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FBI shoots suspect after hours-long standoff

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On Thursday morning in Minneapolis, Minnesota, shots rang out on 3700 Dupont Avenue North as a federal agent fatally shot Chue Feng Yang after an hours-long standoff. It all started when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Minneapolis branch served an arrest warrant for a carjacking incident to Yang at his home. Yang refused to submit to the authorities and barricaded himself in his house, streaming the situation on social media. Dupont and Dowling Avenues …

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Body of missing college student found near church, police investigate

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Federal authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Ashanti Billie, a 19-year-old college student who went missing from Virginia last month. Ashanti’s body was discovered behind a church in Charlotte, North Carolina, over 300 miles from where she was last seen in Norfolk on September 18, according to an FBI spokesperson from the Norfolk office. Ashanti, a student at the Art Institute of Virginia Beach, was last seen on her way to work …

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Shooter attacks Christian grade school

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On Monday, March 27, 2023, a shooting at Covenant School, a private Christian grade school in Nashville, Tennessee, left three students and three adults dead. The shooter, a 28-year-old female Nashville resident, was killed by police. The female was a former student at the school and was carrying two “assault-type rifles” and a handgun. Police responded to the scene and found the shooter had entered the building through a side door before climbing stairs to …

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FBI Rescues Hostages in North Houston

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On Thursday morning, federal and local law enforcement officials collaborated in a multiday operation in north Houston. Their mission was to safely rescue a group of hostages, with one person fatally shot during the rescue – no FBI agents were injured and all hostages were safely recovered. Despite the seriousness of the incident, the public remains safeguarded and is not faced with any safety threat. The number of hostages and the cause of the shooting …

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FBI Investigating Young Woman’s Death On Cruise Ship

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The FBI is actively investigating the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a 44-year-old woman on a Caribbean cruise. The cruise left Charleston, South Carolina on February 27th and the woman’s death likely occurred in the early morning hours of February 28th. The woman had been traveling with her husband and medical staff and crew members onboard made valiant attempts at reviving the passenger, but to no avail. Upon the ship’s return to Charleston on …

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Woman Covered in Blood Tells Store Cashier That She’s Been Kidnapped

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Authorities in Dolton, Illinois are on the lookout for a kidnapped woman who fled to an AutoZone store seeking help. The victim claimed she was being held captive by a man whom she had met on a mobile application. The woman approached the cashier inside the AutoZone store on East Sibley Boulevard. She had multiple bruises on her neck and arms, a bloodied right hand, and reportedly said that a man she met on an …

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Major Drug Trafficking Ring Busted In St. Petersburg Florida

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According to St. Petersburg Police Chief Anthony Holloway, the investigation was launched to reduce gun violence in the Tampa Bay area, but ended with local, state, and federal agencies taking down a major regional drug ring. Holloway told reporters Tuesday that one to two tractor-trailers have been coming from California to Hillsborough County every week since at least January. According to officials, those shipments will be picked up and delivered throughout the Tampa Bay area …

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Navy Engineer Sold Nuclear Submarine Secrets To Foreign Country Using Peanut Butter Sandwiches

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A Navy engineer and his wife were sentenced to more than 19 years and nearly 22 years in prison, respectively, for a plot to sell secrets about nuclear submarines to a foreign government. Jonathan Toebbe, a nuclear engineer for the US Navy, hid a small SD card carrying US secrets in West Virginia and was arrested after a tantalizing, spy-novel-like plot. They were hidden in peculiar places. These hiding spots included Band-Aid wrappers, gum wrappers, …

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A Prison Transport Guard Sexually Assaulted A Detainee

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The guard sexually assaulted a female detainee on the way between Washington and Minnesota in 2020, according to a federal court in the Western District of Missouri. In court on Tuesday, Rogeric Hankins, 37, confessed to sexually assaulting the detainee. According to U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore for the Western District of Missouri, “A private prisoner transport officer abused his position of trust and authority by sexually assaulting a detainee who was in his custody while …

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Leader Of Polygamist Group Facing Federal Charges For Trafficking Young Girls

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Several weeks after being stopped on the highway with young girls in an enclosed trailer, the leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border pleaded not guilty to federal charges of tampering with evidence. Three counts of destroying or attempting to destroy records were filed against Samuel Bateman earlier this month, along with tampering with criminal proceedings. In Flagstaff, a mountain city where a state police agency arrested him in late August after …

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