FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending September 7, 2012
- Cleveland: Three More Men Plead Guilty in Plot to Bomb Ohio Bridge
Self-proclaimed anarchists admitted involvement in a conspiracy to
use a weapon of mass destruction to destroy the Route 82 Brecksville-Northfield
High Level Bridge. Full Story
- Dallas: Business Owner Pleads Guilty in Murder-for-Hire Case
Ryan Walker Grant tried to hire individuals from Mexico to kill
Arlington, Texas Mayor Robert Cluck and Tom Brandt, a Dallas attorney who
represents the city of Arlington. Full Story
- Baltimore: Man Pleads Guilty to Five Armed Robberies of Armored
Vehicles
David Marquise Howard and other co-conspirators robbed
employees of Dunbar Armored at gunpoint, and, in each instance, stole cash and a
handgun from a Dunbar employee. Full Story
- Kansas City: Joplin Man Pleads Guilty to Producing Child
Pornography
Jason Dewayne Beshears will also plead guilty in state
court in a separate case involving the sexual abuse of the same 4-year-old
victim, where he must agree to a sentence of life in prison. Full Story
- San Antonio: Reputed Leader of Tri City Bomber Street Gang Pleads
Guilty in Drug Trafficking Conspiracy
Jeffrey Juarez pled guilty to
conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and ecstasy. Full Story
- Albuquerque: Man Sentenced in $74 Million Ponzi
SchemeDouglas F. Vaughan was sentenced to 12 years in prison for
wire and mail fraud charges in relation to a scheme that involved approximately
600 investors. Full Story
- Tampa: Twenty-One Individuals Charged with Conspiracy, Marriage
FraudU.S. citizens were recruited to marry aliens so that they could
fraudulently obtain lawful permanent residence in the United States. Full Story
- Kansas City: Two Chinese Nationals Charged with Stealing Trade
Secrets from Missouri Manufacturing Plant
Ji Li Huang and Xiao Guang
Qi allegedly attempted to purchase trade secrets of Pittsburgh Corning for the
purpose of opening a competing plant in China. Full Story
- Washington Field: Arizona Man Sentenced for Selling Access to
Botnets Joshua Schichtel was sentenced to 30 months in prison for
selling command-and-control access to and use of thousands of malware-infected
computers. Full Story
- Miami: Hialeah Gardens Police Department Detective
Sentenced in Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Marijuana
