Francis, whose 57th birthday is Saturday, was arrested in 2013 during a sting operation in a San Diego hotel. He pleaded guilty in 2015 to bribing Navy officers and defrauding the U.S. out of at ...

SAN DIEGO — A military contractor who went on the run weeks before his sentencing for orchestrating the “Fat Leonard” corruption scandal was taken into custody in Venezuela, authorities ...

Wilbert is a U.S. Navy SEAL who lived in San Diego, and a father of four. It’s been months since his family has been able to see or talk to him, since he has been detained in Venezuela ...

SAN DIEGO — After two weeks on the run, the man known as "Fat Leonard" was arrested in Venezuela on Sept. 20, U.S. Marshals Service confirmed to CBS 8.

Leonard Glenn "Fat Leonard" Francis, a Malaysian defense contractor who is at the center of one of the biggest bribery scandals in U.S Navy history, has been arrested weeks after being on the run.

SAN DIEGO — Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian defense contractor known as “Fat Leonard” who fled home arrest in San Diego this month, was arrested Tuesday morning in Venezuela as he was ...

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The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela on Friday announced that the years-long closure of their countries' shared border to cargo transport will end Sept. 26.

Strained relations between the U.S. and Venezuela mean that the U.S. government has no access to American detainees. “The stories that we have heard from detained Americans, they’re horrific.