The Department of Justice has seized more than $896,000 in proceeds from the distribution of counterfeit sports apparel and jerseys as the result of an investigation into the sale of counterfeit goods on commercial websites, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; Ronald C. Machen Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; and John Morton, Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The investigation also resulted in the seizure of seven domain names engaged in the sale of counterfeit goods. The funds were seized from interbank accounts and three PayPal accounts. The seizure warrants were unsealed in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia on April 5, 2012. Read more…
New Orleans Man Charged for Alleged Role in Five Murders
A New Orleans person was billed today with a federal grand jury within the Eastern District of Louisiana inside a 17-count superseding indictment for his alleged role in five killings, introduced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten within the Eastern District of Louisiana and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer from the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
The superseding indictment charges Steven Earl Hardrick, 27, with violations from the federal controlled substances act and federal guns laws and regulations, carjacking, witness tampering and murder. The superseding indictment alleges that Hardrick allegedly completedcompleted the March. 1, 2007, murder of Dwayne Landry the March. 13, 2007, home invasion, shooting and killing of off-duty New Orleans Police Officer Thelonius Dukes and also the March. 24, 2007, carjacking and murder of Brett Jacobs, David Alford and Howard Pickens.
Based on the superseding indictment, Hardrick conspired to own with intent to distribute drugs. He accomplished it by acquiring drugs through pressure and violence, additionally to guns, that they then accustomed to facilitate the thievery or robbery from the drugs. The superseding indictment alleges that Hardrick acquired guns in mostin many three occurrences, as well as with a couple of the occurrences, he attempted to obtain drugs. The superseding indictment alleges that Howard Pickens was wiped out within the March. 24, 2007, killings to avoid him from confirming particulars about the carjacking that brought to the killings of Brett Jacobs and David Alford. Read more…
The Justice Department announced today that former Thomas County Sheriff’s Deputy Julian Scott Law pleaded guilty today to assaulting a detainee inside of the Thomas County Jail in Thomasville, Georgia, thereby depriving the detainee of his civil rights.
During the plea hearing, Law admitted that on Aug. 20, 2010, while he was working as a deputy, he punched a detainee and knocked him into a wall, causing the detainee to suffer a bloody nose, swelling, bruising, and pain. Law admitted that he punched the detainee because the detainee had thrown a cell phone case onto the floor. Read more…
