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The FBI indicted a former San Diego resident with charges of terrorism after nearly a decade of alleged crimes that landed him on the department’s Most Wanted Terrorists list.

A former teacher from Orange County who was previously convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison for traveling to China to have sex with a 16-year-old youth.

The brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez created “state-sponsored” drug trafficking by corrupting the country’s politics to protect drug dealers, a prosecutor told a jury during closing arguments Wednesday at a drug trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney Emil Bove in New York made the allegation as he asked a jury to convict Juan Antonio (Tony) Hernandez, 41, a former Honduran...

Federal complaint details “scheme to deceive and coerce women to appear in sex videos.” Prosecutors say some victims were sexually assaulted, and at least one woman raped.

A Coast Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling weapons and drafting a hit list of prominent Democrats and TV journalists pleaded guilty Thursday to gun and drug charges.

A staff sergeant who led the U.S. Army’s communications detail at President Donald Trump’s club in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, admitted to lying to federal officers during a child pornography investigation, NBC News reports. Richard Ciccarella, 34, was alleged to have posted photographs of a young relative with the caption “dirty comment’s [sic] welcome” on a Russian message board between November 2017...

A former American Airlines mechanic who prosecutors say may have some links to terrorists pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he sabotaged an aircraft with 150 people aboard. The plea came at a hearing in Miami federal court for Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60. He’s charged with deliberately disabling a key navigation component inside the Boeing 737 at Miami...

A 22-year-old Santa Ana man was sentenced Monday to 17 1/2 years in federal prison for his part in a conspiracy to distribute the powerful narcotic painkiller Fentanyl and counterfeit opioids through the dark web and the U.S. mail.

An NYPD judge recommended firing the officer accused of using a banned chokehold in the July 2014 death of Eric Garner, bring some measure of closure to a nationally influential case that local and federal officials all declined to criminally prosecute. The judge found officer Daniel Pantaleo — who has been on modified administrative duty in the years since Garner’s...

A subdued Jeffrey Epstein listened passively in court Wednesday as a judge said he won’t face trial on sex trafficking charges before June 2020, and more likely a few months afterward.

Federal prosecutors are suing that landlord — Larry Nelson — for “severe, pervasive, and unwelcomed sexual harassment” of poor, sometimes homeless women.

A Florida lawmaker known as a champion for child sexual abuse victims asked Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday to authorize a state investigation into the circumstances of wealthy convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s freedom to leave jail on work release a decade ago. Democratic state Sen. Lauren Book said in a letter Tuesday that the Republican governor should order a...

The U.S. Department of Justice will not file charges against the NYPD officer accused of using a deadly chokehold on Eric Garner, whose final words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry for the national Black Lives Matter movement, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Federal prosecutors say a search of Jeffrey Epstein’s home safe turned up a bogus passport that listed a Saudi Arabia residence along with “piles of cash” and “dozens of diamonds.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Rossmiller revealed at a bail hearing in Manhattan federal court Monday that the passport, issued in the 1980s, has a photo of Epstein but a different...

A college student pleaded guilty Tuesday to sneaking into Mar-a-Lago during President Donald Trump’s Thanksgiving visit in a manner similar to how a Chinese national gained admission four months later. University of Wisconsin student Mark Lindblom apologized Tuesday and received a year’s probation after federal prosecutors agreed he meant no harm when he sneaked into the Palm Beach...

A federal grand jury has indicted the man suspected in the deadly shooting at a synagogue in Poway last month and arson at an Escondido mosque; he is now facing 113 federal counts, including hate crimes.

The man suspected of killing a woman in a shooting at a Southern California synagogue pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday.

A good Samaritan who took down a potential fire starter says the fear of another massive wildfire forced him to take action.

“Smallville” actress Allison Mack pleaded guilty to racketeering and related conspiracy charges in Brooklyn federal court Monday for her role in an alleged sex-cult and trafficking group called NXIVM based in upstate New York.

Could Aunt Becky be headed to prison? It could go either way, experts say.