News Reports

By Anand Vasu President Joe Biden’s announcement of six actions impacting gun regulation on April 8, following three mass shooting incidents earlier in the year, met with sharp reactions. As expected, the NRA was strongly critical of Biden’s announcements. “Let's be clear...

By Anand Vasu On Thursday morning, speaking from the Rose Garden and flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland and less than 24 hours after yet another mass shooting, this time in South Carolina, President Joe Biden announced an...

By a Biometrica staffer There were more law enforcement officers who died from suicide than those that died in the line of duty in 2017, 2018 and 2019. There were 168 such deaths in 2017, followed by 172 in 2018, and 228...

By Anand Vasu For nearly 20 years, Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, known to the world as The Unabomber, terrorized Americans, planting bombs at various locations, killing three people and injuring many more. Kaczynski was eventually captured on April 3, 1996, after his idiosyncratic writing...

By Anand Vasu The Nevada Gaming Commission has said that casinos seeking to operate at higher than 50% capacity — which will be allowed from May 1 — need to take steps that encourage their workers to take the Covid-19 vaccine.  This...

By a Biometrica Staffer On April 1, 15 days after she assumed office as the 54th United States Secretary of the Interior, Secretary Deb Haaland announced the formation of a new Missing & Murdered Unit (MMU) within the Bureau of Indian Affairs...

By a Biometrica Staffer The evening of Wednesday, March 31, became another horrific American statistic, as four people, including a child, were gunned down in an office complex in Orange, California, about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Lt. Jennifer Amat, a...

By Anand Vasu Tony Hernández, a former Honduran Congressman, was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to forfeit $138.5 million for distributing 185 tons of cocaine, and related firearms and false statements offenses.  Over a 15-year-period, Hernández played a leadership role...

By Anand Vasu Pope Francis has said that laws must reflect “the equality of all members of the church,” indicating that further reforms of the Vatican City penal code were likely, especially to deal with financial crimes. In a March 27 meeting...

By Anand Vasu On March 29, 12 jurors and two alternates in Minneapolis started to hear opening arguments in the trial of Derek Chauvin. It began with the video of Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck being shown to the jury. This comes...

By Anand Vasu The U.S. Supreme Court, on Thursday, March 25, declined to block an initiative banning bump stocks, the modification that allows semi-automatic rifles to fire bullets at nearly the same frequency as fully automatic rifles or machine guns. Delivered in...

By Anand Vasu Carlos Hernandez, a senior member of a Los Angeles-based Latino street gang called Big Hazard, was sentenced on March 23 to 16 years in federal prison for orchestrating and executing the night-time firebombing of African-American families at the Ramona...

By Anand Vasu A gunman opened fire at a King Soopers outlet in Boulder, Colo., at approximately 2.40pm local time on Monday, March 22, killing 10, including police officer Eric Talley, who responded to the incident. Boulder is about 25 miles northwest...

By a Biometrica staffer On March 18, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released new information and videos of suspects in the U.S. Capitol Hill riots, and is seeking the public's help to identify them. It has been two months since violent extremists...

By Anand Vasu Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov pleaded guilty in federal court on March 18 for conspiring to travel to the U.S. to recruit an employee of a Nevada company into a scheme to introduce malicious software into the company’s computer network. Kriuchkov,...

By Anand Vasu More than $4 billion was lost to Internet Crime in 2020 and nearly 800,000 cases were investigated, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in its annual Internet Crime Report. The top three crimes reported in 2020 were phishing scams,...

By Anand Vasu The Federal Bureau of Investigation found that Anthony Quinn Warner acted alone in the Christmas day bombing in downtown Nashville. Investigations revealed that Warner was motivated by a desire to kill himself, and it was not an act related to...

By a Biometrica staffer Authorities in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands have enabled major interventions to block the use of encrypted communications by large-scale organized crime groups.  Judicial and law enforcement authorities from these countries worked closely with each other, supported by...

By a Biometrica staffer Michael David Miller of southwestern Missouri was sentenced on March 9 to 20 years without parole, for using a social media app to contact 12- and 13-year-old girls in Canada and induce them to engage in sexually explicit...

By Anand Vasu The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released new footage on March 9 seeking information from the public in identifying a man who placed pipe bombs near the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters and Republican National Committee (RNC) headquarters on...

By Anand Vasu Nearly five million counterfeit toys were seized by Europol as a result of operation LUDUS, which ran from Oct. 19 2020 to Jan. 31 2021, the holiday season and the period in which toy sales are traditionally highest due...

By Anand Vasu Police in Aurora, Colorado, said the southbound interstate 225 was intentionally blocked by 600 to 800 vehicles while street racing took place and weapons were waved. The incident occurred at night on March 7, according to a report on Fox...

By Anand Vasu Michael Martin and Bobby Dayle Boney, members of the Aryan Circle pleaded guilty to the violent assault of a man in Oct. 2016.  Martin, also known as Aryan Prodigy, is from Austin, Texas, while Doyle, from Sulphur Springs in...

By Anand Vasu The Arizona House passed Bill HB 2889 that will ensure convicted child offenders would not have the option of probation, parole or work release. This means that an individual serving a 10-20 year sentence, would not have the chance...

By Anand Vasu Governor Ned Lamont and Mohegan Tribe Chairman James Gessner Jr. announced an agreement on March 2 that would allow the State of Connecticut to modernize gaming options available to state residents, including allowing for sports wagering and online gaming. ...

By Anand Vasu Josep Maria Bartomeu, former president of Barcelona Football Club in Spain, was arrested as part of a Catalan Police investigation into the alleged misuse of funds, and corruption.  Also arrested were Jaume Masferrer, Bartomeu’s assistant, Óscar Grau, the club’s...

By a Biometrica staffer Alexis Peguero also known as “King Lexi” and “King Looney,” the former second-in-command of the Boston-based Devon Street Kings Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings”) was sentenced on Feb. 25 on racketeering...

By Anand Vasu Leroy King, 74, of Dickerson Bay, Antigua, the former chief of Antigua’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) was sentenced on Feb. 24 to 10 years in prison for his role in connection with a $7 billion Ponzi scheme involving...

By Anand Vasu Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, better known as Pilgrim’s, one of America’s largest broiler chicken producers, was sentenced to pay $108m in criminal fines after it pleaded guilty to conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for broiler chicken products, the...

By Anand Vasu Chen Song, a Stanford University researcher, was charged with visa fraud, obstruction of justice, destruction of documents, and false statements in connection with a scheme to conceal and lie about her status as a member of the People’s Republic...

By Anand Vasu Three North Korean computer programmers were charged with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies.  Jon...

By Anand Vasu Friendly soccer matches, and matches in table tennis esports and volleyball are the latest events to be targeted by match fixers, sports integrity data company SportRadar said.  The Switzerland based firm, which is the official data provider to the...

By Anand Vasu Steven Gazlay, a former 311 Boyz gang member, and Dana Nee, his girlfriend, were arrested on Feb 14. in Madison County, Idaho, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The two were out on bail in Las Vegas when they left. ...

By Anand Vasu Olakitan Oluwalade, his cousin Odunayo Baba Oluwalade and Kelly Lamont Williams were arrested after the HSI Intellectual Property Rights Center and the HSI Cyber Crimes Center became aware of a fraudulent replication of the website of Company 1, a biotechnology company based in...

Photo 122086139 © Kreangkrai Indarodom | Dreamstime.com By Anand Vasu Carolyn Maloney, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman, unveiled a legislative package of five bills focused on gun safety, on Feb. 9.  Maloney introduced the Gun Trafficking Prevention Act, which would make gun trafficking a felony. It...

By a Biometrica staffer David T Hines of Miami fraudulently obtained $3.9m in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and used part of these funds to buy himself a Lamborghini Huracan sports car worth $318,000. At the time of his arrest, the car...

By a Biometrica staffer If you are working in the United Kingdom and repeatedly fall for real or simulated phishing attacks at work you are in danger of getting sacked, a report from security firm Proofpoint revealed, according to an article on ITProPortal. The...

By a Biometrica staffer Saint Clare’s Health, a division of Prime Healthcare Services that operates hospitals across 14 states in the U.S., was charged with disability discrimination by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on Feb. 8. The EEOC said in...

Photo Courtesy: Rockville Middle School, Miami's, Facebook page showing Agent Laura at the school By a Biometrica Correspondent In February 2020, almost exactly one year to the day she was killed in the line of duty, FBI Special Agent Laura Schwartzenberger was...

By a Biometrica staffer If you think scammers also took a break during the Covid-19 pandemic, think again! On Feb. 4, the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) said it received more than 2.1 million fraud reports from consumers in 2020. Imposter scams were...

By a Biometrica staffer Rachel Manna, an Iowa resident, pled guilty to posting the photographs and names of individuals assisting authorities with a narcotics investigation on her Facebook page, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. She got this information...

By a Biometrica stafferThe CEO of the Texas-based Merida Group of hospice and home health entities was sentenced to 15 years in prison, on Feb. 3, for falsely telling thousands of patients with long-term incurable diseases they had less than six months...

By a Biometrica staffer A man from New York pled guilty to charges of illegally selling a mounted leopard, which is classified as an endangered species, on Jan. 29. He caught the attention of an undercover special agent with the U.S. Fish...

By a Biometrica staffer The chart shows data compromises in the U.S. for the past five years. There was a total of 7,398 publicly reported data breaches in this period. January 29th 2021 There’s been an interesting mix of information on 2020,...

By a Biometrica staffer January 29, 2021 The Department of Justice has charged 11 individuals on a 136-count indictment, including flouting dog fighting prohibitions outlined by the Animal Welfare Act and several drug-related violations. Five of the defendants had allegedly attended dog fights between...

By a Biometrica staffer Photo courtesy: Napa County Sheriff’s Office California business owner, Ian Benjamin Rogers, 43, of Napa County, was charged this week by federal authorities with the possession of unregistered destructive devices following a joint investigation by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Napa County Sheriff’s Office and the Napa Special Investigations Bureau,...

By a Biometrica staffer January 28, 2021 A Texas man pled guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq, at a hearing in San Antonio on Jan. 25. Jaylyn Christopher Molina, aka Abdur Rahim of Cost, was plotting attacks...

By a Biometrica staffer January 27, 2021 Groping a child through clothing does not constitute sexual assault, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court ruled last week, drawing outrage across the country. On Wednesday, India’s top court suspended that ruling and...

By a Biometrica staffer January 26, 2021 On Friday, three men were charged for their attacks on local and federal enforcement officers, and for other crimes they committed during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Emanuel Jackson of D.C.,...

By a Biometrica staffer January 25, 2021 Two leaders of the Gangster Disciples, a national street gang with roots in Chicago, were sentenced on Friday for a racketeering conspiracy involving murder. Shauntay Craig, 42, was sentenced to 40 years in prison after he pleaded...