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ICE Captures Illegal Immigrant With Rape Conviction In Maryland ICE Captures Illegal Immigrant With Rape Conviction In Maryland
ICE Captures Illegal Immigrant With Rape Conviction In Maryland A 19-year-old Guatemalan national in the country illegally who was convicted of raping a Maryland resident has been apprehended, according to US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. Deportation officers with Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Baltimore’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested Henry Argueta-Tobar this week in Waldorf, authorities announced on Thursday. According to ICE, US Border Patrol apprehended Argueta-Tobar in May 2019 near El Paso as an unaccompanied minor, where he was issued a notice to appear before a DOJ immigration judge. Two days after bei…

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by Zak Failla
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Man Who Muled Teen From Mexico To Maryland Sentenced For Sexual Abusing Minor: Prosecutor Man Who Muled Teen From Mexico To Maryland Sentenced For Sexual Abusing Minor: Prosecutor
Man Who Muled Teen From Mexico To Maryland Sentenced For Sexual Abusing Minor: Prosecutor A Maryland drug and sex trafficker who ferried a young girl from Mexico into the DMV region will spend decades behind bars for his role in a nefarious scheme, the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office announced. Gaithersburg resident Francisco Barahona, 46, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison with all but 30 years suspended after pleading guilty last year to sexually abusing a minor. According to prosecutors, in 2019, Barahona was in the middle of serving a 10-year sentence for federal drug trafficking charges when the victim in the second case came forward to the police to …

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by Zak Failla
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El Chapo Sons, Dubbed ‘Pioneers' Of Fentanyl Epidemic, Charged In Massive Sinaloa Cartel Case El Chapo Sons, Dubbed ‘Pioneers' Of Fentanyl Epidemic, Charged In Massive Sinaloa Cartel Case
El Chapo Sons, Dubbed ‘Pioneers' Of Fentanyl Epidemic, Charged In Massive Sinaloa Cartel Case Four sons of notorious druglord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman are among more than two dozen members of Mexico's reigning Sinaloa cartel charged in a massive fentanyl-trafficking offensive announced by federal officials on Friday. The infamous quartet known as the Chapitos – each of whom had $5 million U.S. bounties placed on their heads – were dubbed “the pioneers” of fentanyl’s introduction to American users by DEA Administrator Anne Milgram during an April 14 news conference in Washington, D.C. “Death and destruction are central to their whole operation,” said Milgram, a former New Jersey a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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US Marshals Join Search For Maryland Woman Involved In International Murder-For-Hire Plot US Marshals Join Search For Maryland Woman Involved In International Murder-For-Hire Plot
US Marshals Join Search For Maryland Woman Involved In International Murder-For-Hire Plot The US Marshals have widened a search for a Maryland woman who they say was involved in an interstate murder-for-hire plot with her husband, reports Fox Baltimore. Jessica Erazo-Rosa, 36, is wanted on federal charges and has been on the run for more than a year since the arrest of her husband Rudy Adonaldo-Chaves following a 2019 undercover investigation into an international drug trafficking ring, continues the outlet. Erazo-Rosa is said to have been intimately involved with the plot, which was uncovered after an undercover agent set up an undercover buy. During the operation, he reportedl…

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by Annie DeVoe
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Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password
Netflix Is About To Start Charging You To Share Your Password Sharing your Netflix password will soon come with a price. Starting in early 2023, Netflix will allow only one "home account" and charge for every "sub account" added to that account — up to five, the company announced. The new payment plan was rolled out as an experiment in Argentina, Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, where customers paid $2.99 to add a sub account. Netflix did not immediately say how much sub accounts will cost Americans.

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by Cecilia Levine
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Maryland Sisters Ambushed On Las Vegas Strip Maryland Sisters Ambushed On Las Vegas Strip
Maryland Sisters Ambushed On Las Vegas Strip A pair of Baltimore sisters away on a girls trip were among eight victims of an unprovoked attack on the Las Vegas strip last week. Gabby and Cassy Hewes and the six other people were stabbed near the Wynn Las Vegas around 11:40 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, according to loved ones and local police. Two of those victims died. The suspect has been identified as Yoni Barrios, a 32-year-old Guatemalan native who carried out the attack to "let the anger out," abc7 reports. More than $16,000 had been raised for the Hewes sisters on a GoFundMe page as of Tuesday, Oct. 11.

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by Cecilia Levine