Security News in Brief: United States Seizes Funeral Scrolls and Manuscripts Taken from Pre-Holocaust Jewish Communities in Eastern Europe

Source: United States Department of Justice News

Jacquelyn Kasulis, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent-in-Charge, Homeland Security Investigations, New York (HSI), announced today the seizure of 17 Jewish Funeral Scrolls, Pinkas Manuscripts (“Scrolls and Manuscripts”) and Community Records that had been taken from Jewish communities in Romania, Hungary, Ukraine and Slovakia during World War II.

Security News in Brief: Man Sentenced To 13 Years For Child Exploitation

Source: United States Department of Justice News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – U.S. District Court Judge Francisco A. Besosa sentenced Marcos Rivera-Ramos to 156 months (13 years) in prison and 10 years of supervised release for sexual enticement of a 14-year old girl, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.

The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and the Denver Police Department Need Your Help Identifying an Individual Who Robbed a Wells Fargo Bank Branch

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Crime News (b)

The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and the Denver Police Department need your help identifying an individual who robbed the Wells Fargo Bank located at 5353 West Dartmouth Avenue in Denver, Colorado, at approximately 3:39 p.m. on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. The suspect displayed a demand note and fled on foot.

The suspect is described as a Caucasian male with brown hair in his early 20s, approximately 6’0” with a slim build. He was wearing faded blue jeans, a gray long-sleeve shirt, a gray ball cap, black shoes, and a black face mask.

Please be on the lookout for anyone matching the above description. Be aware of anyone similar who might have recently changed their spending habits or discussed coming into money suddenly.

Bank robbery is punishable up to a 20-year prison sentence for each offense and increases if a dangerous weapon is used in the commission of the crime. The FBI continues to provide financial institutions with the best practices for security to make them less vulnerable to robberies.

If anyone has any information on the bank robbery above, or any bank robbery, please call the FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force at 303-629-7171; or, you may remain anonymous by calling CRIMESTOPPERS at 720-913-STOP (7867).

Security News in Brief: Justice Department Obtains $100,000 Settlement in Sexual Harassment Case Against Ohio Landlords

Source: United States Department of Justice News

The Justice Department today announced that Toledo, Ohio, landlords Anthony Hubbard, Ann Hubbard, Jeffery Hubbard, PayUp LLC and No Joke Properties Inc. have agreed to pay $100,000 to resolve a Fair Housing Act lawsuit alleging that Anthony Hubbard sexually harassed female tenants at rental properties he owned or managed with the other defendants.