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Connecticut AG: Trump Border Wall is Illegal

Coastal News & Report June 30, 2020

Hartford, CT – Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement regarding the 2-1 decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals finding that the Trump Administration unlawfully diverted $2.5 billion in military funding for construction of the border wall. “The 9th…

Springfield man sentenced to 78 months in prison for trafficking heroin

Coastal News & Report June 29, 2020

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jonathan Velez, also known as “Jay” and “King Jay,” 26, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was sentenced…

Members of the Mac Baller Brims gang charged with murder

Coastal News & Report June 29, 2020

NEW YORK – Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York…

24 defendants charged in joint federal and state investigation of two violent street gangs on the West Side of Chicago

Coastal News & Report June 29, 2020

CHICAGO — Twenty-four individuals are facing federal charges following an investigation targeting two street gangs responsible for firearms offenses, narcotics trafficking, and violence on the West Side of Chicago. During the investigation, dubbed “Operation Full Circle,” federal, state, and local law enforcement officers…