Security News in Brief: Repeat Violent Offender Caught Trespassing with a Weapon Sentenced to Prison

Source: United States Department of Justice News

MACON, Ga. – A convicted felon with a lengthy criminal history was sentenced to serve more than six years in prison for illegally possessing a firearm after U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officers caught him trespassing on private property with a loaded gun near a national refuge.

Brandon Lee Hall, 33, of Macon, was sentenced to serve 82 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release by U.S. District Marc Treadwell on Nov. 30, after he previously pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of ammunition by a felon. There is no parole in the federal system.

Security News in Brief: Member of Southwest Baltimore “NFL” Gang Pleads Guilty to a Federal Racketeering Conspiracy Charge, Including Two Murders and an Attempted Murder

Source: United States Department of Justice News

Bobby Cannon, a/k/a Freaky, age 24 of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to participating in a violent racketeering conspiracy, specifically, the NFL Criminal Enterprise, including committing two murders. The term NFL stands for Normandy, Franklin, and Loudon, which are three adjacent streets that run through the Edmondson Village. Members of NFL have social and familial ties to the Edmondson Village neighborhood in southwest Baltimore.

Security News in Brief: MS-13 Gang Associate Pleads Guilty to Participating in the 2017 Murders of Four Young Men in a Central Islip Park

Source: United States Department of Justice News

Anderson Sanchez, an associate of the Leeward Locos Salvatruchas clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Central Islip to racketeering charges in connection with his participation in the April 11, 2017 murders of Justin Llivicura, Michael Lopez, Jorge Tigre, and Jefferson Villalobos.

Security News in Brief: U.S. Law Enforcement Targets Fraud Facilitators, Doubling Last Year’s Enforcement

Source: United States Department of Justice News

The Department of Justice, FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and five other federal law enforcement agencies announced the completion of the fourth annual Money Mule Initiative, which targeted networks of individuals through which international fraudsters obtain proceeds of fraud schemes. These individuals, sometimes referred to as money mules, receive money from fraud victims and forward the illicit funds, often to overseas perpetrators.