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NEW YORK, NY, Sept. 18, 2025 – The Justice Department announced the unsealing of a superseding indictment charging 10 members of the designated foreign terrorist organization Tren de Aragua (TdA) with racketeering conspiracy and multiple violent crimes in New York, including two murders in the Bronx and a gang-related shooting in Queens. The indictment, unsealed in the Southern District of New York, charges Keiber Jaen Martinez, Samuel Gonzalez Castro, Eferson Morillo-Gomez, Keiver Silva-Jimenez, Keineyer Ibarra-Mujica, and Marlon Farias with the May 24, 2024, murders of 44-year-old Claretha LaQuesha Daniels and 36-year-old Justin Lawless in the vicinity of 2290 Davidson Avenue in the Bronx. A third victim was also shot and wounded. Gonzalez Castro was additionally charged in con...

NEW YORK, NY, Sept. 18, 2025 – Yuanjun Tang, 68, a naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Flushing, Queens, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) within the United States. According to court documents, Tang, a former PRC citizen and political dissident, had previously been imprisoned in China for opposing the Chinese Communist Party, including his participation in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations. After defecting to Taiwan in 2002, he was granted political asylum in the United States, where he later settled in New York City and became active in pro-democracy efforts. Between at least 2018 and June 2023, Tang acted at the direction of the PRC’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), the country’s civilian inte...

BROOKLYN, NY – A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York has returned a superseding indictment charging Volodymyr Viktorovich Tymoshchuk, also known as “deadforz,” “Boba,” “msfv,” and “farnetwork,” for his role as an administrator in the LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim ransomware schemes. According to court documents, Tymoshchuk, a Ukrainian national, participated in ransomware operations that targeted more than 250 companies in the United States and hundreds of others worldwide between 2018 and 2021. The attacks caused millions of dollars in losses through encrypted data, operational disruptions, and ransom payments. Investigators said Tymoshchuk and his co-conspirators customized ransomware variants for each victim, demanding ransom payments in exchange for d...

STONY BROOK, NY – Authorities are searching for 15-year-old Allison Isiaro, who was reported missing on June 3, 2025. Allison was last seen wearing a black hat, black t-shirt, and blue pants. Anyone with information on her whereabouts is urged to contact local authorities at 800-346-3543 or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678.