SACRAMENTO–Governor Gavin Newsom Monday signed AB 392 by Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego). The bill enacts one of the strongest use-of-force laws in the country. AB 392 modernizes standards for use of deadly force by officers. Specifically, this bill updates the existing deadly force standards to provide that deadly force may only be used when […]

Jacksonville, FL–Two off-duty firefighters have been reported lost at sea since Friday, Aug. 16, near Port Canaveral, Florida CBP Air and Marine Operations (AMO) is currently conducting search and rescue missions in hopes of locating the two men.    AMO in Jacksonville has deployed a P-3 Orion Long Range Tracker crew, two Multi-Role Enforcement Aircraft crews, […]

SAN FRANCISCO – In the Sunset District in San Francisco, Governor Gavin Newsom met with Californians struggling to secure housing near their work. At the event, Governor Newsom highlighted the historic investment this year’s California budget made in housing and discussed executive actions he has taken to confront California’s housing shortage and housing affordability crisis. […]

Alameda, CA–Crews aboard the pre-commissioned Coast Guard Cutter Midgett (WMSL 757) interdicted a suspected low-profile go-fast vessel July 31, seizing more than 4,600 pounds of cocaine during a boarding in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. This was the second at-sea cocaine seizure made by Midgett’s crew within five days. Midgett’s crew seized more […]

A citizen of Uzbekistan and resident of New Haven, Connecticut, pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).  Azizjon Rakhmatov’s plea took place before U.S. District Court Judge William Kuntz II.  According to court filings, 32-year-old Rakhmatov’s co-defendants Abdurasul Juraboev […]

RIVERSIDE–A California Highway Patrol officer died from his injuries in a shootout between a driver and other patrol officers during a traffic stop in Riverside on Monday. CHP Officer Andre Moye, 34, was conducting a traffic stop on a white pick-up truck on Eucalyptus Avenue near Interstate 215. The truck was impounded and the driver […]

Yuma, AZ–Homeland Security Investigations Yuma special agents Thursday arrested a man and seized 221.22 pounds of methamphetamine and 5.0 pounds of cocaine with a combined approximate street value of nearly $4.1 million, as well as multiple cell phones, in a targeted enforcement action led by investigators. The enforcement activity began when the Yuma County Sheriff’s […]

Hildago, TX–U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Hidalgo International Bridge intercepted $289,000 worth of methamphetamine as it was being smuggled into the United States. “Our frontline officers’ outstanding commitment towards the CBP mission has enabled them to effect this interception of hard narcotics, although compact in quantity, but still […]

A former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives was sentenced today after pleading guilty to wire fraud and willfully violating the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) by operating fraudulent and unregistered political action committees. Harold Russell Taub, 30, of Cranston, Rhode Island, was sentenced to serve 36 months in prison followed by three years […]

An Iran citizen pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to unlawfully export gas turbine parts from the United States to Iran. Mahin Mojtahedzadeh, 74, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations. She admitted that she was the President and Managing […]