Federal prosecutors in South Florida have charged a licensed veterinarian based in Aventura with obtaining and owning child pornography as well as animal crushing, a federal offense punishing acts involving animal cruelty. An IP address assigned to the veterinarian’s home in Miami regularly accessed a cloud-based file-sharing site storing photographs…
A pair of Florida men have earned themselves federal prison time after they were caught stealing more than ninety in sea turtle eggs. These eggs are protected by federal law as part of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). One of the men, per the criminal complaint, dropped the other off…
Earlier this month, a federal magistrate judge in Fort Lauderdale ordered a South Florida pediatrician to be held without bail awaiting conviction on a federal charge of alleged child pornography possession. In June of last year, the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force obtained a CyberTip from the National Center…
A 33-year-old Palm Beach Gardens, Florida man has been charged with assault of an Assistant United States Attorney as well as conspiring to murder an Assistant United States Attorney by a federal grand jury in South Florida. Per court filings, in November of 2019, a jury found the man guilty…
Federal agents in Fort Lauderdale arrested a top associate of a suspected New York crime family on drug-related plot charges on Sunday. The man, who is related to a reputed mafia boss, was recently apprehended by Homeland Security Investigations agents and made an appearance in federal court. As he awaited…
A 59-year-old Boca Raton has been charged by South Florida federal prosecutors with making an interstate commerce contact where she made threats to kill Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents. According to the charges in the affidavit of the criminal case, the FBI was tipped off online last month by…
A 39-year-old Florida man was recently sentenced to more than 25 years in federal prison after being charged with an alleged conspiracy to distribute at least 50 grams of methamphetamine. The man has pled guilty in the past and affirmed that he traveled to Los Angeles, California, from Florida on…
A trio of suspects have been charged by West Palm Beach federal prosecutors with conspiring to manufacture more than thirty pounds of crystal methamphetamine. Each of the defendants is a Mexican national. A pair of them made their first federal magistrate court appearances on Monday. Last Friday, the third suspect…
A federal appeals court is seeking the Supreme Court of Florida to help settle an objection to fees that red-light camera providers may charge motorists. The proposed class-action case results from a $7.90 fee charged to a Florida motorist after a camera owned by a third-party firm filmed him in…
A 42-year-old man who was still on federal supervised release for counterfeiting in Jacksonville in 2015 reportedly entered a guilty plea to producing and passing additional false bills. A native of Tampa, the man may be sentenced to up to 20 years in federal jail and restitution fees to the…