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Crime Category: Subject Description: Information on crimes committed, law enforcement, and anti-theft measures. By Crime or Issue: Arson · Assault by Vehicle · Carjacking · Embezzlement · Impaired Driving · Insurance Fraud · Odometer Fraud · Pursuits · Road Rage · Search & Seizure · Sex Crimes · Shootings · Smuggling of Contraband · Smuggling of People · Tax Evasion · Terrorism · Theft · Traffic Offenses By Subject: Autonomous Vehicles · Buses · Dealership Operations · Driver Licensing · Electric Vehicles · The Environment · Fuel Stations · Insurance · Labor · Military · Motorcycles (Outlaw Clubs) · Motorcycles (Other) · Parking · Public Service Vehicles · Racing · Recreational Vehicles · Repair Shops · Roads & Highways · Taxicabs & Limousines · Tires · Towing · Trucking Individual criminal case documents can be found in the Litigation section of the Publications Indices. |
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| 12 March 2024 | Detroit-Area Man Found Guilty of Maliciously Setting Fires to Truck Trailers of Major Commercial Trucking Company In each of the incidents, the Swift-owned trailer was parked at or near a truck stop when a fire occurred on the trailer portion of the vehicle, mainly on or near the trailer tires. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Riverside, California  Topic: Swift Transportation |
| 29 March 2024 | New Jersey Man Sentenced for Fire Set in Vergennes According to court records, Santiago was arrested by Vermont state law enforcement authorities on January 5, 2022, after he had set fire to a vehicle at a residence in the Booth Woods neighborhood of Vergennes earlier that morning. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Burlington, Vermont |
| 8 April 2024 | Woman Convicted by Federal Jury of Burning Down Local San Diego Business The audit revealed that during Carey Alice Hernandez’s tenure as bookkeeper and controller in charge of the company books and records, $744,621 went missing between January 2015 and March 2019. | Press Release (text &  photos)Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of California Byline: Kelly Thornton Dateline: San Diego, California Topics: Off Road Warehouse, Carey Alice Hernandez |
| 23 May 2024 | Indianapolis Man Federally Charged for Setting Fire to IndyGo Bus and Bus Station in April Causing Injury and $2.1 Million in Damages Surveillance cameras show Demarcus McCloud boarding Bus #1993 at the Julia Carson Transit Center on Washington Street carrying a jug full of liquid and two butane lighters. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Indiana Dateline: Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 7 June 2024 | Detroit-Area Man Sentenced to More Than 10 Years in Federal Prison for Maliciously Setting Fires to Commercial Truck Trailers “By setting fire to trailer after trailer with the drivers inside the trucks, he recklessly put people’s lives at risk. Violent recidivist criminals such as this defendant will only be deterred with consequences and the sentence imposed today does just that.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Riverside, California |
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| 2 April 2021 | Statement by President Joe Biden on Today’s Attack Outside the Capitol Jill and I were heartbroken to learn of the violent attack at a security checkpoint on the U.S. Capitol grounds, which killed Officer William Evans of the U.S. Capitol Police, and left a fellow officer fighting for his life. | Press Release (text) Publisher: The White House Byline: President Joe Biden |
| 2 April 2021 | Statement by Vice President Kamala Harris on Today’s Attack Outside the Capitol Today, in an inexplicable act of violence, a brave U.S. Capitol Police Officer was killed in the line of duty, while another officer fights for his life. | Press Release (text) Publisher: The White House Byline: Vice President Kamala Harris |
| 13 February 2024 | Albuquerque Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Voluntary Manslaughter During a forensic interview, Jane Doe’s daughter disclosed that she saw Silvester Castillo hit Jane Doe with a shovel, remove her clothes, and then run over her face with a car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 14 February 2024 | Tulsa Man Sentenced for Intentionally Ramming into 3 Police Cars According to court documents, witnesses observed Roberts trying to run people off the road with his vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Oklahoma |
| 15 February 2024 | Utah Woman Accused of Assaulting Multiple Federal Officers is Indicted As alleged in court documents, Melissa Lynn Trotter placed the vehicle in reverse and forcibly tried to back out of the parking space. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Byline: Felicia Martinez Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 29 March 2024 | Pascua Yaqui Tribal Member Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Assault with a Vehicle On August 14, 2022, a Pascua Yaqui Police Department officer was flagged down by a man who was yelling out in pain and bleeding heavily from his head. The man, who sustained multiple fractures and internal injuries, told the officer that he had been intentionally struck by a truck driven by Valenzuela. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Dateline: Tucson, Arizona |
| 3 April 2024 | Quincy Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime John Sullivan encountered a Vietnamese family he had never met before outside a post office in Quincy. Sullivan yelled to the family...and threatened to kill them. He then drove his car into one of the family members, causing the victim to land on the hood of the moving car and remain there while the car moved approximately 200 feet. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 9 April 2024 | Columbus Man Sentenced to Prison for Assaulting a Federal Officer Law enforcement officers and federal agents exited their vehicles and advanced towards Christopher Upshaw’s car in an attempt to arrest him. Upshaw began forcibly operating his vehicle in an effort to evade arrest. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Georgia Dateline: Columbus, Georgia |
| 9 April 2024 | Man Arrested for Crashing into FBI Gate According to U.S. Attorney Buchanan, the charge, and other information presented in court: On April 1, 2024, Bolling, driving an orange Buick Encore, allegedly rammed into a barrier at FBI Atlanta’s headquarters while attempting to breach the perimeter. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia Dateline: Atlanta, Georgia |
| 24 April 2024 | Heart Butte woman admits assaulting woman with vehicle on Blackfeet Indian Reservation After the fight, Julia Lee Bigback pulled forward in the suburban, hitting the car in front, which then struck Doe, who had been walking between two stationary cars. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Great Falls, Montana |
| 29 April 2024 | Joint Statement On Fatal Officer-Involved Incident In The Grand Rapids Area “The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and the FBI Field Office Detroit are monitoring the ongoing state investigation into the circumstances that led to the tragic death of Samuel Sterling.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Michigan Dateline: Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| 3 May 2024 | Sterling Heights Man Charged with Multiple Counts of Aggravated Assaults of Federal Officers While Resisting Arrest Carl Emerson Travis dragged a deputy U.S. Marshal and a task force officer with his car and knocked another officer to the ground. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Michigan Dateline: Detroit, Michigan |
| 10 June 2024 | Missouri Man Pleads Guilty to Assaulting, Threatening Federal Officers at Fort Leonard Wood James W. Dickens drove a stolen vehicle to the north gate of Fort Leonard Wood shortly after 1 a.m. on June 11, 2023. He made several statements to personnel at the gate while acting erratically, and showed them he had an axe in the passenger seat of the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Springfield, Missouri |
| 15 July 2024 | McLaughlin Man Sentenced for Vehicular Battery Shortly before 9:00 p.m. on January 28, 2023, Petersen was driving his F-150 truck on South Dakota Hwy 63 near McLaughlin, when he struck three pedestrians. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Aberdeen, South Dakota |
| 18 July 2024 | Vallejo Man Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Federal Agents with a Firearm and Vehicle According to court documents, Delapp assaulted two FBI special agents by pursuing them with his car, pulling up alongside them, and aiming a firearm at them through the window, making a recoil motion with the firearm. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California Dateline: Sacramento, California |
| 22 July 2024 | Sandy Woman Sentenced to 15 Months’ Imprisonment After Assaulting Federal Officers According to court documents and statements made at the change of plea hearing, Trotter violently assaulted several members of the United States Marshals Service Violent Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team with her vehicle outside a CVS in West Valley City. | Press Release (text & photos) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Byline: Felicia Martinez Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 24 July 2024 | Rosebud Man Sentenced for Assault on Federal Officer On November 24, 2022, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement Services operated a sobriety checkpoint near St. Francis, South Dakota, and Robert Kills Plenty drove a vehicle through the inspection area. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Pierre, South Dakota |
| 25 July 2024 | Jury Finds District Man Guilty of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon for Driving with Girlfriend on the Hood of His Car According to the government’s evidence, on June 3, 2024, Paul Camby, after getting high on cocaine and drinking whiskey, went to his apartment parking garage to drive his car. Camby’s girlfriend got in front of the car to prevent him from driving while intoxicated. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 5 August 2024 | Pine Ridge Man Sentenced to Ten Years in Federal Prison Charles Brings Plenty got out of the car and began to question the victim. The juvenile codefendant used the vehicle to assault the victim and then assaulted him with a black baseball bat. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Rapid City, South Dakota |
| 6 August 2024 | Tucson Man Sentenced to 57 Months in Prison for Assaulting a Federal Officer with a Vehicle The investigation revealed that, after stealing the vehicle, Ramirez drove it to a gas station on the Pascua Yaqui Indian Reservation and subsequently attempted to steal another vehicle, a delivery truck. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zachry Stoebe Dateline: Tucson, Arizona |
| 31 October 2024 | Vallejo Man Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison for Assaulting Federal Agents with a Firearm and Vehicle According to court documents, Sean Thomas Delapp assaulted two FBI special agents by pursuing them with his car, pulling up alongside them, and aiming a firearm at them through the window, making a recoil motion with the firearm. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California Dateline: Sacramento, California |
| 4 November 2024 | Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Sentenced for Federal Civil Rights Violation Related to Vehicular Crash Involving a Motorcyclist As the victim lay in the intersection unconscious, Thomas Smith drove his cruiser around the victim and left the scene of the collision. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice |
| 20 November 2024 | Gary Man Sentenced to 153 Months in Prison After the letter carrier stopped to organize mail, Jerron Donte Williams ran his vehicle into the letter carrier’s postal delivery vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Indiana Dateline: Hammond, Indiana |
| 4 December 2024 | South Texan imprisoned for attempting to run over federal agent The agent was wearing FBI gear with clear law enforcement markings and began approaching the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Brownsville, Texas |
| 19 December 2024 | U.S. Attorney's Office Secures Sentencing of Zuni Man for Violent Assault The investigation revealed that the incident began when Christopher Hannaweeke Sr., an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Zuni, hit the victim's dog with his vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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| 27 April 2022 | Feds Indict Two Philadelphia Men for Carjacking Spree in Philadelphia and Delaware Counties The Indictment alleges that in the early morning hours of December 19, 2021, the defendants carjacked two victims at gunpoint in the Lawncrest section of the city. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Byline: Jennifer Crandall Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 19 August 2022 | Two Men Charged in Federal Court with Violent Carjackings in Chicago Suburbs According to the indictment, Edson Resendez and Maverick Cela took a Chevrolet Sonic from a victim in Morton Grove. | Press Release (text &  document)Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois |
| 3 November 2022 | Philadelphia Man Pleads Guilty to Gas Station Carjacking Near Lincoln Drive and Wissahickon According to court documents, the victim pulled into a gas station on Wissahickon Avenue near Lincoln Drive and went inside the shop while a second victim, his passenger, remained in the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Byline: Jennifer Crandall Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 18 July 2023 | D.C. Man Indicted in a Six Count Federal Indictment After Deadly Carjacking Spree According to the government’s evidence, the Metropolitan Police Department’s Air Support Unit spotted Ross driving recklessly at high speeds from Washington D.C. into Prince George’s County, Maryland. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 18 August 2023 | District Man Pleads Guilty in Armed Carjacking Spree According to the government’s evidence, in the Trinidad neighborhood of Northeast Washington, D.C., the defendant pointed an AR-style rifle at a man who was putting air into his tire, taking the vehicle at gunpoint. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 23 August 2023 | District Man Sentenced to 96 Months in Prison for Carjacking and Unlawful Possession of a Firearm According to the government’s evidence in the Superior Court case the defendant and a second suspect pointed firearms at and ran towards the victim, who had just parked his BMW in the 100 block of Wilmington Place, SE. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 7 September 2023 | District Man Indicted on Armed Carjacking and Other Charges in String of Armed Robberies at Convenience Stores and Gas Stations One day after the Falcon Fuel robbery, on April 13, Joyner is alleged to have carjacked a man at gunpoint in the Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood. Joyner allegedly stole the man’s Honda HR-V and drove it across state lines into Virginia. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 1 December 2023 | District Man Sentenced to Sixteen Years in Prison for Armed Carjacking at Gas Station At the sentencing hearing, the victim gave a powerful and moving statement to the Honorable Lynn Leibovitz in which she explained how the defendant’s crimes had impacted her life, hurt her deep “in her soul,” and made her fear for her life. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 11 December 2023 | Seven Teens Indicted for Conspiracy and Three Armed Carjackings Defendants accused of participating in a carjacking and trafficking ring. | Press Release ( PDF) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 11 December 2023 | Separate Indictments Charge Multiple Defendants in Armed Carjacking Conspiracies According to documents filed in Superior Court, seven defendants, five of whom were juveniles at the time of the alleged crimes, conspired to steal cars at gunpoint and sell some of the stolen vehicles. | Press Release (text & documents) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 11 December 2023 | Three D.C. Men Indicted on Federal Charges for Armed Carjacking Conspiracy Defendants conspired to carjack and sell vehicles in the District and Maryland. | Press Release ( PDF) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 17 January 2024 | Newark Man Admits Carjacking and Firearms Offenses The accomplice pointed a firearm at the victim and ordered the victim to leave her belongings and exit the car. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Newark, New Jersey |
| 17 January 2024 | St. Louis Man Admits Three Carjackings, Including One That Was Fatal Carmain Milton stole debit/credit cards, rings, an iPhone and the keys to an Audi A6 belonging to one of the victims. He then stole the Audi. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 19 January 2024 | Pembroke Pines man sentenced to 216 months in federal prison for armed bank robbery and carjacking Edmanuel Victoria stole—at gunpoint—a black Nissan Altima from a man who was sitting in the driver’s seat while the car was parked. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida Dateline: Miami, Florida |
| 22 January 2024 | Farmington Man Accused of Attempted Carjacking According to court documents, Kay Elder of Farmington, Utah, allegedly approached a 57- year-old victim parked at Home Depot at 328 West 2100 South in Salt Lake City. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Byline: Felicia Martinez Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 24 January 2024 | Federal Grand Jury Indicts Louisville Man for Carjacking and Firearms Offenses Octavius Long was prohibited from possessing a firearm because he had previously been convicted of the following felony offenses. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Kentucky Dateline: Louisville, Kentucky |
| 26 January 2024 | Second KDY Crew Member Pleads Guilty to Violent Crime Spree of Multiple Carjackings and Armed Robberies According to the plea paperwork, Azriel Ethan Echavarria admitted to personally participating in the armed robberies of six individuals, five businesses and/or their employees, and two armed carjackings. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 30 January 2024 | District Man Found Guilty of Armed Carjacking of Handyman’s Car, Which He Crashed During A Police Chase According to the government’s evidence, the victim pulled up to the 2800 block of Denver Street SE to make repairs inside a residential building. Gianni Saunders, armed with a handgun with an extended magazine, demanded the victim’s car keys. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 31 January 2024 | Jackson Man Sentenced to Over Ten Years in Federal Prison for Carjacking and Brandishing a Firearm in Relation to a Crime of Violence According to court documents and statements made in court, Russell Emmett Gibbs carjacked a male victim at gunpoint on Edgewood Terrace in Jackson, Mississippi in November 2020. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi Dateline: Jackson, Mississippi |
| 31 January 2024 | Philadelphia Man Charged in Connection with Eight Carjackings and Nine Robberies If convicted, the defendant faces a maximum possible sentence of life imprisonment. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 2 February 2024 | District Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Two Carjackings Antwon Haynie approached a parked vehicle at a gas station and began to enter the driver’s side. When he noticed a passenger seated in the backseat of the car, Haynie pointed a firearm at him and ordered him to exit. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 5 February 2024 | Federal Indictment Accuses Three Chicago Residents of Committing Carjackings and Murders The superseding indictment renews firearm and carjacking charges filed in 2022 against Edson Resendez and Maverick Cela for allegedly violently committing carjackings in Morton Grove and Skokie. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois |
| 6 February 2024 | St. Louis Man Admits Fatally Shooting Driver and Burning Stolen Car Laveal David Jones confronted the victim about money Jones believed the victim owed, leading to a physical fight. Jones suffered a bloody nose. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topic: Kia K900 |
| 7 February 2024 | Baltimore Man Pleads Guilty to Participating in a Violent Racketeering Conspiracy, Including a Murder Members of the conspiracy committed seven carjackings, six armed robberies and two attempted armed robberies in a three-month period. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Dateline: Baltimore, Maryland |
| 9 February 2024 | District Man Indicted on Three Counts of Armed Carjacking and Other Charges Dallas McKinney carjacked an Uber driver at gunpoint in the Eastern Market neighborhood, threatening both the Uber driver and his passenger. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. Topic: Uber |
| 14 February 2024 | Jefferson County Carjacker Sentenced to 17 ½ Years in Prison The victim nearly died due to the carjacking and has been left with permanent injuries, including brain damage, but is now recovering. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 14 February 2024 | Salt Lake City Man Accused of Carjacking a U.S. Postal Service Truck and Causing Multiple Car Accidents is Arrested and Charged According to the complaint, the U.S. Postal Inspectors and postal employees tracked the stolen mail truck using GPS technology. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Byline: Felicia Martinez Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 14 February 2024 | St. Louis Man Sentenced to 60 Years in Prison for Carjackings, Jail Escape and Fatal Shooting of De Smet High School Football Coach On October 16, 2017, Kurt Wallace fatally shot Jaz Granderson, a football coach at De Smet Jesuit High School, while stealing his Jeep Grand Cherokee in St. Louis. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 14 February 2024 | Three Men Sentenced to Prison for Violent Carjacking Conspiracy that Targeted Uber and Lyft Drivers “The defendants targeted innocent people who were simply doing their jobs,” said U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: St. Paul, Minnesota Topic: Uber, Lyft |
| 16 February 2024 | Jury Finds Maryland Man Guilty of Armed Carjacking of Delivery Driver According to the government’s evidence, Hahqwon Beale and a female co-conspirator called a Pizza Boli’s restaurant to order food to be delivered to the 400 block of Farragut Street in Northwest DC. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 19 February 2024 | Pine Ridge Man Sentenced to 45 Years in Federal Prison In August of 2019, JT Myore and a co-defendant brandished firearms in order to carjack a Ford Freestyle from another male in Pine Ridge. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Radid City, South Dakota |
| 21 February 2024 | District Teen Pleads Guilty to Carjacking Defendant led police on a high speed that ended in a crash. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 22 February 2024 | Carjacker of Pizza Delivery Driver in St. Louis Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison A juvenile pointed a gun at the delivery driver and Jacoby Watts drove the carjacked 2019 Dodge Charger away. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 23 February 2024 | Armed Carjacking Added to a 55-Count Superseding Indictment Charging Members of the Violent KDY Drug Crew According to the original indictment, KDY members operated open-air drug markets in the 100-1200 blocks of Kennedy Street in Northwest, as well as surrounding streets. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 23 February 2024 | Chicago Man Convicted on Federal Carjacking and Firearm Charges Kiar Evans then approached the driver-side window of a Nissan Altima, pointed a firearm at the driver and demanded that the driver exit the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois |
| 23 February 2024 | Indianapolis Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for Two Armed Carjackings Deandre Govan forced the victim to give him the keys to his car and fled the scene in the stolen car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Indiana Dateline: Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 26 February 2024 | Memphis Man Sentenced to Nearly 23 Years in Federal Prison for Armed Carjacking According to United States Attorney Ritz and information presented in court, Martavious Marr approached a man at a gas station on N. Bellevue Blvd, pointed a gun at him, and demanded the keys to his 2009 Pontiac G6. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Tennessee Dateline: Memphis, Tennessee |
| 27 February 2024 | Armed Carjacker who Shot at Victim Sentenced to Eleven Years in Federal Prison According to court documents, Anthony Porter had been loitering by the entrance of a local convenience store located at 9852 East 21st Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, when he followed a male customer to his car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Indiana Dateline: Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 27 February 2024 | South Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Carjacking Louisiana State Police and the New Orleans Police Department tracked and located the vehicle, but it refused to stop. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 5 March 2024 | District Man Convicted of Offenses Arising from Violent Armed Carjacking and Shooting According to the government’s evidence Tavon Owens approached the victim, who was sitting in the driver’s seat of her parked car on Newton Street NW. Owens flung the car door open, pointed his firearm at the victim, and ordered her out of the car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 5 March 2024 | District Man Receives Youth Rehabilitation Act Sentence for Carjacking at Gas Station Adam West further acknowledged that he approached the victim, who was seated in his car, and demanded that he get out of his car while patting his waistband, to suggest that he was armed. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 6 March 2024 | Validated Gang Member and Six-Time Wilmington Felon Receives Over 17 Years for Carjacking and Firearm Offense A responding officer saw the victim’s vehicle drive off at a high rate of speed and he activated his lights and sirens to initiate a traffic stop. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Wilmington, North Carolina |
| 8 March 2024 | Hagerstown Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison for a Series of Carjackings According to his guilty plea, Carlos Guardado-Eagle and a co-conspirator carjacked four victims at gunpoint. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Dateline: Greenbelt, Maryland |
| 12 March 2024 | Philadelphia Man Sentenced to More Than 10 Years in Prison in Connection With Two Violent Carjackings Victim #1 was operating his 2021 Honda Pilot near the 5100 block of Race Street. The victim temporarily pulled over to the side of the road, and Dashawn Pringle and another male suddenly got in. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 14 March 2024 | Grand Jury Indicts District Teen for Armed Carjacking and Other Offenses According to documents filed in court, an unidentified co-conspirator drove his car in front of the complainant’s sedan in the 200 block of 13th Street NE. Alvin Halmon-Daniels got out of the co-conspirator’s car, armed with a handgun, and ordered the complainant to leave her property and get out of her car. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 15 March 2024 | Court Sentences District Man to Seven Years in Connection with 2023 Armed Carjacking in Northeast Washington, D.C. Marcus Thompson admitted that on July 17, 2023, and armed with a handgun, he approached the victim as the victim was taking property out of his car in the 2300 block of R Street Northeast. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 22 March 2024 | St. Louis Man Who Killed a Woman During Two Carjackings Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison Loyse Dozier fatally shot Laruth Jones on July 10, 2022, while stealing her Mercedes CLA 250. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 26 March 2024 | New Orleans Man Indicted for Armed Bank Robbery and Attempted Carjacking Joseph Carsice is also alleged to have attempted to carjack three separate vehicles, a 2016 Toyota Prius, 2010 Toyota Camry, and a 2011 Chevrolet Silverado. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 27 March 2024 | White Swan Couple Sentenced to Federal Prison for Carjacking and Violent Assault on the Yakama Nation During the assault, the victim was pulled out of her own truck, and Sundron Larsell Miller attempted to shoot the victim with her own rifle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Yakima, Washington |
| 28 March 2024 | District Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Connection with 2023 Armed Carjacking in Northeast and Armed Robbery in Northwest The Honorable Errol Arthur sentenced Eric Vaughn, 21, of Washington, D.C., to nine years in prison in connection with an armed robbery in Northwest Washington, D.C., an armed carjacking in Northeast Washington, D.C., and a robbery that occurred in Southeast Washington, D.C. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 28 March 2024 | Federal Grand Jury Indicts Two D.C. Residents with Kidnapping and Carjacking Charges According to the indictment, on February 1, 2024, the pair carjacked the victim, kidnapped the victim, and transported the victim across the state line in the victim’s 2021 Chevrolet Malibu. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 1 April 2024 | New Haven Man Sentenced to 14 Years in Federal Prison for Gunpoint Robberies, Carjacking Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Christian Borrero, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 168 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for committing gunpoint robberies of convenience stores and an armed carjacking in 2022. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 2 April 2024 | Carjacker Sentenced To More Than 21 Years In Federal Prison The sentence consists of 14 years and 10 months for the carjacking offense, followed by a consecutive 7-year sentence for the firearm offense. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida Topic: |
| 2 April 2024 | Philadelphia Man Pleads Guilty to Murder in a Case Involving Two Carjackings of Food Delivery Drivers United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that John Nusslein, 19, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit carjacking, one count of carjacking resulting in death, and one count of carjacking resulting in serious bodily injury. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 3 April 2024 | Carjacker Sent to Prison for 10 Years According to the government’s evidence, with which the defendant agreed at his plea hearing, on March 3, 2023, at approximately 5:35 p.m., the defendant approached his first victim, put a gun to his neck, and demanded his car keys. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 3 April 2024 | D.C. Woman Arrested on Carjacking Charge Defendant and accomplice allegedly rear-ended the victim’s car before stealing it. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 3 April 2024 | District Man Arraigned on Armed Carjacking Indictment Elijah Montgomery, 19, of Washington, D.C., was arraigned today on an indictment charging him with armed carjacking and other charges arising out of an October 12, 2023 incident near the corner of Galloway Street and Sargent Road NE. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 3 April 2024 | District Man Arrested in Armed Carjacking from January 2024 Marquis Derby, 19, of Washington, D.C., was arrested yesterday and charged by complaint with armed carjacking and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 3 April 2024 | Two Violent Carjackings in Chicago Lead to 18-Year Federal Prison Sentence Kashif Dukes, 29, of Chicago, took the vehicles at gunpoint in 2017 and 2018. In the first carjacking, Dukes took a Mercedes-Benz sedan in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois |
| 4 April 2024 | Defendants, and Two Accomplices, Robbed, Beat, and Tried to Steal Victim’s Car Gregory Patterson, 40, of Washington, D.C., was ordered held pending trial following a preliminary hearing today for an armed carjacking and armed robbery that occurred on June 11, 2023. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 4 April 2024 | District Men Charged With Armed Carjacking and Related Offenses According to the government’s evidence at the preliminary hearing, the victim was trying to pull into the Kenilworth Market and had driven into an adjacent alley when he saw the driveway block. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 5 April 2024 | District Man Charged with Armed Robbery and Carjacking Ordered Detained Pending Trial Defendant robbed two victims as they tried to get gas. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 9 April 2024 | New Orleans Man Pleads Guilty to Carjacking and Gun Offenses Court documents reveal that Devon Frith, while wearing a ski mask, stole a car at gunpoint from the victim as she was attempting to open the driver’s side door. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 10 April 2024 | Two Essex County Men Charged with Carjacking and Firearm Posssesion The victim was pumping air into the front passenger side tire while waiting for his food order when Arraqeeb Williamscook and Washir Singletary pulled into the parking lot in a Lexus that had been stolen out of Wall Township, New Jersey. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Newark, New Jersey |
| 11 April 2024 | Carjacking and Robbery Charges Filed Against Three Men in D.C. According to court documents, the defendants targeted fast-food restaurants, convenience stores, and package delivery vehicles, and would work together to arrange for a car to be used to commit the robberies, either by carjacking or arranging the use of an associate’s vehicle. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 11 April 2024 | St. Louis County Man Admits Two Carjackings Ahmod Samez Moore admitted robbing an acquaintance and stealing his 2015 Kia Optima at gunpoint. Five days later, he robbed and carjacked a man in St. Louis, stealing his 2003 GMC Envoy. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 12 April 2024 | Philadelphia Carjacking Task Force Highlights Significant Cases, Impact Since Its Formation Two Years Ago U.S. Attorney, ATF, FBI, and Philadelphia Police Department reiterate the lengthy sentences possible for carjackers, even if first-time offenders. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 16 April 2024 | St. Louis Man Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Three Carjackings, Including One That Was Fatal A week later, in a parking lot at the intersection of Chouteau Avenue and South Sarah Street, Carmain Milton approached two victims and said, “I will shoot you, don’t be a hero, give me your jewelry.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 17 April 2024 | Justice Department Launches Carjacking Task Forces in Targeted Areas Across the Country The newly formed task forces will be led by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, working alongside state, local, Tribal, and territorial law enforcement partners. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice |
| 18 April 2024 | Department of Justice announces Carjacking Task Force targeting violent crime in the Eastern District of Texas “The Justice Department has no higher priority than keeping our communities safe. We do so by targeting the most significant drivers of violent crime and by acting as a force multiplier for our state and local law enforcement partners,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Texas Dateline: Beaumont, Texas |
| 18 April 2024 | District Man Indicted on Carjacking and Kidnapping Charges According to the government’s evidence, the victim, a driver for D.C. Neighborhood Connect, picked up Kevin Weaver and another individual at 1228 Perry Street NE and drove them to 501 Franklin Street NE, where both passengers exited the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 18 April 2024 | U.S. Attorney's Office Launches Carjacking Task Force Carjacking task forces have proven to be an effective part of successful violent crime reduction strategies by focusing on a significant driver of crime and taking violent offenders off the streets. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Oregon Dateline: Portland, Oregon |
| 18 April 2024 | Western Washington Carjacking Task Force part of federal effort to combat violent crime “Our task force harnesses the resources of the FBI, ATF, the Seattle Police and Kent Police Departments. Prosecutors will look at all carjacking incidents in the district to see if federal prosecution is appropriate,” said U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Byline: Emily Langlie Dateline: Seattle, Washington |
| 19 April 2024 | Four District Men Indicted on 76 Federal Counts for Armed Carjacking Conspiracy A 76-count superseding indictment was unsealed in U.S. District Court today charging four District men with conspiring to commit a total of 33 carjackings in Washington D.C. and Maryland between December 2022, and June 2023. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 19 April 2024 | Salt Lake County Residents Allegedly Behind the Shooting of a Woman During an Attempted Carjacking Face Federal Charges Surveillance footage from the area showed the victim walking towards her vehicle when Siamelie Nick Mila exited a black Audi, driven by Christiansen, and approached the victim. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Byline: Felicia Martinez Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 22 April 2024 | U.S. Attorney’s Office and Law Enforcement Partners Announce Carjacking Task Force in Jackson “The threat of being carjacked creates fear in people’s daily lives, whether in their driveway or when loading groceries at the store," said U.S. Attorney Gee. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi Dateline: Jackson, Mississippi |
| 25 April 2024 | Eight Year Sentence Handed Down for Carjacking and Robbery of a Delivery Driver The victim was putting his cell phone into a holder on the handlebars when the defendant and his accomplices ran up to and surrounded him. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 25 April 2024 | St. Louis Carjacker Sentenced to 105 Months in Prison La’Vontray Hayes-Williams pulled out a handgun and told the driver of a 2018 Nissan Sentra to “give me the car.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 29 April 2024 | Man Charged With Carjacking Resulting In Death According to the complaint, Jordanish Garcia-Torres carjacked a woman at gunpoint in Winter Springs, Florida, and forced her to drive to a location in Osceola County where she was murdered by gunshot and burned while in her vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Orlando, Florida |
| 30 April 2024 | KC Man Sentenced for Armed Robbery, Carjacking During Illegal Drug Sale After the victim and the passenger ran away, Mykus Butler and his associates got into the victim’s car and drove it from the scene. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Kansas City, Missouri |
| 7 May 2024 | St. Louis Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Fatally Carjacking Friend Laveal David Jones got lighter fluid and then drove the victim’s 2015 Kia K900 sedan to West Missouri Avenue and North B Street in East St. Louis, where he set it on fire and walked away. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 8 May 2024 | Billings woman admits carjacking In court documents, the government alleged that on Jan. 23, 2023, the victim, identified as John Doe 1 reported to the Billings Police Department that he had been carjacked. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Billings, Montana |
| 15 May 2024 | Jury Convicts New Orleans Man of Carjacking and Federal Firearms Offenses Jurors heard evidence that Shampain Poole carjacked a car from an eighty-year-old woman at gunpoint in front of her home. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 16 May 2024 | District Man Pleads Guilty to Carjacking in Northeast During that plea hearing, Mitchell admitted that he and two co-conspirators, who have never been identified, carjacked a rideshare driver on February 6, 2024. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. /td> |
| 16 May 2024 | Man Admits Phelps County Carjacking and Gun Store Burglary Martavious Jones also admitted that he asked a man for a ride in his 2013 Nissan Altima. The driver agreed. Once they were moving, Jones pulled out a large knife and held it to the driver’s throat. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 16 May 2024 | Teen Indicted on Armed Carjacking and Other Violent Crimes Arising from a Crime Spree in August 2023 Montello Washington was indicted by a grand jury in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on one count of armed carjacking, two counts of armed robbery, two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, unauthorized use of a vehicle in order to commit crimes of violence, and possession of a firearm during crimes of violence. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 17 May 2024 | Three Juveniles Charged as Adults with Armed Carjacking, Armed Robbery, and Related Charges According to the government’s evidence, over the course of seven days, Keiphone Bennett, Kevin Edwards, and Asia Clark, together or separately, committed a series of four armed carjackings and robberies in the District of Columbia. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 20 May 2024 | Fruitland Man Pleads Guilty to Charges Arising from Machete Attack on Motorist As Brandon Barber drove away in the stolen Jeep, he saw Jane Doe standing in the roadway and accelerated the vehicle towards Jane Doe, who had to jump out of the way to avoid being struck. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 30 May 2024 | Trenton Man Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Spree of Armed Carjackings, Armed Robbery, and Firearms Offenses Approximately one hour later, Perez and multiple unidentified conspirators used the victim’s carjacked vehicle as the getaway car in the armed robbery of a nearby gas station. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Trenton, New Jersey |
| 3 June 2024 | District Man Sentenced to Serve Five Years for Carjacking Miliki Lee and his accomplices got out of that car and surrounded the victim’s vehicle, banged on the windows, brandished a handgun, and eventually forced her out of her car at gunpoint. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 5 June 2024 | Two Baltimore Area Men Convicted After Trial Of Abductions Involving Kidnappings, Carjackings And Related Charges “My office will not tolerate carjackings,” stated U.S. Attorney Barron. “We’re collaborating with our partners to prosecute these crimes and hold offenders accountable to the fullest extent of the law.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Dateline: Baltimore, Maryland |
| 6 June 2024 | Four Men Charged With Carjacking And Kidnapping Resulting In Death Of A South Florida Woman According to the indictment, on April 11, 2024, Torres Garcia, Ocasio Justiniano, Crespo Hernandez, and Rodriguez Bonilla aided and abetted each other and others to carjack and kidnap K.A, resulting in the death of K.A. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Orlando, Florida |
| 6 June 2024 | St. Louis County Man Admits Armed Carjacking in St. Louis While pointing a gun at the victim, Ahdaejay Britton demanded the keys to the car, then stole the victim’s wallet and cell phone before following his accomplice to the Mazda. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 11 June 2024 | Two Hudson County Men Admit Gas Station Robberies and Attempted Carjacking From January 3, 2022, to February 4, 2022, Wendell Bradley Jr., either alone or with Joseph Brown, would drive to a gas station, pull up to a gas pump, ask the gas station attendant to put gas in the car’s tank, and, while the tank was being filled, would pull a gun on the attendant and demand money. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Newark, New Jersey |
| 13 June 2024 | Convicted Felon Sentenced to Over 38 Years in Federal Prison for Two Armed Carjackings and Firearms Offenses According to information presented in court, Glenn Miller committed two back-to-back carjackings in Memphis on June 8, 2022. First, Miller approached a man at a gas station on Chelsea Avenue and forced the victim to get into his vehicle at gunpoint. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Tennessee Dateline: Memphis, Tennessee |
| 13 June 2024 | Second Person Charged in Armed Carjacking in Northeast DC According to the government’s evidence, on March 11, 2024, Edwards drove a car through a stop sign at 48th Place and Lee Street NE, and struck the victim’s vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 18 June 2024 | Two Men Charged With Armed Carjacking And Possession Of A Machinegun On the evening of June 14, 2024, in Harlem, Jose Rivera and Jomar Crespo committed a gunpoint carjacking during which they stole the personal vehicle of an NYPD Sergeant. | Press Release (text & photos) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
| 20 June 2024 | King County, Washington, murder suspect now indicted in armed carjacking in Seattle The federal indictment for armed carjacking will prompt an international “red notice” for Salman Subeyr Haji, alerting international law enforcement to take him into custody. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Byline: Emily Langlie Dateline: Seattle, Washington |
| 26 June 2024 | Attempted Carjacker on the Southern Ute Reservation Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison According to the plea agreement, on June 15, 2022, Lionel Mario Charley accosted a woman in the parking garage of a Durango office building in which she worked at the time. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Colorado Dateline: Durango, Colorado |
| 1 July 2024 | District Man Pleads Guilty to Armed Carjacking The defendant and his accomplices, at least one of whom was armed with a firearm, pointed a firearm at the victim and demanded the keys to the victim’s car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 1 July 2024 | New Orleans man sentenced to federal prison for Vidor carjacking According to information presented in court, on October 26, 2022, Aubrey Young approached two people in Vidor asking if they had any work for him. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Texas Dateline: Beaumont, Texas |
| 3 July 2024 | South Carolina Man Sentenced to 180 Months for Carjacking On January 2, 2022, in the 1000 block of Carondelet Street, Onis Washington and his co-defendant forcefully stole a car from the victim and fled in the stolen vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 8 July 2024 | FACT SHEET: Year-to-Year Carjacking Trends for the Month of June In June of 2023, the District of Columbia experienced 140 carjackings in that month alone. In June of this year (2024), the number of carjackings in the District is 31. That is over 100 fewer carjackings—or a 78% decrease—in June alone compared to last year. | Press Release (text & graphic) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia |
| 9 July 2024 | New Jersey Man Sentenced to 105 Months in Prison for 2023 Armed Carjacking in South Philadelphia The defendant pleaded guilty to both counts in February, admitting to carjacking at gunpoint two people sitting in a Chevrolet Camaro parked outside a South Philadelphia Dunkin Donuts. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 12 July 2024 | Odessa Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison for January Carjacking According to court documents, Isaac Ramirez Carrasco, 38, carjacked a couple on Jan. 30 by pointing a shotgun at the driver and ordering both occupants out of their vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: Midland, Texas |
| 16 July 2024 | Man Charged in Federal Court With Committing Two Carjackings in Chicago VIRGIL GIBSON, 22, of Chicago, stole a Chevrolet Malibu on April 7, 2024, and a Kia K5 on April 8, 2024, according to an indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Chicago. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois |
| 17 July 2024 | Illinois Carjacker Sentenced to 96 Months in Prison Shortly after midnight, a woman walked from a residence to her 2011 Kia Optima. A sedan pulled up, Brandon Best got out and ran toward the victim and her car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 17 July 2024 | U.S. Attorney’s Office Announces Guilty Plea for Felony Assault within Navajo Nation In his plea agreement, Daryl Levi admitted that he participated in the assault with the intent to take John Doe’s motor vehicle. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 19 July 2024 | New Orleans Man Sentenced After Trial Conviction for Carjacking and Federal Firearms Offenses According to court records, Shampain Poole carjacked a car at gunpoint from an eighty-year-old woman, in front of her home. She immediately reported the crime. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 22 July 2024 | Three Memphis Men Receive Significant Federal Sentences after Carjacking and Robbery Spree According to the information presented in court, Jermiah Jones, Kevontae Harper, and James Payne, participated in a crime spree that included three carjackings and a series of armed robberies of Memphis businesses. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Tennessee Dateline: Memphis, Tennessee |
| 23 July 2024 | Milwaukee Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Armed Carjacking William Jones approached the 79-year-old victim, who was sitting in the driver’s seat of his vehicle, placed a gun against the victim’s head and demanded the keys. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 26 July 2024 | Judge Gives 18 Year Sentence to Carjacker Who Shot Driver Tayvon Owens approached the victim, who was sitting in the driver’s seat of her parked car on Newton St NW. Owens flung the car door open, pointed his firearm at the victim, and ordered her out of the car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 26 July 2024 | Jury Finds District Man Guilty of Carjacking, Robbery, Burglary and Related Charges Kenneth Phillips was in the 2000 block of fourth street Northeast when he approached the victim from behind, striking him in the back of the head and taking his car and house keys. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 26 July 2024 | New Orleans Man Sentenced for Carjacking and Gun Offenses Court documents reveal that on April 10, 2023, FRITH carjacked a vehicle in the Central City area of New Orleans. He was wearing a ski mask and gloves and pointed a loaded Glock Model 26 handgun at the victim while demanding the keys to her car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 29 July 2024 | Teen Admits Two St. Louis Area Carjackings Davis admitted stealing a Mazda 3 at gunpoint in 2021 and a little over a year later, a Mercedes SUV. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 30 July 2024 | Convicted Felon Indicted on Federal Charges for Armed Carjackings According to Court documents, on August 25, 2023, Jenkins carjacked a man at gunpoint outside a residence in Southeast Washington, D.C., taking a Dodge Charger. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 31 July 2024 | Philadelphia Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Violent Carjackings of Two Food Delivery Drivers, One of Whom Died From His Injuries John Nusslein was charged by indictment in June 2022, and on April 2, 2024, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit carjacking, one count of carjacking resulting in death, and one count of carjacking resulting in serious bodily injury. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 31 July 2024 | South L.A. Man Arrested on Federal Grand Jury Indictment Alleging Series of Armed Carjackings in L.A. County Last Year According to the indictment that a grand jury returned earlier this month, from November 15 to December 9, 2023, the defendant went on a crime spree, mostly carjacking – or attempting to carjack – car owners at gunpoint in Downey, Pico Rivera, Norwalk, and Whittier. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Los Angeles, California |
| 31 July 2024 | Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Armed Carjacking Kincaid opened the passenger door of the vehicle, climbed inside, and told the victim he was stealing the car while brandishing a firearm in his waistband. The victim fled the vehicle and Kincaid climbed into the driver’s seat and drove away. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1 August 2024 | Armed Robber Sentenced to 22 Years for Carjacking and Robberies According to court documents, on February 7, 2023, Jameson McNeil was armed with what appeared to be a handgun when he ordered a woman out of her car while she was inside a parking garage in the 800 block of P Street NW. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 5 August 2024 | Man Admits St. Louis Carjacking Bradley C. McKinney, 35, pleaded guilty to carjacking, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and possession of a machine gun. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 5 August 2024 | Man Pleads Guilty to Armed Carjacking and Armed Robbery in 2022 Crime Spree Richardson and his unidentified co-conspirators, armed with firearms, attempted to carjack two separate individuals before proceeding to the 600 block of Morton Place NE at approximately 6:49 p.m. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 8 August 2024 | District Man Indicted on 28 Federal Counts for String of Armed Carjackings and Robberies at Convenience Stores and Gas Stations One day after the Falcon Fuel robbery, Joyner is alleged to have carjacked a man at gunpoint in the Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 9 August 2024 | Utah Man that Attempted to Steal a Vehicle and Assaulted the Driver is Sentenced to Federal Prison According to court documents and statements made at the change of plea hearing, Kay Elder approached the 57-year-old victim parked at Home Depot on January 3, 2024, and began yelling at the man to get out of the car and give him the key. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Byline: Felicia Martinez Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 13 August 2024 | Carjacking in Chicago Suburb Leads to 15-Year Federal Prison Sentence The victim was sitting in his car on the street outside of his home when Johnson approached, pointed a gun at the victim’s head, and demanded the key. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois |
| 13 August 2024 | Danville, Illinois, Man Convicted of Carjacking Resulting in Death and Murder Marshall and his girlfriend started to drive away in Walter’s Ford F-150 before Marshall ordered her to stop the truck. He then returned to Walter and shot him five more times, taking his phone and other identification. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of Illinois Dateline: Urbana, Illinois |
| 16 August 2024 | U.S. Attorney’s Office and ATF Announce Federal Charges in Santa Fe Shooting and Carjacking Case Babitz was seen leaving the scene in the victim's Jeep Grand Cherokee, which was later reported stolen. | Press Release (text & PDF) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 23 August 2024 | Denver Woman Sentenced To 20 Years For Armed Carjacking Spree On February 27, 2023, Denver Police responded to a call at a convenience store on East Hampden Avenue on a report of a person trying to carjack multiple victims and shooting a firearm. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Colorado Dateline: Denver, Colorado |
| 26 August 2024 | Violent Carjacker Sentenced In Federal Court Douglas struck the victim in the side of the neck and head with such force that she was knocked unconscious. When she regained consciousness, she was upside down in the passenger’s seat and covered in blood. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Alabama Dateline: Mobile, Alabama |
| 28 August 2024 | Delaware County Woman Pleads Guilty to January Armed Carjacking in South Philadelphia, Two Gun Charges The victim reported being carjacked on the 1100 block of Washington Avenue. He relayed that, while walking to his vehicle, a silver 2018 Toyota RAV4, the defendant, Nateirah Ortiz, demanded his car keys and pointed a gun at him. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 29 August 2024 | Billings woman sentenced to more than seven years in prison for armed carjacking The defendant, Talena Florence Boyiddle, 20, pleaded guilty in May to carjacking and to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Billings, Montana |
| 29 August 2024 | Poplar man admits stealing truck after stabbing driver on Fort Peck Indian Reservation The defendant, Brandon Lee Romero, 29, pleaded guilty to robbery. Romero faces a maximum of 15 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Great Falls, Montana |
| 4 September 2024 | Louisville Man Sentenced to Over 10 Years in Federal Prison for Carjacking According to court documents, Corey M. Buford, 23, was sentenced to 10 years and 5 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for illegally carjacking a 2014 BMW on April 14, 2022. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Kentucky Dateline: Louisville, Kentucky |
| 4 September 2024 | Nebraska Man Indicted for Violent Carjackings in Minneapolis According to court documents, on June 16, 2024, Nathan Mathias Sughroue, 31, used violence and intimidation to steal a Hyundai Elantra from one victim. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 5 September 2024 | Four Plead Guilty in Two St. Louis Area Carjackings Ramon D. Davis, 20, pleaded guilty in July to two counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and two counts of carjacking. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 9 September 2024 | Philadelphia Man Sentenced to 21 Years in Prison for Series of Armed Carjackings Targeting Elderly The defendant and others committed three carjackings and one attempted carjacking, all with firearms, during the course of the conspiracy that took place between September 6, 2022, and September 12, 2022. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 12 September 2024 | 6 Florida Men Charged with Conspiracy, Carjacking Offenses The victims reported that the Lamborghini Urus they were operating was rear-ended by a Honda Civic on Damia Drive in Danbury, and a white work van cut in front of their vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 17 September 2024 | Seattle man indicted for armed carjacking near Lumen Field Louis Montel De’Andre Dowers was arrested June 9, 2024, hours after he allegedly carjacked a BMW outside the Seattle Team Shop on Occidental Avenue South in the Pioneer Square neighborhood. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Byline: Emily Langlie Dateline: Seattle, Washington |
| 20 September 2024 | Davenport Man Indicted For Armed Carjacking And Possessing Ammunition As A Convicted Felon According to the indictment, on June 12, 2024, Moody used a firearm to commit a carjacking during which he took a vehicle from the victim with the intent to cause death and serious bodily harm. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
| 20 September 2024 | U.S. Attorney's Office and FBI Announce Criminal Charges in Fruitland Carjacking According to the indictment, on April 10, 2022, Padilla took a motor vehicle from John Doe by force. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 25 September 2024 | Two Philadelphia Men Convicted at Trial for August 2023 Armed Carjacking United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Quadir Findley, 24, and Eric Dickerson, 24, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were convicted Monday at trial on one count each of carjacking for stealing a victim’s vehicle at gunpoint in the early hours of August 5, 2023. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 27 September 2024 | Husband And Wife Found Guilty Of Murder And Car-Jacking U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Over four years ago, in Beacon, New York, Jamie and Nicholas Orsini killed Jamie’s ex-husband, Steven Kraft, and engaged in a sophisticated scheme to hide their crime.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
| 30 September 2024 | Seven Year Sentence Handed Down for the Carjacking of a Rideshare Driver While parked, Wilson approached the victim’s car, armed with a silver firearm, and demanded that the victim exit his car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 2 October 2024 | Two Armed Robbers Sentenced After Carjacking and Robbery On December 4, 2022, Villalba was messaging a male victim through a dating application and agreed to meet up. Upon arrival, the victim’s vehicle was rushed by two armed individuals, Villalba and Titone. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Tusla, Oklahoma |
| 2 October 2024 | Two defendants await sentencing after pleading guilty in shooting, armed carjacking during drug deal The defendants then stole M.M.’s vehicle and fled, leaving behind a pickup that had been rented by Williams. Port Wentworth police recovered Williams’ personally owned car with the bag and drugs in it after a brief car chase from which Williams escaped. | Press Release (text & photo) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Georgia Byline: Barry L. Paschal Dateline: Savannah, Georgia |
| 2 October 2024 | Young Houstonians admit to carjacking in failed smuggling attempt While in McAllen May 19, Rodriguez and Hardy approached a male victim outside his car at a Stripes gas station near a mechanic shop. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas Topic: Stripes |
| 11 October 2024 | Miami Jury Finds Hollywood Car Dealership Employee Guilty of Carjacking Customer According to evidence introduced at trial, Erik Hadad and members of his family operated Guru Auto Sales, a car dealership that sold the victim a 2020 Honda Accord in October 2023. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida Dateline: Miami, Florida Topics: Guru Auto Sales, Erik Hadad, Honda Accord |
| 15 October 2024 | Camden Men Sentenced to Prison for String of Armed Robberies and Carjackings Two masked individuals carrying an AR-style rifle robbed a gas station in Pennsauken, New Jersey. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Camden, New Jersey |
| 15 October 2024 | Two Hudson County Men Sentenced to Prison for Gas Station Robberies and Attempted Carjacking Wendell Bradley Jr. – either alone or with Joseph Brown – would drive to a gas station, pull up to a gas pump, ask the gas station attendant to put gas in the car’s tank, and, while the tank was being filled, would pull a gun on the attendant and demand money. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Newark, New Jersey |
| 16 October 2024 | Delaware Man Sentenced to More Than 23 Years in Prison for Two Violent Delco Carjackings Codefendant Jamar Miller pleaded guilty to these offenses in March of 2023 and is awaiting sentencing. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 16 October 2024 | U.S. Attorney’s Office Secures Sentencing of Shiprock Man for 2020 Assault According to court documents, Daryl Levi, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, and others assaulted John Doe in Shiprock, New Mexico, with the intent of taking his motor vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 22 October 2024 | Two Philadelphia Men Sentenced to Almost a Decade in Prison for Separate Gunpoint Carjackings in the City Marc Anthony targeted a woman in Fairmount in 2022; Asiem Brooking carjacked a man in Olney in 2023. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 23 October 2024 | Mounds View Woman and Saint Paul Man Plead Guilty to Armed Carjacking in Minneapolis During the carjacking, an associate of Isis Martinaz Brent forcefully snatched the victim’s bags, causing the victim to fall and suffer bodily injury on their hands and knees. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 24 October 2024 | Driver Sentenced to Almost 16 Years in Prison for His Role in Two Violent Delco Carjackings Defendant drove his two co-conspirators to both crime scenes, fled behind carjacked vehicles. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 28 October 2024 | Title 16 Defendant Sentenced to 12 Years for August 2023 Spree That Included Armed Robbery and Carjacking Montello Washington brandished a firearm with a laser sight and demanded the victim’s phone, wallet, and keys. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 29 October 2024 | Crystal Springs Man Sentenced to over 9 Years in Prison for Brandishing a Firearm During a Carjacking in Jackson In May of 2021, Christopher Lawrence Murray and another man approached a woman sitting in her car in front of her home. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi Dateline: Jackson, Mississippi |
| 29 October 2024 | Federal Indictment Charges Three Men With Chicago Carjacking Marquell Davis, Ramone Bradley, and Edmund Singleton, all of Chicago, conspired to take an Infiniti Q50 and a BMW X6 on 3 November 2022, according to an indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Chicago. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois |
| 30 October 2024 | Bristol Virginia Man Convicted In Federal Court Of Carjacking And Firearms Charges According to witnesses, court documents, and evidence presented at trial, Charles Nile Mixon carjacked a victim at gunpoint in the parking lot of a Taco Bell restaurant in Bristol, Tennessee. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Tennessee Byline: Rachelle Barnes Dateline: Greeneville, Tennessee |
| 30 October 2024 | Louisville Man Pleads Guilty to Carjacking Resulting in Death Michael Dewitt committed a carjacking at gunpoint, and stole a 2011 Ford F350 from its owner in Simpsonville, Kentucky. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Kentucky Dateline: Louisville, Kentucky |
| 4 November 2024 | Carjacker Sentenced to 10 Years for Stealing the Scooter of an Uber Eats Driver in Southeast According to the government’s evidence, with which Larry Fisher agreed, Fisher and another individual approached the victim at the McDonald’s located at 1539 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, Washington, DC, while the victim was on his motorized scooter. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. Topic: Uber |
| 5 November 2024 | Guilty Plea from Second Assailant Who Tried to Steal a Man’s Car at Gunpoint in January 2024 According to the government’s evidence, Caleb Johnson and his co-defendant, Marquis Derby, robbed and attempted to carjack a construction worker at gunpoint when the victim, who was working on a job site in Northeast Washington, D.C., went to retrieve equipment from his truck. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 7 November 2024 | Double Carjacker Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison Ramon D. Davis, Montrell M. Jackson and a juvenile and stole a man’s 2006 Mazda3 in an alley near Grand Avenue and Bates Street in south St. Louis. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 13 November 2024 | Judge Hands Man 10 Year Prison Term for November 2021 Carjacking, Robbery, and Burglary Defendant carjacked victim then burglarized victim’s home. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 13 November 2024 | Two Gang Members Charged with Armed Carjacking in Garden City Two members of the Bronx-based 5zzly Crew used a knife and a firearm to threaten driver. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York Byline: John Marzulli & Danielle Blustein Hass |
| 14 November 2024 | Man Pleads Guilty to Carjacking of Valet Driver in Southeast The victim had just parked a client’s SUV in the parking garage at 221 Tingey Street Southeast when Raymond Davese attacked her from behind, put her in a headlock, and deployed a taser into her neck. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 15 November 2024 | Man Who Carjacked Delivery Driver is Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison The victim had just dropped off a delivery in the 2400 block of Wagner Street Southeast when Dennis Vanison’s accomplice stole items from the victim’s car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 18 November 2024 | Felon heads to prison for violent carjacking attack At the hearing, the court heard additional evidence that detailed his arrests in the Los Angeles vicinity for burglary and grand theft auto. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Houston, Texas |
| 19 November 2024 | Teen Pleads Guilty in Two November 2023 Carjackings Defendant victimized an off-duty federal agent and a rideshare driver. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 20 November 2024 | Mercer County Man Convicted of Several Carjackings Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury to Victims Sentenced to Life in Prison Cedrick Hodges, 41, of Trenton, New Jersey, was convicted in October 2023 of all five counts of a second superseding indictment following a seven-day trial before U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Trenton, New Jersey |
| 21 November 2024 | Armed Carjacker Is Sentenced To Eight Years In Prison According to filed court documents, prior to the carjacking at the AutoZone, the victim had made two stops. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina Dateline: Charlotte, North Carolina Topic: AutoZone |
| 21 November 2024 | Lafayette Grand Jury Returns Indictment Charging Carjacking With Intent to Cause Death or Serious Bodily Harm In addition to the one count of carjacking resulting in death, the indictment charges Brandon Jermaine Francisco with one count of using a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and one count of flight to avoid prosecution. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Louisiana Dateline: Lafayette, Louisiana |
| 21 November 2024 | U.S. Attorney’s Office Secures Guilty Plea from Second Defendant in Carjacking and Assault Case According to court documents, Lindsey Yazzie and Brandon Barber attacked a woman driving her Jeep on the Navajo Nation. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 22 November 2024 | Armed Carjacker Gets 20 Years in Prison for Robbery and Carjacking Spree Richardson and his unidentified co-conspirators, armed with firearms, attempted to carjack two separate individuals before proceeding to the 600 block of Morton Place NE. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 22 November 2024 | Jury Convicts Man of March 2024 Armed Carjacking Defendant caused traffic accident, then committed the offense. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 25 November 2024 | Illinois Man Accused of St. Louis Carjacking The indictment accuses Moore of stealing a 2022 Subaru Outback at gunpoint on Sept. 9, 2024. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 26 November 2024 | Federal Judge Sentences Man to More Than 14 Years in Prison for Carjacking Vehicles at Gunpoint in Chicago On a single afternoon in April 2018, Earrious Moore stole three cars, attempted to steal two others, and shot two people during a series of crimes in Chicago. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois |
| 27 November 2024 | Ramsey County Man Pleads Guilty to Illegal Possession of Firearm and Carjacking According to court documents, Ricardo Rydell Walker Jr. took a black 2021 Toyota Highlander by force and with threat of violence and bodily harm. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 6 December 2024 | Baltimore City Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison for Carjacking Baltimore Police Department Detective Additional video surveillance footage from a local business shows the BPD vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed as it exited the Hanover Street Bridge in South Baltimore. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Byline: Kevin Nash Dateline: Baltimore, Maryland |
| 10 December 2024 | St. Louis Carjacker Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison Shortly after midnight, Bradley C. McKinney and an accomplice were both armed with handguns when they approached two people who had just gotten out of a 2015 Chevy Cruze near the intersection of 16th Street and Lucas Avenue. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 13 December 2024 | Fresno Man Pleads Guilty to Carjacking Motorist in Fullerton The victim told officers she was sitting in her parked 2022 Mazda CX-5 SUV with the vehicle turned off when Deshawn Ricks approached her, opened her car’s door, and ordered her out of the SUV. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Los Angeles, California |
| 16 December 2024 | Two Juveniles Plead Guilty for November 2023 Carjacking At the time of the offense, Robert Littles was 16 years old and Jessup Meeks was 17 years old. Both were charged as adults. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 17 December 2024 | Camden Man Pleads Guilty to Two South Philadelphia Carjackings As described in the superseding indictment and other publicly filed documents in this case the first victim, an Uber driver, was picking up a passenger at the Ikea on Columbus Boulevard in South Philadelphia. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 18 December 2024 | Defendant Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Violent Spree Of Gunpoint Carjackings Fourth member of violent crew of carjackers sentenced for string of gunpoint carjackings in manhattan and the Bronx. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
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| 11 August 2022 filing date | United States of America v. Edson Resendez and Maverick Cela | Indictment ( PDF) 233KB · 7 pages Court: United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois |
| 4 October 2022 filing date | United States of America v. Andy Cook | Indictment ( PDF) 206KB · 6 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Jersey |
| 1 February 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Edson Resendez, Maverick Cela, and Prezila Apreza | Superseding Indictment ( PDF) 671KB · 20 pages Court: United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois |
| 18 July 2023 filing date | United States of America v. Daeyon Ross | Indictment ( PDF) 105KB · 4 pages Court: United States District Court, District of Columbia |
| 7 December 2023 filing date | United States of America v. Cedae Hardy, Landrell Jordan III, and Malik Norman | Indictment ( PDF) 3.1MB · 24 pages Court: United States District Court, District of Columbia |
| 11 December 2023 file date | The United States of America v. Jaelen Jordan, Warren Montgomery, Byron Gillum, Isaiah Flowers, Jahkai Goff, Taj Giles, Irshaad Ellis-Bey | Indictment ( PDF) 16.6MB · 14 pages Court: Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
| 18 April 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Cedae Hardy, Landrell Jordan III, Malik Norman, and Keyonte Rice | Indictment ( PDF) 1.5MB · 47 pages Court: United States District Court, District of Columbia |
| 19 March 2024 | United States of America v. Alvin Halmon-Daniels | Indictment ( PDF) 750KB · 2 pages Court: Superior Court for the District of Columbia |
| 1 April 2024 signing date | United States of America v. Arraqeeb Williamscook and Washir Singletary | Criminal Complaint ( PDF) 148KB · 7 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Jersey |
| 10 April 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Kanard Bishop, Khalil Boyd, Edward Leroy Brown | Indictment ( PDF) 222KB · 12 pages Court: United States District Court, District of Columbia |
| 13 May 2024 filing date | United States of America vs. Brandon Barber and Lindsey Yazzie | Plea Agreement ( PDF) 487KB · 12 pages Court: |
| 15 May 2024 file date | United States of America v. Wendell Bradley, Jr. | Information ( PDF) 158KB · 8 pages Court: |
| 5 July 2024 signing date | United States of America vs. Daryl Levi | Plea Agreement ( PDF) 461KB · 11 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Mexico |
| 11 July 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Virgil Gibson | Order ( PDF) 152KB · 7 pages Court: United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois |
| 31 July 2024 filing date | United States of America vs. Myles Cordelle Dan Padilla | Indictment ( PDF) 71KB · 2 pages Court: |
| 13 August 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Zachary Babitz | Criminal Complaint ( PDF) 414KB · 6 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Mexico |
| 3 September 2024 filing date | United States of America vs. Brandon Barber and Lindsey Yazzie | Plea Agreement ( PDF) 477KB · 12 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Mexico |
| 24 October 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Marquell Davis, Ramone Bradley, and Edmund Singleton | Indictment ( PDF) 154KB · 9 pages Court: United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois |
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| 18 November 2009 | Illinois tollway worker jailed for stealing fines An audit by the tollway authority's inspector general's office revealed that Uganda T. Harris incorrectly classified the fines she collected as coming from I-PASS users, who pay lesser fines, and pocketed the cash. | News Article (text) Publisher: Wikinews Topic: Uganda T. Harris |
| 17 January 2024 | Nevada Man Sentenced for Embezzlement Scheme Amy Shepherd, used her position with Roadrunner as a Dispatch Lead Manager to fraudulently generate advances and enter EFS check codes into Roadrunner’s accounting system. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska Byline: Lecia Wright Topics: Amy Shepherd, Roadrunner Transportation Systems |
| 13 February 2024 | Chelsea Sunn Sentenced for Defrauding Former Employer According to the information, beginning no later than December 2018 and continuing at least until March 2020, Chelsea Roy defrauded Blakeman’s Towing and Recovery by falsely inflating the hours she reportedly worked. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Burlington, Vermont Topics: Chelsea Roy, Blakeman’s Towing and Recovery |
| 21 March 2024 | California man sentenced to federal prison for defrauding local business out of $10 million Defendant used stolen funds to buy yacht, amphibious plane, luxury vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio Dateline: Columbus, Ohio Topics: Root, Brinson Caleb Silver |
| 4 April 2024 | Hugo Man Pleads Guilty to Embezzling More Than $1.3 Million from Employer According to court documents, Leon Arthur Keener, 55, was employed as a service manager at an interstate trucking company (“Company A”) from 2011 to 2022. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: Minneapolis, Minnesota Topic: Leon Arthur Keener |
| 8 April 2024 | Former Office Manager Sentenced to Federal Prison for Embezzling Over $8.5 Million “Hesenius will now be held accountable for her flagrant theft of millions of dollars from her employer to support a lavish lifestyle,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia Dateline: Atlanta, Georgia Topics: Sonya Hesenius, Lazer Logistics |
| 2 August 2024 | Great Falls woman sentenced to prison for embezzling from employer From about 2017 and continuing through June 2022, Whiteford stole money from the business to pay for personal expenses without DTSC’s authorization. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Missoula, Montana Topics: Jennifer Sue Whiteford, Darryl’s Tire and Service Center |
| 30 August 2024 | Madison Carrig Pleads Guilty to Embezzlements through the Use of Employer Credit Cards According to the charging document Carrig defrauded the three car dealerships who employed her as office manager or controller by embezzling cash receipts received from customers of the dealerships, and misusing company credit cards to purchase goods and services for her own use and benefit. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Burlington, Vermont Topic: Madison Carrig |
| 28 October 2024 | Jennifer LaBonte Pleads Guilty to Embezzling from Employer For the most part, Jennifer LaBonte stole cash receipts that had been paid by dealership customers, but she also issued checks to herself for non-business-related purposes. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Rutland, Vermont Topic: Jennifer LaBonte |
| 26 November 2024 | Fresno Man Sentenced for Embezzling Over $1.5 Million from His Employer in Nearly Decade-Long Scheme Between 2012 and 2019, Ruiz De Chavez used his position to generate fake invoices, purportedly created by genuine vendors for goods and services. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California Dateline: Fresno, California Topic: Gabriel Ruiz De Chavez |
| 13 December 2024 | Robert McLane Imprisoned For Defrauding Auto Dealer Employer Robert McLane was employed by Formula Nissan, an automobile sales and service dealership located in central Vermont, where McLane served as the Parts Manager and then the Director of Parts and Service. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Burlington, Vermont Topics: Robert McLane, Formula Nissan |
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| June 1977 publication date | An Examination of Tort Liability Issues Connected with the Release of Arrested, Intoxicated DWI Offenders Final Report | Research Report ( PDF) 7.2MB · 90 pages Authors: Joseph W. Little & Mike Cooper Publisher: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
| December 1978 publication date | Alternative Court Procedures for DUI Offenders | Research Report ( PDF) 5.3MB · 60 pages Authors: John J. Abbene & Peter E. Keith Publisher: Virginia Department of Transportation Safety |
| 1980 publication date | Penalties and the Drink/Driver A Study of One Thousand Offenders | Research Report ( PDF) 12.0MB · 78 pages Authors: Ross Homel Publisher: New South Wales Dept. of the Attorney General |
| 14 July 1980 publication date | A Demographic Analysis of Persons Sentenced to Probation for Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol in Suffolk County | Research Report ( PDF) 3.7MB · 63 pages Authors: Burke J. Samson Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice |
| July 1985 publication date | Jailing Drunk Drivers Impact on the Criminal Justice System | Research Report ( PDF) 4.5MB · 5 pages Publication: NIJ Reports |
| October 2007 publication date | Statistical Bulletin Motoring Offences and Breath Test Statistics England and Wales 2005 | Research Report ( PDF) 441KB · 55 pages Publisher: U.K. Office for Criminal Justice Reform |
| 23 January 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Sheldon Carlton Daye | Superseding Indictment ( PDF) 53KB · 2 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Mexico |
| 17 May 2024 filing date | United States of America vs. Cody Allen Charlie | Plea Agreement ( PDF) 473KB · 12 pages Court: |
| 24 May 2024 filing date | United States of America vs. Lionel Medina | Plea Agreement ( PDF) 410KB · 11 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Mexico |
| 11 July 2024 filing date | United States of America vs. Leonardo Robbie Duncan | Plea Agreement ( PDF) 470KB · 12 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Mexico |
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| 29 December 1928 | DRUNKEN DRIVERS JAILED. Magistrate Farrell said the only way to stop persons from driving while intoxicated was to make examples of a few. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| 3 July 2023 | Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Request for Comment; Strategies To Improve Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) Officers' Performance and Law Enforcement Agencies' DRE Programs Application information will be collected to enroll Law Enforcement Agencies with DRE programs. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Nanda Narayanan Srinivasan |
| 29 January 2024 | Vanderwagon Man Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter According to the indictment, Sheldon Carlton Daye killed John and Jane Doe by operating a motor vehicle without due caution and circumspection and with a wanton and reckless disregard for human life. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 29 February 2024 | Baltimore Man Pleads Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter and Driving Under the Influence, Related to a Fatal Crash on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway As detailed in the plea agreement, the male driver was pronounced dead at the scene and the female passenger was transported to the hospital. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Dateline: Greenbelt, Maryland |
| 6 March 2024 | Aberdeen Man Sentenced to 8 Years for Felony Death by Motor Vehicle in DWI Crash on Fort Liberty The investigation revealed that Brewer was driving 89 miles per hour in a 55 miles per hour zone as he drove left of the center line and struck the front of the victim’s vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 6 March 2024 | Arizona Woman Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Involuntary Manslaughter According to publicly available court documents, Leticia Ashley consumed a half-pint of Fireball liquor before she got into the driver’s seat of her truck with her four young children as passengers and started to drive. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 8 March 2024 | Crownpoint Woman Sentenced to 30 months in Prison for Involuntary Manslaughter According to publicly available court documents, Ryntana Yazzie had been drinking alcohol and was driving south on Highway 371 outside Farmington when her vehicle veered into oncoming traffic and struck a semi-truck driven by John Doe, who was driving northbound. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 11 March 2024 | Stilwell Resident Sentenced For Assaults Resulting In Serious Bodily Injury According to investigators, Jeremy David Croley crossed the center line driving southbound on Bell Road and crashed his dual rear wheel truck into a vehicle driving in the northbound lane. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 13 March 2024 | Dodson man sentenced to 18 months in prison for assault charge stemming from vehicle crash on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation The government alleged that Marvin James Cole crashed his GMC truck into a Dodge Avenger driven by the victim, identified as John Doe, on Highway 66 near Harlem. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Great Falls, Montana |
| 19 March 2024 | Colorado man admits criminal endangerment charge for vehicle crash on Blackfeet Indian Reservation Bryson Elijah Owens-Johnson was traveling north on Highway 89 when he veered off the road, striking the guardrail almost head-on and damaging multiple steel and wood posts connected to it. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Great Falls, Montana |
| 22 March 2024 | Wister Resident Sentenced To Four Years In Prison For Drunk Driving Accident That Seriously Injured Two According to investigators, Kevin Dale Luman was driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.189% when he crossed the center line of U.S. Highway 271 in Wister, Oklahoma, and collided into an oncoming Jeep. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma Topic: United States Numbered Highways |
| 1 April 2024 | Shiprock Man Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter The indictment alleges that on December 1, 2023, Gonnie operated a motor vehicle without due caution and with a wanton and reckless disregard for human life, resulting in the deaths of John Doe 1 and John Doe 2, and assault resulting in serious bodily injury of John Doe 3. | Press Release (text &  PDF)Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 5 April 2024 | Porcupine Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Federal Prison The convictions stem from Robert Cottier operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, causing a head-on collision with another vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Rapid City, South Dakota |
| 12 April 2024 | Pine Ridge Woman Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter Evidence at trial established that Janine Faye Good Lance operated a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. She drove off the road and rolled multiple times killing the two passengers in her vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Rapid City, South Dakota |
| 19 April 2024 | Jenks Man Sentenced for Second-Degree Murder According to court documents, Bradley Wade Wofford was driving under the influence of methamphetamine. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| 20 May 2024 | Laguna Man Pleads Guilty to Three Counts of Second-Degree Murder In his plea agreement, Cody Allen Charlie, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Acoma, admitted that he was driving drunk, traveling at 116 miles per hour while also using his cell phone when he crashed into another vehicle on Interstate 40, near mile marker 130. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 28 May 2024 | Albuquerque Man Pleads Guilty to Drunk Driving Crash Causing Serious Injuries In his plea agreement, Lionel Medina, an enrolled member of the Zia Pueblo, admitted that he drove while under the influence of alcohol. Medina was driving recklessly and crashed into a vehicle driven by Jane Doe. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 29 May 2024 | San Juan County Man Sentenced to 180 Months’ Imprisonment Following Deadly Crash that Killed a 5-Year-Old Girl On May 8, 2022, McCook unlawfully took a vehicle from the victim’s mother without her permission while on the White Mesa Indian Reservation. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 31 May 2024 | Adair County Resident Sentenced For Involuntary Manslaughter In Indian Country According to investigators, on June 27, 2022, Jordan Eagle-Tate crossed into the oncoming lane of Oklahoma Highway 100 in a no-passing zone, clipping one vehicle before colliding head-on with a second vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 12 June 2024 | Gallup Woman Sentenced for Drunken Rollover Crash That Killed Unrestrained Infant An argument between the other two members of the group caused Mariah Chapo to drive off at high speed with John Doe. A mile down the road, Chapo failed to navigate a turn and rolled the vehicle. John Doe was ejected from the backseat and killed. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 18 June 2024 | Activity in the U.S. Attorney's Office Coal Donavan Weed of Ethete, Wyoming, was sentenced to 31 months’ imprisonment for involuntary manslaughter with three years of supervised release. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Wyoming Byline: Lori Hogan |
| 8 July 2024 | Activity in the U.S. Attorney's Office Braden Kyle Winters, 34, of Grand Junction, Colorado, was sentenced to seven days in jail and fined $1,500 plus court costs for driving under the influence. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Wyoming Byline: Lori Hogan |
| 10 July 2024 | Pine Ridge Woman Sentenced to Federal Prison On November 18, 2022, Janine Faye Good Lance drove while intoxicated on BIA Highway 18, near Pine Ridge, South Dakota, while her two friends rode in the car with her. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Rapid City, South Dakota |
| 15 July 2024 | U.S. Attorney’s Office Secures Guilty Plea in Fatal DUI Case Leonardo Robbie Duncan was drunk and driving in an unsafe manner when he crossed into on-coming traffic and crashed head-on into the front passenger side of Jane and John Doe’s vehicle. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 24 July 2024 | Rosebud Man Sentenced for Involuntary Manslaughter Jiles Whipple was drinking alcoholic beverages and smoking marijuana at his residence in Rosebud. He subsequently departed the residence in a vehicle that he knew had faulty brakes. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Pierre, South Dakota |
| 30 July 2024 | Eufaula Resident Sentenced For Involuntary Manslaughter According to investigators, on July 23, 2022, Kirby crashed his motorcycle while leaving the Fountainhead Marina Bar in Checotah, Oklahoma. Kirby’s passenger was thrown from the motorcycle and later died from injuries sustained in the crash. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 30 July 2024 | Johnston County Resident Sentenced For Manslaughter According to investigators, on December 8, 2022, Williams crashed his motorcycle into another motorcycle while both riders traveled northbound on State Highway 48A in Johnston County. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 1 August 2024 | Konawa Resident Sentenced For Involuntary Manslaughter In Indian Country Kristy Renee Zapata-Gutierrez pleaded guilty to causing the death of another while driving under the influence and in an unsafe manner. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 1 August 2024 | Latimer County Resident Pleads Guilty To Involuntary Manslaughter The Indictment alleged that on February 16, 2023, Holloway killed the victim while operating a motor vehicle under the influence of any intoxicating substance other than alcohol. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 28 August 2024 | Federal judge convicts Great Falls woman for 2021 crash on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation that resulted in serious bodily injury “Reckless driving often ends tragically, but driving recklessly while also consuming alcohol almost always guarantees someone will be severely injured, which is exactly what happened here.” U.S. Attorney Laslovich said. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Great Falls, Montana |
| 30 August 2024 | U.S. Attorney's Office Secures Sentence in Drunk Driving Case Involving Serious Injuries According to court documents, on December 1, 2021, Santa Ana Police officers received a report of hit and run involving a white pickup truck on US 550. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico Topic: United States Numbered Highways |
| 6 September 2024 | Wapato Man Indicted for Second-Degree Murder The indictment alleges that on September 9, 2023, Logie killed his victim on the Yakama Nation. The allegations stem from a car crash that occurred on that afternoon. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Yakima, Washington |
| 1 October 2024 | Allen Man Found Not Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter The charge related to Sharp allegedly operating a motor vehicle on May 15, 2022, near Pine Ridge while under the intoxicating influence of alcohol after which the vehicle crashed resulting in another male being killed. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Rapid City, South Dakota |
| 4 October 2024 | Rapid City Man Sentenced for Involuntary Manslaughter In May of 2023, Morrison, who was intoxicated, was driving a vehicle just north of Pine Ridge when he lost control of the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Rapid City, South Dakota |
| 22 October 2024 | Idabel Resident Sentenced For Involuntary Manslaughter The charges arose from an investigation by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 29 October 2024 | Pine Ridge Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Over Three Years for Involuntary Manslaughter One of the passengers, a 16-year-old female, was ejected from the vehicle and sustained fatal injuries. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Rapid City, South Dakota |
| 29 October 2024 | U.S. Attorney’s Office and FBI Announce Charges for Fatal DUI Crash on the Navajo Nation According to the indictment, Irvin Virgil Wauneka Jr. was operating a motor vehicle with a wanton and reckless disregard for human life, knowing that his conduct endangered the lives of others. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 31 October 2024 | U.S. Attorney's Office Announces Guilty Plea in Fatal Drunk Driving Case According to court documents, Brian Gonnie, of the Navajo Nation, was driving under the influence of alcohol on Highway 64 in Shiprock, New Mexico. Gonnie was traveling at approximately 86 mph in a 35-mph zone when he crossed into the oncoming lane and struck another vehicle head-on. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico Topic: United States Numbered Highways |
| 31 October 2024 | U.S. Attorney's Office Announces Guilty Plea in Fatal DUI Crash on Navajo Nation While driving on Highway 602 near Bread Springs, New Mexico, within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation reservation, Sheldon Carlton Daye struck and killed two motorists who were stopped on the side of the highway changing a tire. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 1 November 2024 | Fort Washakie man sentenced for murder in the second degree According to court documents, a group of five people, including Ezekiel Frank James Ute, were drinking alcohol and driving around the Wind River Indian Reservation when Ute began driving recklessly and saying he was going to intentionally wreck the car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Wyoming Byline: Lori Hogan |
| 20 November 2024 | Mexican National Who Killed Pedestrian in Drunken Crash Sentenced to 15 Years for Immigration Violations Guadalupe Gerardo Reyes-Gonzalez, a citizen of Mexico, was charged with illegal re-entry after removal from the United States shortly after his second DWI. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas Byline: Erin Dooley |
| 20 November 2024 | Walthill Woman Sentenced for Involuntary Manslaughter in Indian Country In February 2024, Dawnika Walker was driving a minivan on the Winnebago Indian Reservation in Nebraska when she struck and killed a 63-year-old male motorcyclist on US Highway 75. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska Byline: Lecia Wright Topic: United States Numbered Highways |
| 22 November 2024 | Activity in the U.S. Attorney's Office Mathew Crabtree of New Market, Alabama, was sentenced for driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and refusing to consent to a breath test. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Wyoming Byline: Lori Hogan |
| 17 December 2024 | Activity in the U.S. Attorney's Office Sandra Pappas of Arvada, Colorado, was convicted of driving under the influence and sentenced to pay a fine of $750 and placed on one year of unsupervised probation, the terms of which include a ban on her entering Yellowstone National Park during that time. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Wyoming Byline: Lori Hogan |
| 17 December 2024 | Heart Butte man admits manslaughter charge in fatal crash on Blackfeet Indian Reservation The government alleged in court documents that Chasen James Kipp was driving a 2022 Dodge Charger near the Cut Bank airport on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation when he crossed the center line of traffic and collided with a sedan. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Great Falls, Montana |
| 31 December 2024 | Menominee Man Indicted for Involuntary Manslaughter and Fleeing Resulting in Death after Vehicle Crash on Menominee Indian Reservation According to filed court documents, on or about September 20, 2024, while at a location on the Menominee Indian Reservation, Desmond L. Waukau, Jr. attempted to elude a marked police vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Wisconsin Byline: Kenneth Gales |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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| March 1986 | Automobile Insurance Fraud Pays...and Pays Well A multimillion dollar automobile insurance fraud scheme came to light in mid-1982 through an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Atlantic City. | Commentary ( PDF) Publication: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Byline: Mary Ellen Beekman |
| 26 February 2024 | New Orleans Woman Guilty of Staged Automobile Accident Conspiracy Shirley Harris and Antoine Clark made false police reports, filed fraudulent lawsuits, lied during deposition testimony, and sought unnecessary medical treatment to further their fraudulent claims. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 6 March 2024 | Columbia Man, Woman Sentenced in $1.1 Million Insurance Fraud Scheme Lawrence Courtney Lawhorn recruited friends, acquittances, family, and friends of friends to participate in the staged accidents. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Jefferson City, Missouri |
| 7 May 2024 | Five Count Indictment Unsealed Charging Local Pair with Conspiracy to Commit Murder of Federal Witness in Connection with the Staging of Automobile Collisions in the New Orleans Area According to the Indictment, Ryan J. Harris, Jovanna R. Gardner, Cornelius Garrison, and others participated in a scheme in which they intentionally caused staged automobile collisions with other vehicles in the New Orleans metropolitan area. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 3 June 2024 | New Jersey Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Leading One Of The Largest No-Fault Insurance Frauds In New York History New York and New Jersey No-Fault insurance laws require a driver’s automobile insurance company to pay automobile insurance claims automatically for certain types of motor vehicle accidents, provided that the claim is legitimate and below a particular monetary threshold. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
| 7 August 2024 | Fraud Ringleader and Former Fugitive William Mize Pleads Guilty in Federal Court These schemes greatly increase insurance premiums and costs for everyone, making it more expensive for ordinary Americans to own a car and to have reliable transportation for themselves and their families. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Spokane, Washington |
| 8 August 2024 | San Francisco Tow Company Operator Charged With Insurance Fraud And Money Laundering The indictment also alleges that, at the time of the offenses in 2019, Badillo owned and/or controlled at least two companies engaged in the business of towing vehicles: Jose’s Towing, LLC, and Auto Towing, LLC, both of which operated out of San Francisco. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California Dateline: San Francisco, California Topic: Jose Vicente Badillo |
| 17 October 2024 | Four Defendants Charged In Multi-Million Dollar No-Fault Insurance Fraud Scheme And Money Laundering Conspiracy Kenan Tariverdi, Nazim Tariverdi, and Dilshod Islamov devised a fraudulent scheme to take advantage of New York’s no fault insurance law, which enables the driver and passengers of a vehicle registered and insured in New York State to obtain benefits of up to $50,000 per person for injuries suffered in a car accident, regardless of fault. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
| 9 December 2024 | Ten Count Indictment Unsealed Charging Eight Individuals and Two Law Firms with Offenses in Connection with Staged Automobile Collisions in the New Orleans Area According to the superseding indictment, defendants Harris, Alfortish, Motta, Motta Law, Giles, The King Firm, Morgan, Parker, Stalbert, and Lawrence were members of a conspiracy that engaged in a fraud scheme, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, witness tampering through murder, and retaliation against a witness through murder. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 15 October 2024 file date | United States of America v. Kenan Tariverdi, Nazim Tariverdi, Dilshod Islamov, and Alvaro Geovanni Quijada-Lemus | Sealed Indictment ( PDF) 194KB · 14 pages Court: United States District Court, Southern District of New York |
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| August 1990 | Odometer Rollback Schemes With the expense associated with purchasing a new motor vehicle and the proliferation of leased and rental cars in recent years, odometer tampering has become a very lucrative criminal activity. | Commentary ( PDF) Publication: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Byline: James E. Scripture, Jr. |
| 18 March 2024 | Kansas car dealer indicted for rolling back odometers According to court documents, Adam Newbrey of Derby operated three used car dealerships in Wichita including Ideal Motors, Midwest Wholesale, and Prestige Motors. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Kansas Dateline: Wichita, Kansas Topic: Adam Newbrey |
| 26 April 2024 | Cascade Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Rolling Back Odometers Information from sentencing showed that from June 2012 through July 2021 Randolph Forrest conspired with others to roll back odometers on used cars to sell them for more money. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Iowa |
| 11 July 2024 | Harrisburg Man Sentenced To Prison For Odometer Tampering Just months after Earnest Fry was released from state prison for burglary and theft offenses in October 2018, and while he was on parole, he devised a scheme to purchase used cars, alter the cars’ true mileages by replacing or resetting their odometers, and then sell the vehicles online to unsuspecting customers who paid inflated prices for vehicles they might not otherwise have bought. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
| 9 September 2024 | Othello Man Indicted for Rolling Back and Replacing Odometers The indictment alleges that beginning in May of 2023, Garza carried out a scheme to acquire used cars with high mileage, tamper with or replace the odometers in the vehicles to make the cars mileage appear much lower, then advertise and sell the vehicles to unsuspecting buyers for an inflated price. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Spokane, Washington |
| 13 November 2024 | Two Maryland Men Charged With Conspiracy To Commit Odometer Tampering And Securities Fraud These buyers paid, in some instances, thousands of dollars more than they would have if they knew the true mileage of these vehicles. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Byline: Angelina Thompson Dateline: Baltimore, Maryland Topic: B-City Auto & Detailing |
| 13 December 2024 | Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Odometer Tampering Charges Drew Mitchell Schreiber, owner of Central Florida Automotive Group (now-named Southeastern Credit Union Solutions), in Winter Garden, Florida, purchased high-mileage used vehicles from wholesale automobile auctions throughout Florida. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Orlando, Florida Topics: Drew Mitchell Schreiber, Central Florida Automotive Group |
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| 5 November 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Drew Mitchell Schreiber | Plea Agreement ( PDF) 356KB · 22 pages Court: United States District Court, Middle District of Florida |
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| 1994 publication date | Vehicular Pursuits An Eight Year Study | Research Report ( PDF) 3.0MB · 52 pages Author: Timothy J. Krzeminski Publisher: City of Troy, Michigan |
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| May 1988 | Legal Issues of Pursuit Driving High-speed pursuit often poses a greater risk to innocent citizens than police use of a deadly weapon. | Commentary ( PDF) Publication: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Byline: Daniel L. Schofield, S.J.D. |
| 22 January 2024 | Okmulgee Resident Sentenced For Eluding Peace Officer According to investigators, Randall Primeaux led officers on a high-speed chase through Henryetta and onto Interstate 40. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 23 January 2024 | U.S. Attorney’s Office Concludes Investigation Into Fatal Police Pursuit of James Herndon No charges to be filed against u.s. park police officers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 24 January 2024 | Gun Possession and High-Speed Chase Results in Decade Long Prison Sentence A man who had domestic abuse convictions and was found on three occasions with different firearms in Cedar Rapids was sentenced January 23, 2024, to ten years in federal prison. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Iowa |
| 24 January 2024 | Independence Man Indicted for Illegal Firearm Following Police Chase According to an affidavit filed in support of the original criminal complaint, Yates was driving a stolen 2007 Ford F350 pick-up truck that had been used in the armed robberies of a Quik Trip and a Walgreen’s. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Kansas City, Missouri |
| 30 January 2024 | District Man Found Guilty of Armed Carjacking of Handyman’s Car, Which He Crashed During A Police Chase According to the government’s evidence, the victim pulled up to the 2800 block of Denver Street SE to make repairs inside a residential building. Gianni Saunders, armed with a handgun with an extended magazine, demanded the victim’s car keys. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 6 February 2024 | Statement of U.S. Attorney Alison Ramsdell on the Tragic Death of Moody County Chief Deputy Sheriff Ken Prorok “Chief Deputy Prorok was a devoted and proud family man. He was an enthusiastic role model and a pillar of his community.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Byline: Alison J. Ramsdell Dateline: Sioux Falls, South Dakota |
| 16 February 2024 | Lincoln Woman Pleads Guilty to High-Speed Flight from Immigration Checkpoint in Sherman Shania England took off when asked to pull over for a secondary inspection. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maine Byline: Alisa Ross Dateline: Bangor, Maine |
| 6 March 2024 | Driver Who Crashed During a Police Chase Gets 12 Year Prison Sentence Shaquille Taylor had initially complied with the stop and started to get out of his car, but then got back in the car and drove off at a high rate of speed. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 6 March 2024 | Woodbridge man sentenced for federal drug trafficking and firearm crimes after vehicle pursuit from a shooting While searching the vehicle from which Kamara had fled, police found two additional firearms, including one that was modified with a “Glock-switch” as a machinegun conversion device. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia Dateline: Alexandria, Virginia |
| 28 March 2024 | Jackson Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon While Firing at Officers During a High-Speed Pursuit According to court documents, on July 21, 2021, Jerry Shannon McAlister, 47, failed to yield when officers with the Clinton Police Department attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the vehicle he was driving. This led to a high-speed pursuit into the city of Jackson with McAlister firing shots at an officer during the pursuit. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi Dateline: Jackson, Mississippi |
| 2 April 2024 | St. Louis Man Caught with Gun and Drugs After Chase Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers initiated a traffic stop of a Hyundai Veloster near the intersection of Goodfellow Boulevard and Natural Bridge Avenue. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 5 April 2024 | Rapid City Man Sentenced to Probation The conviction stems from Howie resisting and impeding a park ranger. At the time, the ranger was trying to take Howie into custody after a high-speed pursuit through Wind Cave National Park. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Rapid City, South Dakota |
| 18 April 2024 | District Man Indicted on Murder and Assault Charges According to the government’s evidence, Benjamin Robertson fled a traffic stop striking and killing Bing Wong and injuring a minor victim. Robertson was located and arrested after investigation by the United States Park Police. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 30 April 2024 | Illinois Man Sentenced to 92 Months in Prison According to documents in the case, Martin Devalois led police on a 30-minute car chase throughout LaPorte County, at one time reaching 90 miles per hour while driving through the city of LaPorte. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Indiana Dateline: South Bend, Indiana |
| 2 May 2024 | Jury Finds District Man Guilty of Firearm Offenses, Fleeing Law Enforcement, Reckless Driving When MPD officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop, Frederick Powell fled at high speed, running red lights and stop signs, even though traffic was heavy and many pedestrians, enjoying the district’s night life, were around. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 14 May 2024 | Activity in the U.S. Attorney's Office Jared Trent Dozier was arrested by the Wyoming Highway Patrol after fleeing from a traffic stop on Interstate 25 in Converse County, Wyoming. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Wyoming Byline: Lori Hogan Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 3 June 2024 | Asheboro man arrested after high-speed chase through Randolph and Chatham Counties Adam Michael Clodfelter had no license plate and was recklessly switching lanes while reaching speeds of over 150 miles per hour. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of North Carolina Dateline: Greensboro, North Carolina |
| 12 June 2024 | Lincoln Woman Sentenced to 79 Days Served, Supervised Release for High-Speed Flight from Immigration Checkpoint Shania England took off when asked to pull over for a secondary inspection. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maine Byline: Alisa Ross Dateline: Bangor, Maine |
| 13 June 2024 | Kansas Man Sentenced for Illegal Firearm after Shooting at Officers During High Speed Pursuit Joplin police officers spotted Adam Everett Kastler, who had outstanding arrest warrants, inside a Chevrolet Tahoe that was pulled over in a traffic stop on 7th Street. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Springfield, Missouri |
| 21 June 2024 | Defendants Sentenced for Shooting at Hopi Police Officers During Car Chase Ryan Adelbert Johnson and Mike Duffy III were driving through the Hopi Indian Reservation when they ran a stop sign and nearly collided with a Hopi Law Enforcement Services police vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Phoenix, Arizona |
| 28 June 2024 | Cocoa Woman Charged With Offenses Related To Car Theft And High-Speed Chase On Patrick Space Force Base While on the base, Janosky obtained and used the motor vehicle of another individual, knowing she was not entitled to the use of the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Orlando, Florida |
| 28 June 2024 | Jacksonville Methamphetamine Dealer Pleads Guilty To Federal Charges After High-Speed Chase Detectives continued to pursue Sedrick Williams Jr. and observed his vehicle commit multiple traffic violations, including speeding, weaving in and out of traffic, and generally operating in a reckless manner. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Jacksonville, Florida |
| 28 June 2024 | Nashville Man Convicted by Federal Jury After Being Stopped With A Loaded Gun in His Car After Evading Barricades for Local Festival When officers stopped John Joseph Simmons II for driving around the barrier, they spotted a Taurus G3C 9mm handgun laying on the front passenger seat within reach of Simmons. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Wilmington, North Carolina |
| 8 July 2024 | Ten-Time Convicted Felon, Who Fled From Girlfriend’s Violent Death, Pleads Guilty To Possessing Firearm According to court records, Ayala was driving a vehicle on I-4 when his girlfriend, the sole passenger in the vehicle, was ejected from the car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Orlando, Florida Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 17 July 2024 | Austin Felon Indicted for Alleged Drug Trafficking and Firearm Possession After Ramming Police Cruiser According to court documents, Cliofa Delacruz, 34, is a four-time convicted felon who was arrested by Austin Police officers after allegedly ramming a law enforcement vehicle while evading. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: Austin, Texas |
| 18 July 2024 | Woman Who Threw over 13 Pounds of Methamphetamine From Car Sentenced to Over 22 Years in Federal Prison In 2023, Victoria Kay Oestereich was traffic stopped by police in Waterloo, Iowa, while returning from her drug supplier in Des Moines, Iowa. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Iowa |
| 1 August 2024 | Gas Station Robber Who Crashed Into Apartment Complex Sentenced Shortly after the second robbery, officers located Mr. Tipton’s blue four-door traveling eastbound. They attempted to conduct a traffic stop, but Mr. Tipton fled, leading officers on a high-speed chase before crashing into an apartment complex, where he was taken into custody. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas Byline: Erin Dooley |
| 14 August 2024 | Oklahoma Man Convicted of Illegal Firearms Possession after Fleeing from Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper The trooper spotted a sheathed knife in the passenger seat then asked Brown, the driver, to exit the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Oklahoma Dateline: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| 15 August 2024 | Drug Trafficker Involved in High-Speed Chase with Spokane Police Sentenced to Federal Prison An SPD unit responded and attempted to conduct a traffic stop. Instead of stopping, Carrillo-Nava sped off into a residential neighborhood, disregarding stop signs, and at times reaching speeds of 75 miles per hour in a 25-mile-per-hour zone. | Press Release (text & photos) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Spokane, Washington |
| 12 September 2024 | Robeson County Man Who Led Law Enforcement on Two Car Chases Sentenced for Armed Robbery When deputies from Scotland County Sheriff’s Office and Robeson County Sheriff’s Office attempted to apprehend Strickland, he led them on a dangerous car chase, at times through residential areas, while weaving through traffic, swerving across the lane divider, driving with his foot on the dashboard and out of the driver’s side window, and drinking a beer. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of North Carolina Dateline: Greensboro, North Carolina |
| 19 September 2024 | St. Paul Man Sentenced to Prison for Illegal Possession of a Machine Gun; Crashed Stolen Vehicle Through a Restaurant During Police Chase Witnesses reported hearing automatic gunfire coming from a black Jeep that was apparently chasing another Jeep. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: St. Paul, Minnesota |
| 1 October 2024 | Knoxville Man Sentenced To 380 Months For Drug And Firearm Offenses After Assaulting Officer And Crashing Van In Attempt To Flee During the search, Harris ran to the driver’s side door, got in, and sped onto Clinton Highway, with a KPD officer inside. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Tennessee Byline: Rachelle Barnes Dateline: Knoxville, Tennessee |
| 2 October 2024 | Jacksonville Armed Drug Trafficker Sentenced To More Than 8 Years In Federal Prison After High-Speed Chase When detectives activated their emergency equipment to conduct a traffic stop, Williams led JSO on a high-speed chase that continued along multiple streets. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Jacksonville, Florida |
| 2 October 2024 | St. Louis Man Admits Being Caught with Guns and Drugs After Fleeing Police When officers tried to stop the Charger, McCoy drove away, rolling over spike strips that had been placed in front of the car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 4 October 2024 | Armed Fayetteville Drug Trafficker Who Led Law Enforcement on Dangerous High-Speed Chase Sentenced to Over 27 Years On May 31, 2022, officers with the Fayetteville Police Department attempted to initiate a traffic stop on a vehicle operated by Frink for an expired license plate tag. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: New Bern, North Carolina |
| 28 October 2024 | Jackson Man Pleads Guilty to Illegal Possession of a Machinegun after High Speed Chase and Collision with a Train Car The chase ended after Johnny Ragsdale collided with a train car on Mill Street. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi Dateline: Jackson, Mississippi |
| 28 October 2024 | Winston-Salem Man Involved in Two Car Chases Sentenced During the chase, pursuing officers saw Amari Jaquez Hairston, who was a passenger in the back seat, throw drugs and guns from the left rear passenger window. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of North Carolina Dateline: Greensboro, North Carolina |
| 7 November 2024 | Illegal Alien Sentenced To 12 Months’ Imprisonment For Fleeing Police Mugabe Baker’s vehicle reached speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour and he nearly missed hitting two pedestrians while traveling through villages in New Jersey and New York. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Scranton, Pennsylvania |
| 7 November 2024 | South L.A. Man Sentenced to More Than 9 Years in Federal Prison for Robbery Spree that Ended in High-Speed Crash and Freeway Foot Pursuit They fled in a stolen gray Dodge Charger with a stolen license plate and attempted to evade officers during a traffic stop. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Los Angeles, California |
| 12 November 2024 | Dover Man Who Went On Criminal Rampage Before Opening Fire On Lakeland Police Officers And ATF Agents During Highspeed Chase Sentenced To Federal Prison During the 11-mile chase, Francisco Cabrera traveled at speeds of more than 100 miles per hour, nearly crashed into a truck, drove through red lights and into oncoming traffic causing other vehicles to take evasive actions, and nearly missed hitting other vehicles. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 13 November 2024 | Driver In High-Speed Chase Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Transporting Two Kilograms Of Fentanyl Pills And A Loaded Firearm An ensuing pursuit, lasting over approximately 14 miles, involved multiple car accidents, driving on the shoulder and into oncoming traffic, running red lights, and endangering traffic. | Press Release (text & photos) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Orlando, Florida |
| 13 November 2024 | Durham Man Who Fled from Law Enforcement Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison Around 11:00 p.m. that night, Mario Deandre Taylor, who had already eluded capture twice that day, led deputies on a high-speed chase through residential and business areas in Durham, driving at high rates of speed, running through stop signs and stop lights, side-swiping a truck, and nearly hitting a city bus. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of North Carolina Dateline: Greensboro, North Carolina |
| 14 November 2024 | Canadian National Convicted by Jury for Drug and Gun Charges after Interstate Pursuit Instead of slowing, the Tahoe accelerated, resulting in a 30-minute pursuit over three counties for approximately 50 miles, at sustained speeds of over 100 mph. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska Byline: Lecia Wright Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 18 November 2024 | Drug Trafficker with Gun Sentenced to 20 Years After Leading State Troopers on High-Speed Chase Shoun Lamelle Wright Jr. initially pulled over and then fled as the trooper approached his vehicle, driving up to 135 miles per hour. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 10 December 2024 | Mississippi man sentenced to 15 years for ammunition offense involving shooting of MHP Trooper Stanley Self Jr. fled from the Trooper, leading him on a high speed chase through Bolivar County in which speeds topped in excess of 120 miles per hour. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Mississippi Dateline: Aberdeen, Mississippi |
| 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 |
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| 25 January 2024 | Maryland Man Found Guilty of Assault with Intent to Kill While Armed and Other Charges for Road Rage Shooting Defendant shot at woman driving her two young children during rush hour before turning and shooting at a bystander. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 22 March 2024 | Convicted Felon In Brandon Road Rage Shooting Sentenced To Eight Years In Federal Prison James Eugene Smith believed that a driver in a black sedan was brake checking (applying brakes and causing the following vehicle to slow down) him, while a separate driver prevented Smith from passing. | Press Release (text & photos) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
| 17 June 2024 | Road Rage Shooter Sentenced to More Than 32 Years in Prison According to the government’s evidence, the defendant was driving his Maserati GranTurismo in heavy rush-hour traffic at the intersection of Kenilworth Avenue NE and Eastern Avenue NE when he suddenly got out of his car with a handgun. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 11 July 2024 | Jury Finds Maryland Man Guilty for Pointing Gun at the Head of a Delivery Driver According to the evidence and testimony presented at trial, on March 30, 2022, the victim was delivering an UberEATS order when he attempted to shift into the left lane but noticed a white Mercedes blocking his attempts to get over. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 31 July 2024 | Florida Man Sentenced to Federal Prison Hulsmann found himself lost and near Pine Ridge, South Dakota, significantly off route from his destination. Rather than pulling over and orienting himself with the area, Hulsmann flew into a rage and drove approximately 80 MPH in a 45 MPH zone when he struck a motorcyclist. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Rapid City, South Dakota |
| 4 October 2024 | McLaughlin Man Sentenced for Voluntary Manslaughter Guggolz pulled up next to the man and confronted him about his driving, mocking and belittling him. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Aberdeen, South Dakota |
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| November 1981 | The Motor Vehicle Exception to the Search Warrant Requirement (Part I) The fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “unreasobable searches and seizures.” | Commentary (text) Publication: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Byline: John C. Hall |
| October 1989 | Traffic Stops: Police Powers Under The Fourth Amendment Traffic stops take place thousands of times each day in the United States. Such stops frequently lead to the discovery of criminal conduct considerably more serious than traffic violations. | Commentary ( PDF) Publication: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Byline: John Gales Sauls |
| April 2000 | Proving Guilty Knowledge: Caught Red-Handed or Empty Headed? State and federal statutes prohibiting the possession of contraband, such as illegal drugs, require the government to prove that the possessor knowingly possessed the contraband. | Commentary ( PDF) Publisher: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Byline: Edward M. Hendrie, J.D. |
| 15 August 2024 | Former Centre Police Officer Charged in Connection with Drug-Planting Scheme Kilgore and his co-conspirator then arranged for a package containing methamphetamine, oxycodone, and marijuana to be attached to the undercarriage of a certain vehicle. On January 31, 2023, Kilgore performed a sham traffic stop of that vehicle and “discovered” the drug package where he knew it had been planted. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Alabama Dateline: Birmingham, Alabama |
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| 8 February 2024 | Request for Information Concerning the Study of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the Commercial Motor Vehicle Industry FMCSA seeks information on how best to design and conduct a study to identify, categorize, and assess context and trends of SASH in the CMV industry. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 28 March 2024 | Inland Empire Man Who Was Employed as School Bus Driver Charged with Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material According to an affidavit filed Tuesday with a criminal complaint, law enforcement officials on March 7 executed a search warrant at Seaver’s residence. During the search, law enforcement seized a Samsung Tablet that allegedly contained more than 10,000 images and 13 videos of CSAM. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Dateline: Riverside, California Topic: Donal James Seaver |
| 5 April 2024 | Former El Paso Independent School District Employee Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison According to publicly available court records, Jane Doe was waiting at a bus stop in El Paso, Texas when Jeffrey Steven Clay offered her a ride to her friend’s house. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 3 May 2024 | Former School Bus Driver Indicted on Child Pornography Charges The indictment accuses Robert W. Stillwell of recording his sexual abuse of two minor victims between Deceember 2020 and January 2024. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topic: Robert W. Stillwell |
| 23 May 2024 | Former Rochester bus driver pleads guilty to child pornography charge Tomas Rosario’s actions were recorded on the bus surveillance system. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of New York Byline: Barbara Burns Dateline: Rochester, New York Topic: Tomas Rosario |
| 5 September 2024 | Motocross Coach Sentenced for Child Exploitation Crimes “This coach violated his position of trust and profound responsibility to protect and mentor those in his care,” said Homeland Security Investigations Nashville Special Agent in Charge Rana Saoud. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia Dateline: Atlanta, Georgia Topic: Ryan Meyung |
| 12 November 2024 | Former Missouri State Trooper Charged with Civil Rights Crimes David McKnight took their phones under the auspices of confirming that they had insurance coverage or verifying their identification, it says. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: Cape Girardeau, Missouri |
| 14 November 2024 | Former Florissant Police Officer Accused of Searching 20 Women’s Phones Julian Alcala took possession of their cell phones under the auspices of confirming their insurance coverage or vehicle registration, searched the phones for nude pictures and then took photos of the pictures with his personal cell phone, the indictment alleges. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 11 December 2024 | U.S. Attorney's Office Announces Guilty Plea in Interstate Transportation Case Involving Illegal Sexual Activity Officers located the caller and two other individuals at a gas station in Laguna, New Mexico. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
Shootings See also Carjacking
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| 3 June 2022 | Steven Carrillo Sentenced to 41 Years in Prison for Murder and Attempted Murder for Role in Drive-By Shooting at Federal Courthouse in Oakland Defendant faces separate state charges in Santa Cruz County for Ben Lomond shooting. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California Dateline: San Francisco, California |
| 25 January 2024 | Maryland Man Found Guilty of Assault with Intent to Kill While Armed and Other Charges for Road Rage Shooting Defendant shot at woman driving her two young children during rush hour before turning and shooting at a bystander. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 5 March 2024 | Waterbury Gang Member Admits Role in 2018 Drive-By Shooting that Killed Innocent Bystander, Paralyzed Second D’Andre Burrus was in one of two cars 960 members used when the victims were shot. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 18 March 2024 | Final Defendant in 2020 Drive-by-Shooting of Court Security Officers Sentenced to Life in Prison Defendant joined anti-government extremist movement before driving the van from which gunshots were fired killing one federal officer and wounding another. | Press Release (text & image) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice |
| 22 March 2024 | Convicted Felon In Brandon Road Rage Shooting Sentenced To Eight Years In Federal Prison James Eugene Smith believed that a driver in a black sedan was brake checking (applying brakes and causing the following vehicle to slow down) him, while a separate driver prevented Smith from passing. | Press Release (text & photos) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
| 26 March 2024 | Final of Four Teens Pleads Guilty to Charge in St. Louis County Cab Driver’s Murder The four planned to take the taxi to a fake address near Allen’s home, then run away without paying the fare. After learning that they would have to prepay for the ride, the teens began discussing plans to rob Price. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topic: Dewight Price |
| 29 March 2024 | District Men Plead Guilty to Shooting Father and Minor Son in December 2018 As the victims waited, Jamal Matthews saw the SUV and mistook it for the same vehicle that shot at him and his cousin three days earlier. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 3 April 2024 | Texas Man Sentenced for Hate Crimes Following Mass Shooting Targeting Muslims at Car Repair Shop Anthony Paz Torres pleaded guilty to five federal hate crime counts for killing one individual and attempting to kill four others during a mass shooting at Omar’s Wheels and Tires in Dallas on Dec. 24, 2015. | Press Release (text) Publisher: Department of Justice Topic: Omar’s Wheels and Tires |
| 8 April 2024 | Case of Drive-By Murder on I-295 in 2015 Ends with Murder Conviction Defendant shot at vehicle striking two men on their way to work, killing one. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 17 April 2024 | Man Involved in Fatal Robbery of St. Louis County Cab Driver Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison They planned to take the taxi to a fake address near Allen’s home, then run away without paying. After learning that they would have to prepay for the ride, the teens began discussing plans to rob Dewight Price. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topic: Dewight Price |
| 6 May 2024 | Jury Returns Guilty Verdicts Against District Man Who Threatened to Shoot People at an Auto Repair Shop Later in the day, the shop owner called the defendant’s mother to tell her that the car would not be ready until the next day, after they obtained a needed part. A short time later, Williams went to the auto shop and threatened to “shoot up” the entire establishment. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 16 May 2024 | St. Louis County Cab Driver’s Shooter Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison They planned to take the taxi to a fake address near Allen’s home, then run away without paying. After learning that they would have to prepay, they began discussing plans to rob Price. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topic: Dewight Price |
| 20 May 2024 | Tahlequah Resident Sentenced For Involuntary Manslaughter And Federal Firearm Crime According to investigators Kiah John Pritchett gave the victim a ride in his vehicle. An altercation broke out between Pritchett and his passenger along the route. During the altercation, Pritchett unlawfully shot and killed the victim. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 13 June 2024 | Kansas Man Sentenced for Illegal Firearm after Shooting at Officers During High Speed Pursuit Joplin police officers spotted Adam Everett Kastler, who had outstanding arrest warrants, inside a Chevrolet Tahoe that was pulled over in a traffic stop on 7th Street. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Springfield, Missouri |
| 14 June 2024 | Court Gives 45 Year Prison Term for Murder at a Bus Stop in Southeast According to the government’s evidence presented at trial, 30-year-old Christopher Washington was waiting at the bus stop on Southern Avenue SE when Terrell Poe pulled up in a stolen white pickup truck. Poe got out of the truck, armed with an assault rifle, and shot Mr. Washington to death. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 14 June 2024 | Fayetteville Man Involved in Drive-By Shooting Sentenced in Federal Court Daron Owens conducted a drive-by shooting into a vehicle on Bragg Boulevard in Fayetteville. Evidence revealed seven bullet holes in the passenger side of the vehicle, and the victim sustained three gunshot wounds. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 17 June 2024 | Road Rage Shooter Sentenced to More Than 32 Years in Prison According to the government’s evidence, the defendant was driving his Maserati GranTurismo in heavy rush-hour traffic at the intersection of Kenilworth Avenue NE and Eastern Avenue NE when he suddenly got out of his car with a handgun. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 21 June 2024 | Defendants Sentenced for Shooting at Hopi Police Officers During Car Chase Ryan Adelbert Johnson and Mike Duffy III were driving through the Hopi Indian Reservation when they ran a stop sign and nearly collided with a Hopi Law Enforcement Services police vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Phoenix, Arizona |
| 9 July 2024 | Man Involved in St. Louis Gas Station Shooting Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison The police investigation revealed the victim of the shooting had exchanged words with a man and was advised by the man to leave the gas station parking lot. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topic: Shell |
| 11 July 2024 | East Helena man admits firing gun during Townsend gas station robbery Two employees were present during the robbery and told law enforcement that a man entered wearing a hooded blanket coat, was not wearing pants or shoes, and fired a round from a pistol. | Press Release (text & photo) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Great Falls, Montana Topic: Town Pump |
| 12 July 2024 | I-295 Drive-By Murder Defendant Gets More Than 35 Years in Prison Defendant responsible for fatally shooting one man and injuring another on their way to work. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 12 July 2024 | Sentence Handed Down for Murder of Maryland Man Left in Car for Three Days The police did not locate Mr. Nicol until three days later when they were investigating an anonymous tip and discovered Mr. Nicol’s body in the in the driver’s seat of a car parked on Savannah Place S.E. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 17 July 2024 | Convicted Felon Accused of Committing a Drive-By Shooting in Salt Lake County is Facing Federal Charges Detectives attempted to stop Cody Charles Burningham, but he fled, driving through residential areas at a high rate of speed. After detectives were able to spike the tires of the vehicle, he took off on foot. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Byline: Felicia Martinez Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 19 July 2024 | Nashville Man Charged with Unlawful Possession of Ammunition Following Shooting at WEGO Bus Station Shortly after hearing the gunshots, the officer saw a man, later identified as Kenneth Dewayne Johnson, holding a pistol and running away from the area. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Tennessee Byline: Mark H. Wildasin Dateline: Nashville, Tennessee |
| 22 July 2024 | Assault with a Deadly Weapon in Indian Country leads to 40-Month Sentence in Federal Prison for Stephens County Man According to public record, in March 2023, Roden was involved in an argument with another individual over an alleged debt that was owed. When the victim attempted to drive away, Roden shot at the victim’s vehicle several times, striking the driver’s side of the car once. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Oklahoma Dateline: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| 22 July 2024 | Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for St. Louis County Cab Driver’s Fatal Robbery The four planned to take the taxi to a fake address near Jeremiah Allen’s home, then run away without paying. After learning that they would have to prepay for the ride, they began discussing plans to rob Dewight Price. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 24 July 2024 | Federal Grand Jury Returns Indictment in Connection with Shooting at Gas Station Near Walmart in Monroe Tristan Barber of Monroe, Louisiana, has been indicted and charged with two counts of possession of firearms by a convicted felon, and two counts of illegal possession of a machine gun. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Louisiana Dateline: Monroe, Louisiana |
| 29 July 2024 | Member of Tulalip Tribes pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter, and using a firearm in a crime of violence, for fatal shooting in garage on tribal land According to the plea agreement, the victim, Zahir and others were in the detached garage, when Zahir’s cousin complained about the noise the victim was making. The victim and the cousin were arguing and as the victim walked towards Zahir’s cousin, Zahir pulled out a gun and fired three shots killing the victim. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Dateline: Seattle, Washington |
| 21 August 2024 | Federal Charges Filed In St. Johns Drive-By Shooting On I-95 The charges stem from their alleged roles in a shooting that occurred along I-95 in St. Johns, Florida, on October 17, 2023. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Jacksonville, Florida Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 29 August 2024 | Former MPD Sergeant Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison for Fatally Shooting a D.C. Motorist Enis Jevric, 42, a former Sergeant with the Metropolitan Police Department, was sentenced today in federal court to 60 months in prison for the August 2021 shooting death of 27-year-old An’Twan Gilmore. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 10 September 2024 | Two Nashville Men Convicted of Federal Ammunition Charges Following Shooting at Car Wash The evidence presented at trial showed that on March 18, 2021, defendant Corey Pickett was at the Camel Carwash on Doverside Drive near Dickerson Pike with two other men. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Tennessee Byline: Mark H. Wildasin Dateline: Nashville, Tennessee Topic: Camel Express Car Wash |
| 2 October 2024 | Guilty Plea Entered in Connection with March 2024 Shooting in NW DC According to the government’s evidence, at around 5 p.m. on March 25, 2024, Suggs fired multiple gunshots at the victim as the victim fled in his vehicle in an alley near the 3700 block of 10th Street Northwest in Washington, D.C. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 2 October 2024 | Two defendants await sentencing after pleading guilty in shooting, armed carjacking during drug deal The defendants then stole M.M.’s vehicle and fled, leaving behind a pickup that had been rented by Williams. Port Wentworth police recovered Williams’ personally owned car with the bag and drugs in it after a brief car chase from which Williams escaped. | Press Release (text & photo) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Georgia Byline: Barry L. Paschal Dateline: Savannah, Georgia |
| 4 October 2024 | McLaughlin Man Sentenced for Voluntary Manslaughter Guggolz pulled up next to the man and confronted him about his driving, mocking and belittling him. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Aberdeen, South Dakota |
| 31 October 2024 | U.S. Attorney's Office Announces Guilty Plea in Shiprock Assault Case According to the plea agreement, Larence Cambridge, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, flashed a firearm at the occupants of a vehicle before repeatedly shooting at it. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico Topic: United States Numbered Highways |
| 7 November 2024 | U.S. Attorney’s Office Concludes Investigation Into Fatal Police Shooting of Dalaneo Martin No charges to be filed against United States Park Police officer. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 10 November 2024 | Two Winner Men Sentenced to Federal Prison, One for 10 Years and Another for Five Years, for Their Roles in a Drive By Shooting As they passed the residence in their vehicle, Arthur Black Bull fired multiple rounds at the residence with a 9mm pistol, striking the outside of the residence. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Pierre, South Dakota |
| 21 November 2024 | Jacksonville Man Pleads Guilty For Role In Drive-By Shooting On I-95 In St. Johns County According to court documents, between October 2022 and July 2024, James Toney served as an armed distributor for a Jacksonville-based drug trafficking organization operated and led by Toney’s brother, Nathaniel Hatcher, III. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Jacksonville, Florida |
| 19 December 2024 | Bronx Gang Member Charged With Murdering 18-Year-Old Jayquan McKenley In Drive-By Shooting On February 6, 2022, Paul Johnson and others murdered Jayquan McKenley in a drive-by shooting in Brooklyn, New York. Jayquan McKenley was 18 years old. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
| 19 December 2024 | Lansing Man, Prosecuted Under Safe Summer Program, Sentenced To 27 Months In Prison After callers reported hearing numerous gunshots from a car driving by, Lansing police responded and found Mychal Marcell Borney in the passenger seat of a car in the area. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Michigan Dateline: Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| 20 December 2024 | Felon Who Shot at FBI Task Force Officer During a Car Theft Sentenced to Prison According to U.S. Attorney Buchanan, the charges and other information presented in court: Keith Pharms, eight days after his release from a state prison in Georgia, used his mother’s car, a Chevrolet SS, to steal a Dodge Charger from a garage in a midtown Atlanta complex. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia Dateline: Atlanta, Georgia |
| 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. |
| 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 |
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| 30 October 2024 filing date | United States of America vs. Larence Cambridge | Plea Agreement ( PDF) 436LB · 11 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Mexico Topic: United States Numbered Highways |
| 18 December 2024 file date | United States of America v. Paul Johnson | Sealed Indictment ( PDF) 164KB · 8 pages Court: United States District Court, Southern District of New York |
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| 22 May 2023 | Two Indicted for Narcotics Offenses Involving 20 Kilograms of Cocaine According to court documents, Hernandez and Lira-Mendez were arrested after a traffic stop in Littleton resulted in the seizure of 20 kilograms of cocaine from a duffle bag on the back seat of their car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1 November 2023 | Car battery conspiracy: three men convicted of cocaine trafficking Upon inspection, authorities discovered approximately 2.8 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside the battery compartment. The battery shell contained a smaller battery to power the vehicle and three bundles of cocaine. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 23 January 2024 | Federal Charges Filed After Traffic Stop Yields More Than 200 Pounds of Methamphetamine After briefly failing to yield to the investigators’ attempts to initiate a traffic stop, Juan Manuel Berrelleza Leyva, the vehicle’s driver and sole occupant, pulled over. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Oregon Dateline: Portland, Oregon |
| 30 January 2024 | Mexican National Charged with Smuggling Firearms into Mexico from the United States David Fehr Wiebe stated that he had just departed the same point of entry but had turned around when he was denied entry into Mexico because he lacked the proper documentation to export a vehicle which he was towing. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 6 February 2024 | Final man sent to prison in cocaine car battery conspiracy Upon inspection, authorities discovered approximately 2.8 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside the battery compartment. The battery shell contained a smaller battery to power the vehicle and three bundles of cocaine. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 8 February 2024 | San Francisco Man Sentenced to Five Years for Transporting Drugs Jose Alfredo Ek-Poot, along with Esteban Dejesus Huerta Rocha and Ricardo Jiminez-Noveno, were traveling east on Interstate 80 near Grand Island when they were stopped by a trooper with the Nebraska State Patrol for driving at 87 mph in a 75-mph zone. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska Byline: Matthew R. Molsen Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 14 February 2024 | Out of state man imprisoned for organizing meth shipment via local POE Co-conspirators Jasmine Dorsey, 28, and Iyana Carter, 25, both of Newnan, Georgia, attempted to enter the United States with 35 baggies of meth totaling 17 kilograms concealed in the fuel tank of their vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: McAllen, Texas |
| 14 February 2024 | Transporting $800,000 of liquid meth sends trafficker to prison for over two decades Manuel Ignacio Ley Villa approached the Hidalgo port of entry driving a maroon Chrysler Pacifica. Law enforcement noticed he appeared nervous and referred him to secondary inspection. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: McAllen, Texas |
| 21 February 2024 | California Man Sentenced to More than 11 Years in Prison on Drug Trafficking Charges The drugs were hidden in a sophisticated trap car, wrapped in 20 individual packages, each containing approximately one-pound quantities of crystal methamphetamine. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Richland, Washington |
| 26 February 2024 | Arizona Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Transporting Methamphetamine Stopped by Floyd County Sheriff Deputies for driving 33 miles per hour over speed limit. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Iowa |
| 27 February 2024 | Massachusetts Drug Courier Sentenced for Transporting Cocaine Troopers searched the vehicle and located approximately 100 bricks of cocaine with each brick weighing approximately one kilogram. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska Byline: Lecia Wright |
| 1 March 2024 | Iowa Man Sentenced for Firearm Smuggling According to court documents, Customs and Border Protection Officers at the Presidio Port of Entry referred a Ford 450 travelling towards Mexico, to secondary inspection. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: Pecos, Texas |
| 5 March 2024 | Nine buckets of narcotics: trafficker admits to importing $340,000 of liquid meth in fuel tank While inspecting the vehicle, authorities noticed Allan Alberto Moreno Trevino pacing and appearing nervous, eventually asking them if something had been found. Authorities eventually discovered the fuel tank was filled with liquid meth mixed with gasoline. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Laredo, Texas |
| 6 March 2024 | Traffic Stop in Calcasieu Parish Leads to Discovery of Cocaine in Vehicle The charges stem from a traffic stop conducted on Interstate 10 in Calcasieu Parish on September 8, 2022, by Louisiana State Police troopers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Louisiana Dateline: Lake Charles, Louisiana Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 8 March 2024 | Richland Drug Trafficker Who Transported Drugs in Sophisticated “Trap Car” Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison Angela Madrigal Chavez even had to use tools to open the trap, which contained 20 individual packages, each containing approximately one-pound quantities of crystal methamphetamine. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Richland, Washington |
| 15 March 2024 | Two Minneapolis Men Sentenced for Trafficking Narcotics Between California and Minnesota Law enforcement intercepted Savontray Orlando Dwayne Collins and Cortez Ananias Williams on I-35 near the Minnesota-Iowa border with 4.4 kilograms of “M30” fentanyl pills and nearly one kilogram of cocaine. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: St. Paul, Minnesota Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 27 March 2024 | Mexican resident convicted of trying to smuggle ammunition and firearms back to Mexico On January 11, Jose De Jesus Pena Dieguez attempted to enter Mexico through the Progreso Port of Entry in a Nissan Xterra. Upon inspection, authorities noticed tampering on the screws of a compartment connected to the vehicle's roof rack. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: McAllen, Texas |
| 2 April 2024 | Bus passenger convicted for smuggling over $1.2M of pure meth in 48 jars of lard On January 10, Eleazar Vilchiz Alonso applied for entry into the United States at the Lincoln-Juarez Bridge in Laredo while on board a commercial bus. At primary inspection, law enforcement discovered several dozen jars of lard in his luggage. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Laredo, Texas |
| 2 April 2024 | Mexican National Sentenced to 20 Years After Officers Seize 144 Pounds of Meth Hidden in Car Tires Because the tires seemed extremely heavy, detectives cut one open and found a metal compartment attached to the inside of the wheel. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Kansas City, Missouri |
| 3 April 2024 | Georgia Man Sentenced to 180 Months in Prison According to documents in the case, on August 3, 2021, Scott was pulled over for speeding on Interstate 469. Scott, a drug courier who transported and delivered controlled substances across the United States, was found in possession of cocaine and cocaine base along with 12.4 grams of 98% pure methamphetamine. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Indiana Dateline: Fort Wayne, Indiana Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 25 April 2024 | Texas woman heads to prison for trying to smuggle over 3,500 rounds of ammunition into Mexico Authorities then conducted a traffic stop which resulted the discovery of ammunition hidden in the vehicle’s spare tire. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: McAllen, Texas |
| 26 April 2024 | Former Mexican judicial officer convicted for hiring drivers to transport drug loads The truck’s 6-cylinder engine had modifications to appear as an 8-cylinder to keep the drugs hidden within those areas. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Brownsville, Texas |
| 29 April 2024 | Raleigh Man Sentenced to 40 Years for Leadership Role in Cross-Country Drug Conspiracy Law enforcement in Texas stopped one of these couriers traveling eastbound from California and seized 400 pounds of marijuana and three kilograms of cocaine from a hidden compartment in the back of the truck that had been constructed to look like a large stack of lumber. | Press Release (text & photos) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina Topic: Ford F-350 |
| 30 April 2024 | Illinois Woman Sentenced for Transporting Drugs A Nebraska State Patrol trooper saw two nearly identical black Mercedes SUVs with Illinois plates traveling eastbound on I-80 in Seward County. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska Byline: Lecia Wright Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 1 May 2024 | Mexican National Pleads Guilty to Cocaine Conspiracy After Officers Seize $1 Million Worth of Cocaine in I-70 Traffic Stop A Toyota Highlander, later determined to be occupied by Luis Gerardo Nieto-Acosta and Jose Eduardo Acosta-Bermejo, attempted to prevent the officer from getting behind the Penske truck to initiate a stop. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Kansas City, Missouri Topics: Penske Truck Rental, Interstate Highway System |
| 8 May 2024 | Mexican Man Convicted of Transporting 20 Kilograms of Cocaine Into Massachusetts for Drug Cartel Defendant drove more than 30 hours from Texas to distribute the narcotics. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 9 May 2024 | Buffalo man charged with drug distribution following traffic stop Marlon G. Holt, Jr. provided inconsistent and untruthful answers to the deputy’s questions...law enforcement knew that the time frame could not be correct, since Holt’s rental vehicle was recorded in Myrtle Springs, Texas on May 5, 2024, by a license plate reader. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of New York Byline: Barbara Burns Dateline: Buffalo, New York |
| 16 May 2024 | Mexico Resident Arrested on Complaint Alleging She Drove Car Containing More Than 90 Pounds of Fentanyl Pills Stored in It According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, Border Patrol agents on May 14 were conducting vehicle stops along I-10 in the Indio area. Agents stopped a 2015 black Chevrolet Malibu in Indio. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Riverside, California Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 17 May 2024 | Drug Trafficker Who Used College-Age Drivers to Import Methamphetamine Sentenced to 12 Years Fernando Castro Bazan, a Los Angeles-based drug trafficker, was sentenced in federal court today to 12 years in prison for his leadership role in a drug trafficking organization that employed drivers as young as 18 years old to import large quantities of methamphetamine into the United States from Mexico in the gas tanks of rental cars. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of California Byline: Kelly Thornton Dateline: San Diego, California |
| 11 June 2024 | Guadalajara resident heads to prison for trying to smuggle dozens of firearms and ammunition back to Mexico Jose De Jesus Pena Dieguez attempted to enter Mexico through the Progreso Port of Entry in a Nissan Xterra. Upon inspection, authorities noticed tampering on the screws of a compartment connected to the vehicle's roof rack. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: McAllen, Texas |
| 12 June 2024 | Customs and Border Protection Officer Convicted by Federal Jury of Receiving Bribes, Allowing Drug-Laden Vehicles to Enter the U.S. On the same day he received his bribe payment, George purchased a 2020 Cadillac CT5 for an associate of the drug trafficking organization as a gift. George delivered the Cadillac CT5 to the associate in Ensenada on Valentine’s Day. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of California Byline: Kelly Thornton Dateline: San Diego, California |
| 26 June 2024 | Bay St. Louis Man Sentenced to Nearly Five Years in Prison for Interstate Travel in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking Agents observed a red Toyota Camry arrive at the hotel to pick up two of the individuals suspected of selling drugs. Agents followed the vehicle across state lines and observed the occupants of the vehicle participate in what appeared to be a drug transaction in Louisiana. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi Dateline: Gulfport, Mississippi |
| 18 July 2024 | Woman Who Threw over 13 Pounds of Methamphetamine From Car Sentenced to Over 22 Years in Federal Prison In 2023, Victoria Kay Oestereich was traffic stopped by police in Waterloo, Iowa, while returning from her drug supplier in Des Moines, Iowa. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Iowa |
| 22 July 2024 | Four People Sentenced to Serve 25 Years in Federal Prison Collectively after More Than 120 Pounds of Methamphetamine is Recovered from Vehicle According to public record, on February 5, 2023, members of the Oklahoma City Police Department’s Criminal Oklahoma Interdiction of Central Oklahoma unit stopped two vehicles, both registered out of state and traveling together in a suspicious manner, and located approximately 123 pounds of methamphetamine in one of the vehicles. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Oklahoma Dateline: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| 29 July 2024 | Missouri Man Admits Being Caught on Interstate 44 with Nearly 3 Pounds of Meth A Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy pulled over a dark blue Pontiac Trans Am for improperly passing a tractor-trailer. The Trans Am also bore a license plate that was “not on file.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 13 August 2024 | Commercial Trucker Who Transported Narcotics from Texas to Ohio Pleads Guilty The defendant consented to a search of the vehicle. Three black duffle bags containing 20 blue-taped packages were found during the search. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Ohio Dateline: Youngstown, Ohio Topic: Javier Eduardo Gutierrez-Quintana |
| 13 August 2024 | Methamphetamine Found in Car Leads to Federal Conviction of Shreveport Man On or about May 15, 2023, near Southern Avenue in Shreveport, a Louisiana State Police trooper conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle for having a switched license plate. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Louisiana Dateline: Shreveport, Louisiana |
| 20 August 2024 | 92K Rounds of Ammo Found During Bridge of the Americas Bus Inspection, Drivers Arrested on Smuggling of Goods Charges Garcia told the Customs and Border Protection officer that he was carrying 16 passengers with some children from Phoenix, Arizona to Zacatecas, Mexico and there were no firearms on board. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: El Paso, Texas Topic: Lucio Enriquez Garcia |
| 22 August 2024 | New York Man Sentenced To Seven Years For Interstate Travel In Aid Of Drug Trafficking And Violating His Supervised Release Approximately five months after his release from federal prison, and while on supervised release, Whyte was stopped by Pennsylvania State Police Troopers on I-81 driving a rented vehicle from New York to Pennsylvania. Troopers recovered approximately 249 grams of cocaine inside the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 28 August 2024 | Ontario truck driver arrested on drug charges at the border According to the complaint, on the evening of August 23, 2024, Customs and Border Protection officers at the Lewiston Bridge Port of Entry encountered a commercial truck with Ontario plates being driven by Kasozi. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of New York Byline: Barbara Burns Dateline: Buffalo, New York |
| 18 September 2024 | Former Mexican law enforcement official imprisoned for hiring drivers to transport loads of deadly narcotics Once law enforcement noticed tampering within the engine, they took his truck to a secure location to remove the engine’s manifold and other components. The exposed internal workings of the engine revealed 23 bundles of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Brownsville, Texas |
| 25 September 2024 | Trucking Company Owner Sentenced to Prison as Part of Federal Investigation That Dismantled Mexico-to-Chicago Drug Pipeline In 2015 and 2016, Jose Farias arranged with truck drivers to transport dozens of kilograms of narcotics to the Chicago area hidden in the hollowed-out wheel axles of tractor-trailers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois Topic: Jose Farias |
| 7 October 2024 | Car battery cocaine conspiracy lands conviction Jesus Neftali Padilla also placed modified cocaine-filled batteries in hidden compartments to attempt to avoid detection. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 15 October 2024 | Drug trafficking mom imprisoned for smuggling meth across border A subsequent search revealed approximately 12 kilograms of crystal meth in the door panels and approximately 28 kilos of liquid meth in the gas tank. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: McAllen, Texas |
| 23 October 2024 | Georgia Woman Sentenced for Possessing Methamphetamine in Trunk of Car when Traveling Through Acadiana Area A Louisiana State Police K-9 conducted an open air sniff of the vehicle and alerted to the presence of narcotics in Sarah Rose Cea’s vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Louisiana Dateline: Lafayette, Louisiana Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 24 October 2024 | Organizer sent to prison for smuggling 60 kilos of meth into United States At the time of the trial, co-conspirator Mike Mendoza testified Ana Maria Pena-Gutierrez hired and paid him to drive two vehicles to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the United States several times from January 2021 through February 2021. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Laredo, Texas |
| 25 October 2024 | Customs and Border Protection Officer Sentenced for Receiving Bribes to Allow Drug-Laden Vehicles and Unauthorized Immigrants to Enter the U.S. Leonard Darnell George would notify members of a drug trafficking organization when he was at work, what lane he was on, and that they had one hour to reach his lane. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of California Byline: Kelly Thornton Dateline: San Diego, California |
| 1 November 2024 | Drug Courier Sentenced to 57 Months in Federal Prison Jose Martin Chavez-Valencia was taken into custody, and a search of his vehicle revealed approximately three kilograms of heroin. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 19 November 2024 | Tucson Man Sentenced to 77 Months for Importing Methamphetamine During the inspection, x-ray detection observed anomalies inside the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Tucson, Arizona |
| 3 December 2024 | Repeat Federal Offender Sentenced to 24 Years in Prison after Passing Kilogram of Cocaine to Car with Three Children During this operation, they observed Harold Vernard Greene Jr. travel to a parking lot at a Wilmington mall, where he received a package from a drug courier. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 17 December 2024 | Driver in Failed Meth Smuggling Conspiracy Sentenced to 14 Years in Federal Prison Linnette Rodriguez-Potter was referred to a secondary inspection at the Del Rio Port of Entry on July 25, 2020. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: Del Rio, Texas |
| 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 |
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| 5 December 2023 filing date | United States of America v. David Fehr Wiebe | Criminal Complaint ( PDF) 1.5MB · 3 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Mexico |
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| 18 January 2024 | Another Defendant Pleads Guilty to Multiple Charges in Fatal Tractor Trailer Smuggling Case Additionally, Riley Covarrubias-Ponce traveled from Houston to accompany the loaded tractor trailer as it transported the migrants north on Interstate Highway 35, ultimately ending up at the unloading location on Quintana Road in San Antonio, where it was discovered that many of the smuggled migrants had died. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: San Antonio, Texas Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 18 January 2024 | New York Man Pleads Guilty to Human Smuggling According to the charging documents, Abraham Hernandez was stopped in Pittsburg, New Hampshire while transporting in a Honda SUV nine unauthorized immigrants who were in the United States in violation of law. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Hampshire Dateline: Concord, New Hampshire |
| 6 February 2024 | Smuggler Sentenced to 72 Months At the time, Luis Carlos Ballesteros-Moreno appeared to be the only occupant of his vehicle, a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Tucson, Arizona |
| 7 February 2024 | Alien smuggler heads to prison after hiding people in tractor bed and cabinets Upon further inspection, law enforcement discovered 10 illegal aliens concealed beneath the bed compartment and in the cabinets of the tractor. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas Topic: Deibi Ramos |
| 9 February 2024 | Phoenix Driver Sentenced to Prison for Conspiracy to Transport Five Border Crossers Dinero Devon Washington and his co-conspirator, Alina Pablo, approached the fixed Border Patrol checkpoint in Ajo in a Ford F-150. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Phoenix, Arizona |
| 14 February 2024 | “Logistics coordinator” sent to prison for drug trafficking In that role, Brenda Banessa Leal coordinated drivers, dealers and cover loads on this side of the border. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Brownsville, Texas |
| 27 February 2024 | Trucker convicted for trafficking several aliens into South Texas During a search, a K-9 alerted to the sleeper area where authorities subsequently discovered seven illegal aliens concealed within the bed compartment of the tractor, in a toolbox under the bed and inside a closet. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas Topic: Andrew Rafael Martinez-Peralta |
| 8 March 2024 | Romanian citizen pleads guilty to people smuggling scheme across northern border Agreed to transport 12 people, including small children, in vehicle with eight seats. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Byline: Emily Langlie Dateline: Seattle, Washington |
| 28 March 2024 | Former fugitive sentenced for transporting over 65 into United States At the hearing, the court heard evidence about how Cantu was directly involved in the transportation of more than 65 people via commercial tractor-trailers in 2021. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 3 April 2024 | South Texan sent to prison for hauling 32 people in horse trailer Simon Garcia approached the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint driving a black Dodge Ram 3500 truck with an attached horse trailer and four horses. Upon further investigation, law enforcement discovered 32 people hidden within a storage compartment inside the trailer. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 4 April 2024 | Austin Man Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Smuggling Attempt That Resulted in Migrant Deaths According to court documents, Joseph Alex Hernandez sped away from and attempted to evade Medina County Sheriff’s deputies for approximately seven minutes after they attempted a traffic stop. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: San Antonio, Texas |
| 16 April 2024 | Human Smugglers Sentenced for Their Roles in Highway Death of Juvenile Multiple people then fled from the vehicle and ran across the eastbound lanes of traffic. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Phoenix, Arizona Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 7 May 2024 | Human Trafficker Working With Mexican “Coyotes” Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Transport Illegal Aliens After those passengers and Victim-1 were brought to the State Police barracks, each reported that they had illegally entered the United States and that they were being driven by Mario Elpidio Chavez Millan from in or about New Mexico to other states throughout the country. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
| 15 May 2024 | Long Island Resident Convicted at Trial of Transporting Illegal Aliens for Financial Gain The trial evidence demonstrated that Omar Mera-Marquez and an accomplice, Jose Calva-Cruz, agreed to drive from Long Island to Fort Covington, New York, near the U.S.-Canadian border, to pick up three men from Mexico who had recently crossed into the United States illegally, in exchange for $1,500. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York Dateline: Albany, New York |
| 30 May 2024 | Honduran Man Charged with Transporting Aliens According to the bill of information, Wilfredo Garcia-Hernandez was encountered during a traffic stop, knowing that the passengers he was transporting were in the United States illegally. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 11 July 2024 | Leader of Major Migrant Smuggling Ring Pleads Guilty According to court documents, some of the smuggling events in the conspiracy resulted in high-speed chases and crashes, which placed the migrants, drivers, law enforcement, and members of the public at risk. This culminated in a tragic collision on December 25, 2021. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of California Byline: Kelly Thornton Dateline: San Diego, California |
| 30 July 2024 | South Texas smugglers: ring leaders sentenced for transporting nearly 2,500 people in $2.9M conspiracy Evidence further revealed the organization proudly boasted about using their trucking business as a front, which not only facilitated the alien smuggling but also enabled the laundering of $2.9 million. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: McAllen, Texas |
| 31 July 2024 | “Hot shot” smuggling organization heading to prison for illegally transporting thousands Beginning in April 2022, Diego Flores hired “hot shot” drivers to transport various containers, including wooden boxes, sheds and hay bales on flat-bed trailers further north. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: McAllen, Texas |
| 1 August 2024 | Corpus Christi Man Sentenced to 46 Months in Federal Prison for Transporting, Endangering Undocumented Noncitizens Thomas Bucciarelli drove through red traffic lights and struck the driver’s side of a vehicle stopped at an intersection. Border Patrol agents located Bucciarelli’s vehicle in a parking lot, finding four passengers who were revealed to be undocumented noncitizens. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: Del Rio, Texas |
| 2 August 2024 | Phoenix Man Charged for Role as Recruiter and Coordinator of Alien Smugglers Nathan Espinoza Jr. was arrested last week for his role in recruiting a driver and coordinating the transportation of two undocumented noncitizens in March 2024, one of whom suffered fatal injuries after jumping out of the driver’s vehicle while it was moving. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Tucson, Arizona |
| 7 August 2024 | Smuggler sent to prison after continuing to commit same crime while on bond Some of the loads of undocumented aliens included as many 115 people in the back of a tractor-trailer, at times including unaccompanied minors. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 9 August 2024 | Convicted McKinney Man Sentenced in Del Rio For Human Smuggling According to court documents, on July 26, 2022, Draivon Rashon Dixon, 33, approached a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint near Carrizo Springs in an SUV. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: Del Rio, Texas |
| 12 August 2024 | Jury convicts Cuban national for transporting non-citizens through checkpoint The jury heard that Nerey-Valdivia drove a tractor-trailer to the Border Patrol Checkpoint near Falfurrias. During an immigration inspection, law enforcement noticed an individual trying to hide in the bed compartment of the tractor. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas Topic: Mario Enrique Nerey-Valdivia |
| 9 September 2024 | Jury convicts RGV man for illegally transporting non-U.S. citizen The jury heard that Ramirez drove to the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint with a passenger in the front seat. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 12 September 2024 | Pharr resident receives max for smuggling over 100 Beginning in summer 2021, authorities initiated an investigation into an organization responsible for smuggling thousands of undocumented aliens in tractor-trailers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Chrisi, Texas |
| 18 September 2024 | Tucson Man Indicted for Deadly Human Smuggling-Related Crash Near Arivaca On August 9, 2024, near Arivaca, approximately five miles north of the international border, United States Border Patrol agents attempted to pull over a Chevrolet Tahoe with fake license plates, on suspicion that the driver, Lopez-Ozuna, was engaged in human smuggling. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Tucson, Arizona |
| 27 September 2024 | 18 Members of Yuma-Based Alien Smuggling Ring Indicted for Conspiracy to Harbor and Transport Undocumented Noncitizens During the investigation, United States Border Patrol-Intelligence arrested numerous drivers of undocumented noncitizens in the District of Arizona and the Central and Southern Districts of California. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Phoenix, Arizona |
| 1 October 2024 | 21-Year-Old Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Alien Smuggling Conspiracy During the traffic stop, DPS officers were assisted by Border Patrol agents who discovered two men dressed in camouflage in the trunk of Ochoa-Renteria’s vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Tucson, Arizona |
| 2 October 2024 | Young Houstonians admit to carjacking in failed smuggling attempt While in McAllen May 19, Rodriguez and Hardy approached a male victim outside his car at a Stripes gas station near a mechanic shop. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas Topic: Stripes |
| 4 October 2024 | Honduran National Sentenced for Transporting Illegal Aliens from Texas to Georgia According to court documents, GARCIA was encountered by a United States Border Patrol agent near Slidell, Louisiana. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 11 October 2024 | Leader of Fatal Migrant Smuggling Conspiracy Sentenced to 10 Years When Border Patrol attempted to pull him over, Kevin Antonio Quevedo-Moncada fled into a nearby campground, swerving wildly and careening around a field at high speed before ramming a Border Patrol vehicle to escape. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of California Byline: Kelly Thornton Dateline: San Diego, California |
| 23 December 2024 | Laredo man indicted for smuggling over 100 people in locked trailer According to the criminal complaint originally filed in the case, law enforcement observed individuals being loading into a white trailer in a warehouse parking lot. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Laredo, Texas Topic: Juan Manuel Aguirre |
| 30 December 2024 | Phoenix Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Assault of a Federal Officer and Alien Smuggling Charges After Michael Leroy Witt stopped and tried to wave the agent past him, the agent approached the driver’s side window and told Witt to turn off the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Tucson, Arizona |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Date | Article | Details |
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| 21 June 2024 | Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments for a New Information Collection The Highway Use Tax Evasion Projects program provides funding to the Internal Revenue Service and the States to carry out intergovernmental enforcement efforts, along with training and research, to reduce evasion of payment of motor fuel and other highway use taxes, which are the principal sources for Federal and State highway funding. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Highway Administration Byline: Jazmyne Lewis |
| 18 September 2024 | Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments for a New Information Collection The Highway Use Tax Evasion Projects program provides funding to the Internal Revenue Service and the States to carry out intergovernmental enforcement efforts, along with training and research, to reduce evasion of payment of motor fuel and other highway use taxes, which are the principal sources for Federal and State highway funding. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Highway Administration Byline: Jazmyne Lewis |
| 16 April 2024 | Raleigh Car Dealership Owner Pleads Guilty in Tax Fraud Scheme “For five years, this auto dealer took money from their employees’ paychecks, supposedly for taxes, and then pocketed it for themselves,” said U.S. Attorney Michael Easley. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina Topics: Carol Jean Darrow, The Auto Finders |
| 7 May 2024 | Trucking Company Operator Indicted for Tax Evasion According to the indictment, Alice F. Martin set forth a plan to phase out Martin Logistics after it became burdened with tax debt in order to make herself, and Martin Logistics, uncollectable to the Internal Revenue Service. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Ohio Byline: Jessica Salas Novak Dateline: Cleveland, Ohio Topics: Alice F. Martin, Martin Logistics |
| 22 August 2024 | Owner of North Carolina High Performance Car Business Pleads Guilty to Employment Tax Crime From 2014 through 2021, Taylor withheld the taxes, but did not pay those withholdings over to the IRS, nor did he file the necessary employment tax returns. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Wilmington, North Carolina Topics: National Speed, George William Taylor Jr. |
| 18 October 2024 | Owner Of Majestic Seals & Stripes, Inc. Sentenced To Federal Prison For Payroll Tax Fraud As the owner of Majestic, Linda Davis was responsible for withholding employment taxes from the Majestic employees’ paychecks and paying the taxes owed. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
| 29 October 2024 | Paving Contractor Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion From 2017 to 2020, in addition to depositing customer payments to his company, Rick Cooper Paving, Cooper also cashed over $4.3 million in customer checks. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts Topics: Rick Cooper Paving, Richard Cooper |
| 3 December 2024 | Cary Businessman Sentenced to Prison for Over $1 Million in Tax Evasion Scheme “This businessman’s convoluted scheme involved titling cars for cash and using that cash to creatively conceal his income and fuel a lifestyle complete with high-end vehicles and a million-dollar home.” said U.S. Attorney Michael F. Easley Jr. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 19 December 2024 | Apopka Man Sentenced To 12 Months For Tax Evasion James Fabius King used nominee businesses to pay personal expenses and car payments on his $151,890 Audi R8 sports car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Orlando, Florida |
| 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 |
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| 26 March 2024 | Statement of U.S. Attorney Erek L. Barron Regarding the Collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore “There is no evidence at this time to suggest that today’s collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has any ties to terrorism.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Byline: Erek L. Barron Dateline: Baltimore, Maryland Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 13 August 2024 | Maui Man Arrested in Connection with IED The IED was in the roadway by Kahului Elementary School. The IED contained explosive powder, a battery, and shrapnel. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Hawaii Byline: Elliot Enoki Dateline: Honolulu, Hawaii |
| 30 September 2024 | Man Sentenced for Threatening to Place Pipe Bombs on School Buses in Indiana Amir Safavi Farokhi, 29, of Fishers, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Scott H. Rash last week to over 11 months’ custody for threatening to blow up school buses in Castleton, Indiana. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Tucson, Arizona |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Date | Document | Details |
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| March 1973 publication date | Trailer Kingpin Locks | Research Report ( PDF) 1.5MB · 16 pages Author: John J. Gasparetti Publisher: U.S. Department of Transportation |
| August 1973 publication date | A Cooperative Approach to Cargo Security in the Trucking Industry | Research Report ( PDF) 3.4MB · 108 pages Publisher: U.S. Department of Transportation |
| December 1975 publication date | Theft Related Losses Class I Motor Carries of General Freight, 1972 Through 1974 | Research Report ( PDF) 2.2MB · 20 pages Publisher: U.S. Department of Transportation |
| 16 January 1978 publication date | Auto Thefts A Low Risk High Profit Crisis in New York State | Research Report ( PDF) 1.4MB · 21 pages Publisher: New York Senate Committee on Transportation |
| 22 March 1978 publication date | Motor Vehicle Theft Related Crime Testimony of Ralph K. Culver, Chief of the Private Property Unit, General Crimes Section, Criminal Division before Consumer Subcommittee, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation | Hearing Transcript ( PDF) 1.2MB · 26 pages Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice |
| 3 October 1978 publication date | National Workshop on Auto Theft Prevention Compendium of Proceedings | Research Report ( PDF) 10.9MB · 148 pages Publisher: New York Senate Committee on Transportation |
| December 1978 publication date | Vehicle Anti-Theft Security System Design Volume I: Summary Report | Research Report ( PDF) 1.4MB · 27 pages Author: John S. Howland Publisher: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
| December 1978 publication date | Vehicle Anti-Theft Security System Design Volume II: Technical Report | Research Report ( PDF) 10.3MB · 166 pages Author: John S. Howland Publisher: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
| Septmeber 1979 publication date | Auto Theft, 1979 A Survey of Recent Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Activities and Publications | Research Report ( PDF) 4.6MB · 74 pages Publisher: New York Senate Committee on Transportation |
| 27-30 November 1979 4 December 1979 publication date | Professional Motor Vehicle Theft and Chop Shops Hearings Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs | Hearing Transcript ( PDF) 22.4MB · 492 pages Publisher: United States Senate |
| 1980 publication date | A Manual of Anti-Theft Guidelines State Motor Vehicle Titling Programs | Research Report ( PDF) 2.2MB · 14 pages Publisher: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
| March 1980 publication date | Auto Theft in Massachusetts An Executive Response | Research Report ( PDF) 5.4MB · 150 pages Publisher: The Governor's Task Force on Automobile Theft |
| 14 April 1980 hearing date | Automobile Theft Prevention Act of 1979, S. 1214 Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary | Hearing Transcript ( PDF) 9.0MB · 38 pages Publisher: United States Senate |
| 2, 10, 12 June 1980 hearing date | Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Act Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Finance of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs | Hearing Transcript ( PDF) 20.5MB · 542 pages Publisher: U.S. House of Representatives |
| 1 August 1980 publication date | Car Thieves Sentencing Patterns in Massachusetts (1975-1978) | Research Report ( PDF) 1.8MB · 23 pages Authors: Marjorie Brown Roy & Michelle M. Strout Publisher: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
| 19 July 1983 hearing date | Motor Vehicle Theft Law Enforcement Act of 1983 Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation | Hearing Transcript ( PDF) 6.2MB · 113 pages Publisher: United States Senate |
| 1987 publication date | [Annual Report, 1987] | Research Report ( PDF) 5.5MB · 38 pages Publisher: National Automobile Theft Bureau |
| March 1988 publication date | Motor Vehicle Theft | Research Report ( PDF) 1.1MB · 7 pages Authors: Caroline Wolf Harlow Publisher: Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| 1990 publication date | Motor Vehicle Thefts in Wisconsin 1985 - 1989 | Research Report ( PDF) 767KB · 4 pages Publisher: Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance |
| March 1990 publication date | BCS Monograph Series Conspicuous Depredation Automobile Theft in Los Angeles, 1904 to 1987 | Research Report ( PDF) 2.6MB · 39 pages Author: J.B. Thomas Publisher: California Department of Justice |
| May 1992 publication date | Trend in New Commitments for Stolen Motor Vehicle Offenses | Research Report ( PDF) 1.0MB · 14 pages Author: Robert Fisher Publisher: New York Department of Correctional Services |
| 1993 publication date | Trend in New Commitments for Stolen Motor Vehicle Offenses 1993 | Research Report ( PDF) 1.1MB · 19 pages Author: Robert L. Fisher Publisher: New York Department of Correctional Services |
| September 1993 publication date | Patterns of Motor Vehicle Theft | Research Report ( PDF) 1.6MB · 46 pages Authors: Christopher Devery Publisher: New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research |
| October 1993 publication date | A Study of Motor Vehicle Theft in Florida | Research Report ( PDF) 2.7MB · 45 pages Publisher: Florida Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Authority |
| November 1995 publication date | Coordinated Response to Motor Vehicle Thefts Evaluation of Enforcement and Crime Prevention Efforts | Research Report ( PDF) 1.0MB · 19 pages Authors: Roni Melton, Darlanne Hoctor, Susan Pennell Publisher: San Diego Association of Governments |
| 30 December 1996 publication date | Opinions of 47 Auto Theft Investigators Regarding Automobile Component Parts Anti-Theft Labels | Research Report ( PDF) 6.3MB · 50 pages Authors: Peter Finn, Linda Truitt, Larry Buron Publisher: Abt Associates Inc. for the National Institute of Justice |
| 1 July 1999 publication date | An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Automobile Parts Marking on Preventing Theft Revised Final Report | Research Report ( PDF) 1.4MB · 32 pages Authors: William Rhodes, Patrick Johnston, Quentin McMullen Publisher: Abt Associates Inc. for the National Institute of Justice |
| 3 September 2003 publication date | Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Automobile Parts Marking and Anti-Theft Devices on Preventing Theft | Research Report ( PDF) 397KB · 49 pages Authors: William Rhodes & Ryan Kling Publisher: Abt Associates Inc. for the National Institute of Justice |
| February 2005 revision date | Assessing Trends and Best Practices of Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Programs Final Report | Research Report ( PDF) 1.2MB · 151 pages Authors: Patrick Curtin, David Thomas, Daniel Felker, and Eric Weingart Publisher: Caliber Associates for the National Institute of Justice |
| May 2006 publication date | Motor Vehicle Theft Crime and Spatial Analysis in a Non-Urban Region | Research Report ( PDF) 3.6MB · 169 pages Authors: Deborah Lamm Weisel, William R. Smith, G. David Garson, Alexi Pavlichev, and Julie Wartell Publisher: National Institute of Justice |
| February 2012 publication date | Motor Vehicle Theft and Burglary in Hawaii A Statistical Profile of Adult Offenders and Criminal Convictions | Research Report ( PDF) 300KB · 30 pages Authors: Didrick Castberg, Janet T. Davidson, Paul Perrone Publisher: Hawaii Department of the Attorney General |
| 21 October 2013 publication date | Law Enforcement Guide National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS) | Pamphlet ( PDF) 1.6MB · 2 pages Publisher: National Motor Vehicle Title Information System |
| September 2017 publication date | 2017 Vehicle Theft Prevention Quick Reference Guide for the Law Enforcement Community | Research Report ( PDF) 910KB · 25 pages Publisher: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
| 5 January 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Christopher World, Lovell Ambrister, Trent Dance, William Harvin, Hassen Lewis, and Von Vincent | Indictment ( PDF) 2.6MB · 13 pages Court: United States District Court, Eastern District of New York |
| 14 February 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Nathaniel Bell, L'Huberman Felix, Dayanna Sarango-Hidalgo, and Johnathan Tanksley Criminal Complaint | Order ( PDF) 99KB · 10 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Jersey |
| 14 May 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Aivaras Zigmantas | Indictment ( PDF) 206KB · 22 pages Court: United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois |
| 25 September 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Belter Giron, Alberto Rivera, Richard Robinson, and Onix Eduardo | Indictment ( PDF) 370KB · 11 pages Court: United States District Court, District of Rhode Island |
| 26 September 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Belter Giron, Alberto Rivera, Richard Robinson, and Onix Eduardo | Affadavit ( PDF) 1.4MB · 27 pages Court: United States District Court, District of Rhode Island |
| 5 November 2024 file date | United States of America v. Ahmad Franks, Ryan Bowen, Shaquan White, Zamir Wright, Khyree Lawrence, Nathan Braswell, Ibn Bellamy, and Mohammed Buhari | Criminal Complaint ( PDF) 204KB · 23 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Jersey |
| Theft from Armored Cars | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Article | Details |
| 3 May 2024 | Texas Man Admits Stealing $319,000 from Armored Car Malik Johnson broke into an armored truck that was parked at the Overland Plaza shopping center while the driver was picking up cash from a retailer there. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 15 May 2024 | Armored Truck Robber Sentenced To Ten Years In Federal Prison Surveillance video showed the vehicle also following the armored truck to other locations before conducting the robbery at the gas station in Ellenton when the driver returned to his vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
| 29 May 2024 | Three Men Admit Robbing Armored Car Driver of Cash, Gun Herman Leon Woods owned the Jeep and allowed it to be used for the robbery and for practice runs. David C. Greenwade is Woods’ uncle and planned and led the robbery. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 30 May 2024 | Philadelphia Man Who Robbed Armored Truck Sentenced To More Than Eight Years Imprisonment When Spencer brandished and aimed a firearm at the armored truck driver, a scuffle ensued. Spencer tasered the driver, stole the driver’s firearm, and drove away in the armored truck. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Delaware Dateline: Wilmington, Delaware |
| 26 June 2024 | Georgia Man Sentenced to Federal Prison in South Carolina Staged Bank Truck Robbery of $1.9 Million Evidence presented to the court at trial established that in early January 2021, a Garda employee recruited Terry Tyrone Pollard and three others to pretend to rob him at which point he would claim to be a victim of an armed robbery. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Carolina Byline: Veronica Hill Dateline: Charleston, South Carolina |
| 10 July 2024 | Three Indicted for Armed Robbery of Cash Courier Defendants allegedly robbed armed courier working for licensed cannabis companies of over $430,000 in cash; zip-tied and pepper sprayed the victim; burned getaway vehicle. | Press Release (text & photos) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 12 September 2024 | Federal Jury Finds Lookout In Ellenton Armored Truck Robbery Guilty At Trial They followed the armored truck along its route from Pinellas County to eastern Hillsborough County before eventually reaching a gas station in Ellenton. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
| Theft of Cargo/Deliveries, Theft from Vehicles | ||
| Date | Article | Details |
| 16 December 2021 | Agency Information Collection Activities; Emergency Approval of a Revision to a Currently-Approved Collection Request: Crime Prevention for Truckers Originally, the survey was planned to be an in-person data collection, but the project team switched to an online data collection because of the pandemic. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Thomas P. Keane Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 6 February 2024 | Former FedEx Driver Sentenced for Selling Firearms He Stole From Packages on His Truck Between October 2021 and June 2022, Frank P. O’Toole stole three packages sent from out-of-state which he was responsible for delivering, each containing a firearm – specifically, two rifles and a shotgun – intended for a Federal Firearms Licensee. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts Topics: FedEx, Frank P. O’Toole |
| 15 March 2024 | Last Defendant Sentenced to More than 10 Years for Robbery of a Pharmaceutical Van Driver and Possession of a Machinegun Defendant advertised the oxycodone he had netted on Instagram. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 7 May 2024 | Memphis Man Sentenced for Possession of Goods Stolen from Semi-Trailer Memphis Police officers were flagged down by a truck driver and his wife who reported that their parked semi-trailer had been burglarized. The victims told officers that they felt movement in the back of the trailer, and while they were investigating, a shot was fired. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Tennessee Dateline: Memphis, Tennessee |
| 11 June 2024 | Bay Area Man Sentenced To 24 Months Of Imprisonment For Breaking And Entering A Mail Truck And Stealing Over 700 Pieces Of Mail In his plea agreement, Craig Curtis Freeman admitted that he had been driving a stolen car when he pulled up behind the U.S. Postal Service mail truck and exited his vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California Dateline: Oakland, California |
| 24 June 2024 | KC Man Sentenced for Conspiracy to Steal Firearms from Vehicles Conspirators used social media to advertise the stolen firearms for sale, which included sales to individuals who were prohibited by law from possessing firearms. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Kansas City, Missouri |
| 26 June 2024 | Utah Woman Sentenced to 18 Months’ Imprisonment for Stealing an Amazon Truck and Packages Jaclyn Allred admitted that while the Amazon driver was delivering a package to an apartment, she unlawfully entered the van and drove off. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Byline: Felicia Martinez Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Amazon |
| 16 August 2024 | Judge Sentences Man to 78 Months in Prison for Robbery and Assault of Delivery Driver According to the government’s evidence, the victim was working as a Domino’s delivery driver when he parked in the 4800 block of North Capitol Street NE to deliver pizza to Sutasha Miller. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 2 October 2024 | Two KC Men Sentenced in Scheme to Steal Firearms from Vehicles Rayquan Duane Pettaway, 25, and Roy Rushing, 27, were sentenced in separate appearances before U.S. District Judge Greg Kays. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Kansas City, Missouri |
| 3 October 2024 | KC Man Sentenced in Scheme to Steal Firearms from Vehicles Treyon Bloodsoe admitted that he participated in a conspiracy to break into vehicles and steal firearms and other items. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Kansas City, Missouri |
| 27 November 2024 | U.S. Attorney, Law Enforcement Officials Urge Residents to Help Prevent Gun Thefts From Vehicles During Holiday Season “While you are shopping for holiday gifts to give your friends and loved ones, it takes no time at all for a thief to steal an improperly secured gun from your locked car,” said U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: San Antonio, Texas |
| 17 December 2024 | Billings man admits possessing stolen firearm after breaking into police vehicles Surveillance video from of one of the thefts showed a suspect wearing black shoes and riding a black and red bicycle with skinny tires. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Billings, Montana |
| 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. |
| Theft of Fuel | ||
| Date | Article | Details |
| 28 March 2024 | Philadelphia Man Sentenced for Directing a Scheme to Steal Diesel Fuel from Gas Stations and for Illegally Possessing Firearms From March 2021 through June 21, 2023, the defendant purchased stolen credit card data and had co-conspirators fill up auxiliary tanks at Philadelphia-area gas stations, at his direction and using his trucks, with more than $750,000 worth of diesel fuel, using those unlawfully obtained credit card numbers. Cole would then resell the diesel fuel at a discounted rate. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 11 April 2024 | Cheektowaga man pleads guilty to using stolen credit card numbers to purchase tens of thousands of dollars worth of gas Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles M. Kruly, who is handling the case, stated that Cross Malik Williams, along with co-defendant Kingsley Brown, purchased approximately 570 stolen bank cards from various online marketplaces. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of New York Byline: Barbara Burns Dateline: Buffalo, New York |
| 14 August 2024 | North Tonawanda man pleads guilty to using stolen credit card numbers to purchase tens of thousands of dollars worth of gas The gas customers would then pay Williams and/or Brown an amount of money less than the cost of the gas. As part of his plea agreement, Brown agreed that he was responsible for $192,673 of total loss. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of New York Byline: Barbara Burns Dateline: Buffalo, New York |
| 21 August 2024 | Cheektowaga man going to prison for using stolen credit card numbers to purchase tens of thousands of dollars worth of gas Williams and Brown used, or allowed others to use, the stolen bank card information to purchase gas for other individuals. The gas customers would then pay Williams and/or Brown an amount of money less than the cost of the gas. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of New York Byline: Barbara Burns Dateline: Buffalo, New York |
| 26 August 2024 | Former Willard Mayor Sentenced for $300,000 Fraud Scheme Hendrickson admitted that he gained unauthorized access to the fuel expense accounts of more than 500 individuals and conducted more than 1,000 fraudulent transactions that resulted in at least $298,737 being stolen from his victims. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Springfield, Missouri Topics: Corey Louis Hendrickson, Prime Inc. |
| Theft of Parts & Accessories | ||
| Date | Article | Details |
| April 2000 | Labeling Automobile Parts to Combat Theft Motor vehicle theft represents a major problem in the United States. In 1995, motor vehicle owners reported nearly 1.5 million thefts representing 1 out of every 139 vehicles in the country. | Commentary ( PDF) Publisher: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Byline: Peter Finn |
| 12 April 2023 | Seven Arrested for Stealing Catalytic Converters from Over 470 Vehicles and Targeting ATMs and Jewelry Stores Defendants allegedly responsible for an estimated $2 million in losses across Massachusetts and New Hampshire during 2022 and 2023. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 13 October 2023 | Member of Catalytic Converter Theft Crew Pleads Guilty Theft crew responsible for an estimated $2 million in losses across Massachusetts and New Hampshire during 2022 and 2023. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 30 January 2024 | St. Louis County Man Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison for Buying Stolen Catalytic Converters Asmir Jasarevic admitted selling nearly $50,000 worth of converters to a recycling company in Illinois, $20,000 of which came from stolen property. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 12 March 2024 | Member of Catalytic Converter Theft Crew Sentenced to More Than Three Years in Prison Theft crew responsible for an estimated $2 million in losses across Massachusetts and New Hampshire during 2022 and 2023. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 19 March 2024 | Member of Catalytic Converter Theft Crew Pleads Guilty Theft crew responsible for an estimated $2 million in losses across Massachusetts and New Hampshire during 2022 and 2023. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 20 March 2024 | Father and Two Sons Indicted and Arrested for Conspiracy to Transport Stolen Catalytic Converters and Money Laundering Catalytic converters use precious metals in their center, or “core”, that are regularly targeted for theft due to the high value of these metals, especially palladium, platinum, and rhodium. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Puerto Rico Dateline: San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 20 March 2024 | Six Defendants Added in Catalytic Converter Theft Conspiracy According to court documents, thieves steal catalytic converters from vehicles for the precious metals the core contains, including palladium, platinum, and rhodium, some of which are more valuable per ounce than gold. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California Dateline: Sacramento, California |
| 27 March 2024 | New Haven Man Admits Stealing and Selling Catalytic Converters A catalytic converter contains precious metals, can easily be removed from its vehicle, and is difficult to trace, making it a desirable target for thieves. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 11 April 2024 | East Hartford Man Admits Role in Catalytic Converter Theft Ring In November 2021, Bryant Bermudez began working at Downpipe Depot & Recycling LLC, which had a warehouse on Park Avenue in East Hartford. At Downpipe Depot, Bermudez and a co-conspirator purchased stolen catalytic converters from a network of thieves. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 11 April 2024 | Member of Catalytic Converter Crew Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Federal Prison Theft crew allegedly responsible for an estimated $2 million in losses across Massachusetts and New Hampshire during 2022 and 2023. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 18 June 2024 | Robert McLane Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Auto Dealer Employer In his positions, McLane oversaw the parts and service departments; supervised other employees; and ordered, received, and paid for automotive parts needed in Formula Nissan’s operations. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Burlington, Vermont Topics: Robert McLane, Formula Nissan |
| 27 June 2024 | West Hartford Man Admits Role in Catalytic Converter Theft Ring Business records seized during the investigation revealed that Yanquee Rodriguez was one of Downpipe Depot’s largest suppliers of stolen catalytic converters. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 10 July 2024 | New Haven Man Sentenced to Prison for Stealing and Selling Catalytic Converters The average scrap price for catalytic converters currently varies between $300 and $1,500, depending on the model and type of precious metal component. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 2 October 2024 | Leader of Catalytic Converter Theft Crew Sentenced to Decade in Prison A precipitous decline in catalytic converter thefts has been reported in Massachusetts as a result of the takedown – with nine reported incidents of catalytic converter theft over the past 18 months following the arrests, in comparison to the hundreds of thefts reported during the nine-month period prior. | Press Release (text & photos) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 7 October 2024 | Leader of Catalytic Converter Theft Ring Pleads Guilty From approximately January 2021 to June 2022, Alexander Kolitsas used Downpipe Depot to purchase stolen catalytic converters from a network of thieves. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 9 October 2024 | New Haven Man Admits Role in Catalytic Converter Theft Ring From approximately January 2021 to June 2022, Alexander Kolitsas and Downpipe Depot purchased stolen catalytic converters from a network of thieves, including Mervin Figueroa, and then transported and sold the catalytic converters to recycling businesses in New York and New Jersey. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| Theft of Vehicles See also Carjacking | ||
| Date | Article | Details |
| 29 December 1928 | SEEKS JOB IN STOLEN CAR. Allen was arrested at Allen and Delaney Streets early Thursday morning as he was driving an automobile the wrong way in a one-way street. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| January 1980 | Automobile Theft: An Increasing Crime Problem On March 20, 1979, a 1978 automobile valued at approximately $8,000 was reported stolen from a large, suburban mall near New York City. | Commentary ( PDF) Publication: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Byline: Samuel Rozzi & Richard Mueller |
| 6 December 2017 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; Fuji Heavy Industries U.S.A., Inc. This petition is granted because the agency has determined that the antitheft device to be placed on the line as standard equipment is likely to be as effective in reducing and deterring motor vehicle theft as compliance with the parts-marking requirements of the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten Topic: Subaru Ascent |
| 30 September 2021 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; Nissan North America, Inc. This document grants in full the Nissan North America's petition for exemption from the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard for its ARIYA vehicle line beginning in model year 2023. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten Topic: Nissan Ariya |
| 12 November 2021 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; American Honda Motor Co., Inc. This document grants in full the American Honda Motor Co. petition for exemption from the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard for its Acura Integra vehicle line beginning in model year 2023. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten Topic: Acura Integra |
| 9 March 2022 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; North American Subaru, Inc. This document grants in full the North American Subaru's petition for exemption from the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard for its BRZ vehicle line beginning in model year 2023. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten Topic: Subaru BRZ |
| 9 March 2022 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; Toyota Motor North America, Inc. This document grants in full the Toyota Motor North America's petition for exemption from the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard for its Lexus IS vehicle line beginning in model year 2023. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten Topic: Lexus IS |
| 9 March 2022 | Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) Requirements; Manufacturer Identification; Certification; Replica Motor Vehicles; Importation of Vehicles and Equipment Subject to Federal Safety, Bumper, and Theft Prevention Standards This final rule implements an exemption program for replica motor vehicles manufactured or imported by low-volume manufacturers, as set forth in Section 24405 of the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Steven S. Cliff |
| 16 March 2022 | Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Petitions for Exemption From the Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard 49 U.S.C. Chapter 331 requires the Secretary of Transportation, and NHTSA by delegation, to promulgate a theft prevention standard to provide for the identification of certain motor vehicles and their major replacement parts to impede motor vehicle theft. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten |
| 16 March 2022 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. This document grants in full the Volkswagen Group of America's petition for exemption from the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard for its Audi e-tron GT vehicle line beginning in model year 2023. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten Topic: Audi e-tron GT |
| 7 April 2022 | Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection Comments Requested; Extension Without Change, of a Previously Approved Collection National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS) The Anti-Car Theft Act, defines junk and salvage yards “as individuals or entities engaged in the business of acquiring or owning junk or salvage automobiles for resale in their entirety or as spare parts or for rebuilding, restoration, or crushing.” | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance Byline: Melody Braswell |
| 3 May 2022 | Agency Information Collection Activities; Notice and Request for Comment; Consolidated Labeling Requirements for 49 CFR Part 541 and Procedures for Selecting Lines To Be Covered by the Theft Prevention Standard for 49 CFR Part 542 NHTSA's theft prevention standard at 49 CFR part 541 specifies performance requirements for identifying numbers or symbols (generally the vehicle identification number) to be placed on major parts of all passenger vehicles subject to the theft prevention standard. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten |
| 26 January 2023 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; General Motors, LLC This document grants in full the General Motors petition for exemption from the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard for its Buick Envista line beginning in model year 2024. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten Topic: Buick Envista |
| 27 January 2023 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; Ford Motor Company This document grants in full the Ford Motor Company petition for exemption from the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard for its Mustang Mach-E vehicle line beginning in model year 2024. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten Topic: Ford Mustang Mach-E |
| 10 March 2023 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; Toyota Motor North America, Inc. This document grants in full the Toyota Motor North America's petition for exemption from the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard for its Crown vehicle line beginning in model year 2024. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten Topic: Toyota Crown |
| 17 August 2023 | Hazelwood Man Sentenced to 111 Months in Prison for Schemes Seeking $404,000 Powers used fraudulent Social Security cards and driver’s licenses to apply for loans to purchase three vehicles from a Florissant dealership between June 24, 2019 and August 23, 2019. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 23 August 2023 | Members of Charlotte-Based Auto Theft Ring Are Charged In Federal Court The indictment alleges that the co-conspirators transported the stolen vehicles back to Charlotte and sold them locally at prices well below market value. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina Dateline: Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 13 September 2023 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; Nissan North America, Inc. The petition is granted because the agency has determined that the antitheft device to be placed on the line as standard equipment is likely to be as effective in reducing and deterring motor vehicle theft as compliance with the parts-marking requirements of the theft prevention standard. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Milton E. Cooper Topic: Nissan Z |
| 9 November 2023 | Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; Final Listing of 2021 Light Duty Truck Lines Subject to the Requirements of This Standard and Exempted Vehicle Lines for Model Year 2021 The agency determined no new models were high-theft or had major parts that are interchangeable with a majority of the covered major parts of passenger car or multipurpose passenger vehicle lines. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Ann E. Carlson |
| 20 November 2023 | Two Charlotte Men Charged With Orchestrating High-End Auto Thefts From South Carolina Businesses Appear In Court The indictment further alleges that, over the course of the scheme, the co-conspirators stole at least 20 vehicles made by BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Land Rover, and highly desired Dodge models such as Challengers and Chargers, worth over $900,000. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina Dateline: Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 18 January 2024 | Six Indicted for Interstate Theft Scheme Along East Coast “They stole over $300,000 in cars to drive to stores, which they robbed of over $500,000 in merchandise – and replayed this scheme at least 130 times across the East Coast,” stated United States Attorney Breon Peace. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York Byline: John Marzulli & Danielle Blustein Hass |
| 23 January 2024 | Washington, D.C. Man Arraigned on Charge of Possessing Stolen Government Vehicle GPS data enabled authorities to track the vehicle, a 2018 Jeep Compass, to an abandoned Vermont National Guard facility in Waterbury, Vermont. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Burlington, Vermont Topic: Jeep Compass |
| 5 February 2024 | Two Men Sentenced to a Combined Eleven Years in Federal Prison for $1 Million “Free Bankruptcy” Car Lien-Stripping Scheme Through this purported “free bankruptcy program,” Brian Fenner promised to pay the debtors’ bankruptcy attorneys’ fees if they turned over their vehicles to him, instead of surrendering them to the banks that financed the purchase of the vehicles. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Indiana Dateline: Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 9 February 2024 | Granada Hills Man Sentenced to 17½ Years in Federal Prison for COVID Jobless Benefits Scam and for Stealing Title to Dozens of Cars Eduard Gasparyan and his co-conspirators also used stolen identities to rent vehicles and then caused the DMV to remove the true owners – rental car companies – from the registration for those vehicles by using forged documents. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Los Angeles, California |
| 13 February 2024 | Convicted Felon Pleads Guilty to Unlawfully Possessing a Glock That Was Discovered After He Crashed a Stolen Car Defendant led police on high-speed chase. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 13 February 2024 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; Toyota Motor North America, Inc. This document grants in full the Toyota Motor North America's petition for exemption from the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard for its Subaru Solterra vehicle line beginning in model year 2025. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten Topic: Subaru Solterra |
| 13 February 2024 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. This document grants in full the Volkswagen Group of America's petition for exemption from the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard for its ID.7 vehicle line beginning in model year 2025. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten Topic: Volkswagen ID.7 |
| 14 February 2024 | Four Individuals Charged in Stolen Vehicles Conspiracy In at least one instance, the defendants sold a stolen car to an individual purchaser and then stole it back so they could sell it again. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Newark, New Jersey |
| 15 February 2024 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; Mazda Motor Corporation This document grants in full the Mazda Motor Corporation petition for exemption from the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard for its CX-90 vehicle line beginning in model year 2025. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten Topic: Mazda CX-90 |
| 21 February 2024 | New Orleans Man and Woman Indicted for Fraudulent Vehicle Purchase Scheme According to the indictment, in 2022, Kenneth Richmond and Kendra Walker conspired to use fake or stolen personal identifying information to make fraudulent vehicle purchases from a local car dealership. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 21 February 2024 | New Orleans Man Pleads Guilty to Possessing Cars Stolen from Norfolk Southern Railyard and Federal Gun and Drug Offenses According to court documents, a 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor Crew Cab 4X4 and a 2023 Lincoln Aviator were stolen from the Norfolk Southern Automotive Distribution Facility. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 21 February 2024 | Oklahoma Man Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Government’s Online Auctions, Purchasing Vehicles and Jewelry for $1 In total, Evan James Coker bid on and won 19 auction items and fraudulently paid just $1 for each item. As a result of his scheme, Coker obtained three vehicles, including a 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid, for which he bid $8,327; a Ford F550 pickup truck, for which he bid $9,000; and a Chevrolet C4500 Box Truck, for which he bid $22,700. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 27 February 2024 | Bristol Man Pleads Guilty to Participating in Vehicle Theft Scheme Once the loan was approved by the dealership using the identity theft victim’s information, Ryan Testa’s co-conspirator would send a series of runners, including Testa, to pick up the vehicle utilizing a fictitious driver’s license that included the identity theft victim’s information and a photograph of the runner. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 29 February 2024 | New Orleans Man Pleads Guilty for Theft from Interstate Shipmen According to court documents, Malik Mack and three other suspects entered the Norfolk Southern Railyard, a freight consolidation facility that houses interstate shipments, to steal Ford F-150 Rapture Crew Cab trucks. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana Topic: Ford F-150 |
| 7 March 2024 | Union County Man Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison for Role in Interstate Car Theft Ring Since as early as July 2019, the defendants and others stole and conspired to steal at least 10 luxury cars from towns in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, and hid those cars at a location in Irvington, New Jersey. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Newark, New Jersey |
| 8 March 2024 | Mail thief who stole postal vehicles and mailbox keys sentenced to 3+ years in prison According to records in the case a U.S. Postal Service vehicle was stolen from the 6300 block of South Bangor Street in Seattle. In the vehicle was a postal key that is used to access the cluster mailbox units in the 98178 zip code. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Byline: Emily Langlie Dateline: Seattle, Washington |
| 12 March 2024 | Lawrence Woman Sentenced in Conspiracy to Use Stolen Identities to Fraudulently Purchase Vehicles In November 2023, Wanda Sanchez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and false representation of a Social Security number. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 12 March 2024 | New Orleans Man Sentenced for Multiple Federal Offenses Related to Drugs, Firearm, and Possessing Car Stolen from Norfolk Southern Railyard According to court documents, Norman Andrews was arrested, following a brief chase, on February 11, 2023 in the French Quarter by a New Orleans Police Department officer. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana Topic: Ford Explorer |
| 18 March 2024 | Lowell Woman Sentenced to Six Months in Prison in Conspiracy to Use Stolen Identities to Fraudulently Purchase Vehicles Final defendant to be sentenced in connection with $2 million scheme. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 25 March 2024 | Two Charlotte Men Face Federal Charges For Scheme That Involved Buying And Selling Stolen High-End Vehicles The indictment alleges that, between 2022 and 2024, Sumner, Woodson and others conspired to buy and sell high-end motor vehicles that were stolen from car dealerships, rental car companies, and private parties across the United States, including North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Missouri. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina Dateline: Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 21 August 2024 | Petition for Exemption From the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; American Honda Motor Co., Inc. This document grants in full the American Honda Motor petition for exemption from the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard for its Acura (confidential) vehicle line beginning in model year 2025. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Raymond R. Posten Topic: Acura |
| 9 April 2024 | Meriden Man Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Violent Robbery Spree The robberies typically involved Strothers stealing a vehicle, selecting and entering a store, threatening victims with a firearm, making demands, and, in some instances, beating victims with the gun before robbing them, causing significant injury and trauma. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 10 April 2024 | Missoula woman sentenced to more than two years in prison for stealing two U.S. Forest Service pickup trucks The government alleged in court documents that a white Dodge Ram 2500 crew cab pickup truck and two government cell phones were stolen from the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula. Five days later, Kasey Nichol Hugs stole a second truck, a 2017 Ford crew cab from the same facility. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Missoula, Montana |
| 19 April 2024 | Man Who Stole Rideshare Vehicle Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison According to the government’s evidence, the defendant requested a Lyft ride for pick up in the 3800 block of South Capitol Street SE to take him to the 600 block 46th Street SE. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. Topic: Lyft |
| 25 April 2024 | Brockton woman admits stealing gun, vehicle in burglary on Fort Peck Indian Reservation During the burglary, Avis Big Track took a .45-caliber pistol and keys to a 2014 Chrysler, which she used to steal the Chrysler. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Great Falls, Montana |
| 25 April 2024 | Chicago Man Sentenced to 62 Months in Prison According to documents in the case, Damiane Harris broke into a truck sales business in South Bend, Indiana, and stole a semi-tractor. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Indiana Dateline: Hammond, Indiana |
| 2 May 2024 | New Orleans Man Sentenced for Drug Trafficking and Possessing Car Stolen from Norfolk Southern Railyard According to court documents, Derrin Riley was captured on surveillance video occupying a Ford Explorer Timberline that had been stolen from the railyard a week earlier. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana Topic: Ford Explorer |
| 6 May 2024 | Harris County resident charged in scheme to steal $1M worth of Jeeps and other vehicles According to the charges, Westbrook recruited individuals through Instagram by promising to pay them money to rent vehicles for him. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Houston, Texas |
| 7 May 2024 | Convicted Felon Sentenced for Possessing a Glock Pistol That Police Discovered After He Crashed a Stolen Car on I-295 The officer followed the Honda and witnessed it run a red light. The officer switched on his flashers and siren. The Honda sped off. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 7 May 2024 | Illinois Businessman Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Fraud and Tax Evasion Joseph J. Cipolla Jr. concealed his receipt of income by engaging in affirmative acts of tax evasion, including listing a relative’s Social Security number on casino tax forms, using family members as nominee owners of vehicles, and using a nominee to rent airplane hangars at the DuPage County Airport. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois |
| 20 May 2024 | Memphis Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Possession of Methamphetamine and a Firearm in a Stolen Vehicle The Dodge Charger was stolen, and it was bearing tags registered to a second vehicle previously stolen from the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Tennessee Dateline: Memphis, Tennessee |
| 20 May 2024 | Oklahoma City Resident Sentenced For Theft In Indian Country And Failure To Register As A Sex Offender According to investigators, on January 26, 2023, Nathan Kelly Graham stole a fleet truck containing a GPS relay tracker from a Muskogee gas station. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 29 May 2024 | San Juan County Man Sentenced to 180 Months’ Imprisonment Following Deadly Crash that Killed a 5-Year-Old Girl On May 8, 2022, McCook unlawfully took a vehicle from the victim’s mother without her permission while on the White Mesa Indian Reservation. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 4 June 2024 | Brimhall Man Sentenced for Murder and Attempted Cover-Up According to court documents, on July 1, 2019, an individual brought Gilbert John, Jr. a stolen car and told him to "get rid of" a person locked in the trunk. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 6 June 2024 | Laurel Man Sentenced To 37 Months In Federal Prison For Conspiring To Illegally Ship Stolen Cars To West Africa According to his plea agreement, between approximately September 2019 and June 2022, Balthazar worked with others to fraudulently rent vehicles from Hertz, Avis, and other car rental companies at locations in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Tennessee, and elsewhere. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Dateline: Greenbelt, Maryland |
| 7 June 2024 | Two New Orleans Men Sentenced in Theft of Cars from Railyard According to court documents, between March 29 and April 3, 2023, Mister Mackey Jr. was observed on surveillance video occupying both a 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor Crew Cab 4x4 and a 2023 Lincoln Aviator that had been stolen from the Norfolk Southern Railyard. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 10 June 2024 | Missouri Man Pleads Guilty to Assaulting, Threatening Federal Officers at Fort Leonard Wood James W. Dickens drove a stolen vehicle to the north gate of Fort Leonard Wood shortly after 1 a.m. on June 11, 2023. He made several statements to personnel at the gate while acting erratically, and showed them he had an axe in the passenger seat of the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Springfield, Missouri |
| 14 June 2024 | Court Gives 45 Year Prison Term for Murder at a Bus Stop in Southeast According to the government’s evidence presented at trial, 30-year-old Christopher Washington was waiting at the bus stop on Southern Avenue SE when Terrell Poe pulled up in a stolen white pickup truck. Poe got out of the truck, armed with an assault rifle, and shot Mr. Washington to death. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 26 June 2024 | Utah Woman Sentenced to 18 Months’ Imprisonment for Stealing an Amazon Truck and Packages Jaclyn Allred admitted that while the Amazon driver was delivering a package to an apartment, she unlawfully entered the van and drove off. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Byline: Felicia Martinez Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Amazon |
| 27 June 2024 | Orleans Parish Man Sentenced for Theft from Interstate Shipment According to court records, on March 29, 2023, Malik Mack, along with three other individuals, entered the Norfolk Southern Railyard, a facility that houses interstate shipments, to steal Ford F-150 Rapture trucks. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana Topic: Ford F-150 |
| 27 June 2024 | Suspected Car Thief Facing Federal Charges for Involvement in Robbery at Edwardsville Best Buy In addition, Jakiaya T. McCoy is accused of knowingly transporting two stolen vehicles in Madison County in November 2023, namely a 2013 Kia Optima and a 2018 Chrysler 300. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Illinois Byline: Lauren Barry Dateline: East St. Louis, Illinois |
| 28 June 2024 | Cocoa Woman Charged With Offenses Related To Car Theft And High-Speed Chase On Patrick Space Force Base While on the base, Janosky obtained and used the motor vehicle of another individual, knowing she was not entitled to the use of the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Orlando, Florida |
| 11 July 2024 | Bladensburg Man Sentenced To 4 Years In Federal Prison For Conspiring To Illegally Ship Stolen Cars To West Africa According to his plea agreement, between approximately September 2019 and June 2022, Turay worked with others to fraudulently rent vehicles from Hertz, Avis, and other car rental companies at locations in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Byline: Angelina Thompson Dateline: Greenbelt, Maryland |
| 16 July 2024 | Jury Convicts Eau Claire Man of Wire Fraud Robert Carter submitted false information to obtain semi-trucks. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Wisconsin Dateline: Madison, Wisconsin Topics: Robert Carter, Carter Transportation Group |
| 24 July 2024 | Alleged Car Thief Indicted On Federal Charges Appears In Court The indictment alleges that, between November 2023 and January 2024, Lumpkin engaged in a conspiracy to steal and possess high-end motor vehicles worth more than one million dollars. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina Dateline: Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 8 August 2024 | St. Louis County Man Sentenced for Aiding Fraud From June 24, 2019, until Aug. 23, 2019, Lavell Caradine sold three vehicles to Naquan Powers, who used the personal information of others to buy and finance the vehicles. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topics: Lavell Caradine, Marty Cancila Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram |
| 12 August 2024 | Car Thief Sentenced The investigation revealed that Cordero and others stole numerous motor vehicles, and used the stolen vehicles to travel throughout Connecticut and to neighboring states to steal other vehicles and the valuables inside, including credit cards, cellular telephones, and firearms. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 16 August 2024 | Bridgeport Man Pleads Guilty to Participating in Vehicle Theft Scheme Tad Carr, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to charges stemming from a series of vehicle thefts from dealerships using personal information from identity theft victims. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 16 September 2024 | Judge Hands District Man Eight Year Prison Sentence for 2023 Armed Robbery in Northwest D.C. Approximately 15 minutes later, members of the Metropolitan Police Department observed the stolen vehicle and came into contact with Jackson, who was exiting the driver’s seat of the stolen vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 20 September 2024 | Farmington Hills Man Sentenced to 8 Years for Stealing Cars from Silverdome The evidence presented during trial showed that for approximately six months in 2017, Porter and co-defendant Daniel Onorati conspired with each other and others to steal approximately 61 recalled Volkswagen and Audi cars that were parked at the site of the former Pontiac Silverdome. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Michigan Dateline: Detroit, Michigan |
| 27 September 2024 | Four Charged in Multi-State High-End Automobile Theft Ring Dealerships vandalized, approximately 200 vehicles, motorcycles, and dirt bikes reported stolen. | Press Release (text, photos, documents) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Rhode Island Byline: Jim Martin Dateline: Providence, Rhode Island |
| 11 October 2024 | Defendant Pleads Guilty to 2022 Murder that Happened in Northeast D.C. According to a proffer of facts submitted at the plea hearing, Chanos Monroe and an unidentified male chased down Keith Sistare after he attempted to get into the driver’s seat of Mr. Monroe’s vehicle which was left idling outside the BP gas station store. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. Topic: BP |
| 18 October 2024 | Louisiana Man Pleads Guilty in Car Dealership Fraud Conspiracy According to court documents and statements made in court, Paul Anthony Robinson of New Orleans, and his coconspirators, obtained the identity information of credit-worthy individuals, created false identity documents in the names of those individuals, then posed as those individuals at automotive dealerships in order to apply for vehicle financing. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi Dateline: Jackson, Mississippi |
| 21 October 2024 | Eau Claire Man Sentenced to 3 Years for Wire Fraud Robert E. Carter forged financial statements to fraudulently obtain semi-trucks. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Wisconsin Dateline: Madison, Wisconsin Topics: Robert Carter, Carter Transportation Group |
| 24 October 2024 | Two Defendants Plead Guilty In Federal Conspiracies Involving High-End Stolen Vehicle Rings A third defendant pleaded guilty last week on similar charges. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina Dateline: Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 25 October 2024 | Three Defendants Convicted in Murder-for-Hire Conspiracy Trial The evidence also showed that as part of the conspiracy, Darrius Dwayne Rowser and others, at John Fitzgerald McCarroll’s direction, traveled to Mississippi to steal cars for use in surveilling the target of the plot. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Alabama Dateline: Mobile, Alabama |
| 1 November 2024 | Guthrie Couple Sentenced to Serve more than Three Years Collectively in Federal Prison after Purchasing Vehicles Using Stolen Identities There is no evidence the couple was responsible for the original theft of the information, and how they came to possess the information is unknown. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Oklahoma Dateline: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| 7 November 2024 | Eight Men Charged in Connection with Interstate High-End Car Theft Ring Some of the stolen cars were used during the commission of other crimes, including the theft of additional cars, shootings, and a homicide. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Newark, New Jersey |
| 14 November 2024 | Eight Plead Guilty, Admit Nationwide Rental Car Theft Scheme Tyrell A. Oliver, of Atlanta, Georgia, admitted organizing a scheme in which the conspirators reserved high-end rental vehicles, typically SUVs, 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 |
| 14 November 2024 | Ten Defendants Charged In Interstate Auto Theft Conspiracy Seven of the ten coconspirators traveled to a car dealership in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, to steal two 2017 Cadillac CTS-V’s, a 2016 Cadillac CTS-V, two 2019 Cadillac CTS-V’s, a 2018 Chevrolet Camaro, a 2019 Chevrolet Camaro, and a 2019 Chevrolet Corvette. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Scranton, Pennsylvania |
| 22 November 2024 | Three Charlotte Men Charged With Stealing High-End Vehicles Appear In Federal Court The indictment alleges that, between 2020 and October 2024, the defendants and their co-conspirators engaged in a conspiracy to steal high-end motor vehicles worth millions of dollars from businesses and individuals in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and Maryland. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina Dateline: Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 25 November 2024 | Essex County Man Sentenced to 70 Months in Prison for Defrauding Victims in Car Theft and Fraudulent Resale Scheme From November 2016 to June 2020, Warren Guerrier and several conspirators acting at his direction orchestrated a scheme to steal and then fraudulently sell vehicles to unsuspecting buyers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Newark, New Jersey |
| 18 December 2024 | Bridgeport Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Federal Prison for Role in Vehicle Theft Scheme Beginning in September 2020, Tyshon Walker obtained personal information stolen from residents of Connecticut and other states and used it to apply for vehicle loans at dealerships in Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Rhode Island for motorcycles, an all-terrain vehicle, and other performance vehicles. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut |
| 20 December 2024 | Felon Who Shot at FBI Task Force Officer During a Car Theft Sentenced to Prison According to U.S. Attorney Buchanan, the charges and other information presented in court: Keith Pharms, eight days after his release from a state prison in Georgia, used his mother’s car, a Chevrolet SS, to steal a Dodge Charger from a garage in a midtown Atlanta complex. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia Dateline: Atlanta, Georgia |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 1975 publication date | Proposal for Alternate Processing of Motor Vehicle Violations and Minor Misdemeanors | Research Report ( PDF) 2.7MB · 18 pages Publisher: Connecticut Criminal Justice Commission |
| 14 January 1977 publication date | Traffic Adjudication in Virginia Report and Recommendations | Research Report ( PDF) 8.8MB · 96 pages Publisher: National Center for State Courts |
| 1978 publication date | Punishments for Motor Vehicle Offenses | Research Report ( PDF) 1.8MB · 41 pages Authors: James C. Drennan Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| March 1982 publication date | Crime and traffic enforcement statistics Statistique de criminalité et de l'application des règlements de la circulation 1980 | Research Report ( PDF) 16.5MB · 190 pages Languages:  English &  FrenchPublisher: Statistics Canada |
| September 2003 publication date | A Study to Analyze Traffic Stop Data in Santa Cruz County Final Report for the Capitola Police Department, Santa Cruz Police Department, Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office, and Scotts Valley Police Department, and Watsonville Police Department | Research Report ( PDF) 827KB · 101 pages Author: Dr. Cheryl A. Rickabaugh Publisher: Lamberth Consulting |
| 29 August 2013 publication date | TENTH REPORT TO THE STATE OF MARYLAND UNDER TR 25-113 2012 Race-Based Traffic Stop Data Analysis | Research Report ( PDF) 1.1MB · 21 pages Publisher: Maryland Statistical Analysis Center |
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| 7 February 2024 | Pojoaque Man Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Involuntary Manslaughter While driving, Kyle Joseph Harney-Chee became distracted by his phone and looked away from the road. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico Topic: United States Numbered Highways |
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| 14 November 2024 | Cruise Admits To Submitting A False Report To Influence A Federal Investigation And Agrees To Pay $500,000 Autonomous vehicle company enters into deferred prosecution agreement for conduct surrounding october 2023 pedestrian crash and dragging. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California Dateline: San Francisco, California Topic: Cruise |
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| 15 November 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Cruise, LLC | Deferred Prosecution Agreement ( PDF) 2.2MB · 28 pages Court: United States District Court, Northern District of California Topic: Cruise |
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| 31 January 2024 | California Man Sentenced to 51 Months in Prison for Defrauding Amtrak, Trailways of More Than $475,000 During these calls, he pretended to be a representative of a utility company, calling to collect an overdue bill or an official from a licensing board that oversaw nail salons. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Topic: Trailways |
| 2 March 2024 | Former School Bus Driver Accused of Igniting a Bus Full of Children is Indicted and Detained As alleged in court documents, Michael Austin Ford used an ignition device to start a fire on the bus and was captured on video continuing to drive the bus, despite smoke billowing past his face towards the back of the bus where children were seated. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Byline: Felicia Martinez Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah Topic: Michael Austin Ford |
| 18 March 2024 | Three District Men Indicted on Murder and Related Charges When that individual fled onto a Metrobus, the defendants followed the Metrobus, boxing in the Metrobus at the intersection thereby restraining its movement. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 28 March 2024 | Former School Bus Driver Sentenced to 9 Years for Cyberstalking a Child “Michael Chick’s crimes caused unimaginable pain and fear for the survivor and his family. It is only because of their bravery and diligence that the defendant’s crimes were uncovered,” said U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Hampshire Dateline: Concord, New Hampshire Topic: Michael Chick |
| 28 March 2024 | Inland Empire Man Who Was Employed as School Bus Driver Charged with Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material According to an affidavit filed Tuesday with a criminal complaint, law enforcement officials on March 7 executed a search warrant at Seaver’s residence. During the search, law enforcement seized a Samsung Tablet that allegedly contained more than 10,000 images and 13 videos of CSAM. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Dateline: Riverside, California Topic: Donal James Seaver |
| 2 April 2024 | Bus passenger convicted for smuggling over $1.2M of pure meth in 48 jars of lard On January 10, Eleazar Vilchiz Alonso applied for entry into the United States at the Lincoln-Juarez Bridge in Laredo while on board a commercial bus. At primary inspection, law enforcement discovered several dozen jars of lard in his luggage. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Laredo, Texas |
| 15 April 2024 | Former Owner of Philadelphia CDL School Sentenced to 57 Months in Prison for Bribing CDL Examiner and Witness Tampering “The last thing anyone should want on our roads are people behind the wheel of big rigs or school buses with bogus CDL certifications,” said U.S. Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Topics: Vladimir Tsymbalenko, Vlad’s CDL School |
| 3 May 2024 | Former School Bus Driver Indicted on Child Pornography Charges The indictment accuses Robert W. Stillwell of recording his sexual abuse of two minor victims between Deceember 2020 and January 2024. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topic: Robert W. Stillwell |
| 23 May 2024 | Former Rochester bus driver pleads guilty to child pornography charge Tomas Rosario’s actions were recorded on the bus surveillance system. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of New York Byline: Barbara Burns Dateline: Rochester, New York Topic: Tomas Rosario |
| 23 May 2024 | Indianapolis Man Federally Charged for Setting Fire to IndyGo Bus and Bus Station in April Causing Injury and $2.1 Million in Damages Surveillance cameras show Demarcus McCloud boarding Bus #1993 at the Julia Carson Transit Center on Washington Street carrying a jug full of liquid and two butane lighters. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Indiana Dateline: Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 14 June 2024 | Court Gives 45 Year Prison Term for Murder at a Bus Stop in Southeast According to the government’s evidence presented at trial, 30-year-old Christopher Washington was waiting at the bus stop on Southern Avenue SE when Terrell Poe pulled up in a stolen white pickup truck. Poe got out of the truck, armed with an assault rifle, and shot Mr. Washington to death. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 19 July 2024 | Nashville Man Charged with Unlawful Possession of Ammunition Following Shooting at WEGO Bus Station Shortly after hearing the gunshots, the officer saw a man, later identified as Kenneth Dewayne Johnson, holding a pistol and running away from the area. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Tennessee Byline: Mark H. Wildasin Dateline: Nashville, Tennessee |
| 22 July 2024 | U.S. Attorney Announces Non-Prosecution Agreement With International Bus Parts Supplier CBM CBM agrees to monetary penalties for scheme to mislead U.S. transit authority customers about the sources of bus parts that CBM contracted to sell the transit authorities. | Press Release (text & documents) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York Topic: CBM |
| 20 August 2024 | 92K Rounds of Ammo Found During Bridge of the Americas Bus Inspection, Drivers Arrested on Smuggling of Goods Charges Garcia told the Customs and Border Protection officer that he was carrying 16 passengers with some children from Phoenix, Arizona to Zacatecas, Mexico and there were no firearms on board. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: El Paso, Texas Topic: Lucio Enriquez Garcia |
| 30 September 2024 | Man Sentenced for Threatening to Place Pipe Bombs on School Buses in Indiana Amir Safavi Farokhi, 29, of Fishers, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Scott H. Rash last week to over 11 months’ custody for threatening to blow up school buses in Castleton, Indiana. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Tucson, Arizona |
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| 2 August 2022 | Owner and Salesman at RC Auto Sales in Connellsville Indicted in Scheme to Defraud Pandemic Loan and Benefits Programs Together, Joshua DeWitt and Terrence Newmeyer Jr. filed a series of fraudulent applications for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits and Paycheck Protection Program loans, including on behalf of customers of RC Auto Sales. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Topics: RC Auto Sales, Joshua DeWitt, Terrence Newmeyer Jr. Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 17 August 2023 | Hazelwood Man Sentenced to 111 Months in Prison for Schemes Seeking $404,000 Powers used fraudulent Social Security cards and driver’s licenses to apply for loans to purchase three vehicles from a Florissant dealership between June 24, 2019 and August 23, 2019. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 15 February 2024 | Fayette County Auto Dealer Sentenced to Prison for COVID-19 Relief Fraud Along with his co-conspirator Terrence Newmeyer, Joshua DeWitt filed a series of fraudulent applications for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits and Paycheck Protection Program COVID-19 relief loans, including on behalf of customers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Topics: RC Auto Sales, Joshua DeWitt Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 19 February 2024 | Anchorage business owner charged with wire fraud related to applications for Covid-19 recovery funds Court documents allege Pennebaker made false statements regarding his criminal history on the applications for the EIDL loans, which were sent through interstate communications. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Alaska Byline: Reagan Zimmerman Dateline: Anchorage, Alaska Topics: Cornerstone Auto Sales, Lloyd Pennebaker Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 21 February 2024 | New Orleans Man and Woman Indicted for Fraudulent Vehicle Purchase Scheme According to the indictment, in 2022, Kenneth Richmond and Kendra Walker conspired to use fake or stolen personal identifying information to make fraudulent vehicle purchases from a local car dealership. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 22 February 2024 | Spangle, Washington Man Indicted by Grand Jury for Multi-Million Dollar Car Import Fraud Scheme The Indictment alleges that in order to qualify the imported vehicles as collateral for millions of dollars in advance loans from NextGear, Christopher Lee Terry Sr. and his company used fraudulent documents purporting to show that the imported vehicles were owned, or were in the process of being purchased, by Allwest, when in fact they were not. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Spokane, Washington Topics: Christopher Lee Terry Sr., Allwest Auto Remarketing |
| 5 March 2024 | Fayette County Auto Salesman Sentenced for Role in COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme Along with his co-conspirator and RC Auto owner Joshua DeWitt, Terrence Newmeyer Jr. filed a series of fraudulent applications for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits and Paycheck Protection Program COVID-19 relief loans. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Topics: Terrence Newmeyer Jr., RC Auto Sales Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 18 March 2024 | Kansas car dealer indicted for rolling back odometers According to court documents, Adam Newbrey of Derby operated three used car dealerships in Wichita including Ideal Motors, Midwest Wholesale, and Prestige Motors. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Kansas Dateline: Wichita, Kansas Topic: Adam Newbrey |
| 16 April 2024 | Raleigh Car Dealership Owner Pleads Guilty in Tax Fraud Scheme “For five years, this auto dealer took money from their employees’ paychecks, supposedly for taxes, and then pocketed it for themselves,” said U.S. Attorney Michael Easley. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina Topics: Carol Jean Darrow, The Auto Finders |
| 8 May 2024 | Justice Department Secures Relief from Hyundai Capital America to Compensate Servicemembers Whose Federal Civil Rights Were Violated The law prevents an auto finance or leasing company from repossessing a servicemember’s vehicle without first obtaining a court order, as long as the servicemember made at least one payment on the vehicle before entering military service. | Press Release (text & documents) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Topic: Hyundai |
| 15 May 2024 | Ten Indicted in Vehicle Pollution Scheme Phillip Dwain Waddell, Philip Matthew Ormand, Kolby Douglas Huneycutt, Kyle Kris Kizer, Jonathan Joseph Lohrmeyer, Justin Loutoyama Pasamonte, Archie George Sims, and Adam Marsh Stanley, along with auto dealership James Hodge Motors (doing business as Jay Hodge Dodge) and its Chief Operating Officer, Curtis Kevin Poore, were indicted on conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas Byline: Erin Dooley Topic: Jay Hodge Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram |
| 13 June 2024 | Kissimmee Auto Dealer Charged With 24 Counts Of Wire Fraud In September 2019, Hani Wafik Kaakati misrepresented to Company 1 the availability of funds in NextGear Automotive’s bank account, so that Company 1 would release 24 car titles to him. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Orlando, Florida Topics: Hani Wafik Kaakati, NextGear Automotive |
| 18 June 2024 | Robert McLane Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Auto Dealer Employer In his positions, McLane oversaw the parts and service departments; supervised other employees; and ordered, received, and paid for automotive parts needed in Formula Nissan’s operations. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Burlington, Vermont Topics: Robert McLane, Formula Nissan |
| 1 July 2024 | Sierra Leone Man Pleads Guilty to Car Loan Fraud Scheme Solomon Yarteh was the owner and President of Allied Imports, a car wholesaler located in Manchester. As a wholesaler, Allied Imports was not licensed to conduct retail sales of vehicles and could only sell to dealers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Hampshire Dateline: Concord, New Hampshire Topics: Solomon Yarteh, Allied Imports |
| 23 July 2024 | Lamar County Man Pleads Guilty to Million Dollar Bank Fraud Conspiracy According to court documents and information presented to the Court, beginning as early as January of 2021, Aaron Brown conspired with multiple individuals to use his auto sales company and companies owned by his co-conspirators to engage in a systematic check kiting scheme. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi Dateline: Hattiesburg, Mississippi Topics: Aaron Brown, Aaron's Auto Sales |
| 31 July 2024 | Niobrara Ford Dealership Sentenced in Relation to Clean Air Act Violation DPTX sold tuners and delete kits which are products used to modify exhaust systems in violation of the Clean Air Act. An employee of DPTX had supplied Moody Motor Co. with these products. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska Byline: Lecia Wright |
| 5 August 2024 | Lexington Brothers Sentenced for Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Luxury Cars According to their plea agreements, the Qasims’ co-conspirators, who lived outside the United States, targeted luxury car dealerships via email and phone calls in which they impersonated real employees of other dealerships. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Kentucky Dateline: Lexington, Kentucky |
| 8 August 2024 | St. Louis County Man Sentenced for Aiding Fraud From June 24, 2019, until Aug. 23, 2019, Lavell Caradine sold three vehicles to Naquan Powers, who used the personal information of others to buy and finance the vehicles. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topics: Lavell Caradine, Marty Cancila Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram |
| 16 August 2024 | Charlotte Car Dealership Owner And Sales Manager Plead Guilty To Money Laundering Conspiracy Court documents show that, from July 2017 through January 2021, Martin and Jefferson engaged in a money laundering scheme by selling approximately 20 luxury vehicles to G.D., an individual who the defendants knew was a drug dealer or of whom they were willfully blind to that fact. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina Dateline: Charlotte, North Carolina Topics: John Harvey Martin, Vincent Emmanuel Jefferson Jr., iNetwork Auto Group |
| 22 August 2024 | Lehigh Valley Man Charged with Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Fraud and for Defrauding Local Car Dealerships The indictment further alleges that Heimbach successfully defrauded multiple Lehigh Valley car dealerships by purchasing vehicles in the names of other construction companies registered to or associated with him, by writing checks for those vehicles on bank accounts that were either closed or had an insufficient balance to cover the transaction. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 30 August 2024 | Madison Carrig Pleads Guilty to Embezzlements through the Use of Employer Credit Cards According to the charging document Carrig defrauded the three car dealerships who employed her as office manager or controller by embezzling cash receipts received from customers of the dealerships, and misusing company credit cards to purchase goods and services for her own use and benefit. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Burlington, Vermont Topic: Madison Carrig |
| 11 October 2024 | Miami Jury Finds Hollywood Car Dealership Employee Guilty of Carjacking Customer According to evidence introduced at trial, Erik Hadad and members of his family operated Guru Auto Sales, a car dealership that sold the victim a 2020 Honda Accord in October 2023. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida Dateline: Miami, Florida Topics: Guru Auto Sales, Erik Hadad, Honda Accord |
| 16 October 2024 | Gastonia Man Is Indicted For Laundering Over $380,000 In Wire Fraud Scheme A co-conspirator of Matias Alexander Vinces Aguayo then allegedly sent the bank account information to Aguayo, who used it to withdraw the money from the accounts via the Keys ‘N Go accounts at Stripe and Square. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina Dateline: Charlotte, North Carolina Topics: Keys 'N Go, Matias Alexander Vinces Aguayo |
| 18 October 2024 | Louisiana Man Pleads Guilty in Car Dealership Fraud Conspiracy According to court documents and statements made in court, Paul Anthony Robinson of New Orleans, and his coconspirators, obtained the identity information of credit-worthy individuals, created false identity documents in the names of those individuals, then posed as those individuals at automotive dealerships in order to apply for vehicle financing. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi Dateline: Jackson, Mississippi |
| 28 October 2024 | Jennifer LaBonte Pleads Guilty to Embezzling from Employer For the most part, Jennifer LaBonte stole cash receipts that had been paid by dealership customers, but she also issued checks to herself for non-business-related purposes. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Rutland, Vermont Topic: Jennifer LaBonte |
| 28 October 2024 | Mexican National Indicted For Illegal Use of Social Security Number to Obtain Louisiana Driver’s License U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans reiterated that an indictment is merely a charge and that the guilt of the defendant must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 15 November 2024 | 13 Arrested after Investigation into Drug Trafficking from New Britain Car Dealership The investigation included the use of court-authorized wiretaps, physical and electronic surveillance, and approximately 15 controlled purchases of narcotics, primarily cocaine. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut Topic: Supreme Automotive |
| 2 December 2024 | Sierra Leone Man and International Fugitive Sentenced to 40 Months in Federal Prison for Fraudulent Car Loan Scheme “The defendant enlisted his friends and family members to submit multiple fraudulent loan applications to lenders over $400,000,” said U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Hampshire Dateline: Concord, New Hampshire Topics: Solomon Yarteh, Allied Imports |
| 13 December 2024 | Robert McLane Imprisoned For Defrauding Auto Dealer Employer Robert McLane was employed by Formula Nissan, an automobile sales and service dealership located in central Vermont, where McLane served as the Parts Manager and then the Director of Parts and Service. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Burlington, Vermont Topics: Robert McLane, Formula Nissan |
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| 8 May 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Hyundai Capital America Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial | Complaint ( PDF) 194KB · 8 pages Court: United States District Court, Central District of California Topic: Hyundai |
| 8 May 2024 | United States of America v. Hyundai Capital America | Consent Order ( PDF) 473KB · 26 pages Court: United States District Court, Central District of California Topic: Hyundai |
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| 21 December 2023 | Former State Employee and Her Husband Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Unlawfully Produce Tennessee Driver's Licence Using his association with Cheryl Huff, Mario Paz-Mejia represented to his customers that, in return for $2,500, he could obtain for them a Tennessee driver’s license or identification card. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Tennessee Byline: Rachelle Barnes Dateline: Knoxville, Tennessee |
| 18 January 2024 | Taunton Woman Who Bribed RMV Road Test Examiner for Driver's Licenses Sentenced to Prison Neta Centio paid a road test examiner at the Brockton RMV service center to misrepresent to the RMV that certain driver’s license applicants had passed their road test when, in fact, they had not even showed up for the test. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 30 January 2024 | Four Massachusetts State Troopers, Two Others Arrested for Alleged Bribery Conspiracy In Massachusetts, the pass rate was 48% in 2019, 44% in 2020, 41% in 2021 and 41% in 2022. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 31 January 2024 | Driving Instructor Who Allegedly Bribed RMV Road Test Examiner for Driver's Licenses Agrees to Plead Guilty According to the charging document, Ngan Dinh allegedly paid a road test examiner at the Brockton RMV service center to misrepresent to the RMV that certain driver’s license applicants had passed their road test when in fact they had not. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts Topic: Ngan Dinh |
| 19 March 2024 | Driving Instructor Who Bribed RMV Road Test Examiner Pleads Guilty Some of the applicants did not even show up to take the test. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts Topic: Ngan Dinh |
| 15 April 2024 | Former Owner of Philadelphia CDL School Sentenced to 57 Months in Prison for Bribing CDL Examiner and Witness Tampering “The last thing anyone should want on our roads are people behind the wheel of big rigs or school buses with bogus CDL certifications,” said U.S. Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Topics: Vladimir Tsymbalenko, Vlad’s CDL School |
| 17 May 2024 | Driving School Owner Charged with Conspiracy to Defraud RMV Defendant allegedly pay tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to road test examiner to issue licenses to applicants who did not take road test. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 24 May 2024 | Former State Employee And Her Husband Sentenced To Prison For Conspiring To Unlawfully Produce Tennessee Driver's Licenses Using his association with Cheryl Huff, Mario Paz-Mejia represented to his customers that, in return for $2,500, he could obtain for them a Tennessee driver’s license or identification card. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Tennessee Byline: Rachelle Barnes Dateline: Knoxville, Tennessee |
| 5 June 2024 | Washington woman pleads guilty to using fake documentation to obtain over a hundred Virginia driver’s licenses While not altering identities, Ashya Janai Harley would electronically alter driving transcripts and proof of residency documents required by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles to issue driver’s licenses. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia Dateline: Alexandria, Virginia |
| 28 June 2024 | Former Driving Instructor Sentenced for Bribing RMV Road Test Examiner for Driver's License Ngan Dinh, a naturalized U.S. citizen who speaks Vietnamese and some English, circulated business cards to the Vietnamese community. The potential licensees who contacted Dinh were Vietnamese immigrants who did not speak or read English. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 8 August 2024 | Previously Deported Man Indicted for Transfer of Fraudulent Social Security Cards and Counterfeit Driver’s Licenses According to court documents, Rosas transferred to others fraudulent Social Security cards and driver’s licenses that used the identifying information of multiple individuals, including their Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California Dateline: Sacramento, California |
| 11 December 2024 | Five Indicted for Alleged Multi-State, Transnational Conspiracy to Obtain Driver's Licenses for Ineligible Applicants Defendants allegedly conspired to fraudulently apply for licenses for more than 1,000 individuals. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
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| 25 January 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Gary Cederquist, Calvin Butner, Perry Mendes, Joel Rogers, Scott Camara, and Eric Matheson | Indictment ( PDF) 9.8MB · 76 pages Court: United States District Court, District of Massachusetts |
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| 16 December 2024 | Resident of China Sentenced to 24 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Send Leading Electric Vehicle Company’s Trade Secrets “In stealing trade secrets from an American electric vehicle manufacturer to use in his own China-based company, Pflugbeil’s actions stood to benefit the PRC in a critical industry with national security implications,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew G. Olsen. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Topic: Klaus Pflugbeil, Yilong Shao, Tesla |
| 16 December 2024 | Resident of China Sentenced to 24 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Send Trade Secrets Belonging to Leading U.S.-Based Electric Vehicle Company “The defendant built a business in China to sell sensitive technology that belongs to a U.S. company. His actions were bold—he even advertised that he was selling the victim’s products—because he thought, incorrectly, that he was outside the reach of U.S. prosecutors,” stated United States Attorney Breon Peace. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York Topics: Klaus Pflugbeil, Yilong Shao, Tesla |
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| 18 March 2024 filing date | United States of America against Klaus Pflugbeil and Yilong Shao | Complaint ( PDF) 545KB · 14 pages Court: United States District Court, Eastern District of New York Topics: Klaus Pflugbeil, Yilong Shao, Tesla |
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| 23 August 2023 | Idaho Diesel Parts Companies and Owner Agree to Pay $1 Million After Pleading Guilty to Selling and Installing Illegal Defeat Devices “Tampering with vehicles’ on-board diagnostic devices isn’t just a violation of federal law – it’s a major health hazard,” said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Topics: GDP Tuning, Custom Auto, Gorilla Performance, Barry Pierce |
| 21 February 2024 | Charlotte Man Is Sentenced And Fined For Violating The Clean Air Act The defendant fraudulently coded 3,779 vehicles to avoid emissions inspections. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina Dateline: Charlotte, North Carolina Topic: Rodolfo Rodriguez |
| 23 February 2024 | Final Corporate Defendant Sentenced In Major Clean Air Act Case Diesel Freak designs and builds electronic monitoring and modification kits that adjust engine power and fuel efficiency through Wi-Fi connections with trucks on the road. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Michigan Dateline: Grand Rapids, Michigan Topic: Diesel Freak |
| 18 March 2024 | Co-Owner of diesel truck maintenance and sales companies pleads guilty to tampering with pollution controls in violation of Clean Air Act Directed employees to delete pollution monitoring software and remove pollution control devices for financial gain. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Byline: Emily Langlie Dateline: Tacoma, Washington Topic: Sean Coiteux |
| 8 April 2024 | New Jersey man indicted for nationwide scheme to tamper with diesel pollution control systems in violation of the Clean Air Act Allegedly accessed trucks’ computer systems remotely to delete software tied to pollution control systems. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Byline: Emily Langlie Dateline: Tacoma, Washington |
| 10 April 2024 | Lane County Diesel Repair Shop and Shop Owner Plead Guilty to Clean Air Act Violations As part of their plea agreements, Diesel & Offroad Authority and Christopher Paul Kaufman have agreed to pay $150,000 each in criminal fines and serve three years terms of probation. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Oregon Dateline: Eugene, Oregon Topics: Christopher Paul Kaufman, Diesel & Offroad Authority |
| 7 May 2024 | Ohio man pleads guilty to dumping 7,000 gallons of hazardous substance-contaminated wastewater into Scioto River More than 40,000 fish died from exposure to hazardous wastewater. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Ohio Byline: Jessica Salas Novak Dateline: Toledo, Ohio Topic: Mark Shepherd |
| 13 May 2024 | Michigan Resident and Heavy-Duty Diesel Parts Supplier Indicted for Conspiracy to Violate the Clean Air Act According to the indictment HHP and Offringa conspired with a diesel truck operator in Fultonville, New York, and others, to remove, delete and tamper with monitoring devices on heavy-duty diesel trucks required to be maintained by the CAA and EPA regulations. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York Dateline: Albany, New York Topics: Kyle Offringa, Highway and Heavy Parts |
| 15 May 2024 | Ten Indicted in Vehicle Pollution Scheme Phillip Dwain Waddell, Philip Matthew Ormand, Kolby Douglas Huneycutt, Kyle Kris Kizer, Jonathan Joseph Lohrmeyer, Justin Loutoyama Pasamonte, Archie George Sims, and Adam Marsh Stanley, along with auto dealership James Hodge Motors (doing business as Jay Hodge Dodge) and its Chief Operating Officer, Curtis Kevin Poore, were indicted on conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas Byline: Erin Dooley Topic: Jay Hodge Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram |
| 16 May 2024 | Two Men Indicted for Scheme to Tamper with Pollution Control Systems in Violation of the Clean Air Act The indictment alleges that between August of 2017 and November of 2023, Pavel Ivanovich Turlak and Ryan Hugh Milliken tampered with emission control monitoring devices and methods on diesel pickup trucks, including both software and hardware modifications. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Spokane, Washington |
| 23 May 2024 | Co-Owner of Clark County automotive shop convicted of violating Clean Air Act Operated business that removed and tampered with pollution control parts on diesel trucks. | Press Release (text & photo) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Dateline: Tacoma, Washington Topic: Tracy Coiteux |
| 30 July 2024 | Idaho Diesel Parts Companies and Owner Sentenced for Tampering with Emissions Control Systems and Selling Tampering Software The charges in the case relate to illegal tampering with monitoring devices required under the Clean Air Act, specifically the on-board diagnostic systems in diesel trucks. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Idaho Byline: Cassie Fulghum Dateline: Pocatello, Idaho Topics: GDP Tuning, Custom Auto, Gorilla Performance, Barry Pierce |
| 31 July 2024 | Niobrara Ford Dealership Sentenced in Relation to Clean Air Act Violation DPTX sold tuners and delete kits which are products used to modify exhaust systems in violation of the Clean Air Act. An employee of DPTX had supplied Moody Motor Co. with these products. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska Byline: Lecia Wright |
| 22 August 2024 | Billings business owner admits tampering with pollution-monitoring devices for diesel trucks in violation of Clean Air Act The government alleged in court documents that from 2019 until April 2021, Thomas James Nash, through his businesses, DRK and Flash Performance, tampered with Clean Air Act monitoring devices by developing, marketing and selling software known as “tunes” that, when downloaded onto a vehicle’s computer, would override and disable the on-board diagnostic system so that it would no longer detect malfunctions in the emissions control system. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Billings, Montana Topics: Thomas James Nash, Flash Performance |
| 30 August 2024 | Missouri Man Found Guilty of Pandemic Fraud, Witness Tampering, Clean Air Act Violations A company part owned by Carroll, Whiskey Dix Big Truck Repair LLC, was also found guilty of 16 Clean Air Act violations. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topics: Christopher Lee Carroll, Whiskey Dix Big Truck Repair |
| 17 September 2024 | Michigan Resident and Heavy-Duty Diesel Parts Supplier Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Violate the Clean Air Act Kyle Offringa and Highway and Heavy Parts, LLC Admit to Conspiring with Heavy-Duty Diesel Truck Operators to Tamper with Emissions-Control Monitoring Devices. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York Dateline: Albany, New York Topics: Kyle Offringa, Highway and Heavy Parts |
| 24 October 2024 | Florida Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Violate the Clean Air Act Florida-based company created and sold to Spokane trucking companies illegal software designed to defeat and disable emissions controls on diesel trucks. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Spokane, Washington |
| 5 November 2024 | Owners of Clark County automotive repair and performance shop sentenced to home confinement, probation for conspiracy and violations of Clean Air Act Couple lived luxurious lifestyle while causing massive diesel emissions from trucks they modified to remove emissions controls. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Byline: Emily Langlie Dateline: Tacoma, Washington Topics: Sean Coiteux, Tracy Coiteux |
| 20 November 2024 | New Jersey man pleads guilty to nationwide conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act by remotely disabling pollution control devices on diesel trucks Over three years defendant removed pollution control software on hundreds of diesel trucks, with each tampered truck capable of polluting 30 to 1200 times that of a legally configured truck. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Byline: Emily Langlie Dateline: Tacoma, Washington |
| 21 November 2024 | Owner of Red Barn Diesel Performance Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Tamper with Clean Air Act Monitoring Devices on Diesel Trucks EPA investigation shows Isaac Allen polluted the environment for personal gain. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maine Byline: John Osborn Dateline: Portland, Maine Topics: Isaac Allen, Red Barn Diesel Performance |
| 21 November 2024 | Texas-Based Oil-and-Gas Company Phillips 66 Indicted for Alleged Violations of Clean Water Act Stemming from Wastewater Discharge The company is expected to be arraigned in the coming weeks in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Los Angeles, California Topic: Phillips 66 |
| 13 December 2024 | Spokane Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Violate the Clean Air Act and Stealing COVID-19 Relief Funds Under the Clean Air Act, diesel trucks are required to maintain systems and components that limit harmful emissions of dangerous pollutants such as diesel particulates. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Spokane, Washington |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 24 March 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Jonathan Achtemeier | Indictment ( PDF) 880KB · 12 pages Court: United States District Court, Western District of Washington |
| 8 January 2025 filing date | United States of America against Spectrum Wholesale Inc. and Thomas J. Ciccarelli | Complaint ( PDF) 261KB · 16 pages Court: United States District Court, Eastern District of New York |
| 15 January 2025 filing date | United States of America v. Hino Motors, Ltd. | Information ( PDF) 2.5MB · 43 pages Court: United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan Topic: Hino |
| 15 January 2025 filing date | United States of America v. Hino Motors, Ltd. | Plea Agreement ( PDF) 1.1MB · 70 pages Court: United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan Topic: Hino |
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| 3 November 2022 | Philadelphia Man Pleads Guilty to Gas Station Carjacking Near Lincoln Drive and Wissahickon According to court documents, the victim pulled into a gas station on Wissahickon Avenue near Lincoln Drive and went inside the shop while a second victim, his passenger, remained in the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Byline: Jennifer Crandall Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 7 September 2023 | District Man Indicted on Armed Carjacking and Other Charges in String of Armed Robberies at Convenience Stores and Gas Stations One day after the Falcon Fuel robbery, on April 13, Joyner is alleged to have carjacked a man at gunpoint in the Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood. Joyner allegedly stole the man’s Honda HR-V and drove it across state lines into Virginia. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 1 December 2023 | District Man Sentenced to Sixteen Years in Prison for Armed Carjacking at Gas Station At the sentencing hearing, the victim gave a powerful and moving statement to the Honorable Lynn Leibovitz in which she explained how the defendant’s crimes had impacted her life, hurt her deep “in her soul,” and made her fear for her life. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 4 December 2023 | Tampa Man Charged In Connection With Armed Robbery According to the complaint, on October 15, 2023, Swails entered a gas station, pointed a firearm at the victim’s head, and demanded the victim open the cash register. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
| 22 January 2024 | Virginia Man and Woman Convicted of Forced Labor at Gas Station and Convenience Store for Multiple Years The evidence presented at trial demonstrated that, between March 2018 and May 2021, Harmanpreet Singh and Kulbir Kaur forced the victim, Singh’s cousin, to provide labor and services at Singh’s store, including working as the cashier, preparing food, cleaning and managing store records. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice |
| 22 January 2024 | Virginia Man and Woman Convicted of Forced Labor at Gas Station and Convenience Store for Multiple Years The evidence presented at trial demonstrated that, between March 2018 and May 2021, Harmanpreet Singh and Kulbir Kaur forced the victim, Singh’s cousin, to provide labor and services at Singh’s store, including working as the cashier, preparing food, cleaning and managing store records. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia Dateline: Richmond, Virginia |
| 24 January 2024 | Two Essex County Men Charged with Seven Gas Station Gunpoint Robberies The defendants targeted gas stations on or near highways, used a firearm, committed the robberies in the early morning, and performed the robberies in approximately four minutes or less. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Newark, New Jersey |
| 1 February 2024 | Final Defendant Sentenced in a Gas Scheme that Cost Victims Over $200,000 “Filling up our gas tanks is a common, routine activity which means any one of us could have been a victim of this crime,” said Special Agent in Charge Shohini Sinha of the Salt Lake City FBI. | Press Release (text, image, and document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Byline: Felicia Martinez Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 7 February 2024 | Columbia, KC Residents Indicted for Armed Robbery Spree The indictment alleges that Smith, Cason, and Collins committed five armed robberies: Petromart in Columbia, Breaktime in Boonville, Casey's in Oak Grove, Casey's in Joplin, and Lamarti's Truck Stop in Lamar. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Kansas City, Missouri |
| 9 February 2024 | Tampa Man Indicted For Gas Station Robbery According to court documents, Brandale Swails arrived at a Tampa gas station on a bicycle, entered the business, pointed a gun at the clerk, and demanded money. | Press Release (text & photos) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
| 12 February 2024 | One Sentenced, One Pleads Guilty in 2 Separate Cases Involving Debit and Credit Card Skimming Schemes Artak Vardanyan used credit and debit card skimmers at gas stations to steal nearly $200,000 in Fresno and southern California. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California Dateline: Fresno, California |
| 16 February 2024 | Federal Jury Convicts Man in Armed Robbery of Westminster Gas Station According to court documents and facts presented at trial, Dimas Alexander Minguia-Herrera committed the robbery of cash and other items just before he discharged a firearm at a Conoco gas station in Westminster, Colorado. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Colorado Dateline: Denver, Colorado Topic: Conoco |
| 20 February 2024 | Glendale Man Sentenced for Using Credit and Debit Card Skimmers at Gas Stations to Steal Nearly $200,000 in Fresno and Southern California Akop Dongelyan of Glendale was sentenced today to 364 days in prison for conspiring to commit credit and debit card fraud, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California Dateline: Fresno, California > |
| 28 February 2024 | Speedway Agrees to Improve Processes to Ensure Refueling Assistance for Customers with Disabilities “Speedway/7-Eleven has worked cooperatively to address this issue and promptly institute company-wide changes to ensure it is providing refueling assistance to individuals with disabilities as required by the ADA,” said U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: Minneapolis, Minnesota Topic: Speedway |
| 5 March 2024 | District Man Receives Youth Rehabilitation Act Sentence for Carjacking at Gas Station Adam West further acknowledged that he approached the victim, who was seated in his car, and demanded that he get out of his car while patting his waistband, to suggest that he was armed. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 28 March 2024 | St. Louis County Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Repeatedly Robbing QuikTrip Stores Terrence Gleason, now 53, of Bel Ridge, Missouri, stole cigarettes from or robbed three QuikTrip stores, including one in Bel Ridge that he victimized three times. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topic: QuikTrip |
| 29 March 2024 | Montgomery Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Illegally Possessing Ammunition Used During Shooting at Gas Station According to court records and evidence presented during his September 2023 trial, following a brief argument, Taylor shot at a Montgomery convenience store clerk. Law enforcement recovered shell casings from the store that the jury linked to those Taylor fired during the shooting. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Alabama Dateline: Montgomery, Alabama |
| 18 April 2024 | Career offender sentenced after found passed out in vehicle A concerned citizen reported a vehicle parked crooked in a parking space with a male driver who appeared to be unconscious at a local gas station. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas |
| 23 April 2024 | Two Indianapolis Men Sentenced to a Combined 17 Years in Federal Prison for Armed Robbery of Southport Road Gas Station According to court documents, on August 1, 2022, Bryan Johnson-Taylor and John Wilson entered the Circle K gas station on East Southport Road in Indianapolis. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Indiana Dateline: Indianapolis, Indiana Topic: Circle K |
| 8 May 2024 | Seven members and associates of large-scale gas pump skimming device organization charged with racketeering and money laundering conspiracies From 2014 to April 2024, they allegedly used the stolen card data to create fraudulent credit and debit cards, which they used to purchase items including gift cards and electronics, to make ATM withdrawals, and to make cashback purchases from retail stores. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia Dateline: Norfolk, Virginia |
| 15 May 2024 | Belleville Man Gets 20-Year Federal Prison Sentence for Committing Armed Robberies at Metro East Gas Stations “In order to protect business patrons and employees simply trying to do their jobs, the U.S. Attorney’s Office is committed to prosecuting individuals who instill fear in gas station clerks by using firearms to demand money from cash registers,” said U.S. Attorney Rachelle Aud Crowe. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Illinois Byline: Lauren Barry Dateline: Fairview Heights, Illinois |
| 20 May 2024 | Oklahoma City Resident Sentenced For Theft In Indian Country And Failure To Register As A Sex Offender According to investigators, on January 26, 2023, Nathan Kelly Graham stole a fleet truck containing a GPS relay tracker from a Muskogee gas station. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 29 May 2024 | Twin Cities Man Pleads Guilty to a Robbery Spree of Gas Stations According to court documents, Mohamed Zaki Mohamed Elsayed participated in the robbery of five gas stations across the Twin Cities, including in Mounds View, Roseville, New Brighton, Fridley, and Eagan. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 11 June 2024 | Two Hudson County Men Admit Gas Station Robberies and Attempted Carjacking From January 3, 2022, to February 4, 2022, Wendell Bradley Jr., either alone or with Joseph Brown, would drive to a gas station, pull up to a gas pump, ask the gas station attendant to put gas in the car’s tank, and, while the tank was being filled, would pull a gun on the attendant and demand money. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Newark, New Jersey |
| 25 June 2024 | Chesterfield couple sentenced for forcing victim to labor for years at their gas station and convenience store Harmanpreet Singh, 31, was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison and Kulbir Kaur, 43, was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia Dateline: Richmond, Virginia |
| 26 June 2024 | Two Chimayo Women Charged with Theft in Indian County According to the indictment, on May 22, 2022, Angelica Dominguez and Billie Jo Gussler stole property that had a value exceeding $1,000 from the Camel Rock Valero, a business owned and operated by Tesuque Pueblo. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico Topic: Valero |
| 28 June 2024 | Participant in Armed Robbery of North Haven Gas Station Sentenced to 7 Years in Federal Prison On July 6, 2022, Smith assisted Borrero’s commission of an armed robbery of a Shell Gas Station located at 195 State Street in North Haven. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut Topic: Shell |
| 2 July 2024 | Jefferson County man guilty of federal violation related to gas station robbery According to the store clerk, a dark-colored Dodge Caravan pulled into the parking lot of the business and parked near one of the gas pumps. The driver, described as a white male, entered the business wearing a black mask, blue latex gloves, and a gray hat. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Texas Dateline: Beaumont, Texas |
| 9 July 2024 | Man Involved in St. Louis Gas Station Shooting Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison The police investigation revealed the victim of the shooting had exchanged words with a man and was advised by the man to leave the gas station parking lot. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topic: Shell |
| 11 July 2024 | East Helena man admits firing gun during Townsend gas station robbery Two employees were present during the robbery and told law enforcement that a man entered wearing a hooded blanket coat, was not wearing pants or shoes, and fired a round from a pistol. | Press Release (text & photo) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Great Falls, Montana Topic: Town Pump |
| 24 July 2024 | Federal Grand Jury Returns Indictment in Connection with Shooting at Gas Station Near Walmart in Monroe Tristan Barber of Monroe, Louisiana, has been indicted and charged with two counts of possession of firearms by a convicted felon, and two counts of illegal possession of a machine gun. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Louisiana Dateline: Monroe, Louisiana |
| 1 August 2024 | Gas Station Robber Who Crashed Into Apartment Complex Sentenced Shortly after the second robbery, officers located Mr. Tipton’s blue four-door traveling eastbound. They attempted to conduct a traffic stop, but Mr. Tipton fled, leading officers on a high-speed chase before crashing into an apartment complex, where he was taken into custody. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Texas Byline: Erin Dooley |
| 8 August 2024 | District Man Indicted on 28 Federal Counts for String of Armed Carjackings and Robberies at Convenience Stores and Gas Stations One day after the Falcon Fuel robbery, Joyner is alleged to have carjacked a man at gunpoint in the Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 8 August 2024 | Jury Finds District Man Guilty of Armed Robbery As the attendant went back inside, Worsley pulled out a tan semiautomatic pistol, grabbed the attendant, and forced him into the employees-only section. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. Topic: Exxon |
| 12 August 2024 | Tampa Man Pleads Guilty To Gas Station Robbery According to court documents, Swails arrived at a gas station on a bicycle, entered the business, pointed a gun at a clerk, and demanded money. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
| 13 September 2024 | Final Defendant Sentenced in 2016 Robbery Spree in Haywood County, Tennessee On April 25, 2016, after the robbery of a truck stop, deputies with the Haywood County Sheriff's Department collected clothing on a nearby road that was worn by the armed robbers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Tennessee Dateline: Jackson, Tennessee |
| 1 October 2024 | Jefferson County felon sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for gas station robbery According to court documents, on January 16, 2024, law enforcement officers responded to a call regarding an armed robbery at the Speedway Gas Station located on Eastex Freeway in Beaumont. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Texas Dateline: Beaumont, Texas Topic: Speedway |
| 2 October 2024 | Young Houstonians admit to carjacking in failed smuggling attempt While in McAllen May 19, Rodriguez and Hardy approached a male victim outside his car at a Stripes gas station near a mechanic shop. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas Topic: Stripes |
| 15 October 2024 | Two Hudson County Men Sentenced to Prison for Gas Station Robberies and Attempted Carjacking Wendell Bradley Jr. – either alone or with Joseph Brown – would drive to a gas station, pull up to a gas pump, ask the gas station attendant to put gas in the car’s tank, and, while the tank was being filled, would pull a gun on the attendant and demand money. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Newark, New Jersey |
| 22 October 2024 | Member Of Multi-State Gas Pump Skimming Device And Fuel Theft Ring Pleads Guilty To Aggravated Identity Theft And Fraud Charges During the conspiracy, Deonelky Tabares Cid and others drove vehicles that contained a fuel bladder system. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Jacksonville, Florida |
| 26 November 2024 | U.S. Attorney's Office and FBI Charge Man for Gas Station Robbery in Shiprock According to the criminal complaint, Ryan Douglas Yazzie allegedly entered the 7 2 11 Gas Station in Shiprock, New Mexico, located within the Navajo Nation reservation. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico Topic: 7 2 11 |
| 11 December 2024 | Florida Man Sentenced To 55 Months for Skimming Credit Cards, Identity Theft, and Transporting Stolen Goods in Colorado Springs Area According to the plea agreement, from 2021 through early 2023, Guerra-Pena and others installed numerous skimmers on gas pumps in the Colorado Springs area, which were used to steal customers’ bank account numbers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Colorado Dateline: Denver, Colorado |
| 18 December 2024 | Man Sentenced to Over Thirteen Years in Federal Prison for Armed Robbery of Indianapolis Gas Station and Shooting of an Employee After shooting the victim, George Tracy told him to “have a good day bro.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Indiana Dateline: Indianapolis, Indiana Topic: Mobil |
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| 22 January 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Emmanuel Nina Perez United States' Position with Respect to Sentencing Factors and Sentencing Memorandum | Memorandum ( PDF) 313KB · 10 pages Court: United States District Court, District of Utah |
| 24 January 2024 file date | United States of America v. Ahmad Singletary and Joseph Young | Criminal Complaint ( PDF) 450KB · 23 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Jersey |
| 13 February 2024 filing date | United States of America vs. Angelica Dominguez and Billie Jo Gussler | Indictment ( PDF) 229KB · 1 page Court: United States District Court, District of New Mexico Topic: Valero |
| 15 May 2024 file date | United States of America v. Wendell Bradley, Jr. | Information ( PDF) 158KB · 8 pages Court: |
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| March 1986 | Automobile Insurance Fraud Pays...and Pays Well A multimillion dollar automobile insurance fraud scheme came to light in mid-1982 through an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Atlantic City. | Commentary ( PDF) Publication: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Byline: Mary Ellen Beekman |
| 21 February 2024 | Cary Businessman Pleads Guilty to Evading More than $1 Million in Taxes The investigation revealed that BIA operated a high-volume, cash-intensive business that, among other things, registered and titled vehicles on behalf of undocumented aliens through the use of assumed business name certificates filed with the register of deeds. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: New Bern, North Carolina |
| 26 February 2024 | New Orleans Woman Guilty of Staged Automobile Accident Conspiracy Shirley Harris and Antoine Clark made false police reports, filed fraudulent lawsuits, lied during deposition testimony, and sought unnecessary medical treatment to further their fraudulent claims. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 6 March 2024 | Columbia Man, Woman Sentenced in $1.1 Million Insurance Fraud Scheme Lawrence Courtney Lawhorn recruited friends, acquittances, family, and friends of friends to participate in the staged accidents. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Jefferson City, Missouri |
| 21 March 2024 | California man sentenced to federal prison for defrauding local business out of $10 million Defendant used stolen funds to buy yacht, amphibious plane, luxury vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio Dateline: Columbus, Ohio Topics: Root, Brinson Caleb Silver |
| 7 May 2024 | Five Count Indictment Unsealed Charging Local Pair with Conspiracy to Commit Murder of Federal Witness in Connection with the Staging of Automobile Collisions in the New Orleans Area According to the Indictment, Ryan J. Harris, Jovanna R. Gardner, Cornelius Garrison, and others participated in a scheme in which they intentionally caused staged automobile collisions with other vehicles in the New Orleans metropolitan area. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 3 June 2024 | New Jersey Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Leading One Of The Largest No-Fault Insurance Frauds In New York History New York and New Jersey No-Fault insurance laws require a driver’s automobile insurance company to pay automobile insurance claims automatically for certain types of motor vehicle accidents, provided that the claim is legitimate and below a particular monetary threshold. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
| 25 July 2024 | United States Sues National General Holdings Corp. and Subsidiaries for Falsely Placing Insurance on Hundreds of Thousands of Borrowers’ Vehicles The government’s complaint alleges that, from at least 2008 and through the latter part of 2016, National General systemically failed to accurately track whether cars financed by Wells Fargo had the requisite insurance coverage from an outside carrier, and thereby knowingly or recklessly force-placed its own, much costlier CPI on at least 655,000 vehicles that already had outside insurance. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania |
| 7 August 2024 | Fraud Ringleader and Former Fugitive William Mize Pleads Guilty in Federal Court These schemes greatly increase insurance premiums and costs for everyone, making it more expensive for ordinary Americans to own a car and to have reliable transportation for themselves and their families. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Spokane, Washington |
| 8 August 2024 | San Francisco Tow Company Operator Charged With Insurance Fraud And Money Laundering The indictment also alleges that, at the time of the offenses in 2019, Badillo owned and/or controlled at least two companies engaged in the business of towing vehicles: Jose’s Towing, LLC, and Auto Towing, LLC, both of which operated out of San Francisco. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California Dateline: San Francisco, California Topic: Jose Vicente Badillo |
| 17 October 2024 | Four Defendants Charged In Multi-Million Dollar No-Fault Insurance Fraud Scheme And Money Laundering Conspiracy Kenan Tariverdi, Nazim Tariverdi, and Dilshod Islamov devised a fraudulent scheme to take advantage of New York’s no fault insurance law, which enables the driver and passengers of a vehicle registered and insured in New York State to obtain benefits of up to $50,000 per person for injuries suffered in a car accident, regardless of fault. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
| 9 December 2024 | Ten Count Indictment Unsealed Charging Eight Individuals and Two Law Firms with Offenses in Connection with Staged Automobile Collisions in the New Orleans Area According to the superseding indictment, defendants Harris, Alfortish, Motta, Motta Law, Giles, The King Firm, Morgan, Parker, Stalbert, and Lawrence were members of a conspiracy that engaged in a fraud scheme, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, witness tampering through murder, and retaliation against a witness through murder. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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| 15 October 2024 file date | United States of America v. Kenan Tariverdi, Nazim Tariverdi, Dilshod Islamov, and Alvaro Geovanni Quijada-Lemus | Sealed Indictment ( PDF) 194KB · 14 pages Court: United States District Court, Southern District of New York |
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| 11 August 2022 | Baton Rouge car wash, oil change, convenience store operator cited after federal workplace safety investigation into stabbing of assistant manager The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the B-Quik location on Greenwell Springs Road – owned and operated by Benny’s Car Wash & Oil Change – for failing to protect its workers from violence and for waiting 15 days to report the worker’s hospitalization. | Press Release (text) Publisher: Occupational Safety & Health Administration Byline: Chauntra Rideaux & Juan J. Rodríguez Dateline: Baton Rouge, Louisiana Topic: B-Quik |
| 22 January 2024 | Virginia Man and Woman Convicted of Forced Labor at Gas Station and Convenience Store for Multiple Years The evidence presented at trial demonstrated that, between March 2018 and May 2021, Harmanpreet Singh and Kulbir Kaur forced the victim, Singh’s cousin, to provide labor and services at Singh’s store, including working as the cashier, preparing food, cleaning and managing store records. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice |
| 22 January 2024 | Virginia Man and Woman Convicted of Forced Labor at Gas Station and Convenience Store for Multiple Years The evidence presented at trial demonstrated that, between March 2018 and May 2021, Harmanpreet Singh and Kulbir Kaur forced the victim, Singh’s cousin, to provide labor and services at Singh’s store, including working as the cashier, preparing food, cleaning and managing store records. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia Dateline: Richmond, Virginia |
| 25 June 2024 | Chesterfield couple sentenced for forcing victim to labor for years at their gas station and convenience store Harmanpreet Singh, 31, was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison and Kulbir Kaur, 43, was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia Dateline: Richmond, Virginia |
| 18 October 2024 | Owner Of Majestic Seals & Stripes, Inc. Sentenced To Federal Prison For Payroll Tax Fraud As the owner of Majestic, Linda Davis was responsible for withholding employment taxes from the Majestic employees’ paychecks and paying the taxes owed. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
| 21 October 2024 | Houston Residents Charged With Stealing DoorDash Delivery Workers’ Wages As part of this scheme, the co-conspirators allegedly obtained the personal identifying information of Dasher victims; falsely impersonated the Dasher victims to DoorDash support; took over Dashers’ existing online accounts... | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California Dateline: Oakland, California |
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| 1 August 2024 | Justice Department Reaches Settlement with City of El Paso, Texas, and Its Contractors for Auctioning Over 170 Vehicles Owned by Servicemembers “Members of our armed forces should not have to worry about their cars being auctioned off while they are on the front lines defending our freedoms, liberties and rights,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. | Press Release (text &  documents)Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Topics: United Road Towing, Rod Robertson Enterprises |
| 23 August 2024 | Justice Department Sues California Towing Company for Auctioning a Servicemember’s Vehicle in Violation of Federal Law The SCRA prohibits a towing company from auctioning off a vehicle owned by a servicemember unless it first obtains an order from a court allowing it to do so. | Press Release (text & PDF) Publisher: Department of Justice Topics: Tony’s Auto Center, Mazda6 |
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| 2 February 2023 filing date | United States of America v. City of El Paso, United Road Towing d/b/a UR Vehicle Managment Solutions, and Rod Robertson Enterprises Complaint | Civil Action ( PDF) 899KB · 10 pages Court: United States Distict Court, Western District of Texas Topics: United Road Towing, Rod Robertson Enterprises |
| 7 May 2024 filing date | United States of America v. City of El Paso, United Road Towing d/b/a UR Vehicle Managment Solutions, and Rod Robertson Enterprises Consent Order Between United States and United Road Towing, Inc. d/b/a UR Vehicle Management Solutions | Civil Action ( PDF) 14.9MB · 18 pages Court: United States Distict Court, Western District of Texas Topics: United Road Towing, Rod Robertson Enterprises |
| 8 May 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Hyundai Capital America Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial | Complaint ( PDF) 194KB · 8 pages Court: United States District Court, Central District of California Topic: Hyundai |
| 8 May 2024 | United States of America v. Hyundai Capital America | Consent Order ( PDF) 473KB · 26 pages Court: United States District Court, Central District of California Topic: Hyundai |
| 1 August 2024 filing date | United States of America v. City of El Paso, United Road Towing d/b/a UR Vehicle Managment Solutions, and Rod Robertson Enterprises Consent Order Between United States and Rod Robertson Enterprises | Civil Action ( PDF) 414KB · 18 pages Court: United States Distict Court, Western District of Texas Topic: Rod Robertson Enterprises |
| 1 August 2024 filing date | United States of America v. City of El Paso, United Road Towing d/b/a UR Vehicle Managment Solutions, and Rod Robertson Enterprises Order Approving Settlement Between United States and The City of El Paso, Texas | Order ( PDF) 299KB · 18 pages Court: United States Distict Court, Western District of Texas Topics: United Road Towing, Rod Robertson Enterprises |
| 23 August 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Tony's Auto Center | Complaint ( PDF) 359KB · 7 pages Court: United States Circuit Court, Southern District of California Topic: Tony’s Auto Center |
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| 1991 publication date | Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs USA Overview | Research Report ( PDF) 1.8MB · 41 pages Publisher: California Department of Justice |
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| October 1982 | Outlaw Motorcyclists: A Problem for Police (Part I) “We're just a bunch of happy-go-lucky guys trying to make it in this world,” says Sonny Barger, head of the notorious Hell's Angels motorcycle gang. | Commentary (text) Publication: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Byline: Roger H. Davis |
| November 1982 | Outlaw Motorcyclists: A Problem for Police (Conclusion) Motorcycle gangs constitute a bizarre subculture, but for some reason, have been “beneath the dignity of serious social scientists to study.” | Commentary (text) Publication: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Byline: Roger H. Davis |
| 3 February 2023 | Leader of the Pagans Motorcycle Club Sentenced to 75 Years in Prison for Methamphetamine Distribution, Firearm Distribution and Money Laundering Convictions Christopher Lamar Baker, 49, a Raleigh-based national leader of the Pagans Motorcycle Club – which is recognized by law enforcement as an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang - was sentenced today to 900 months in prison following a conviction by a jury in September for drug trafficking, firearm, and money laundering charges. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Wilmington, North Carolina Topic: Pagan's Motorcycle Club |
| 26 February 2024 | Motorcycle Gang Member Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Six Firearms United States District Judge Anne M. Nardacci also imposed a 3-year-term of supervised release, which includes a special condition of supervision barring McDermott from any association with members, associates and/or prospects of the Suicide Squad motorcycle gang. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York Dateline: Albany, New York Topic: Suicide Squad |
| 27 February 2024 | Bandidos Motorcycle Club Member Pleads Guilty to Federal Firearms Offense According to publicly available court records, the FBI and New Mexico State Police executed a federal search warrant targeting the Bandidos Motorcycle Club at a residence in Alamogordo. | Press Release (text & photos) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico Topic: Bandidos Motorcycle Club |
| 3 April 2024 | Eighteen Members and Associates of Clarksville Mongols Motorcycle Gang Sentenced “Today’s sentence concludes a multi-year, coordinated effort by federal, state, and local law enforcement, our office, and the Justice Department’s Criminal Division to address some of the worst organized criminal activity we have seen in Middle Tennessee,” said Henry C. Leventis, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Tennessee Byline: Mark H. Wildasin Dateline: Nashville, Tennessee Topic: Mongols Motorcycle Club |
| 4 June 2024 | 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 |
| 14 June 2024 | Grand jury indicts 14 members of Thug Riders Motorcycle Club The indictment alleges that the TRMC operated a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in acts of violence like murder, arson and assault. Members also allegedly participated in extortion and identity fraud. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio Dateline: Dayton, Ohio Topic: Thug Riders |
| 21 June 2024 | Leader, Members of Galloping Goose Motorcycle Club Indicted for Criminal Racketeering Enterprise Seven area residents, including the leader and several members of the Galloping Goose Motorcycle Club, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in an ongoing criminal enterprise that involved acts of violence, drug trafficking, and illegally possessing firearms. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Jefferson City, Missouri Topic: Galloping Goose Motorcycle Club |
| 25 June 2024 | Two Members Of Infamous Ryders Motorcycle Club Convicted Of Robbery And Firearm Offenses According to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam, Steven Wong was the president of the Schuylkill County chapter of the Infamous Ryders Motorcycle Club, of which Solomon Rodriguez was a member. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Scranton, Pennsylvania Topic: Infamous Ryders |
| 26 July 2024 | “Ghostface Gangster” Sentenced to 30 Years for Supplying Meth to a Raleigh-based DTO Run by a Leader of the Pagan Motorcycle Gang On November 29, 2023, Ted Cannon, aka “Bam,” pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Wilmington, North Carolina Topic: Pagan's Motorcycle Club |
| 15 August 2024 | 18 Motorcycle Club Members Indicted for Armed Assaults Against Rivals A law enforcement operation conducted today resulted in 15 arrests along with the execution of seven search warrants; two of the defendants were already in custody. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Kansas City, Missouri Topic: Pagan's Motorcycle Club |
| 19 September 2024 | Sin City Deciples Founder Sentenced to 360 Months in Prison According to court documents, 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 |
| 16 October 2024 | Sixteen Hells Angels & Red Devils Motorcycle Gang Members Face Charges Related to Violent Racketeering Enterprise Five of the defendants are charged with murder in aid of racketeering for allegedly killing a member of the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club, a rival gang. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Topic: Hells Angels |
| 22 October 2024 | Fourth Hells Angels Motorcycle Club Member Pleads Guilty to Being a Felon in Possession of Ammunition According to court documents, two different victims—both of whom were members of a different motorcycle club that is considered a “puppet” club of the Hells Angels—were beaten by Kenneth Caspers Jr., Michael Mahoney, Jaime Alvarez, Dennis Killough, and other club members based on perceived infractions of the Hells Angels’ rules. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California Dateline: Sacramento, California Topic: Hells Angels |
| 13 November 2024 | Motorcycle gang member pleads guilty to illegally possessing a firearm Kevin T. Christian II’s motorcycle had an expired registration tag, tape covering one of the digits on its license plate, and at the front of the motorcycle a large wooden club was strapped to the handlebars. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia Dateline: Richmond, Virginia Topics: Interstate Highway System, Wheels of Soul |
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| 26 February 2021 | Owners of Westfield Transport Indicted on Federal Charges Charges are result of investigation following June 2019 crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts Topics: Dunyadar Gasanov, Westfield Transport |
| 24 January 2024 | Man Sentenced for Involuntary Manslaughter and Leaving the Scene of an Accident According to the guilty plea, on October 28, 2018, Roger Allen Stevens failed to yield to the right of way to Timothy Hayhurst, while he was riding a motorcycle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Oklahoma |
| 25 April 2024 | Eight Year Sentence Handed Down for Carjacking and Robbery of a Delivery Driver The victim was putting his cell phone into a holder on the handlebars when the defendant and his accomplices ran up to and surrounded him. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 3 June 2024 | Asheboro man arrested after high-speed chase through Randolph and Chatham Counties Adam Michael Clodfelter had no license plate and was recklessly switching lanes while reaching speeds of over 150 miles per hour. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of North Carolina Dateline: Greensboro, North Carolina |
| 20 June 2024 | St. Louis County Man Admits Armed Robbery of Convenience Store Matthew Ortega was wearing a motorcycle helmet at the time of the robbery and left on a distinctive Suzuki motorcycle. Three days later he was involved in an accident while riding the Suzuki and wearing the same helmet and hard knuckle motorcycle gloves he wore for the robbery. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 30 July 2024 | Eufaula Resident Sentenced For Involuntary Manslaughter According to investigators, on July 23, 2022, Kirby crashed his motorcycle while leaving the Fountainhead Marina Bar in Checotah, Oklahoma. Kirby’s passenger was thrown from the motorcycle and later died from injuries sustained in the crash. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 30 July 2024 | Johnston County Resident Sentenced For Manslaughter According to investigators, on December 8, 2022, Williams crashed his motorcycle into another motorcycle while both riders traveled northbound on State Highway 48A in Johnston County. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 31 July 2024 | Florida Man Sentenced to Federal Prison Hulsmann found himself lost and near Pine Ridge, South Dakota, significantly off route from his destination. Rather than pulling over and orienting himself with the area, Hulsmann flew into a rage and drove approximately 80 MPH in a 45 MPH zone when he struck a motorcyclist. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Rapid City, South Dakota |
| 13 August 2024 | Co-Owner of Westfield Transport Pleads Guilty to Charges Stemming From 2019 Crash That Killed Seven Motorcyclists From May 3, 2019 to June 23, 2019, Dunyadar Gasanov and, allegedly, Dartanayan Gasanov falsified driving logs in order to evade federal regulations designed to ensure the safety of roadways and drivers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts Topics: Dunyadar Gasanov, Westfield Transport |
| 4 November 2024 | Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Sentenced for Federal Civil Rights Violation Related to Vehicular Crash Involving a Motorcyclist As the victim lay in the intersection unconscious, Thomas Smith drove his cruiser around the victim and left the scene of the collision. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice |
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| 15 March 2024 | Man Who Possessed Pipe Bomb in Hospital Parking Garage Sentenced to Federal Prison According to court documents, Raymond Luke Garner parked his pickup truck in a parking garage at St. David’s Hospital in Austin. A short time later, there was an explosion in the back of Garner’s truck. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: Austin, Texas |
| 18 October 2024 | Owner Of Majestic Seals & Stripes, Inc. Sentenced To Federal Prison For Payroll Tax Fraud As the owner of Majestic, Linda Davis was responsible for withholding employment taxes from the Majestic employees’ paychecks and paying the taxes owed. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida |
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| 21 November 2024 | Texas-Based Oil-and-Gas Company Phillips 66 Indicted for Alleged Violations of Clean Water Act Stemming from Wastewater Discharge The company is expected to be arraigned in the coming weeks in United States District Court in downtown Los Angeles. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Los Angeles, California Topic: Phillips 66 |
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| 17 December 2024 | Billings man admits possessing stolen firearm after breaking into police vehicles Surveillance video from of one of the thefts showed a suspect wearing black shoes and riding a black and red bicycle with skinny tires. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Billings, Montana |
| 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 |
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| December 2004 publication date | Problem Oriented Guides for Police Problem-Specific Guides Series Guide No. 28 Street Racing | Research Report ( PDF) 698KB · 64 pages Authors: Kenneth J. Peak & Ronald W. Glensor Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services |
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| 8 May 2024 | Man Who Used COVID-19 Relief Funds to Purchase a Personal RV Sentenced to Prison When Jason Carnell O’Daffer submitted his EIDL application, he was not licensed as an appraiser, and his business was no longer engaging in home appraisals. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Spokane, Washington |
| 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 |
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| August 1980 publication date | Deterring Automobile Repair Fraud A Field Experiment | Research Report ( PDF) 1.6MB · 11 pages Authors: Paul Jesilow & Mary Jane O'Brien |
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| 18 March 2024 | Co-Owner of diesel truck maintenance and sales companies pleads guilty to tampering with pollution controls in violation of Clean Air Act Directed employees to delete pollution monitoring software and remove pollution control devices for financial gain. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Byline: Emily Langlie Dateline: Tacoma, Washington Topic: Sean Coiteux |
| 22 March 2024 | Utah Auto Shop Owner Accused of Drug and Gun Crimes Indicted Pursuant to the search of the 5 Speed Auto repair shop in Murray, agents seized approximately 948 blue tablets with “A-51” and “M-30” stamped on them. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Byline: Felicia Martinez Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah Topics: Muayad Kareem, 5 Speed Auto |
| 3 April 2024 | Texas Man Sentenced for Hate Crimes Following Mass Shooting Targeting Muslims at Car Repair Shop Anthony Paz Torres pleaded guilty to five federal hate crime counts for killing one individual and attempting to kill four others during a mass shooting at Omar’s Wheels and Tires in Dallas on Dec. 24, 2015. | Press Release (text) Publisher: Department of Justice Topic: Omar’s Wheels and Tires |
| 10 April 2024 | Lane County Diesel Repair Shop and Shop Owner Plead Guilty to Clean Air Act Violations As part of their plea agreements, Diesel & Offroad Authority and Christopher Paul Kaufman have agreed to pay $150,000 each in criminal fines and serve three years terms of probation. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Oregon Dateline: Eugene, Oregon Topics: Christopher Paul Kaufman, Diesel & Offroad Authority |
| 6 May 2024 | Jury Returns Guilty Verdicts Against District Man Who Threatened to Shoot People at an Auto Repair Shop Later in the day, the shop owner called the defendant’s mother to tell her that the car would not be ready until the next day, after they obtained a needed part. A short time later, Williams went to the auto shop and threatened to “shoot up” the entire establishment. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 16 May 2024 | Two Men Indicted for Scheme to Tamper with Pollution Control Systems in Violation of the Clean Air Act The indictment alleges that between August of 2017 and November of 2023, Pavel Ivanovich Turlak and Ryan Hugh Milliken tampered with emission control monitoring devices and methods on diesel pickup trucks, including both software and hardware modifications. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Spokane, Washington |
| 23 May 2024 | Co-Owner of Clark County automotive shop convicted of violating Clean Air Act Operated business that removed and tampered with pollution control parts on diesel trucks. | Press Release (text & photo) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Dateline: Tacoma, Washington Topic: Tracy Coiteux |
| 26 July 2024 | Two Long Beach Men Arrested on Indictment Alleging They Sold Fentanyl and Methamphetamine Out of Car Upholstery Shop Law enforcement also seized several packages of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine stowed away in a vending machine at a purported auto upholstery shop called “Stitchn’ Time,” Valle’s purported place of business. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Los Angeles, California Topic: Stitchn’ Time |
| 2 August 2024 | Great Falls woman sentenced to prison for embezzling from employer From about 2017 and continuing through June 2022, Whiteford stole money from the business to pay for personal expenses without DTSC’s authorization. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Missoula, Montana Topics: Jennifer Sue Whiteford, Darryl’s Tire and Service Center |
| 9 August 2024 | Former ICE Employee Found Guilty of Illegally Directing Hundreds of Government Vehicle Repair Contracts to His Wife’s Company From at least November 2017 to September 2020, Jacques Polzin illegally sent service and parts orders from ICE to a Santa Fe Springs-based automotive repair company named JNJ Auto Repair LLC. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Los Angeles, California Topic: JNJ Auto Repair |
| 22 August 2024 | Billings business owner admits tampering with pollution-monitoring devices for diesel trucks in violation of Clean Air Act The government alleged in court documents that from 2019 until April 2021, Thomas James Nash, through his businesses, DRK and Flash Performance, tampered with Clean Air Act monitoring devices by developing, marketing and selling software known as “tunes” that, when downloaded onto a vehicle’s computer, would override and disable the on-board diagnostic system so that it would no longer detect malfunctions in the emissions control system. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana Byline: Clair J. Howard Dateline: Billings, Montana Topics: Thomas James Nash, Flash Performance |
| 3 October 2024 | Lakeland Man Charged With Ten Counts Of Bank Fraud According to the indictment, Yacoub made dozens of fraudulent deposits and withdrawals on behalf of his companies, Visionary Auto Body LLC, and Visionary Auto Care LLC, at financial institutions throughout the Middle District of Florida. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Tampa, Florida Topic: Abraham Othman Yacoub |
| 18 October 2024 | Threats to Shoot Auto Shop Workers Get Man Prison Sentence Later in the day, the shop owner called the defendant’s mother to tell her that the car would not be ready until the next day, after they obtained a needed part. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 5 November 2024 | Owners of Clark County automotive repair and performance shop sentenced to home confinement, probation for conspiracy and violations of Clean Air Act Couple lived luxurious lifestyle while causing massive diesel emissions from trucks they modified to remove emissions controls. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Washington Byline: Emily Langlie Dateline: Tacoma, Washington Topics: Sean Coiteux, Tracy Coiteux |
| 21 November 2024 | Owner of Red Barn Diesel Performance Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Tamper with Clean Air Act Monitoring Devices on Diesel Trucks EPA investigation shows Isaac Allen polluted the environment for personal gain. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maine Byline: John Osborn Dateline: Portland, Maine Topics: Isaac Allen, Red Barn Diesel Performance |
| 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 |
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| 29 October 2024 | Paving Contractor Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion From 2017 to 2020, in addition to depositing customer payments to his company, Rick Cooper Paving, Cooper also cashed over $4.3 million in customer checks. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts Topics: Rick Cooper Paving, Richard Cooper |
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| 12 February 2024 | Queens Men Sentenced To Prison For Conspiring To Hack The Taxi Dispatch System At JFK Airport Taxi drivers were frequently required to wait several hours in the lot before being dispatched to a terminal and were dispatched in approximately the order in which they arrived at the holding lot. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
| 14 February 2024 | Three Men Sentenced to Prison for Violent Carjacking Conspiracy that Targeted Uber and Lyft Drivers “The defendants targeted innocent people who were simply doing their jobs,” said U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: St. Paul, Minnesota Topic: Uber, Lyft |
| 13 March 2024 | Former California Rideshare Driver Charged with Federal Hate Crime for Anti-Semitic Attack on Passenger According to the indictment unsealed this morning, Csaba John Csukás struck the victim in the face while at San Francisco International Airport because the defendant perceived the victim to be Jewish or Israeli. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California Dateline: San Francisco, California Topics: Csaba John Csukás, Lyft |
| 26 March 2024 | Final of Four Teens Pleads Guilty to Charge in St. Louis County Cab Driver’s Murder The four planned to take the taxi to a fake address near Allen’s home, then run away without paying the fare. After learning that they would have to prepay for the ride, the teens began discussing plans to rob Price. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topic: Dewight Price |
| 17 April 2024 | Man Involved in Fatal Robbery of St. Louis County Cab Driver Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison They planned to take the taxi to a fake address near Allen’s home, then run away without paying. After learning that they would have to prepay for the ride, the teens began discussing plans to rob Dewight Price. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topic: Dewight Price |
| 19 April 2024 | Man Who Stole Rideshare Vehicle Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison According to the government’s evidence, the defendant requested a Lyft ride for pick up in the 3800 block of South Capitol Street SE to take him to the 600 block 46th Street SE. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. Topic: Lyft |
| 16 May 2024 | St. Louis County Cab Driver’s Shooter Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison They planned to take the taxi to a fake address near Allen’s home, then run away without paying. After learning that they would have to prepay, they began discussing plans to rob Price. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topic: Dewight Price |
| 11 June 2024 | Killeen Couple Sentenced for Operating Fraudulent Rideshare Company for Soldiers According to court documents, Kevin Romulus Pelayo co-owned and operated a rideshare company, Soldiers Vanpools LLC, with his wife, Cristine Furio Fredericks. Soldiers Vanpools LLC was funded by the Department of the Army’s Mass Transportation Benefit Program. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: Waco, Texas |
| 10 July 2024 | Egyptian Fugitive Extradited from Spain Admits Role in Defrauding Rideshare Company By creating fraudulent accounts and using stolen identities, Ghouneim induced the victim company to pay him referral fees for each new fraudulently created account. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey Dateline: Newark, New Jersey |
| 22 July 2024 | Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for St. Louis County Cab Driver’s Fatal Robbery The four planned to take the taxi to a fake address near Jeremiah Allen’s home, then run away without paying. After learning that they would have to prepay for the ride, they began discussing plans to rob Dewight Price. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 30 September 2024 | Seven Year Sentence Handed Down for the Carjacking of a Rideshare Driver While parked, Wilson approached the victim’s car, armed with a silver firearm, and demanded that the victim exit his car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 22 August 2024 | Texas Man Charged with Armed Kidnapping of Rideshare Driver Miguel Alejandro Pastran Hernandez had ordered a ride to a closed gas station. When they arrived at the gas station, Pastran Hernandez pulled out a gun and the victim heard a round being chambered in the firearm. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida Dateline: Miami, Florida |
| 28 August 2024 | Two Individuals Charged in Multi-Million Dollar Scheme to Defraud Rideshare Customers, Drivers and Others Earlier today an indictment was unsealed charging Eliahou Paldiel and Carlos Arturo Suarez Palacios with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies relating to a wide-ranging scheme in which the defendants sold hacked smartphones and fraudulent applications to more than 800 rideshare drivers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York Byline: John Marzulli & Danielle Blustein Hass |
| 27 September 2024 | Lawrence Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for 42 Months for Distributing 25 Pounds of Methamphetamine via a Rideshare “The defendant used a ride-share to transport an enormous quantity of methamphetamine into the state,” said U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Hampshire Dateline: Concord, New Hampshire |
| 1 November 2024 | Lyft To Pay Civil Penalty To Resolve Allegations Of Misleading Drivers About Their Potential Earnings These guarantees allegedly did not clearly disclose that drivers were paid only the difference between what they otherwise earned for the rides and Lyft’s advertised guaranteed amount, rather than receiving the full guaranteed amount in addition to their regular earnings for the rides. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California Dateline: San Francisco, California Topic: Lyft |
| 5 December 2024 | Man Pleads Guilty to Armed Kidnapping of a Rideshare Driver Victim 1 drove Miguel Alejandro Pastran Hernandez to his destination, which was a gas station that appeared to be closed. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida Dateline: Miami, Florida Topic: Lyft |
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| 11 February 2021 filing date | United States of America v. Hatem Ghouneim | Indictment ( PDF) 229KB · 8 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Jersey |
| 1 November 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Lyft, Inc. Stipulated Order for Permanent Injunction, Civil Penalty Judgment, and Other Relief | Order ( PDF) 416KB · 18 pages Court: United States District Court, Northern District of California Topic: Lyft |
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| 30 August 2022 | Jackson County man sentenced to 9 years in prison for orchestrating $50 million Ponzi scheme involving over-sized tires Investors were told their money would be used to buy the tires at a steep discount, and that the tires would then be re-sold to a buyer at a much higher rate. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio Dateline: Columbus, Ohio |
| 12 November 2024 | Former Assistant Treasurer for Bridgestone Americas Arrested and Charged with a $15 Million Wire Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme In July 2020, Sajju Khatiwada created a phony vendor called Paymt-Tech, LLC and began submitting bogus invoices to Bridgestone for purported bank fees owed to Paymt-Tech. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Tennessee Byline: Mark H. Wildasin Dateline: Nashville, Tennessee Topics: Bridgestone, Sajju Khatiwada |
| 6 December 2024 | Miami Importer Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Evade U.S. Tariffs on Chinese-Made Truck Tires In order to conceal the true origin of the imported truck tires, Hector Samuel Esquijerosa and his co-conspirators caused the Chinese-origin truck tires to be transshipped to the United States through third countries, including Canada and Malaysia. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida Dateline: Maimi, Florida |
| 20 December 2024 | Member of multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme involving off-the-road tires pleads guilty John K. Eckerd, Jr. recruited investors and represented to investors that he worked with Jason E. Adkins in tire sales. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio Dateline: Columbus, Ohio |
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| 13 February 2024 | Chelsea Sunn Sentenced for Defrauding Former Employer According to the information, beginning no later than December 2018 and continuing at least until March 2020, Chelsea Roy defrauded Blakeman’s Towing and Recovery by falsely inflating the hours she reportedly worked. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Vermont Dateline: Burlington, Vermont Topics: Chelsea Roy, Blakeman’s Towing and Recovery |
| 1 August 2024 | Justice Department Reaches Settlement with City of El Paso, Texas, and Its Contractors for Auctioning Over 170 Vehicles Owned by Servicemembers “Members of our armed forces should not have to worry about their cars being auctioned off while they are on the front lines defending our freedoms, liberties and rights,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. | Press Release (text & documents) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Topics: United Road Towing, Rod Robertson Enterprises |
| 23 August 2024 | Justice Department Sues California Towing Company for Auctioning a Servicemember’s Vehicle in Violation of Federal Law The SCRA prohibits a towing company from auctioning off a vehicle owned by a servicemember unless it first obtains an order from a court allowing it to do so. | Press Release (text & PDF) Publisher: Department of Justice Topics: Tony’s Auto Center, Mazda6 |
| 8 August 2024 | San Francisco Tow Company Operator Charged With Insurance Fraud And Money Laundering The indictment also alleges that, at the time of the offenses in 2019, Badillo owned and/or controlled at least two companies engaged in the business of towing vehicles: Jose’s Towing, LLC, and Auto Towing, LLC, both of which operated out of San Francisco. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California Dateline: San Francisco, California Topic: Jose Vicente Badillo |
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| 2 February 2023 filing date | United States of America v. City of El Paso, United Road Towing d/b/a UR Vehicle Managment Solutions, and Rod Robertson Enterprises Complaint | Civil Action ( PDF) 899KB · 10 pages Court: United States Distict Court, Western District of Texas Topics: United Road Towing, Rod Robertson Enterprises |
| 7 May 2024 filing date | United States of America v. City of El Paso, United Road Towing d/b/a UR Vehicle Managment Solutions, and Rod Robertson Enterprises Consent Order Between United States and United Road Towing, Inc. d/b/a UR Vehicle Management Solutions | Civil Action ( PDF) 14.9MB · 18 pages Court: United States Distict Court, Western District of Texas Topics: United Road Towing, Rod Robertson Enterprises |
| 1 August 2024 filing date | United States of America v. City of El Paso, United Road Towing d/b/a UR Vehicle Managment Solutions, and Rod Robertson Enterprises Consent Order Between United States and Rod Robertson Enterprises | Civil Action ( PDF) 414KB · 18 pages Court: United States Distict Court, Western District of Texas Topic: Rod Robertson Enterprises |
| 1 August 2024 filing date | United States of America v. City of El Paso, United Road Towing d/b/a UR Vehicle Managment Solutions, and Rod Robertson Enterprises Order Approving Settlement Between United States and The City of El Paso, Texas | Order ( PDF) 299KB · 18 pages Court: United States Distict Court, Western District of Texas Topics: United Road Towing, Rod Robertson Enterprises |
| 23 August 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Tony's Auto Center | Complaint ( PDF) 359KB · 7 pages Court: United States Circuit Court, Southern District of California Topic: Tony’s Auto Center |
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| March 1973 publication date | Trailer Kingpin Locks | Research Report ( PDF) 1.5MB · 16 pages Author: John J. Gasparetti Publisher: U.S. Department of Transportation |
| August 1973 publication date | A Cooperative Approach to Cargo Security in the Trucking Industry | Research Report ( PDF) 3.4MB · 108 pages Publisher: U.S. Department of Transportation |
| December 1975 publication date | Theft Related Losses Class I Motor Carries of General Freight, 1972 Through 1974 | Research Report ( PDF) 2.2MB · 20 pages Publisher: U.S. Department of Transportation |
| 15 January 2025 filing date | United States of America v. Hino Motors, Ltd. | Information ( PDF) 2.5MB · 43 pages Court: United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan Topic: Hino |
| 15 January 2025 filing date | United States of America v. Hino Motors, Ltd. | Plea Agreement ( PDF) 1.1MB · 70 pages Court: United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan Topic: Hino |
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| 26 February 2021 | Owners of Westfield Transport Indicted on Federal Charges Charges are result of investigation following June 2019 crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts Topics: Dunyadar Gasanov, Westfield Transport |
| 16 December 2021 | Agency Information Collection Activities; Emergency Approval of a Revision to a Currently-Approved Collection Request: Crime Prevention for Truckers Originally, the survey was planned to be an in-person data collection, but the project team switched to an online data collection because of the pandemic. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Thomas P. Keane Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 2 May 2023 | Women of Trucking Advisory Board (WOTAB); Notice of Public Meeting WOTAB will review and report on policies that provide education, training, mentorship, and outreach to women in the trucking industry and identify barriers and industry trends that directly or indirectly discourage women from pursuing and retaining careers in trucking. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Larry W. Minor |
| 17 January 2024 | Nevada Man Sentenced for Embezzlement Scheme Amy Shepherd, used her position with Roadrunner as a Dispatch Lead Manager to fraudulently generate advances and enter EFS check codes into Roadrunner’s accounting system. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska Byline: Lecia Wright Topics: Amy Shepherd, Roadrunner Transportation Systems |
| 18 January 2024 | Another Defendant Pleads Guilty to Multiple Charges in Fatal Tractor Trailer Smuggling Case Additionally, Riley Covarrubias-Ponce traveled from Houston to accompany the loaded tractor trailer as it transported the migrants north on Interstate Highway 35, ultimately ending up at the unloading location on Quintana Road in San Antonio, where it was discovered that many of the smuggled migrants had died. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Texas Dateline: San Antonio, Texas Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 2 February 2024 | Salt Lake Trucking Group Owners Found Guilty in a Financial Fraud Conspiracy that Cost FedEx Ground $108M Approximately $320,000 in bribes paid to FedEx Ground employees for unearned work. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Utah Byline: Felicia Martinez Dateline: Salt Lake City, Utah Topics: FedEx, Salt Lake Trucking Group |
| 6 February 2024 | Former FedEx Driver Sentenced for Selling Firearms He Stole From Packages on His Truck Between October 2021 and June 2022, Frank P. O’Toole stole three packages sent from out-of-state which he was responsible for delivering, each containing a firearm – specifically, two rifles and a shotgun – intended for a Federal Firearms Licensee. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts Topics: FedEx, Frank P. O’Toole |
| 7 February 2024 | Alien smuggler heads to prison after hiding people in tractor bed and cabinets Upon further inspection, law enforcement discovered 10 illegal aliens concealed beneath the bed compartment and in the cabinets of the tractor. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas Topic: Deibi Ramos |
| 8 February 2024 | Request for Information Concerning the Study of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the Commercial Motor Vehicle Industry FMCSA seeks information on how best to design and conduct a study to identify, categorize, and assess context and trends of SASH in the CMV industry. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Sue Lawless |
| 8 February 2024 | Trucking company owner pleads guilty to wire fraud related to illegally consolidating loads, overbilling They altered the seal serial numbers and paperwork, among other tactics to hide the scheme from shippers and receivers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio Dateline: Columbus, Ohio Topic: Gurtej Singh |
| 14 February 2024 | “Logistics coordinator” sent to prison for drug trafficking In that role, Brenda Banessa Leal coordinated drivers, dealers and cover loads on this side of the border. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Brownsville, Texas |
| 27 February 2024 | Trucker convicted for trafficking several aliens into South Texas During a search, a K-9 alerted to the sleeper area where authorities subsequently discovered seven illegal aliens concealed within the bed compartment of the tractor, in a toolbox under the bed and inside a closet. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Corpus Christi, Texas Topic: Andrew Rafael Martinez-Peralta |
| 12 March 2024 | Detroit-Area Man Found Guilty of Maliciously Setting Fires to Truck Trailers of Major Commercial Trucking Company In each of the incidents, the Swift-owned trailer was parked at or near a truck stop when a fire occurred on the trailer portion of the vehicle, mainly on or near the trailer tires. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Riverside, California Topic: Swift Transportation |
| 18 March 2024 | Slidell Man Charged with Making False Statements to The United States Small Business Administration In his Economic Impact Disaster Loan applications, among other things, Dean Meilleur falsely represented that he was the owner of a trucking business that was formed in 2017 and that he was eligible for EIDL funds. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana Topic: Dean Meilleur |
| 4 April 2024 | Hugo Man Pleads Guilty to Embezzling More Than $1.3 Million from Employer According to court documents, Leon Arthur Keener, 55, was employed as a service manager at an interstate trucking company (“Company A”) from 2011 to 2022. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Minnesota Dateline: Minneapolis, Minnesota Topic: Leon Arthur Keener |
| 8 April 2024 | Former Office Manager Sentenced to Federal Prison for Embezzling Over $8.5 Million “Hesenius will now be held accountable for her flagrant theft of millions of dollars from her employer to support a lavish lifestyle,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia Dateline: Atlanta, Georgia Topics: Sonya Hesenius, Lazer Logistics |
| 15 April 2024 | Former Owner of Philadelphia CDL School Sentenced to 57 Months in Prison for Bribing CDL Examiner and Witness Tampering “The last thing anyone should want on our roads are people behind the wheel of big rigs or school buses with bogus CDL certifications,” said U.S. Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Topics: Vladimir Tsymbalenko, Vlad’s CDL School |
| 15 April 2024 | Nebraska Man Sentenced for Involuntary Manslaughter Coenrad Jones was driving westbound on Highway 18, east of Mission, South Dakota, returning to Nebraska after hauling a load of silage. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of South Dakota Dateline: Pierre, South Dakota Topics: Coenrad Jones, United States Numbered Highways |
| 25 April 2024 | Chicago Man Sentenced to 62 Months in Prison According to documents in the case, Damiane Harris broke into a truck sales business in South Bend, Indiana, and stole a semi-tractor. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Indiana Dateline: Hammond, Indiana |
| 7 May 2024 | Memphis Man Sentenced for Possession of Goods Stolen from Semi-Trailer Memphis Police officers were flagged down by a truck driver and his wife who reported that their parked semi-trailer had been burglarized. The victims told officers that they felt movement in the back of the trailer, and while they were investigating, a shot was fired. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Tennessee Dateline: Memphis, Tennessee |
| 7 May 2024 | Ohio man pleads guilty to dumping 7,000 gallons of hazardous substance-contaminated wastewater into Scioto River More than 40,000 fish died from exposure to hazardous wastewater. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Ohio Byline: Jessica Salas Novak Dateline: Toledo, Ohio Topic: Mark Shepherd |
| 7 May 2024 | Trucking Company Operator Indicted for Tax Evasion According to the indictment, Alice F. Martin set forth a plan to phase out Martin Logistics after it became burdened with tax debt in order to make herself, and Martin Logistics, uncollectable to the Internal Revenue Service. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Ohio Byline: Jessica Salas Novak Dateline: Cleveland, Ohio Topics: Alice F. Martin, Martin Logistics |
| 13 May 2024 | Michigan Resident and Heavy-Duty Diesel Parts Supplier Indicted for Conspiracy to Violate the Clean Air Act According to the indictment HHP and Offringa conspired with a diesel truck operator in Fultonville, New York, and others, to remove, delete and tamper with monitoring devices on heavy-duty diesel trucks required to be maintained by the CAA and EPA regulations. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York Dateline: Albany, New York Topics: Kyle Offringa, Highway and Heavy Parts |
| 20 May 2024 | Oklahoma City Resident Sentenced For Theft In Indian Country And Failure To Register As A Sex Offender According to investigators, on January 26, 2023, Nathan Kelly Graham stole a fleet truck containing a GPS relay tracker from a Muskogee gas station. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 30 May 2024 | Slidell Man Guilty for Making False Statements to Small Business Administration In his Economic Impact Disaster Loan applications, among other things, Dean Meilleur falsely represented that he was the owner of a trucking business that was formed in 2017 and that he was eligible for EIDL funds. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana Byline: Shane Jones Topic: Dean Meilleur |
| 7 June 2024 | Detroit-Area Man Sentenced to More Than 10 Years in Federal Prison for Maliciously Setting Fires to Commercial Truck Trailers “By setting fire to trailer after trailer with the drivers inside the trucks, he recklessly put people’s lives at risk. Violent recidivist criminals such as this defendant will only be deterred with consequences and the sentence imposed today does just that.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Riverside, California |
| 7 June 2024 | Suburban Chicago Man Charged in Federal Court With Stealing More Than $9.5 Million in Interstate Shipments According to an indictment unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, Aivaras Zigmantas used various aliases to falsely pose as a representative of real and fictitious carriers and brokers involved in transporting shipments across state lines. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois |
| 16 July 2024 | Jury Convicts Eau Claire Man of Wire Fraud Robert Carter submitted false information to obtain semi-trucks. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Wisconsin Dateline: Madison, Wisconsin Topics: Robert Carter, Carter Transportation Group |
| 13 August 2024 | Co-Owner of Westfield Transport Pleads Guilty to Charges Stemming From 2019 Crash That Killed Seven Motorcyclists From May 3, 2019 to June 23, 2019, Dunyadar Gasanov and, allegedly, Dartanayan Gasanov falsified driving logs in order to evade federal regulations designed to ensure the safety of roadways and drivers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts Topics: Dunyadar Gasanov, Westfield Transport |
| 13 August 2024 | Commercial Trucker Who Transported Narcotics from Texas to Ohio Pleads Guilty The defendant consented to a search of the vehicle. Three black duffle bags containing 20 blue-taped packages were found during the search. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Ohio Dateline: Youngstown, Ohio Topic: Javier Eduardo Gutierrez-Quintana |
| 15 August 2024 | Georgia Trucker Sentenced for PPP Fraud “Billingslea falsified documents in order to receive PPP funds to operate illegal and unsafe businesses that he was ordered to stop operating,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia Dateline: Atlanta, Georgia Topics: Roderick Billingslea, Billingslea’s Inc. Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 28 August 2024 | Employee of Brooklyn Moving Company Sentenced for Defrauding Customers “The defendant enticed victims to use the moving companies he worked for and then held their belongings hostage to substantially higher prices and the threat of auctioning them off unless they agreed to the fraudulent demands,” stated United States Attorney Peace. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York Byline: John Marzulli & Danielle Blustein Hass |
| 28 August 2024 | Ontario truck driver arrested on drug charges at the border According to the complaint, on the evening of August 23, 2024, Customs and Border Protection officers at the Lewiston Bridge Port of Entry encountered a commercial truck with Ontario plates being driven by Kasozi. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of New York Byline: Barbara Burns Dateline: Buffalo, New York |
| 30 August 2024 | Missouri Man Found Guilty of Pandemic Fraud, Witness Tampering, Clean Air Act Violations A company part owned by Carroll, Whiskey Dix Big Truck Repair LLC, was also found guilty of 16 Clean Air Act violations. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topics: Christopher Lee Carroll, Whiskey Dix Big Truck Repair |
| 13 September 2024 | Final Defendant Sentenced in 2016 Robbery Spree in Haywood County, Tennessee On April 25, 2016, after the robbery of a truck stop, deputies with the Haywood County Sheriff's Department collected clothing on a nearby road that was worn by the armed robbers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Tennessee Dateline: Jackson, Tennessee |
| 17 September 2024 | Michigan Resident and Heavy-Duty Diesel Parts Supplier Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Violate the Clean Air Act Kyle Offringa and Highway and Heavy Parts, LLC Admit to Conspiring with Heavy-Duty Diesel Truck Operators to Tamper with Emissions-Control Monitoring Devices. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of New York Dateline: Albany, New York Topics: Kyle Offringa, Highway and Heavy Parts |
| 25 September 2024 | Trucking Company Owner Sentenced to Prison as Part of Federal Investigation That Dismantled Mexico-to-Chicago Drug Pipeline In 2015 and 2016, Jose Farias arranged with truck drivers to transport dozens of kilograms of narcotics to the Chicago area hidden in the hollowed-out wheel axles of tractor-trailers. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois Topic: Jose Farias |
| 21 October 2024 | Eau Claire Man Sentenced to 3 Years for Wire Fraud Robert E. Carter forged financial statements to fraudulently obtain semi-trucks. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Wisconsin Dateline: Madison, Wisconsin Topics: Robert Carter, Carter Transportation Group |
| 15 November 2024 | Memphis Man Sentenced in Connection with Scheme to Defraud COVID-19 Relief Program of Over $700,000 The application contained numerous false statements, including false information about the number of persons Freight Masters employed. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Tennessee Dateline: Memphis, Tennessee Topics: Herman Shaw, Freight Masters Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 21 November 2024 | Co-Owner of Westfield Transport, Inc. Sentenced for Charges Stemming from 2019 Crash That Killed Seven Motorcyclists Defendant provided false logs to evade safety regulations and lied to investigators. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts Topics: Dunyadar Gasanov, Westfield Transport |
| 22 November 2024 | Woman Who Laundered Cartel Cash, Trafficked Kilos of Narcotics From 18-Wheelers Pleads Guilty Oralia Rodriguez Flores explained that she met drivers of 18-wheeler trucks on five or six occasions to pick up cocaine from Mexico. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 26 November 2024 | Fresno Man Sentenced for Embezzling Over $1.5 Million from His Employer in Nearly Decade-Long Scheme Between 2012 and 2019, Ruiz De Chavez used his position to generate fake invoices, purportedly created by genuine vendors for goods and services. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California Dateline: Fresno, California Topic: Gabriel Ruiz De Chavez |
| 23 December 2024 | Laredo man indicted for smuggling over 100 people in locked trailer According to the criminal complaint originally filed in the case, law enforcement observed individuals being loading into a white trailer in a warehouse parking lot. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Laredo, Texas Topic: Juan Manuel Aguirre |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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. |
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| February 1974 publication date | California Crimes and Accidents Associated with Hitchhiking | Research Report ( PDF) 2.0MB · 44 pages Publisher: California Highway Patrol |
| 1978 publication date | Introducing The Ilderton Motor Project First Report | Research Report ( PDF) 1.0MB · 13 pages Publisher: Ilderton Motor Project |
| September/October 2014 | Policing Model Seeks to Reduce Traffic Crashes and Crime Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Safety (DDACTS) uses analysis of location-based crime and traffic data to establish effective methods for deploying law enforcement resources. | Commentary ( PDF) Publication: TechBeat |
| April 2022 publication date | Application of Raman and Infrared Microscopy for the Forensic Examination of Automotive Clear Coats and Paint Smears | Research Report ( PDF) 845KB · 13 pages Authors: Barry K. Lavine, Kaushalya Sharma Dahal, George Affadu, Haoran Zhong, Isio-Sota Uba Publisher: National Criminal Justice Reference Service |
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| 29 June 2022 | Agency Information Collection Activities; Notice and Request for Comment; Information Collection Request: Criminal Penalty Safe Harbor Provision Section 5 of the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation Act notes that 18 U.S.C. 1001 provides for criminal liability in circumstances where a person had the intention of misleading the Secretary of Transportation regarding safety-related defects in motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment that caused death or serious bodily injury. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Ann E. Carlson |
| 12 June 2023 | Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Request for Comment; Information Collection Request: Criminal Penalty Safe Harbor Provision Section 5 of the Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation (“TREAD”) Act, notes that 18 U.S.C. 1001 provides for criminal liability in circumstances where a person had the intention of misleading the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) regarding safety-related defects in motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment that caused death or serious bodily injury. | Federal Register Notice (text) Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: K. John Donaldson |
| 2 August 2022 | Owner and Salesman at RC Auto Sales in Connellsville Indicted in Scheme to Defraud Pandemic Loan and Benefits Programs Together, Joshua DeWitt and Terrence Newmeyer Jr. filed a series of fraudulent applications for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits and Paycheck Protection Program loans, including on behalf of customers of RC Auto Sales. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Topics: RC Auto Sales, Joshua DeWitt, Terrence Newmeyer Jr. Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 30 August 2022 | Jackson County man sentenced to 9 years in prison for orchestrating $50 million Ponzi scheme involving over-sized tires Investors were told their money would be used to buy the tires at a steep discount, and that the tires would then be re-sold to a buyer at a much higher rate. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio Dateline: Columbus, Ohio |
| 17 January 2024 | Arizona Man Appears in St. Louis Court to Answer Fraud Charges The indictment alleges that Lopez defrauded at least four customers, including a Missouri man, out of more than $500,000 by falsely claiming that he would obtain cars for them at a discount and perform vehicle repairs and upgrades. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Topics: Andres “Manny” Lopez, All Performance Tuning and Diesel Repair |
| 29 January 2024 | California Man Sentenced for Defrauding Three Business in Connection with His Fake Experimental Truck Company In May of 2019, Jesse Hernandez executed a scheme to illegally obtain funds from a New Hampshire business in connection with a customized ice cream truck for an experimental marketing event in California. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Hampshire Dateline: Concord, New Hampshire Topic: Mobie Experiential Trucks |
| 31 January 2024 | California Man Sentenced to 51 Months in Prison for Defrauding Amtrak, Trailways of More Than $475,000 During these calls, he pretended to be a representative of a utility company, calling to collect an overdue bill or an official from a licensing board that oversaw nail salons. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dateline: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Topic: Trailways |
| 5 February 2024 | “Wholesaler” of fake tags sentenced for selling hundreds of thousands of illegal Texas paper tags At the hearing, the court heard how she and others engaged in a widespread fraud to use fictitious car dealerships to generate and sell Texas temporary buyer tags without actually selling cars. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas Dateline: Houston, Texas |
| 7 February 2024 | Brimhall Man Pleads Guilty to Murder Gilbert John Jr. lit the car on fire and left it burning with John Doe’s body inside of it. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 9 February 2024 | Omaha Nation Man Sentenced for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon The minivan, driven by an unknown person, sped away with the two still struggling. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska Byline: Lecia Wright |
| 9 February 2024 | Russian mobster extradited from Ukraine and sentenced in $9+ million fraud scheme involving exotic car leasing business catering to drug traffickers and others “Chulpayev then used the fruits of his fraud – a fleet of exotic cars – to enable drug traffickers to operate, evade detection, and launder their illicit proceeds,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia Dateline: Atlanta, Georgia |
| 14 February 2024 | Federal Law Enforcement Seizes $70k Vehicle to be Applied to Former CEO's $74 Million Restitution Order According to court documents, the U.S. Attorney’s Office obtained information that Jon Harder had purchased a 2023 Ford F-150 truck for a cash sale price of approximately $70,000 using funds provided by a non-familial person. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Oregon Dateline: Portland, Oregon Topic: Ford F-150 |
| 15 February 2024 | Three Accused of Nearly $350,000 Auto Loan Fraud In all cases, Willie Roy Carter claimed the car was being sold by City Limits Auto Sales, a business name registered in Missouri in 2016 by Charles Davis, the indictment says. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 27 February 2024 | Four Individuals Plead Guilty to Bid Rigging and Price Fixing in Ongoing Investigation of Oklahoma Transportation Construction Contractors Four erosion control company owners or managers pleaded guilty to rigging bids and fixing prices as part of a conspiracy targeting a total of over $100 million in publicly funded transportation construction contracts across Oklahoma. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Oklahoma Dateline: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| 29 February 2024 | Okmulgee Resident Sentenced For Attempted Robbery According to investigators, Raithiele Robinson attempted to rob the victim of valuables by force as the victim sat in a vehicle at the intersection of Kern and Kiowa in Okmulgee. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 1 March 2024 | Buffalo man arrested, accused of attacking two VA police officers Steven Iverson became verbally resistant to officer commands and rolled up his window and locked himself inside the vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of New York Byline: Barbara Burns Dateline: Buffalo, New York |
| 5 March 2024 | Former Kentucky Sheriff’s Deputy Found Guilty of Federal Civil Rights Charges Following Multiple Assaults and Obstruction When the driver requested to speak with the defendant’s supervisor, Sheriff’s Deputy Tanner Abbott punched him in the face, pulled him out of the car and struck him several more times as he lay on the ground, not resisting arrest or posing any threat. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice |
| 6 March 2024 | Former Boyle County Sheriff’s Deputy Found Guilty of Federal Civil Rights Charges following Multiple Assaults and Obstruction When the driver requested to speak with the defendant’s supervisor, Sheriff’s Deputy Tanner Abbott punched him in the face, pulled him out of the car and struck him several more times as he lay on the ground, not resisting arrest or posing any threat. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Kentucky Byline: Gabrielle Dudgeon Dateline: Lexington, Kentucky |
| 7 March 2024 | Memphis Man Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Counterfeit Airbags from China Additionally, Mohammed Al-Abadi shipped at least one counterfeit airbag by airplane without proper hazardous material classifications, labeling, or packaging in violation of the Department of Transportation’s hazardous material regulations. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Tennessee Byline: Tiffany Thomas-Turner Dateline: Memphis, Tennessee |
| 19 March 2024 | Owners of China-Based Company Charged With Conspiracy to Send Trade Secrets Belonging to Leading U.S.-Based Electric Vehicle Company In 2019, Victim Company-1 acquired a Canada-based manufacturer of automated, precision dispensing pumps and battery assembly lines. Both Klaus Pflugbeil and his co-defendant Yilong Shao are former employees of the Canadian Manufacturer. | Press Release (text & image) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York Byline: John Marzulli & Danielle Blustein Hass Topics: Klaus Pflugbeil, Yilong Shao, Tesla |
| 27 March 2024 | Omaha Man Sentenced for COVID-19 Relief Program Fraud The applications misrepresented how much Kelly’s business had paid employees in past compensation and how much revenue Richard L. Kelly’s business had received, resulting in applications for significantly inflated loan amounts under the PPP and EIDL programs. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nebraska Byline: Lecia Wright Topic: Richard L. Kelly |
| 18 April 2024 | Companies pay $92,000 to settle allegations related to false statement in COVID-19 funding applications U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Buffalo Transportation Inc., Ontario Bus Inc., and several other businesses owned by Igor Finkelshtein, have agreed to pay $91,838 to resolve allegations arising under the False Claims Act. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of New York Byline: Barbara Burns Dateline: Buffalo, New York Topic: Igor Finkelshtein Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 26 April 2024 | Former Massachusetts State Police Lieutenant Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Fraudulent Overtime Scheme From 2015 through 2018, Griffin, Robertson and other troopers in the Traffic Programs Section at State Police Headquarters in Framingham, conspired to steal thousands of dollars in federally funded overtime by regularly arriving late to, and leaving early from, overtime shifts funded by grants intended to improve traffic safety. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 1 May 2024 | Former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Conspiring to Steal Overtime Funds and Wire Fraud From 2015 through 2018, Griffin, Robertson and other troopers in the Traffic Programs Section at State Police Headquarters in Framingham, conspired to steal thousands of dollars in federally funded overtime by regularly arriving late to, and leaving early from, overtime shifts funded by grants intended to improve traffic safety. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Dateline: Boston, Massachusetts |
| 6 May 2024 | Mobile Men Sentenced for Making Threats to Police Officer According to court documents, in April of 2023 Mobile Police Officers executed a traffic stop on a vehicle in Mobile, Alabama. One of the passengers of the vehicle live-streamed the interaction on Instagram. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Alabama Dateline: Mobile, Alabama |
| 8 May 2024 | Justice Department Secures Relief from Hyundai Capital America to Compensate Servicemembers Whose Federal Civil Rights Were Violated The law prevents an auto finance or leasing company from repossessing a servicemember’s vehicle without first obtaining a court order, as long as the servicemember made at least one payment on the vehicle before entering military service. | Press Release (text & documents) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Topic: Hyundai |
| 8 May 2024 | Defendant Sentenced for Impersonating a Federal Agent Wearing a black tactical vest and a black balaclava, and armed with a weapon, Khriy Sherrod Simon aggressively approached the driver’s side of the car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of North Carolina Dateline: Greensboro, North Carolina |
| 28 May 2024 | Woodbridge man convicted of impersonating a federal officer When asked about his vehicle, he challenged police, “You’re asking a federal officer if there’s anything illegal in his vehicle?” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia Dateline: Alexandria, Virginia |
| 30 May 2024 | Slidell Man Guilty for Making False Statements to Small Business Administration In his Economic Impact Disaster Loan applications, among other things, Dean Meilleur falsely represented that he was the owner of a trucking business that was formed in 2017 and that he was eligible for EIDL funds. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana Byline: Shane Jones Topic: Dean Meilleur |
| 4 June 2024 | Thoreau Woman Charged with Involutory Manslaughter According to the indictment, on May 28, 2023, Nora Abeita was driving without due caution when she killed John Doe. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico Dateline: Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 5 June 2024 | Final Defendant Sentenced For ATM Burglaries The final defendant was sentenced Tuesday by United States District Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey for his role in a conspiracy to burglarize multiple bank automatic teller machines by forcibly ripping them open with pry bars, hammers, hooks, and chains connected to stolen Ford F-250 pickup trucks. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Nevada Dateline: Las Vegas, Nevada Topic: Ford F-250 |
| 5 June 2024 | U.S. Attorney's Office Secures Agreement With Rutherford County Restaurant To Ensure Parking Accessibility to Disabled Customers The ADA requires that state or local governments, businesses, or non-profit organizations that provide parking lots or garages, must provide accessible parking spaces for disabled individuals. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina Dateline: Charlotte, North Carolina |
| 13 June 2024 | Resident of China Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Send Leading Electric Vehicle Company’s Trade Secrets to an Undercover U.S. Agent In 2019, Victim Company-1 acquired a Canada-based manufacturer of automated, precision dispensing pumps and battery assembly lines. Both Klaus Pflugbeil and his co-defendant Yilong Shao are former employees of the Canadian Manufacturer. | Press Release (text & image) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York Byline: John Marzulli Topics: Klaus Pflugbeil, Yilong Shao, Tesla |
| 13 June 2024 | Resident of China Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Send Leading Electric Vehicle Company’s Trade Secrets to Undercover U.S. Agent In 2019, Victim Company-1 acquired a Canada-based manufacturer of automated, precision dispensing pumps and battery assembly lines. Both Klaus Pflugbeil and his co-defendant Yilong Shao are former employees of the Canadian Manufacturer. | Press Release (text & image) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice Topics: Klaus Pflugbeil, Yilong Shao, Tesla |
| 27 June 2024 | Illinois Man Sentenced to 15 Months’ Imprisonment for Fraud Involving Luxury Vehicles All told, Tomasz Bazarewicz was responsible for laundering over three million dollars of ill-gotten funds. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Wisconsin Byline: Kenneth Gales |
| 28 June 2024 | Former Courtesy Patrol Executive Sentenced for Bankruptcy Fraud Robert Martin formed Citizens Conservation Corp in 1993 and its primary source of income beginning in 1998 was a multimillion-dollar contract with the State of West Virginia to operate the Courtesy Patrol roadside assistance service. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of West Virginia Dateline: Beckley, West Virginia |
| 18 July 2024 | Four Individuals Indicted in Bribery Scheme to Eliminate Puerto Rico Department of Transportation Fines According to court documents, defendants Nancy Báez-Flores and Josselyn Figueroa-Rosario were employees of DTOP assigned to work in the regional driver service centers located in Caguas and Carolina, Puerto Rico. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Puerto Rico Dateline: San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 22 July 2024 | Seminole Resident Pleads Guilty To Involuntary Manslaughter In Indian Country The Indictment alleged that, on November 23, 2022, Lucus Wayne Cullum killed the victim while failing to devote his full time and attention to driving. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 26 July 2024 | Federal Jury Convicts Sean Christopher Williams Of Escape The evidence presented at trial highlighted the multi-state manhunt that led to the capture of Williams in Pinellas County, Florida, on November 21, 2023, after he escaped from a transport van en route to the Greeneville Federal Courthouse on October 18, 2023. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Tennessee Byline: Rachelle Barnes Dateline: Greenville, Tennessee |
| 8 August 2024 | Company, Executive and Employee Indicted for $100M Price-Fixing Conspiracy Involving Publicly Funded Infrastructure Projects Erosion control products and services, including sod, are used to control runoff of soil or rock on highway construction and repair projects. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice |
| 13 August 2024 | Former General Motors Manager Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Receiving Bribe from Foreign Auto Parts Supplier Seeking Contract In 2015, a foreign parts supplier paid So a total of $3.45 million in cash. As a manager and team leader at General Motors, So oversaw the supply of parts used to build interiors for GM automobiles in North America. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California Byline: Ciaran McEvoy Dateline: Los Angeles, California Topics: Hyoung Nam So, General Motors, Wookyung MIT |
| 16 August 2024 | Swain County Man Pleads Guilty To Cold Case Murder In Indian Country The body of Marie Walkingstick Pheasant was discovered inside a burned-out vehicle parked near Big Cove Road within the Qualla Boundary in the Western District of North Carolina. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of North Carolina Dateline: Asheville, North Carolina |
| 28 August 2024 | Former MPD Officer Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison for Scheme that Sold Personal Data of Traffic Crash Victims Raquel DePaula testified at trial that she paid Vincent Forrest between approximately $1,200 and $1,800 in bribe payments per week in exchange for the victim contact information. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Dateline: Washington, D.C. |
| 18 September 2024 | Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Owner and Operator of the Vessel that Destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge Claim Seeks Over $100M in Costs Incurred to Reopen Access to the Port of Baltimore and Punitive Damages for the Owner and Operator’s Reckless Conduct. | Press Release (text) Publisher: Department of Justice Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 18 September 2024 | Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against The Owner And Operator Of The Vessel That Destroyed The Francis Scott Key Bridge While navigating through the Fort McHenry Channel, the vessel lost power, regained power, and then lost power again before striking the bridge. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Byline: Angelina Thompson Dateline: Washington, D.C. Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 27 September 2024 | Winter Garden Man Who Backed Vehicle Into Business And Stole Six Firearms Pleads Guilty After smashing the front door and wall of the business, Camacho entered the store 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 |
| 2 October 2024 | Chinle Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Kidnapping and Assault In July 2020, the victim was passing through the Navajo Nation on a road trip when John and a co-defendant broke into his car while he was resting for the night. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona Byline: Zach J. Stoebe Dateline: Phoenix, Arizona |
| 8 October 2024 | Four Defendants Charged With Multi-Million-Dollar Fraud Targeting San Francisco Delivery Company Drivers fulfill those orders by collecting the ordered items from restaurants and other merchants and delivering them to customers. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California Dateline: San Jose, California |
| 11 October 2024 | Fresno Man Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Series of Vehicle Pipe-Bombings According to court documents, between November 2022 and February 2023, Scott Eric Anderson committed a series of pipe-bombings on unoccupied vehicles and property in Fresno. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California Dateline: Fresno, California |
| 17 October 2024 | Des Moines Woman Indicted in Relation to Deadly Traffic Stop According to public court documents, Shawnna Marie Cunningham was a passenger in a vehicle that refused to stop when law enforcement attempted to initiate a traffic stop. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Iowa Byline: MacKenzie Tubbs Dateline: Des Moines, Iowa |
| 24 October 2024 | U.S. Reaches Settlement For Over $100m In Civil Lawsuit Against Owner And Operator Of The Vessel That Destroyed The Francis Scott Key Bridge Settlement will cover federal costs incurred to restore access to The Port of Baltimore. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Byline: Angelina Thompson Dateline: Washington, D.C. Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 28 October 2024 | Beckley Man Sentenced for COVID-19 Relief Fraud Business owner paid $902,475.49 to satisfy restitution and civil penalty. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of West Virginia Dateline: Beckley, West Virginia Topics: RMR Delivery Service, Mark William Bailey Special Collection: COVID-19 |
| 31 October 2024 | Ten-Time Convicted Felon, Who Fled From Girlfriend’s Violent Death, Sentenced To 14 Years In Federal Prison According to court records, Albert Ayala was driving a vehicle on I-4 when his girlfriend, the sole passenger in the vehicle, was ejected from the car. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Florida Dateline: Orlando, Florida Topic: Interstate Highway System |
| 5 November 2024 | Man Sentenced to Seven Years in Federal Prison After Serving as Getaway Driver in Enfield Convenience Store Robbery According to court documents and other information presented in court, Khiyelle Dent was the getaway driver for an individual who entered the Speedway in Enfield, brandished a firearm, and demanded money from the clerk. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina Topic: Speedway |
| 5 November 2024 | Westbrook Bank Robber Who Threatened to Detonate a Car Bomb at South Portland Bank Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison Using the pneumatic tube, he passed a note to the teller that read, “CAR BOMB No Cops Alarms or WE ALL DIE $50,000 in 20’s.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maine Byline: Peter I. Brostowi Dateline: Portland, Maine |
| 12 November 2024 | Former Assistant Treasurer for Bridgestone Americas Arrested and Charged with a $15 Million Wire Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme In July 2020, Sajju Khatiwada created a phony vendor called Paymt-Tech, LLC and began submitting bogus invoices to Bridgestone for purported bank fees owed to Paymt-Tech. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Middle District of Tennessee Byline: Mark H. Wildasin Dateline: Nashville, Tennessee Topics: Bridgestone, Sajju Khatiwada |
| 14 November 2024 | Mexican National Pleads Guilty to Murder on the Natchez Trace Parkway Cristian Mitchel Mondragon Gonzales convinced the victim to go for a ride with him. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Mississippi Dateline: Jackson, Mississippi |
| 14 November 2024 | Three Admit Nearly $350,000 Auto Loan Fraud Willie Roy Carter claimed the cars were being sold by City Limits Auto Sales, a business name registered in Missouri in 2016 by Charles Davis. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 15 November 2024 | Armed Drug Trafficker with Infant in His Car Sentenced to 9 Years In both February and July 2023, he was found asleep in a running vehicle, each time with a loaded gun and multiple types of controlled substances. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 27 November 2024 | New York Business Owner Convicted of Illegal Transport and Sale of Unregistered Pesticides The Department of Transportation has responsibility under the Hazardous Material Transportation Act to ensure private motor carriers maintain shipping papers with critical information about the relevant hazardous substance to safeguard police and first responders in the event of an accident or exposure. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Byline: Angelina Thompson Dateline: Baltimore, Maryland |
| 4 December 2024 | Operations Manager at McCormick Place in Chicago Charged With Pocketing Kickbacks From Snowplow Vendor Dominick Gironda managed contracts with vendors that provided services at the McCormick Place campus, which consists of multiple buildings, parking lots, and other spaces for conventions and trade shows. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Illinois Dateline: Chicago, Illinois |
| 19 December 2024 | St. Charles County Man Sentenced for Multiple Vehicle-Related Frauds In 2022, Ronald Johnson tricked a victim from Pennsylvania into paying $41,750 for a 2002 Ford Excursion that he’d already sold to a victim in South Dakota for $45,000. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 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 |
| Date | Document | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 5 February 2024 filing date | United States of America vs. Gilbert John Jr, et. al. | Plea Agreement ( PDF) 467KB · 11 pages Court: United States District Court, District of New Mexico |
| 14 May 2024 filing date | United States of America vs. Nora Abeita | Indictment ( PDF) 516KB · 1 page Court: United States District Court, District of New Mexico |
| 7 August 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Saye Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri, Matheus Duarte, Manaswi Mandadapu, & Hari Vamsi Anne | Indictment ( PDF) 874KB · 6 pages Court: |
| 17 September 2024 filing date | United States of America v. Oluwatobi Emmanuel Otukelu and Evan Jordan Edwards | Indictment ( PDF) 366KB · 17 pages Court: United States District Court, Northern District of California |
| 18 September 2024 filing date | In the Matter of the Petition of Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Pte Ltd United States' Claim and Answer to Petitioners Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Pte Ltd's Petition for Exoneration from or Limitation of Liability | Complaint ( PDF) 2.7MB · 53 pages Court: United States District Court, District of Maryland Topic: Interstate Highway System |