleads Guilty To Involuntary Manslaughter The Indictment alleged that Jade Larae Duncan unlawfully killed an individual in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony and in the commission in an unlawful manner, without due caution and circumspection, while driving under the influence of alcohol and departing the roadway into a creek bed. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 11 February 2025 | South Carolina Drug Trafficker Helping Move Kilograms of Cocaine Sentenced to More than Six Years A consensual search of the vehicle resulted in the seizure of two kilograms of cocaine found inside two cereal boxes, a digital scale, a drug ledger, and money transmittal receipts to Mexico and Honduras. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 11 February 2025 | Three Charged For Their Role In Major Theft Organization Targeting Luxury Vehicles Vehicles were stolen from car dealerships, residences and residential parking garages, and other businesses. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
| Wednesday, 12 February 2025 | ||
| 12 February 2025 | Juvenile Charged With August 2024 Armed Carjacking The victim told the officers that at least two suspects approached the victim, who was sitting in their vehicle waiting for a family member. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 12 February 2025 | Orleans Parish Man Guilty of Carjacking and Weapons Violations Court documents revealed that on January 12, 2023, New Orleans Police Department officers were dispatched to Conti Street in response to an armed robbery/carjacking. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 12 February 2025 | U.S. Attorney's Office Announces Sentencing of Albuquerque Man for Violent Carjacking and Robbery Spree On July 17, 2021, Romero carjacked a vehicle at gunpoint from a pregnant woman exiting a Walmart with her three young children. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Thursday, 13 February 2025 | ||
| 13 February 2025 | Katy Man Sentenced to Prison for Striking Border Patrol Agent With Vehicle and Fleeing During Smuggling Attempt A USBP canine alerted the agents to the trunk, revealing an individual inside. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: Del Rio, Texas |
| 13 February 2025 | New Yorker Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison After Leading High-Speed Smuggling Pursuit and Injuring 11 Migrants According to court documents, a Kendall County Sheriff’s Department deputy attempted a traffic stop when the deputy observed Peter Diaz-Vasquez, of Bronx, driving a pickup truck at 106 mph on I-10. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: San Antonio, Texas Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 13 February 2025 | Sin City Deciples Member Sentenced to 204 Months in Prison According to the Second Superseding Indictment, the Sin City Deciples, originally formed in 1967 in Gary, Indiana, is an outlaw motorcycle organization in which its members and associates engaged in acts of violence, extortion, and narcotics distribution in the Northern District of Indiana and elsewhere. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Indiana Dateline: Hammond, Indiana Topic: Sin City Deciples |
| 13 February 2025 | Third Defendant Pleads Guilty in Car Dealership Fraud Conspiracy David L. Jones Jr. and his coconspirators submitted credit applications and purchased or attempted to purchase vehicles from dealerships in the Jackson metro area. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi Dateline: Jackson, Mississippi |
| 13 February 2025 | Truck driver pleads guilty to smuggling 36 illegal aliens in trailer Upon initial inspection, a K-9 alerted to the possible presence of humans in the trailer. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas |
| Tuesday, 18 February 2025 | ||
| 18 February 2025 | Guatemalan Citizen Pleads Guilty To Illegally Transporting Undocumented Aliens According to the plea agreement, the U.S. Border Patrol received information that a grey truck with a Georgia license plate traveling southbound on I-75 was transporting undocumented aliens between Atlanta, Georgia, and South Florida. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Jacksonville, Florida Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 18 February 2025 | Guatemalan National Sentenced To 23 Months In Prison For Illegal Reentry In The United States According to Acting United States Attorney John C. Gurganus, Eddie Damian-Guillen was encountered in the United States at Pike County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania, having been arrested for driving under the influence of a controlled substance. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Scranton, Pennsylvania |
| Wednesday, 19 February 2025 | ||
| 19 February 2025 | 14 members of Bandidos motorcycle gang indicted for offenses including racketeering, assault and murder Current and former members of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang and Mascareros Motorcycle Club are charged for their alleged roles in a criminal enterprise engaged in violent criminal activity in and around Houston. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Houston, Texas Topic: Bandidos |
| 19 February 2025 | Fourteen Members and Associates of Violent Transnational Motorcycle Gang Indicted on RICO and Murder Charges An indictment was unsealed today in the Southern District of Texas charging 14 members and associates of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang for their alleged roles in a criminal enterprise engaged in murder, robbery, arson, narcotics distribution, and witness intimidation in and around Houston. | Press Release (text &  video)Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Topic: Bandidos |
| 19 February 2025 | Subsidiary of Chinese State-Owned Entity to Pay $14.2M to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Paycheck Protection Program Loan Congress created the PPP in March 2020 to provide emergency financial assistance to Americans suffering from the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Topic: YAPP Automotive Systems Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 19 February 2025 | Subsidiary of Chinese State-Owned Entity to Pay $14.2M to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Paycheck Protection Program Loan Congress created the PPP in March 2020 to provide emergency financial assistance to Americans suffering from the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Wisconsin Topic: YAPP Automotive Systems Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 19 February 2025 | U.S. Attorney's Office and FBI Charge Woman with Involuntary Manslaughter According to the indictment Debbie Rojack, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, killed John Doe by operating a motor vehicle with disregard for human life when she knew and should have known that her conduct imperiled the lives of others. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Thursday, 20 February 2025 | ||
| 20 February 2025 | 16-Year-Old Charged as Adult with Armed Carjackings and Robberies Over a Three Month Period According to documents filed in court, Etheridge has been charged in relation to an armed carjacking in October 2024 and an armed robbery in January 2025. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 20 February 2025 | Fresno Man Indicted for Possession of Loaded Gun After High-Speed Chase According to court documents, law enforcement officers located a vehicle suspected in several recent catalytic converter thefts. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California Dateline: Fresno, California |
| 20 February 2025 | Halloween getaway driver convicted The robbery took place at the Morelos Supermercardos in Victoria and involved a stolen vehicle with stolen plates and a stolen gun. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Victoria, Texas |
| 20 February 2025 | Lebanon County Man and Diesel Vehicle Repair Shop Indicted for Violations of Clean Air Act and Conspiring to Defraud the United States and Violate the Clean Air Act According to Acting United States Attorney John C. Gurganus, the indictment alleges Roy Ladell Weaver, owner of Pro Diesel Werks, along with multiple co-conspirators, disabled the hardware emissions control systems on the diesel vehicles of Pro Diesel Werks customers, defeating the systems’ ability to reduce pollutant gases and particulate matter being emitted to the atmosphere. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Topics: Roy Ladell Weaver, Pro Diesel Werks |
| 20 February 2025 | Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Armed Kidnapping of Ride Share Driver Chief Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga sentenced the defendant to 60 months as to Counts 1 and 2, kidnapping and carjacking, and imposed the mandatory 84-month term of imprisonment for Count 3, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, to be served consecutively. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida Dateline: Miami, Florida |
| 20 February 2025 | Saint Paul Man and Mounds View Woman Sentenced to Prison for Armed Carjacking in Minneapolis Isis Martinaz Brent brandished a Carl Walther 9mm semiautomatic pistol and demanded the victim’s keys. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 20 February 2025 | West Hartford Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Participating in Catalytic Converter Theft Ring According to court documents and statements made in court, law enforcement has been investigating the theft of catalytic converters from motor vehicles across Connecticut. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 20 February 2025 | U.S. Attorney's Office Announces Sentencing for Fatal DUI Crash on Navajo Nation Investigation revealed Olan Jumbo was driving between 74-82 mph in a 45-mph zone at the time of impact and had multiple prior drunk-driving related convictions. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |