SCRANTON, PAJoseph J. Ostrowski, 29, of Wilkes-Barre, pleaded guilty today before senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik to producing and attempting to produce child pornography, interstate extortion, and cyberstalking. The plea agreement calls for Ostrowski to be sentenced…

COLUMBUSTodd L. Smith, 50, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to one count of coercion and enticement of minors for sexual activity. According to a statement read during the hearing, the FBI began investigating Smith on July…

DES MOINES, IARalph L. Schippers, age 58, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for wire fraud. Schippers also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,433,825.37 and was ordered to serve three years of supervised release…

LAREDO, TXAnsel Cruz, 30, a life-long resident of Laredo, has entered a guilty plea to one count of armed bank robbery of the Laredo Federal Credit Union where he was formerly employed. Cruz admitted to robbing the bank on Corpus…

Williamsburgs William Lowder Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Tax Charges GRAND RAPIDS, MIWilliam Edward Lowder, age 57, of Williamsburg, Michigan, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of filing a false federal income tax return.…

FRESNO, CASharanjit Kaur, 36, of Fresno, has plead guilty to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud. According to the plea agreement, from approximately July 2010 to June 2011, Kaur and co-defendant Baljit Singh owned and operated several companies based…

A federal grand jury returned a 42-count indictment against 13 people who are accused of participating in a large-scale heroin trafficking ring in the Ashtabula areas and resulted in the overdose death of an Ashtabula resident last year. The indicted…

NEWARKA medical assistant at a pair of large medical services companies with offices in New Jersey and New York admitted today to conspiring with the companies chief executive officer to defraud Medicare over a four-year period by performing illegal, unlicensed…

BROWNSVILLE, Texas A Coast Guard crew found an illegal gill net with hundreds of dead sharks Monday, 4 miles off the Texas coast. The crew of a Coast Guard Station South Padre Island response boat spotted the gill net approximately…

When you think about the CIA, does a famous British super spy come to mind? Are images of shootouts and high speed chases running through your head? Do you imagine CIA officers chasing terrorists through the American heartland, as seen…

COOS BAY, Ore. The Coast Guard rescued three hunters and their dog from the waters of Coos Bay Saturday. The hunters, all male, ages 45, 26 and 13-years old, are from Coos Bay, and were duck hunting when their 18-foot…

Philip Hugh Wentzel, age 41, a former sergeant with the Milwaukee County Sheriffs Department, was indicted by a grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of Wisconsin on May 22, 2012. Today, Wenzel pleaded guilty in federal court in Milwaukee…