Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, a criminal investigative unit within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been indicted on federal tax, structuring, and concealment offenses. ANTHONY SABAINI, who was assigned to HSI’s field office in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., is charged with five counts of willfully[Read More…]
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Chicago Man Arrested on Federal Drug Charge for Allegedly Dealing Heroin and Fentanyl
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Chicago man has been arrested on a federal drug charge for allegedly selling wholesale quantities of heroin and fentanyl in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago. WILLIAM TOWNSEND, 40, of Chicago, is charged with distribution of a controlled substance. A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court[Read More…]
Charleston, Ill., Man Charged with Child Sex Crimes, Ordered to Remain in Custody
Urbana, IL-(ENEWSPF)- U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric I. Long on August 17 cited “the extreme danger to the community” posed by defendant James L. Williams, 39, of Charleston, Ill., and granted the government’s request that Williams remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. Williams, of the 500 block of[Read More…]
Feds Charge Richton Park and Joliet Men With Sex Trafficking
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Two men have been indicted on federal sex trafficking charges for allegedly recruiting three victims, including a child, to engage in commercial sex acts by means of force, threats of force, fraud, and coercion. KENDALL GUYTON, 25, of Joliet, and GREGORY INGRAM, 41, of Richton Park, are charged[Read More…]
Rockford Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison on Child Pornography Charges
Rockford, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Rockford man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to 12 years in federal prison, to be followed by 15 years of court-supervised release, on child pornography charges. DONOVAN HEIDENREICH, 25, pleaded guilty on March 13, 2020, to charges of transportation of child pornography[Read More…]
Operation Legend Expanded to Memphis and St. Louis
Washington, DC-(ENEWSPF)- Thursday, the expansion of Operation Legend was announced in Memphis and St. Louis. Operation Legend is a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime. The Operation was first[Read More…]
Alleged Chicago Gang Leader Among 23 Defendants Charged in Federal Drug and Gun Investigation
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The alleged leader of the Black Disciples street gang in Chicago is among 23 individuals facing criminal charges as part of a federal investigation into drug and gun trafficking on the city’s South Side. During the multi-year investigation, law enforcement seized 24 firearms, more than 13 kilograms of[Read More…]
Rochester Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Shoot U.S. Congressman
Springfield, IL-(ENEWSPF)- A Rochester, IL, man, Randall E. Tarr, entered a plea of guilty on Friday, July 24, to making a threat against U.S. Congressman Rodney Davis. Tarr, 65, of the 200 block of E. Mill St., Rochester, IL, entered his plea by video conference before U.S. Magistrate Judge Tom[Read More…]
FBI Arrest Merrillville Man in Connection with 2003 Murder of Gary Man
Merrillville, IN-(ENEWSPF)- Robert Alan Orosz, Jr., 57, of Merrillville, Indiana, was charged in Lake County Superior Court on July 16, 2020, with one count of murder in connection with the 2003 murder of 48-year-old Kevin Pratchett. Pratchett was found with his throat slashed inside his home at 2521 Wright Street[Read More…]
Cedar Lake Woman Indicted For Alleged Wire Fraud
Hammond, IN-(ENEWSPF)- Jessica Guska (a/k/a Jessica Irvine, Jessica Brewer, Jessica Carrington and Jessica Hoggard), 42, Cedar Lake, Indiana was charged by way of a 4 count indictment for wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II. Guska was the president of Cedar Lake-based Riptide Travel Softball, a competitive softball[Read More…]
