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Sweet Smuggle: Dulles CBP Officers Uncover Cocaine Hidden In Hot Chocolate Packages Sweet Smuggle: Dulles CBP Officers Uncover Cocaine Hidden In Hot Chocolate Packages
Sweet Smuggle: Dulles CBP Officers Uncover Cocaine Hidden In Hot Chocolate Packages US Customs and Border Protection agents seized a shipment at Dulles Airport destined for Northern Virginia filled with multiple packages of hot chocolate that were filled with a white substance that was not tiny marshmallows. More than 28 pounds of cocaine that was concealed inside of 10 packages of hot chocolate beverage base will never make it to the streets after agents found it while examining a food shipment brought into the country by a Guatemalan courier. According to officials, federal authorities initially detained the courier; however, authorities released the courier on Tues…
Convict Caught With PCP, Short-Barreled Rifle Cops To Crime In DC: Feds Convict Caught With PCP, Short-Barreled Rifle Cops To Crime In DC: Feds
Convict Caught With PCP, Short-Barreled Rifle Cops To Crime In DC: Feds A District man with a checkered criminal past is facing decades behind bars after admitting to federal gun and drug charges, authorities announced. Clarence Faulkner, 42, a convicted felon, pleaded guilty in Washington, DC to unlawful possession of a short-barreled rifle that was found in his car along with PCP and cocaine, according to federal prosecutors. In November last year, officers from the Metropolitan Police Department were on patrol in the 300 block of 61st Street NE when they spotted an unoccupied sedan parked on the side of the street running and unattended. After advising the …
District Man Heads To Prison For Violent Daytime Stabbing Of Victim In Southeast DC District Man Heads To Prison For Violent Daytime Stabbing Of Victim In Southeast DC
District Man Heads To Prison For Violent Daytime Stabbing Of Victim In Southeast DC The man who brutally stabbed his victim in broad daylight in Southeast DC will spend years in prison after admitting late last year to the crime, federal authorities announced. Joshua Dorsey, 29, was sentenced to 96 months in prison, a judge announced, after he was was convicted of one count of aggravated assault while armed following his guilty plea in November last year. Shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, members of the Metropolitan Police Department were called to the 1200 block of Good Hope Road SE, where they found a man suffering from stab wounds.  He was …
Super Bowl Sunday Shooter Sentenced For Gunning Down Man In DC Before Big Game Super Bowl Sunday Shooter Sentenced For Gunning Down Man In DC Before Big Game
Super Bowl Sunday Shooter Sentenced For Gunning Down Man In DC Before Big Game A District man who killed a man and injured two others during a Super Bowl Sunday shooting three years ago will spend decade behind bars, federal authorities announced. Glenn Dolford, 29, was sentenced to 270 months (22 ½ years) in prison for the murder of 26-year-old Raheem Murray on Feb. 2, 2020, hours before the Kansas City Chiefs won Super Bowl LIV over the San Francisco 49ers in Miami. Specifically, Dolford pleaded guilty to: Murder while armed; Aggravated assault while armed; Assault with a deadly weapon. On the day of the shooting, federal prosecutors say that three people, inclu…
Predator Admits To Coercing Children Into Sexual Acts Through Social Media In DC Predator Admits To Coercing Children Into Sexual Acts Through Social Media In DC
Predator Admits To Coercing Children Into Sexual Acts Through Social Media In DC Federal officials announced that a District man has admitted to coercing nearly a dozen children to engage in unlawful sexual activity through online sextortion. Glenn Matthews 33, used his Instagram account to communicate with multiple minors over several months in 2020, during which he sent sexually explicit photos and videos of himself through the social media app. His victims were between 9 and 16 years old, according to federal prosecutors. “He enticed at least one of the minors to create images of themselves engaged in sexual activity,” they said. “Matthews also sought to meet up wi…
DC Woman Who Repeatedly Head-Butted US Deputy In Court Sentenced To Prison Time: DOJ DC Woman Who Repeatedly Head-Butted US Deputy In Court Sentenced To Prison Time: DOJ
DC Woman Who Repeatedly Head-Butted US Deputy In Court Sentenced To Prison Time: DOJ Federal authorities say that a Washington, DC woman will spend more than a year behind bars for assaulting a Deputy US Marshal during a separate court proceeding earlier this year. Annabelle Liebsch, 38, was sentenced to 36 months in prison, with all but 18 months suspended pending the completion of 18 months probation after being found guilty by a jury in September of felony assault of a police officer. Liebsch was sentenced this week by Judge Jason Park. According to federal prosecutors, on May 2, Liebsch was physically present in a Superior Court courtroom before Judge Thomas Motley, i…
Duo Sentenced For Distributing Enough Fentanyl To Kill 600K People In Maryland: Feds Duo Sentenced For Distributing Enough Fentanyl To Kill 600K People In Maryland: Feds
Duo Sentenced For Distributing Enough Fentanyl To Kill 600K People In Maryland: Feds Two Maryland men have been convicted following a two-week trial for their roles in distributing enough fentanyl to kill hundreds of thousands of people, federal authorities announced. Jarvis Antonio Coleman-Fuller, 35, of Hagerstown, and Eric Tyrell Johnson, 38, of Owings Mills were both convicted by a federal jury on charges related to a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, specifically fentanyl and heroin in Washington County. Prosecutors say that beginning in April 2019 through November 2019, both men and other co-conspirators conspired to distribute heroin and fentanyl in th…
NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Cops To Drug Conspiracy In Exchange For 5-Year Minimum In Federal Prison NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Cops To Drug Conspiracy In Exchange For 5-Year Minimum In Federal Prison
NJ Rapper Fetty Wap Cops To Drug Conspiracy In Exchange For 5-Year Minimum In Federal Prison Paterson rapper Fetty Wap must spend at least five years in federal prison in exchange for pleading guilty to his role in a multi-million-dollar drug trafficking ring, authorities said. The platinum-selling rapper – whose real name is William Junior Maxwell II – had been charged last year with conspiring to transport more than 100 kilos of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine from the West Coast for sale in New Jersey and on Long Island. Rather than risk a possible life sentence at trial, Maxwell took a deal from the government, pleading guilty in U.S. Eastern District Court in Central Islip, Long …