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You are subscribed to Violent Crimes news updates. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. Tribal Police Officer Charged with Sexually Abusing Three Victims While on Duty: FBI Seeks Additional Victims 01/08/2026 07:00 AM EST PHOENIX, Ariz. – A White Mountain Apache Tribal Police officer was arrested Wednesday in Canyon Day on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, after being charged in a federal indictment with sexual abuse and kidnapping.Karl Eugene Leslie, 42, of Whiteriver, Arizona, is charged in a 15-count indictment, returned Dec. 23, 2025, with Aggravated Sexual Abuse, Kidnapping (including one count of Kidnapping-Victim Under 18), Sexual Abuse through Fear, Sexual Abuse through Coercion, and Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law. Bronx Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Trafficking Semiautomatic Rifles And 800 Rounds Of Ammunition 01/07/2026 07:00 AM EST United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced that HASSAN HUBBARD was sentenced [today/yesterday] to 10 years in prison for trafficking firearms.   Utah Man Sentenced in Making Threats Against Palestinian Rights Organization 01/07/2026 07:00 AM EST Kevin Brent Buchanan, 64, of Tooele, Utah, was sentenced today in the District of Columbia to six months in prison in connection with threatening violence against the employees of a D.C.-based Palestinian rights organization, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. Tribal Police Officer Charged with Sexually Abusing Three Victims While on Duty: FBI Seeks Additional Potential Victims 01/07/2026 07:00 AM EST A White Mountain Apache Tribal Police officer was arrested Wednesday in Canyon Day on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, after being charged in a federal indictment with sexual abuse and kidnapping.Karl Eugene Leslie, 42, of Whiteriver, Arizona, is charged in a 15-count indictment, returned Dec. 23, 2025, with Aggravated Sexual Abuse, Kidnapping (including one count of Kidnapping-Victim Under 18), Sexual Abuse through Fear, Sexual Abuse through Coercion, and Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law. Man Pleads Guilty to Destroying Rockford Restaurant by Arson 01/07/2026 07:00 AM EST JAMES PURIFOY started the fire and fraudulently pocketed $305,400 in insurance money. Stabbing of a Tourist in November 2024 Yields Prison Term for D.C. Man 01/07/2026 07:00 AM EST Maurice Felder, 54, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 54 months in prison for charges related to stabbing a man who was visiting D.C. on November 10, 2024, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. Bronx Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison In Connection With The Shooting Of An Innocent Bystander 01/07/2026 07:00 AM EST United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced that KEANO SAHUSILAWANI, a/k/a/ "Chino," a/k/a "Bhino," a/k/a "Bhino Shots," was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for illegally possessing ammunition in connection with a June 12, 2024, shooting during which SAHUSILAWANI and an accomplice fired multiple shots on a residential street in the Bronx, New York, striking and injuring an innocent bystander. U.S. Attorney's Office Leveraging Federal, State, Local Partnerships to Help Drive Sharp Decline in Violent Crime Across Maryland 01/07/2026 07:00 AM EST Baltimore, Maryland – The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland announced today that, thanks to cooperative efforts between Federal, State, and local partners, statewide violent crime continued to significantly decline in 2025. Homicides and non-fatal shootings are down statewide, including in Baltimore City, for the fourth year in a row. PREVIOUSLY DEPORTED ALIEN INDICTED FOR ILLEGAL ENTRY AND ASSAULT OF AN IMMIGRATION OFFICER 01/07/2026 07:00 AM EST TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – Edwin Antonio Rodriguez-Gonzalez, 31, of El Salvador, was indicted by a federal grand jury charging him with illegal entry by a deported alien and assault of a government official.  Brian Cole Jr. Charged in Indictment in Planting Explosive Devices Outside the RNC and DNC on Jan. 5, 2021 01/06/2026 07:00 AM EST Brian J. Cole, Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was charged in a federal indictment returned today in U.S. District Court in the planting of two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on January 5, 2021, at the headquarters of both the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee in Washington D.C., announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.  Jury Convicts Seven Defendants in 2023 Carjacking Spree 01/06/2026 07:00 AM EST Jaelen Jordan, 20, and Warren Montgomery, 21, both of Washington, D.C., and Bryon Gillum, 20, Isaiah Flowers, 20, Jahkai Goff, 21, Taj Giles, 20, and Irshaad Ellis-Bey, 20, all of Prince George's County, MD, were found guilty today in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on charges pertaining to three armed carjackings on February 27, 2023, April 27, 2023, and May 16, 2023, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. District Man Sentenced to 16-Year Prison Term for Firing into Crowd with His Three Accomplices 01/06/2026 07:00 AM EST James Outland, 26, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced   today to 16 years in prison for gunning down a crowd of people in Washington DC, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.

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