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Machine Guns, Stolen Weapons Flowed Into Maryland Through Alabama Pipeline, Feds Say Machine Guns, Stolen Weapons Flowed Into Maryland Through Alabama Pipeline, Feds Say
Machine Guns, Stolen Weapons Flowed Into Maryland Through Alabama Pipeline, Feds Say Federal agents say Lester Ramos Perez wasn't bringing furniture with him when he relocated from Alabama to Maryland. A firearms pipeline stretching from the Deep South into Maryland has landed a Guatemalan national living in Waldorf behind bars after investigators say he trafficked stolen guns and machine gun-converted weapons into the state, federal authorities announced. Ramos Perez, 29, has now been sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role in the weapons trafficking conspiracy and for possessing a firearm as a prohibited person due to his citizenship status. Investigators first sta…

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by Zak Failla
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'I’m Going!': Florida Man Who Rammed Marine MP At Quantico Gate Sent To Prison 'I’m Going!': Florida Man Who Rammed Marine MP At Quantico Gate Sent To Prison
'I’m Going!': Florida Man Who Rammed Marine MP At Quantico Gate Sent To Prison A Florida man who shouted “I’m going!” before hitting a US Marine military police officer with his truck at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia is heading to federal prison. Roger Pierre Laberge, 69, was sentenced Thursday in Alexandria to two years and three months behind bars for assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon, federal prosecutors announced. The confrontation unfolded at Gate 1 at Quantico on May 15, 2024, when Laberge pulled up to the base checkpoint in a pickup truck towing a trailer. The stop quickly raised red flags. Laberge told two Marine MPs he did not have …

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by Zak Failla
Politics
Court Upholds Trump's $83.3M Penalty For Defaming Carroll In Sexual Abuse Case Court Upholds Trump's $83.3M Penalty For Defaming Carroll In Sexual Abuse Case
Court Upholds Trump's $83.3M Penalty For Defaming Carroll In Sexual Abuse Case President Donald Trump lost his effort to throw out an $83.3 million penalty after he was found liable for defaming and sexually abusing author E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s. A federal appeals court upheld the jury award against Trump on Monday, Sept. 8. Carroll was awarded $88.3 million after Trump was found liable for the sexual abuse and defamation. The $83.3 million penalty comes from Carroll's defamation lawsuit against Trump. That award includes $65 million in punitive damages after jurors found Trump acted with malice in attacking Carroll on social media, at news confere…

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by Chris Spiker
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Convicted MS-13 Gang Member Slipped Through Cracks Four Times Before Arrest In DMV: ICE Convicted MS-13 Gang Member Slipped Through Cracks Four Times Before Arrest In DMV: ICE
Convicted MS-13 Gang Member Slipped Through Cracks Four Times Before Arrest In DMV: ICE A convicted MS-13 gang member who kept slipping through the cracks in Maryland is finally in ICE custody—again. Nelson Vladimir Amaya-Benitez, a 26-year-old Salvadoran national who had already been deported once, was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Gaithersburg, the agency announced. Amaya-Benitez, a “validated MS-13 gang member,” has a long criminal record that includes convictions for armed robbery, vehicle theft, drug possession, and more, ICE officials said. He had already been removed from the US in 2019 but illegally reentered the country at an unkn…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Accused PA Incestuous Child Rapist Arrested In VA: Police Accused PA Incestuous Child Rapist Arrested In VA: Police
Accused PA Incestuous Child Rapist Arrested In VA: Police An accused child rapist who appears to have been on the run, was captured in Virginia, New Holland police announced on Thursday, Sept. 19. Jeffrey Alan Smith, 45, of New Holland, was charged by Officer Halstead with the following felonies: Rape of a Child, Statutory Sexual Assault, Aggravated Indecent Assault, Indecent Assault of a Minor under 13 (two counts), Corruption of Minors (two counts), Incest of Minors,  Unlawful Contact with Minors (two counts) and Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse. The police began investigating following a referral by Lancaster County Children and Yout…

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by Jillian Pikora