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September 2008
9-29-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 121 Months in Federal Prison For Importing Methamphetamine....View Details
9-29-2008 Former CIA Executive Director Kyle “Dusty” Foggo Pleads Guilty To Defrauding The United States....View Details
9-25-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Participating In Federal Courthouse Bombing....View Details
9-24-2008 Man Charged With Threatening Federal Officials In Arizona....View Details
9-22-2008 Man Charged With Intentionally Causing Damage to a Protected Computer and Four Counts of Extortion....View Details
9-19-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 34 Months In Federal Prison and Required To Register As A Sex Offender For Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
9-15-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 15 Months in Federal Prison For Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm....View Details
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9-12-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Possession of Child Pornography and Possession of a Prohibited Firearm....View Details
9-12-2008 Woman Sentenced To Serve 63 Months in Federal Prison For Alien Smuggling....View Details
9-11-2008 Man Arraigned On Complaint Charging him with Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
9-11-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 240 Months in Federal Prison For Importation and Possession of Methamphetamine....View Details
9-11-2008 Two Charged With Alien Smuggling Violations....View Details
9-08-2008 Four Fallbrook Family Members Charged With Alien Smuggling....View Details
9-04-2008 A California Corporation Pled Guilty to Charges of Operating an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business....View Details
9-03-2008 An Officer of the San Diego Police Department is Charged With Misuse of his Status as a Law Enforcement Officer to Obtain and Pass Sensitive Information to Associates Involved in Drug Trafficking Crimes....View Details
August 2008
8-29-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 41 Months in Federal Prison For Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
8-29-2008 Former Police Officer Convicted of Dealing in Firearms Without a License....View Details
8-25-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 120 Months In Prison For Importation of Over 17 Pounds of Cocaine....View Details
8-22-2008 Three San Marcos Gang Members Sentenced For Gang Shooting....View Details
8-18-2008 Former Teacher Sentenced For Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
8-14-2008 Judge Sentences Mexican Mafia Member To Life in Prison....View Details
8-08-2008 Sentenced To Serve 120 Months In Federal Prison For Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
8-06-2008 Three Charged In Federal Courthouse Bombing....View Details
8-01-2008 Bank Robber Sentenced To Serve 30 Months in Federal Prison....View Details
July 2008
7-25-2008 Man Sentenced For Failing To Register As A Sex Offender....View Details
7-25-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
7-22-2008 Three Charged With Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine....View Details
7-21-2008 Woman Sentenced To Serve 48 Months In Federal Prison For Charges Related to Alien Smuggling and Forced Labor....View Details
7-21-2008 Man Sentenced For Credit Card Fraud Directed Against the San Diego Padres....View Details
7-18-2008 Two Defendants Sentenced In Child Pornography Cases....View Details
7-18-2008 Lake Forest Man Sentenced For Fraud and Identity Theft in Connection with Mortgage Loan....View Details
7-17-2008 Woman Pleads Guilty To Attempted Tax Evasion....View Details
7-07-2008 Man Sentenced For Threatening A Federal Witness....View Details
7-07-2008 Two Sentenced For Unlawful Importation of Wildlife....View Details
7-07-2008 Former Federal Officer Sentenced For Lying To FBI....View Details
June 2008
6-23-2008 Insurance Carrier Enters Into Agreement To Cooperate With Government Investigation And Pay $5,550,000 In Fines and Penalties For Its Role Failing To Disclose Hidden Fees....View Details
6-20-2008 Woman Sentenced To Serve 148 Months For Possession Of 65 Pounds of Cocaine....View Details
6-20-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 70 Months For Importation Of 24 Pounds of Methamphetamine....View Details
6-19-2008 Six Charged In Mortgage Fraud Scheme....View Details
6-17-2008 Federal Jury Convicts Three in Multi-million Dollar Investment Scam....View Details
6-17-2008 Head of Methamphetamine Trafficking Group That Distributed 220 Pounds of Methamphetamine in San Diego Pleads Guilty....View Details
6-16-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 60 Months For Marijuana Conviction....View Details
6-16-2008 Judge Sentences Man To Serve 80 Months In Custody....View Details
6-16-2008 Two Sentenced In Possession of Child Pornography Cases....View Details
6-13-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 75 Months In Federal Prison For Firearms Violations....View Details
6-10-2008 Federal Jury Convicts Two In Cold Case Murder Trial....View Details
6-09-2008 Man Sentenced For Federal Computer Hacking Charges....View Details
6-09-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 211 Months in Prison For Methamphetamine And Firearms Violations....View Details
6-09-2008 Woman Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Smuggle Weapons-grade Accelerometers to China....View Details
6-09-2008 Woman Sentenced For Providing False Statements on a Labor Organization Annual Report ....View Details
6-09-2008 Founder of Metabolife International, Inc. Sentenced For Making False Statements To The FDA....View Details
6-05-2008 AFO Enforcer and Mexican Mafia Member Faces New Drug Charges....View Details
6-05-2008 United States Attorney and ICE Announce Worksite Enforcement Action In Imperial Valley....View Details
May 2008
5-29-2008 Two Charged With Federal Narcotics and Firearms Violations....View Details
5-27-2008 United States Attorney Announces Increase In Prosecution Of Child Pornography Cases....View Details
5-27-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Distribute 500 Grams of Methamphetamine....View Details
5-23-2008 Caretaker Of Calexico Residence Where Narcotics Tunnel Was Discovered Pleads Guilty In Federal Court....View Details
5-20-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 12 Months In Custody And Reimburse Clean Up Costs For Violating The Clean Water Act....View Details
5-19-2008 Alien Smuggler Kingpin Received Lengthy Sentence After Conviction At Trial....View Details
5-19-2008 CBP Officer Charged With Conspiracy To Import Marijuana and Conspiracy To Smuggle Illegal Aliens....View Details
5-16-2008 Felon-in-possession of a Firearm Sentenced To Serve 6 Years in Federal Prison....View Details
5-15-2008 Armed Bank Robber Sentenced To Serve 130 Months In Federal Prison....View Details
5-15-2008 Federal Jury Convicts Man For Conspiracy, Wire Fraud and Money Laundering....View Details
5-12-2008 Man Pleads Guilty To Possession of Child Pornography....View Details
5-12-2008 Man Sentenced To Serve 262 Months In Federal Prison For Meth Conviction ....View Details
5-12-2008 Woman Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy In Two Fraudulent Investment Programs....View Details
5-09-2008 Man Charged In 13-Count Indictment For Investment Fraud Scheme....View Details
5-09-2008 Former Teacher Sentenced To Serve 36 Months In Federal Prison For Possession Of Child Pornography....View Details
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