A former coal company executive was arrested Thursday on charges of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, laundering funds, and receiving kickbacks as part of an alleged scheme to pay bribes to government officials in Egypt in connection with contracts with an Egyptian state-owned and state-controlled company, Al Nasr Company for Coke and Chemicals. The […]

San Clemente, CA–San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents located more than 100 pounds of methamphetamine hidden inside a pickup truck on Thursday afternoon. The incident began at approximately 1:30 p.m. when agents on Interstate 5 observed a suspicious blue Ford pickup driving northbound. Agents initiated a vehicle stop and the driver yielded at the I-5 Border […]

By Gina Yarbrough Washington, D.C.–A shooting outside of Nationals Park in D.C. halted a baseball game between the San Diego Padres and Washington Nationals Saturday evening at the stadium. Several rounds of gunfire were reported outside of the third-base gate during the sixth inning. Both teams immediately left the field and the game was halted […]

San Francisco CA–A California-licensed homeopathic doctor was arrested for her alleged scheme to sell homeoprophylaxis immunization pellets and to falsify COVID-19 vaccination cards by making it appear that customers had received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the Moderna vaccine. Juli Mazi, 41, of Napa, is charged with one count of wire fraud and […]

Santa Ana, CA–An Orange County man was sentenced May 28 to 24 months in federal prison for operating an illegal virtual-currency money services business that exchanged up to $25 million – some of it on behalf of criminals – through in-person transactions and a network of Bitcoin ATM-type kiosks. Kais Mohammad, a.k.a. “Superman29,” 37, of […]

Washington, D.C.–A Virginia man and former Army Green Beret was sentenced to 188 months in prison for conspiring with Russian intelligence operatives to provide them with U.S. national defense information. Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 46, of Gainesville, admitted to conspiring with agents of a Russian intelligence service. According to court documents, from December 1996 to […]

Pasadena, CA– After 15 years of planning and development, the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system is now available to more than 50 million people in California, Oregon, and Washington, the most earthquake-prone region in the conterminous U.S. Tuesday’s debut of ShakeAlert-powered public alerting to mobile phones in Washington completes the U.S. Geological Survey and partners’ […]

Sacramento, CA–Governor Gavin Newsom announced that California will send lifesaving oxygen equipment to India as that country faces a devastating and fast-spreading surge of COVID-19 cases. “When communities across the world need help, California steps up. As we surpass 28 million vaccinations and continue to see the lowest positivity rates in the country, we must […]

Los Angeles, CA–A federal grand jury in Los Angeles returned an indictment on April 13, charging a California man with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). According to court documents, Oumar Sissoko, 59, of Temecula, submitted a PPP loan application on behalf of his company, Road Doctor California LLC, […]