The Justice Department will determine if allegations of widespread violence and improper searches amount to a pattern of discrimination in the department.

An illegal alien, who successfully crossed the United States-Mexico border, has been convicted of child sex crimes.

U.S. District Judge Tom Lee called the former officers’ actions “egregious and despicable” and imposed sentences near the top of federal guidelines for five of the six.

The judge also ordered that Fiore cannot introduce evidence or argument about a vindictive or selective prosecution theory.

Patricia Sierra faced charges of burglary of a business, grand larceny and removing, transferring or disturbing human remains.

A man allegedly found to have sexually explicit images of minors on his cellphone that were exchanged using Snapchat is in custody, Washington County Sheriff's Office said.