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The FBI said some of the notes were pure extortion, while ‘other ransom demands may potentially be legitimate and are still being investigated as such.’
The arrests mark the second major federal enforcement operation in the area in less than a year.
The acting attorney general said that in the 18 months since Jan. 20, 2025, almost 350 TDA members have been charged or convicted of various crimes.
Merchants used Alibaba.com and AliExpress to sell illegal pharmaceuticals, listed chemicals, and pill-press equipment into America, federal prosecutors said.
The DEA wants to make it illegal to sell or possess 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH).
Nine other defendants were sentenced last week to decades in prison.
The suspects in the indictment were responsible for at least 333,000 deadly doses of fentanyl flowing into Minnesota’s communities, officials said.
Cal-Maine, Versova, and Hickman’s Egg Ranch will also donate 53 million eggs after authorities alleged they coordinated bids to raise benchmark prices.
Local investigators say the mysterious disappearance is ‘definitely unusual.’
A man pleaded guilty to a bank robbery but said police shouldn’t have used his cellphone location data to pinpoint him as a suspect.
While the House has advanced the election integrity bill, the Senate is another story. House Republicans are divided on it as the president renews his advocacy.
Out of the 14 million who used drugs via injections, almost 7 million had hepatitis C, 1.7 million were living with HIV, and 1.5 million had both.
The seizure of cocaine supplies has denied narcoterrorists about $7.2 billion in revenues, officials said.
The defendant is among dozens accused in the Feeding Our Future scam that reaped $250 million from a government meals program for the needy.
The encounters came from two separate seizures on the same day in the Laredo Sector of the U.S.–Mexico border.
Servers and domains linked to illegal streaming of World Cup games were targeted in Peru and Bulgaria.
More than 3 pounds of marijuana and 6 pounds of tobacco were found in the facility.
Last year, the agency had arrested 1,700 child predators and more than 300 human traffickers.
State officials estimate about 20,000 criminal illegal immigrants were processed through the facility since it opened last year.
