Springfield, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on June 14, 2010, MYLES D. ALLALI, age 24, of Mt. Vernon, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton. ALLALI to 60 months’ imprisonment, a $700 fine, and 15 years[Read More…]
Local Police Reports
FBI: The Latest Phone Scam Targets Your Bank Account
(Photo: FBI) Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Imagine getting hundreds or thousands of calls on your home, business, or cell phone, tying up the lines. And when you answer, you hear anything from dead air to recorded messages, advertisements, or even phone sex menus. It’s annoying, no doubt. But it could be more[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Reports for June 21, 2010
The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Wendy Heise) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other[Read More…]
Chicago FBI: Serbian National Arrested in Fraud Plot
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A Serbian national living in Chicago’s north suburbs was arrested yesterday on charges he attempted to purchase a device commonly used for ATM skimming, announced Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). LOUIS SOKOLOVIC, also known as Ljubisa Sokolovic,[Read More…]
Faisal Shahzad Indicted for Attempted Car Bombing in Times Square
Washington DC–(ENEWSPF)– A federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York has returned a 10-count indictment charging Faisal Shahzad for allegedly driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1, 2010, the Justice Department announced today. Shahzad, 30, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in[Read More…]
Former Massachusetts Pastor Charged with Child Pornography Offenses
Boston, MA–(ENEWSPF)– A former Brookline man who served at the First Spiritual Temple as a minister, teacher, counselor, and “medium” was indicted today in federal court on child pornography charges. United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz and Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Boston[Read More…]
Springfield, Massachusetts Man Pleads Guilty to Church Arson
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The Justice Department today announced that Benjamin Haskell, 23, of Springfield, Mass., pleaded guilty to a superseding information charging him with two crimes related to the burning of the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, a predominantly African-American church, in Springfield on the morning after President Barack Obama[Read More…]
Mortgage Lending Exec Indicted in $1.9 Billion Scheme That Led to Failure of Bank
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Lee Bentley Farkas, the former chairman of a private mortgage lending company, Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW), was arrested last night in Ocala, Fla., and charged in a 16-count indictment in connection with his alleged role in a more than $1.9 billion fraud scheme that contributed to the[Read More…]
Eight Suspected Gang Members Charged in Cabrini-Green Drug Sweep
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Eight known or suspected members of the Gangster Disciples street gang were arrested early yesterday, culminating a nearly three-year investigation into drug trafficking in and around the Cabrini-Green housing project on Chicago’s near north side, announced Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal[Read More…]
Crystal Lake Woman Indicted in Federal Court In Connection With Robbery of Chase Bank in Cary, Illinois
Rockford, IL–(ENEWSPF)– PATRICK J. FITZGERALD, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; ROBERT D. GRANT, Special Agent-In-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; RONALD K. LUKASIK, Chief of the Fox River Grove Police Department; and EDWARD FETZER, Chief of the Cary Police Department, today[Read More…]