The Indiana State Police have announced a partnership with the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) to participate in CVSA’s annual Human Trafficking Awareness Initiative, January 12-16, 2026. The initiative focuses on leveraging commercial motor vehicle drivers to identify potential human trafficking situations.

During the initiative, ISP’s Commercial Vehicle Enforcement (CVE) units will engage with CMV drivers during routine roadside inspections. These interactions include distributing informational materials from Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT). CVSA’s Human Trafficking Awareness Initiative is being conducted across North America: the United States, January 12-16, 2026; Canada, February 23-27, 2026; and Mexico, March 16-20, 2026.

According to the United Nations, human trafficking involves the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of people through force, fraud, or deception for exploitation.

The CVSA notes that commercial motor vehicle drivers are often in locations where human trafficking may occur, including truck stops and rest areas. Over 40% of reported human trafficking cases involving victims identified by truck drivers have involved minors.

The Human Trafficking Awareness Initiative is a component of CVSA’s broader Human Trafficking Prevention Program, which seeks to reduce trafficking through coordinated enforcement, investigation, and awareness measures within the commercial motor vehicle industry. CVSA collaborates with TAT to engage and educate the trucking sector. Approximately 2.5 million professionals in the trucking industry have received training from TAT.

Additional information regarding human trafficking awareness, recognition, and prevention is available on CVSA’s Human Trafficking Resources page.

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In furtherance of the conspiracy, allegedly made false statements to the Office of Inspector General for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (FRB-OIG), and those false statements had a material impact on its investigation.

“As alleged, the defendant violated the trust placed in him by the Federal Reserve Bank by putting U.S. trade secrets in the hands of his PRC co-conspirators, knowing full well that such information would benefit the PRC Government and PRC instrumentalities,” said Devin DeBacker, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “The Justice Department will continue to use all the tools at its disposal to disrupt economic espionage and protect our national security.”

“President Trump tasks us with protecting our fellow Americans from all enemies, foreign and domestic. As alleged in the indictment, this defendant leveraged his position within the Federal Reserve to pass sensitive financial information to the Chinese government, a designated adversary,” said U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. for the District of Columbia. “Let this indictment serve as a warning to all who seek to betray or exploit the United States: law enforcement will find you and hold you accountable.”

“As alleged in the indictment, Rogers betrayed his country while employed at the Federal Reserve by providing restricted U.S. financial and economic information to Chinese government intelligence officers,” said Assistant Director Kevin Vorndran of the FBI Counterintelligence Division. “This information could allow adversaries to illegally gain a strategic economic advantage at the expense of the U.S. This indictment sends a clear message that the FBI and our partners will hold accountable those who threaten our national security.”

“The Chinese Communist Party has expanded its economic espionage campaign to target U.S. government financial policies and trade secrets in an effort to undermine the United States and become the sole superpower,” said Assistant Director in Charge David Sundberg of the FBI Washington Field Office. “Today’s indictment represents the FBI’s unwavering commitment to protect U.S. national security interests and U.S. jobs and bring to justice those who are willing to betray their country for personal gain.”

“This indictment sends a clear message that those who deliberately misuse sensitive Federal Reserve information for their own personal gain and lie about it to investigators will be held accountable for their actions,” said Special Agent in Charge John T. Perez of the FRB-OIG, Headquarters Operations.

According to the indictment, Rogers, a U.S. citizen with a Ph.D. in economics, worked as a Senior Adviser in FRB’s Division of International Finance of the FRB from 2010 until 2021, where he was entrusted with confidential FRB information. The confidential information that Rogers allegedly shared with his Chinese co-conspirators, who worked for the intelligence and security apparatus of China and who posed as graduate students at a PRC university, is economically valuable when secret.

China holds a large amount of U.S. foreign debt (approximately $816 billion as of October 2024). The data Rogers shared with his co-conspirators could allow China to manipulate the U.S. market, in a manner similar to insider trading. Gaining advance knowledge of U.S. economic policy, including advance knowledge of changes to the federal funds rate, could provide China with an advantage when selling or buying U.S. bonds or securities.

The indictment alleges that, from at least 2018, Rogers allegedly exploited his employment with the FRB by soliciting trade-secret information regarding proprietary economic data sets, deliberations about tariffs targeting China, briefing books for designated governors, and sensitive information about Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) deliberations and forthcoming announcements. He passed that information electronically to his personal email account, in violation of FRB policy, or printed it prior to traveling to China, in preparation for meetings with his co-conspirators.

Under the guise of teaching “classes,” Rogers met with his co-conspirators in hotel rooms in China where he conveyed sensitive, trade-secret information that belonged to the FRB and the FOMC. In 2023, Rogers was paid approximately $450,000 as a part-time professor at a Chinese university.

On Feb. 4, 2020, in response to questioning by the FRB-OIG, Rogers lied about his accessing and passage of sensitive information and his associations with his co-conspirators.

Rogers is charged with conspiracy to commit economic espionage and with making false statements.

The FBI Washington Field Office and FRB-OIG are investigating the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly Paschall for the District of Columbia and Trial Attorneys Nicholas Hunter and Steve Marzen of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Section are prosecuting the case.

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice

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Law enforcement officials in Indiana must be compliant and help end this illegal alien crisis taking over Hoosier communities.

St. Joseph County Summons 1

St. Joseph County Summons 2

St. Joseph County Complaint

St. Joseph County Appearance

SOURCE: Indiana Attorney General

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On Thursday, January 2, 2025, FEMA placed a major disaster declaration request for New Orleans, Louisiana due to the Bourbon Street Massacre terrorist attack on New Year’s Day.

FEMA has requested both Individual Assistance (IA), which provides grants and other aid to households, and Public Assistance (PA), which provides grants to state, county, and municipal governments.

You can read more about the FEMA declaration process at fema.gov.

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Upon arrival in the area, officers observed fresh footprints in the snow and were able to track them to a train car, where they located a suspected undetonated Improvised Explosive Device (I.E.D.). Officers followed the fresh prints in the snow to a camp trailer that was parked near a residence in the 600 Block of N. 8th Street.

The suspect (identified as 40-year-old Payette resident, Brent Sharrai) attempted to flee from the camp trailer on foot but surrendered to Payette Police Officers after a short foot pursuit. Sharrai was taken into custody at that time on outstanding Payette County warrants. He was later booked into the Payette County Jail on those warrants, as well as additional charges for possession of a destructive device (felony), possession of a controlled substance (felony), possession of paraphernalia (misdemeanor) and resisting and obstructing officers.

Due to the dangers posed by the I.E.D., the Nampa Bomb Squad was requested for assistance in rendering the device safe. Union Pacific was also notified and all trains scheduled to travel through the incident site were put on standby for approximately 5 hours, until the scene was determined to be safe. An agent with the F.B.I. also responded to the scene to assist with the investigation.

The Nampa Bomb Squad utilized their specialized robot to remove the IED from the train car and later detonated the device to render it safe.

A search warrant was obtained and executed on the camp trailer Sharrai was in, where items similar to the device found on the train car were located, as well as controlled substances and paraphernalia.

As of this time, Sharrai has been charged with the above-mentioned crimes and is being housed at the Payette County Jail. Federal charges for the possession/manufacturing of a destructive device are pending the F.B.I’s investigation.

Payette Police Department

Chief of Police

Gary A. Marshall

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New York City – Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, a 33-year-old Guatemalan in the United States Illegally, has been arrested by NYPD and is accused of setting a sleeping female on fire and watching her burn to death (New York Post) in the New York City Transit Authority subway system.

If this crime isn’t horrific enough, people chose to take a video of it instead of helping this woman.

In security footage, you can see people walking by, one of which appears to be in a police or security guard uniform.

Also, one person, who looks like the accused Zapeta, was sort of trying to fan the flames.

What’s very weird is that the woman stands there not attempting to extinguish the flames, which does raise other questions that will hopefully come to light.

Early unconfirmed reports on X are that the NYC Subway Burning Victim was Amelia Carter, 29, a graduate of SUNY Purchase and obtaining her PhD from UPenn.

Authorities have said that Zapeta had previously been deported under the previous Trump administration, but had snuck back into the country at some point.

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