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May 2008
5-06-2008 Man Pleads Guilty to Bankruptcy Fraud and Tax Evasion....View Details
5-06-2008 Man Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
5-06-2008 Man Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
April 2008
4-30-2008 Personal Banker Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement....View Details
4-30-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Fraud In Connection With Mortgage Loan....View Details
4-28-2008 Colombian Money Launderer Extradited From Trinidad....View Details
4-25-2008 Three Extradited From Colombia To Face Drug Charges....View Details
4-21-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 70 Months In Prison For Being A Deported Alien Found In The United States....View Details
4-17-2008 Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening A Federal Witness....View Details
4-16-2008 DEA Uncovers Large Indoor Marijuana Grow - 13 Arraigned On Complaint ....View Details
4-15-2008 Tax Attorney Charged With Filing False Income Tax Returns....View Details
4-11-2008 U.S. Attorney To Speak at 19th Annual Candlelight Tribute For Crime Survivors....View Details
4-07-2008 Two Sentenced To Serve 78 Months In Prison For Alien Smuggling....View Details
4-07-2008 Hedge Fund Manager Sentenced To Serve 72 Months In Prison And To Pay $49 Million In Restitution To Victims....View Details
4-07-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 60 Months In Prison For Conspiracy To Kidnap A Person In A Foreign Country ....View Details
4-04-2008 Former Attorney Sentenced To Federal Prison and Ordered To Pay $4.5 Million In Restitution To Victims ....View Details
4-01-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 70 Months In Federal Prison For Federal Firearms and Narcotics Violations ....View Details
March 2008
3-26-2008 Man Arraigned in Federal Court Charged With Possession Of Child Pornography....View Details
3-25-2008 Firm Sentenced To Pay $20,000 Fine For Violating Federal Clean Water Act....View Details
3-24-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Armed Bank Robbery....View Details
3-21-2008 First Conviction In San Diego Of Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) Violation ....View Details
3-21-2008 Two Convicted By Federal Jury For Tax Evasion....View Details
3-20-2008 7 Mexican Mafia Defendants Sentenced to Life in Prison....View Details
3-13-2008 Eight Charged With Alien Smuggling....View Details
3-12-2008 Man Charged In 18-Count Indictment With Fraud ....View Details
3-11-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Threatening To Place Bombs At UCSD Campus....View Details
3-11-2008 Sailor Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Child Pornography....View Details
3-10-2008 Man Charged For Threatening A Witness....View Details
3-10-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 70 Months In Federal Prison For Being A Deported Alien Found In US....View Details
3-10-2008 SDSU Student Pleads Guilty To Receipt Of Child Pornography....View Details
3-10-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 10 Years In Federal Prison For Importation of Nearly 20 Pounds of Methamphetamine....View Details
3-07-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 55 Months in Federal Prison Following Extradition From Mexico....View Details
3-07-2008 Bank Robber Sentenced To Serve 70 Months in Federal Custody....View Details
3-06-2008 12 Charged With Illegal Diversion and Distribution Of Pharmaceuticals....View Details
3-04-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Child Pornography....View Details
3-04-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Possession Of Child Pornography....View Details
3-03-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 108 Months In Prison For Attempting To Import Over 14 Pounds of Methamphetamine....View Details
3-03-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 36 Months in Federal Prison For Federal Firearms Violations....View Details
February 2008
2-28-2008 Fugitive Apprehended In Nicaraguan Officials Arraigned On Fraud Charges....View Details
2-28-2008 Mexican Pharmacy Owner Indicted For Conspiracy To Illegally Import Prescription Pharmaceuticals....View Details
2-20-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Impeding A Federal Officer....View Details
2-19-2008 Defense Contractor Brent R. Wilkes Sentenced To Serve 12 Years In Federal Prison For Bribing Former Congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham....View Details
2-19-2008 Customs and Border Protection Officer At Otay Mesa Pleads Guilty After Resigning From Government Service....View Details
2-19-2008 Woman Sentenced To Serve 10 Years in Federal Prison For Importation of Cocaine....View Details
2-12-2008 Teacher Pleads Guilty To Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
2-12-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 90 Months In Federal Prison For Being A Deported Alien Found In The United States....View Details
2-11-2008 Judge Sentences "drug kingpin" to serve 15 Years In Federal Prison....View Details
2-11-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
2-11-2008 Man Sentenced For Federal Firearms Violations....View Details
2-01-2008 Court Revokes Citizenship Following Convictions For Immigration Fraud....View Details
January 2008
1-31-2008 Two Charged With Multiple Counts Of Possession Of Marijuana With Intent To Distribute ....View Details
1-29-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Sale Of An Unapproved Medical Device....View Details
1-29-2008 Man Charged With Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
1-29-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
1-28-2008 Two Sentenced For Federal Firearms Violations....View Details
1-28-2008 Driver Sentenced To Serve 60 Months In Federal Prison For Importation of Over 60 Pounds of Cocaine....View Details
1-24-2008 Two Sentenced In Witness Tampering Case....View Details
1-23-2008 Man Charged With Making Bomb Threats To UCSD....View Details
1-22-2008 Man Sentenced To Federal Prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, Cocaine, and Ecstasy....View Details
1-22-2008 Former Limousine Dispatcher Sentenced For Receipt of Child Pornography....View Details
1-18-2008 Border Patrol Agent Sentenced to 36 Months for Conspiracy to Transport Hundreds of Undocumented Aliens and Money Laundering....View Details
1-17-2008 Man Pleads Guilty to Alien Smuggling and Forced Labor....View Details
1-16-2008 14 Individuals Charged with Federal Narcotics Violations....View Details
1-14-2008 Three Men Sentenced for Federal Firearms Violations....View Details
1-14-2008 Teacher Charged in Criminal Complaint With Possession Of Child Pornography....View Details
1-08-2008 Mexico-based Corporation Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy to Distribute Anabolic Steroids....View Details
1-08-2008 Leader of Investment Scheme Sentenced To Serve 25 Years In Prison and Pay $40,556,065.30 in Restitution To Victims....View Details
1-07-2008 Former AFO Lieutenant Sentenced To Serve 30 Years In Prison And To Forfeit $5 Million....View Details
1-04-2008 Federal Jury Convicts Seven In Conspiracy Involving Mexican Mafia....View Details
December 2007
12-17-2007 AFO Lieutenants Sentenced To Combined 70 Years in Prison and $6,000,000 Forfeiture....View Details
12-14-2007 Self-proclaimed Leader of Earth Liberation Front Pleads Guilty To Demonstrating The Use of a Destructive Device....View Details
12-13-2007 Former Football Player Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges....View Details
12-11-2007 Man Pleads Guilty To Robbing Two Banks....View Details
12-10-2007 Four Defendants Sentenced In Operation Funk 49....View Details
12-03-2007 Man Sentenced To Serve 69 Months In Federal Prison For Using Internet To Commission A Murder-For-Hire....View Details
November 2007
11-29-2007 Man Arraigned on Criminal Environmental Violations....View Details
11-27-2007 San Diego Man Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
11-20-2007 Man Charged With Robbing Bank of America in El Cajon....View Details
11-19-2007 Man Sentenced To Serve 60 Months In Prison For Attempted Illegal Reentry Into U.S.....View Details
11-16-2007 Former Teacher Sentenced to Prison For Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
11-13-2007 Man Sentenced To Serve 30 Months For Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
11-13-2007 Four Plead Guilty to Conspiracy and Wire Fraud Charges....View Details
11-06-2007 Two Plead Guilty to Theft of Trade Secrets....View Details
11-05-2007 Defense Contractor Found Guilty of Bribing Former Congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham....View Details
11-05-2007 Smuggler Sentenced To Serve 71 Months in Prison For Alien Smuggling....View Details
11-05-2007 Driver Sentenced To Serve 130 Months For Attempting to Bring In Methamphetamine Through POE....View Details
11-05-2007 Former Founder of Metabolife International Pleads Guilty To Making False Statements to the FDA....View Details
11-05-2007 Tax Preparer Sentenced To Prison For Fraudulent Tax Scheme....View Details
11-05-2007 Former Leader of Arellano-Felix Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced To Life in Prison....View Details
11-05-2007 Deported Alien Found in U.S. Sentenced To Serve 110 Months in Custody....View Details
October 2007
10-30-2007 Man Sentenced Following Felony Conviction For Concealment of Assets In Bankruptcy - $10,000 Fine....View Details
10-30-2007 Federal Jury Convicts Two of Immigration Fraud....View Details
10-29-2007 Man Sentenced To Serve 51 Months in Federal Prison For Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
10-25-2007 Department of Justice Steps Up Efforts To Investigate Fraud Allegations in Wildfire Relief Efforts....View Details
10-19-2007 Woman Charged With Conspiracy To Procure the Illegal Export of Military-grade Accelerometers from the United States to China....View Details
10-15-2007 Man Sentenced To Serve 78 Months For Causing Damage to Synagogue....View Details
10-15-2007 Driver Sentenced to Serve 120 Months In Prison For Importing Drugs....View Details
10-15-2007 Eldest of Arellano-Felix Brothers Sentenced To 6 Years For Cocaine Conspiracy....View Details
10-12-2007 Former Agent Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Conspiracy....View Details
10-09-2007 Former Stock Options Administrator Sentenced To 46 Months In Prison For Fraud and Tax Charges....View Details
10-01-2007 Former Agent Sentenced To 24 Months In Prison For Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
10-01-2007 Man Sentenced To 97 Months In Prison For Possession of Hundreds of Images of Child Pornography....View Details
September 2007
9-24-2007 International Law Enforcement Operation Targets Underground Manufacture of Anabolic Steroids....View Details
9-24-2007 Man Sentenced to 77 Months In Prison Following Convictions....View Details
9-18-2007 Man Sentenced To Five Years in Prison For Possession With Intent To Distribute More Than Half A Ton Of Marijuana....View Details
9-17-2007 Leader and Senior Lieutenant of Arellano-Felix Organization Plead Guilty To Criminal Charges....View Details
9-17-2007 Man Sentenced in "SPAM" Case....View Details
9-17-2007 Man Sentenced To Five Years In Prison For Possession With Intent To Distribute More Than 800 Pounds of Marijuana....View Details
9-17-2007 Two Sentenced In Alien Smuggling Case....View Details
9-11-2007 Man Pleads Guilty to Charges of Money Laundering and Filing a False Tax Return....View Details
9-11-2007 Man Sentenced For Having Been Found in the United States After Being Deported From the U.S. Back to Mexico....View Details
9-10-2007 Man Sentenced on One Count of Unlawfully Bringing into the United States a Firearm and One Count of Bulk Cash Smuggling....View Details
9-10-2007 Man Sentenced For Being an Illegal Alien in Possession of Firearms....View Details
9-04-2007 Judge Sentences Defendant To Serve 60 Months in Federal Prison For Growing 300 Marijuana Plants....View Details
August 2007
8-27-2007 Judge Sentences Defendant To Serve 60 Months in Federal Prison For Growing 300 Marijuana Plants....View Details
8-27-2007 Former Employee Convicted on Federal Computer Hacking Charges....View Details
8-27-2007 Two To Serve Prison Sentences and Forfeit $2.3 Million In Fraud Case....View Details
8-27-2007 Felon In Possession of a Firearm Sentenced To Serve 57 Months in Federal Prison....View Details
8-23-2007 Defendant Charged With Failure To Register As A Sex Offender....View Details
8-23-2007 Two Plead Guilty To Mail Fraud ....View Details
8-16-2007 Man Pleads Guilty to Transportation of Firearms Without a License....View Details
8-14-2007 Defendant Sentenced To Serve 8 ½ Years in Federal Prison For Methamphetamine Conviction....View Details
8-06-2007 Contracting Officer Sentenced To Pay $13,517 Fine ....View Details
8-06-2007 Man Charged With Bank Robbery....View Details
8-03-2007 Enlisted Man Charged With Using Interstate Facilities In Seeking Murder for Hire....View Details
8-03-2007 Marijuana Grower Sentenced To 60 Months In Custody and Ordered To Forfeit His Three Residential Properties....View Details
8-02-2007 Man Charged With Drug Trafficking and Firearms Violations....View Details
8-01-2007 Daughter Charged With Theft of $120,000 in Veteran Survivor's Benefits....View Details
July 2007
7-31-2007 Man Pleads Guilty To Receipt Of Firearms Without A License....View Details
7-30-2007 Man Charged With Transporting Firearms From Arizona To California Without A License....View Details
7-23-2007 Woman Pleads Guilty to Importation of Methamphetamine and Cocaine....View Details
7-13-2007 Federal Jury Convicts SDGE of Violating Asbestos Work Practice Standards....View Details
7-11-2007 Owner of Medical Supply Company Sentenced To Prison After Pleading Guilty To Conspiracy To Defraud The Medicare Health Care Program....View Details
7-11-2007 Retired Rear Admiral Pleads Guilty To Federal Conflict-Of-Interest Law....View Details
7-09-2007 Man Sentenced To Prison For Illegal Re-entry Offense....View Details
7-09-2007 Woman Sentenced For Importation of Methamphetamine....View Details
7-09-2007 Three Mexican Steroid Manufacturers Plead Guilty....View Details
7-05-2007 Man Sentenced For Methamphetamine Possession....View Details
7-03-2007 Four Charged With Bringing In Illegal Aliens and Harboring Aliens for Financial Gain....View Details
7-03-2007 Former Stock Options Administrator Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud and Tax Charges....View Details
June 2007
6-29-2007 Bank Robber Sentenced To 37 Months In Prison....View Details
6-25-2007 Automobile Dealership GM Sentenced to Serve 8 Months In Prison and Ordered To Pay $288,205 In Restitution....View Details
6-25-2007 Five Plead Guilty To RICO Conspiracy Involving Mexican Mafia....View Details
6-21-2007 Couple Convicted of Criminal Tax Offenses....View Details
6-18-2007 Man Pleads Guilty to Illegal Possession of Firearms....View Details
6-18-2007 Lead Defendant Resentenced In Nationwide Investment Fraud Scheme To Almost 16 Years in Prison....View Details
6-18-2007 Bank Robber Sentenced To 57 Months In Prison....View Details
6-18-2007 Smuggler Sentenced To 75 Months In Prison....View Details
6-18-2007 Francisco Rafael Arellano-Felix Pleads Guilty To Drug Charges....View Details
6-14-2007 Former Agent Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
6-06-2007 Defendant Pleads Guilty to Posting SDSU Threat....View Details
6-05-2007 "Universal Money Traders" Trading Fund Operator Charged With Fraud....View Details
6-04-2007 Two Bank Robbers Sentenced To Prison Terms....View Details
6-04-2007 Defendant Sentenced to Serve 87 Months in Prison and Ordered To Pay Restitution to Victims Of His Wire Fraud Scheme...View Details
6-04-2007 Former Police Officer Sentencing in Attempted Tax Evasion....View Details
May 2007
5-30-2007 Smuggler Sentenced To 41 Months In Custody....View Details
5-29-2007 Local Business Man Pleads Guilty to Filing a False Tax Return....View Details
5-25-2007 Man Pleads Guilty to Possession Of Child Pornography....View Details
5-25-2007 Driver Sentenced To 80 Months In Custody for Possession of Meth....View Details
5-18-2007 Former Employee Charged With Defrauding Employer of More Than $400,000....View Details
5-18-2007 Underground Marijuana Grower Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Manufacturing Marijuana, Money Laundering, and Forfeiture of Assets....View Details
5-17-2007 Woman Charged With 2 Counts of Bank Robbery....View Details
5-17-2007 Man Charged With Failure To Register As A Sex Offender....View Details
5-16-2007 Smuggler Sentenced To Five Years In Custody....View Details
5-15-2007 Woman Sentenced for Concealment of Assets in Bankruptcy Proceeding....View Details
5-15-2007 Man Sentenced for Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
5-09-2007 Teacher Charged With Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
5-07-2007 Defendant Sentenced To 48 Months In Prison For Attempting To Illegally Export Semi-Automatic Firearms....View Details
April 2007
4-30-2007 Man Sentenced For Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm....View Details
4-27-2007 Two Tijuana Cartel Figures Plead Guilty....View Details
4-25-2007 Driver Sentenced To 71 Months In Prison For Transporting Illegal Aliens....View Details
4-19-2007 Man Charged With Making Threatening Communications On The Internet....View Details
4-06-2007 Defendant Ordered To Pay More Than $950,000 In Restitution to Victims....View Details
4-03-2007 Sophisticated Underground Marijuana Grow Found Near Santa Ysabel, CA ....View Details
4-02-2007 Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison For Cocaine Distribution....View Details
4-02-2007 Two Charged With Alien Smuggling and Filing False Tax Returns Sentenced To Serve Prison Terms ....View Details