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Source: United States Navy
NEWPORT, R.I. – The U.S. Naval War College’s (NWC) College of Distance Education (CDE) hosted their Naval Command and Staff online program graduation in a virtual ceremony honoring 222 graduates on April 8.
The class gathered virtually to hear remarks from Rear Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, U.S. Naval War College president.
Source: United States Navy
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — Navy Military Training Instructors (NMTI) at Center for Seabees and Facilities Engineering (CSFE) Detachment Fort Leonard Wood continue to provide professional military instruction to ensure its graduates are ready to join the fleet despite the challenges posed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: United States Navy
CHERRY POINT, N.C. – As a young man growing up in Fresno, California, Navy Hospital Corpsman Petty Officer 1st Class James Williams knew without a doubt he wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and serve in the U.S. Navy.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) State Crime News
SEATTLE, WA—The FBI’s Seattle Field Office, ATF, and the Seattle Police Department are investigating an arson which occurred on August 24, 2020, at 11 p.m., in the SODO region of Seattle, Washington. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the individual(s) responsible. See poster for more information.
Two suspects were observed scouting the area around the Seattle Police Officer’s Guild building in the hour before the attack. The suspects changed into all black clothing and returned to the building, where they ignited and threw three Molotov cocktails at the structure and then fled the area on foot.
Suspect #1 is described as a White female between 5’8” and 5’10”, weighing approximately 120 pounds with dirty blonde/purple hair. Suspect #2 is described as a Black person between 5’5” and 5’7”, weighing approximately 120 pounds.
Anyone with information regarding these incidents should contact the FBI’s Seattle Field Office at 206-622-0460 or tips.fbi.gov.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) State Crime News
Special Agent in Charge Stanley M. Meador, Federal Bureau of Investigation Richmond Division; Chief Gerald Smith, City of Richmond Police Department; and Special Agent in Charge Raymond Villanueva, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Washington, D.C., announce the convictions of subjects responsible for the 2016 murder of Clemente Jimenez-Lopez.
On March 6, 2016, officers from the City of Richmond Police Department responded to a call for service within the 1400 block of Armfield Road in the Town and Country Townhomes and Apartment complex in Richmond. On scene, officers learned that three male victims were approached by multiple subjects demanding their belongings. The victims fled on foot in different directions while being pursued by the subjects. Officers discovered two of the victims were caught, assaulted, and robbed by their assailants; the third victim, Clemente Jimenez-Lopez, was located deceased from a gunshot wound to the head.
Almost five years after the murder of Mr. Lopez and following a two-day jury trial in the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond on March 23 and March 24, 2021, MS-13 member Osmar Hernandez Santamaria was found guilty of one count of 1st degree murder, one count of use of a firearm in the commission of murder, three counts of attempted robbery, and one count of use of a firearm in the commission of attempted robbery. Santamaria’s formal sentencing is scheduled for August 24, 2021.
MS-13 member Francisco Ovidio Lemus-Castillo previously pled guilty on March 9, 2021, to one count of 2nd degree murder and one count of attempted robbery. Castillo was sentenced on that date to 40 years in prison with 15 years suspended for the murder charge and 10 years in prison with all 10 years suspended for the attempted robbery charge, resulting in 25 years of actual incarceration.
These recent convictions are part of a multi-year investigative effort targeting the MS-13 gang in the Richmond area and comes off the heels of the October 2019 and January 2020 guilty pleas by MS-13 associates Arsenio Joshua Alers and Jose Rivas-Santiago. Alers and Rivas-Santiago pleaded guilty to one count of 2nd degree murder and one count of attempted robbery, respectively.
This case was investigated by the FBI’s Richmond Area Violent Enterprise (RAVE) Task Force, the City of Richmond Police Department’s Major Crimes Division, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Richmond office. Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Brooke E. Pettit from the City of Richmond Commonwealth Attorney’s Office prosecuted these cases.
The FBI RAVE Task Force is an established team of federal, state, and local law enforcement partners and prosecutors dedicated to addressing gang and drug related violent criminal activity. The RAVE Task Force identifies and targets gangs as criminal enterprises, investigating the enterprise’s activities and focusing resources to obtain successful prosecutions.