WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The U.S. Army News Service issued the following news: By Jonathan Austin The terrorist attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, trumpeted a call to service for many. Among them, 17-year-old twins in Florida who were contemplating life after high school. And for a senior at the United States Military Academy at West Point, watching the attack in New York City on television stirred an immediate and urgent sense of duty. The Bengtson brothers Identical twins Chr  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida against (Aureus), a Florida entity, and its owner and chief executive officer, (Matos) of Orlando, Florida. The complaint alleges they operated a fraudulent scheme in which they solicited at least $1.5 million from pool participan  more

MIAMI, Florida, Sept. 13 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Markenzy Lapointe, issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2024: Colombian nationals Andres Fernando Medina Rodriguez, 40, and Ciro Alfonso Gutierrez Ballesteros, 31, were sentenced today to 35 and 30 years in prison, respectively, for conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. soldiers by detonating a car bomb outside a military base near the Colombia-Venezuela border. According to court documents, Medina  more

MIAMI, Florida, Sept. 12 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Markenzy Lapointe, issued the following news release: On Aug. 29, a federal jury found Gary Lincoln Davis, 52, of Atlanta, Ga., guilty of one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, two counts of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, and one count of attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine. According to testimony and evidence presented during the four-day tria  more

TAMPA, Florida, Sept. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2024: A jury today found Omali Yeshitela, 82, of St. Louis, Missouri, Penny Hess, 78, of St. Louis, Missouri, Jesse Nevel, 34, of St. Louis, Missouri and Augustus C. Romain, Jr., 38, of Atlanta, Georgia, guilty of conspiracy to act as agents of a foreign government. Each faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not ye  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2024: A Florida man was sentenced today to one year and a day in prison for conspiring to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate employees of pro-life pregnancy help centers in the free exercise of the right to provide and seek to provide reproductive health services. Caleb Freestone, along with two co-defendants, Amber Smith-Stewart and Annarella Rivera, selected reproductive health facilitie  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Sept. 11, 2024: A Florida woman pleaded guilty today to conspiring to launder millions of dollars from American fraud victims to a co-conspirator abroad. According to court documents, Cristine Petitfrere, 30, of Miramar, used bank accounts to receive proceeds from romance scams. After receiving money from victims of the scams, Petitfrere kept a portion as a fee and funneled the remainder to her co-consp  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2024: A Florida man was sentenced yesterday for his for his participation in a money laundering conspiracy. Robert Hueton Colespring, 56, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Colespring was also ordered to pay a fine of $5,000. In May 2024, Colespring pleaded gui  more