A Dominican citizen who assaulted federal immigration officers, and bit off the tip of one agent’s ring finger during a deportation arrest, was sentenced this week to nearly four years in prison. Christopher Santos-Felix, 29, appeared before a federal judge Monday in New York where
A former California resident has been sentenced to three months in federal prison for gunning down a protected elephant seal in the state, authorities said. Jordan Gerbich, 30, was sentenced on Monday for killing the marine mammal in September 2019 at an elephant seal
An Illinois man has been sentenced to 13.5 years in prison for allegedly conspiring to provide material support to ISIS. According to the Department of Justice, 39-year-old Edward Schimenti of Zion was convicted by a federal jury in 2019 on one count of
A Florida woman has been sentenced to 30 days behind bars after pleading guilty to deliberately coughing in a cancer patient’s face at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in an interaction caught on video last year. Debra Jo Hunter, 53, pleaded guilty to
Kelly Thomas Jackson of Edmonds, Washington, has been sentenced to 40 months, or more than three years, in federal prison after throwing Molotov cocktails at two police vehicles in Seattle during protests last year. According to the district attorney’s office, video footage showed the
Three more ex-South Carolina law enforcement officers have been sentenced to federal prison following an FBI operation in which agents posed as Mexican drug cartel members. A U.S. judge in federal court in Columbia sentenced Carolyn Colter Franklin, 64, a former Orangeburg
A man from North Carolina – who federal prosecutors deemed a “domestic terrorist” – was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison for attempting to set fire to a marked police vehicle during demonstrations last summer that erupted in the state capital
Three illegal immigrant cousins, including at least one who was previously deported, have been collectively sentenced to about 60 years in prison for manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine. The Justice Department said Monday that the Mexican cousins operated a meth lab at a family home
A Navy veteran was sentenced Friday to 16 years to life in prison for murdering his estranged wife and hiding her body in a freezer for nearly two years before dumping her corpse into San Diego Bay, according to reports. Matthew Sullivan, 36,
A California man was sentenced Thursday to 212 years in federal prison for killing his two autistic sons in a staged car accident so he could collect on accidental death insurance policies he had taken out on their lives. Ali F. Elmezayen,
