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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A U.S. Attorney is concerned that a former school board president who pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges two years ago will leave the country as she awaits sentencing. The FBI raided the Houston Independent School District’s headquarters in 2020. The following year, former HISD board president, Rhonda Skillern-Jones, entered a plea agreement on a conspiracy charge. Officials …

Federal authorities said Wednesday that 134 people in the Dallas-Fort Worth area were arrested as part of a federal sting for commercial sex deals. The Department of Homeland Security said in a news release that the operation from the North Texas Trafficking Task Force ran from Sept. 11 to Sept. 15 and included partners from 15 federal, state and local law …

reats in the call to anyone “who went after former President Trump” and made threats to U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston; all Democrats in Washington D.C.; and the LGBTQ community. Shry said, “you are in our sights” and made threats to harm people “if Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024,” the complaint read. “You will be targeted personally, publicly, …

A Carrollton man is accused of capitalizing on the arrests of two people who allegedly sold deadly fentanyl-laced pills to entice young buyers on social media, federal officials announced Friday. Donovan Jude Andrews, 20, was arrested Wednesday and faces a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, according to officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the …

The “one pill can kill” fentanyl epidemic has hit home. Three young Carrollton-Farmers Branch students are dead and six others have been hospitalized in a string of overdoses, most of them since December. Federal investigators say each of these tragedies traces back to a single Carrollton house, located just blocks from R.L. Turner High School, where juvenile dealers as young as …

A seemingly distraught widow, she helped set up a GoFundMe page for her family’s benefit after her husband was gunned down by an assailant as the couple walked their dog in north Oak Cliff. Jennifer Faith, 49, pleaded with the public for any tips that could lead to the killer’s arrest. But the feds say she secretly orchestrated the murder almost one year ago …

Eleven people have been indicted in connection with a scheme that targeted elderly people for money, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas announced Friday. All 11 were arrested in a large-scale operation Wednesday morning, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Most are tied to a transnational organized crime syndicate originating in Nigeria, the office said. The office …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man accused of ramming a stolen pickup truck into a security gate at the FBI’s Houston office faces up to 10 years in federal prison. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said 38-year-old Nestor Mariano Vidal Batista was arrested on a federal charge of willfully injuring or committing any depredation exceeding $1,000 against U.S property. Prosecutors connected …

A former FBI agent fleeced a North Texas woman out of over $800,000 after convincing her that she was on “secret probation” for drug crimes, federal authorities allege. William Roy Stone Jr., 62, of Colleyville was indicted this week on seven counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of false impersonation of a …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A man in the Dallas area pleaded guilty to orchestrating a $24.8 million PPP scam and using the money to buy luxury cars and homes. According to the Department of Justice, 55-year-old Dinesh Sah of Coppell, Texas, submitted 15 fraudulent applications to eight different lenders seeking approximately $24.8 million as part of the Paycheck Protection Program.Sah …