YORK COUNTY, S.C. — Authorities say drug traffickers are transporting drugs by mail with more frequency.
It’s a growing trend police are seeing in communities throughout York County.
The packages are often delivered to real home addresses, when homeowners are knowingly away.
“Often times there are innocent people that don’t know what’s going on,” said Commander Marvin Brown.
In the weeks leading up to a critical annual U.S. report on human trafficking that publicly shames the world’s worst offenders, human rights experts at the State Department concluded that trafficking conditions hadn’t improved in Malaysia and Cuba. And in China, they found, things had grown worse.
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Germany’s Deutsche Bank (DB) for possibly laundering as much as $6 billion for Russian clients through the use of “mirror trades.” The investigation centers on whether Deutsche Bank traded securities for its Russian clients from Russian rubles to U.S. dollars to allow its clients to move money out of the country without properly informing authorities.
In keeping with his long-time pattern of avoiding the media, Paxton entered the Collin County jail through an entrance inaccessible to the press and public, and did not make a statement after his booking at the county courthouse.
There was a noticeable difference in Attorney General Mike DeWine’s demeanor and attitude from May 2014, when he announced the indictments in the Oakhill Renaissance corruption case, to last month, when he met with The Vindicator’s editorial board.
Last year, there was fire in DeWine’s eyes as he talked about the government corruption in the Mahoning Valley after the criminal indictment of Youngstown Mayor John A. McNally, ex Mahoning County Auditor Michael Sciortino and Youngstown Atty. Martin Yavorcik was returned by a grand jury in Cleveland. The trio faces a slew of criminal charges, including engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, conspiracy, bribery, perjury and money laundering, and are to go on trial in March in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.
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An investigative report by the Miami Herald published today reveals that two local Florida police agencies engaged in a slick money laundering scheme ripped from a Hollywood movie, reaping a whopping $2.4 million for themselves in drug money.
The Tri-County Task Force, which consisted of officers from two small police agencies, the Glade County Sheriff’s Office and Bal Harbour Police Department, laundered millions of dollars via SunTrust Bank through countries including Panama and China, the Herald found.
A grand jury has indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on felony securities fraud charges that accuse the Republican of misleading investors before he took over as the state’s top law enforcement officer, a special prosecutor said Saturday.
Kent Schaffer, a Houston defense attorney appointed by a judge to the case, told The New York Times that a Texas grand jury indicted Paxton on two counts of first-degree securities fraud and a lesser charge of not registering.
NEW ORLEANS — A federal grand jury in New Orleans has charged a 42-year-old Des Allemands woman with making a false claim for disaster relief after the 2010 BP oil spill.
The indictment says Melissa Ann Duran claimed she had worked as a seafood processor for a commercial fisherman for two years before the spill. Prosecutors say she filed false documentation with the federal government.
HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston woman who operated a foster care and child placement agency has been accused of adoption fraud.
Simone Swenson was arrested Friday after being indicted by a federal grand jury in Houston. Prosecutors say Swenson owned Sans Pareil Center for Children and Family Services LLC.
Police in Smyrna say they have wrapped up a nine month long investigation into rental theft scheme that apparently spanned not only the nation, but an ocean as well.