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News -- The FBI Memphis Field Office is warning parents and caregivers about an upsurge in teen sextortion instances in middle and west Tennessee. Adults posing as age-appropriate females are coercing young boys to make sexual photographs and videos over social media and then extorting money from them, according to the FBI.
FAIRBANKS Alaska -- After pleading guilty to two charges of threatening to murder Alaska's two U.S. Senators, a Delta Junction, Alaska man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to 32 months in prison and a $5,000 fine.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- April 13, 2022: The FBI announced Monday a federal jury found an off-duty Virginia police officer guilty of charges today for his acts during and after the invasion of the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His and others' activities caused a snarl in a joint session of the United States Congress that was convened to determine and tally electoral votes in the presidential election.
Tampa, FL -- April 11, 2022: U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced
Loyd Tomlinson, I (St. Petersburg, 79) to four years and four months in federal prison for defrauding
a federally insured financial institution out of more than $20 million.
News -- The Department of Justice announced today the seizure of the RaidForums website, a prominent marketplace for cybercriminals to acquire and sell hacked data, as well as the unsealing of criminal charges against RaidForums'
Kentucky -- April 10, 2022: An indictment was released Thursday in federal court in Louisville, Kentucky, charging
a violent crime by shooting at and attempting to kill a candidate for elective office.
News -- April 12, 2022: Stealth Omicron -- Its formal designation is BA.2, however due to a mutation that causes it to appear differently in lab tests than its sibling strain, some scientists have called the subvariant "stealth omicron."It's currently the most common coronavirus strain in the United States and more than a half-dozen other countries.
CHARLESTON, West Virginia -- April 8, 2022: The Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District
of West Virginia press release annouced Thursday two Charleston men pleaded guilty to drug offenses involving
