Los Angeles, California - A Mexican national, who was aboard a SkyWest Airlines flight taxiing to the runway at Los Angeles International Airport Friday evening, allegedly approached the cockpit – banging on the cockpit door and trying to enter the restricted space – before opening an emergency exit and jumping to the tarmac, according to a federal criminal complaint made public Monday.

San Diego, California - 

Washington, DC - A Tennessee physician pleaded guilty Wednesday in the Western District of Tennessee to causing the death of one of his patients through his illegal prescribing of hydrocodone.

Washington, DC - Mariam Taha Thompson, 62, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison for delivering classified national defense information to aid a foreign government. As part of her March 26 guilty plea, Thompson admitted that she believed that the classified national defense information that she was passing to a Lebanese national would be provided to Lebanese Hezbollah, a designated foreign terrorist organization.

El Paso, Texas - A Texas man was sentenced Tuesday in the Western District of Texas to 40 years in prison for multiple obscenity crimes involving children.

Arlington, Virginia - A North Carolina woman pleaded guilty Tuesday in the Eastern District of Virginia to engaging in a bribery scheme with a former contracting officer for the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), now known as the U.S. Agency for Global Media.