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Los Angeles is buzzing with news as former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas, widely known as "Agent Zero," was arrested today along with five other defendants on a federal indictment. The charges stem from an alleged illegal gambling business, operating high-stakes poker games out of an Encino mansion owned by Arenas himself. The indictment, unsealed today after being returned on July 15, alleges that from September 2021 to July 2022, Arenas, Yevgeni Gershman, and others ran a clandestine gambling operation. Arenas, 43, faces charges of conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business, operating an illegal gambling business, and making false statements to federal investigators. Among those arrested is Yevgeni Gershman, 49, a.k.a. "Giora," described as a suspected high-level member of an Israeli transnational organized crime group. He, along with Evgenni Tourevski, Allan Austria, Yarin Cohen, and Ievgen Krachun, are each charged with conspiracy and operating...

A sophisticated, nationwide bank fraud scheme that stole over $2 million by impersonating individuals across the country has been dismantled with the conviction of its alleged ringleader, Oluwaseun Adekoya, also known as "Ace G." On Thursday, June 26, 2025, a jury found the 39-year-old Cliffside Park, New Jersey, resident guilty of bank fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, and nine counts of aggravated identity theft. The Modus Operandi: How the Scheme Operated From his luxury apartment, Adekoya orchestrated a complex operation targeting people with substantial home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) at credit unions nationwide. He used encrypted messaging platforms like Telegram to acquire sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, account numbers, and mothers' maiden names. Adekoya then recruited a network of managers across the country. He supplied them with this stolen information and fake driver's licenses for lower-leve...

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Mary Galligan, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Ronald J. Knapp, the Chief of the City of Poughkeepsie Police Department, and Adrian H. Anderson, the Dutchess County Sheriff, announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging 11 defendants with conspiracy to distribute heroin in and around Poughkeepsie, New York.

ALEXANDRIA, VA—Twenty-eight individuals have been arrested for their alleged roles in a cocaine trafficking ring based in Northern Virginia that uses couriers to regularly import large amounts of cocaine from Honduras hidden in shoes and decorative wooden frames. Members of the trafficking ring have allegedly wired more than $1 million from the United States back to cocaine suppliers in Honduras.

DETROIT - Nine suspects in Detroit and four suspects in San Diego have been arrested for their alleged role in a large scale car theft scheme – a scheme that transshipped stolen luxury sedans, SUVs and other vehicles to Iraq. These arrests are the result of an extensive two-year investigation, known as "Operation Hot Wheels," which was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

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