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News Release: A federal court in the Eastern District of Michigan has permanently enjoined two Detroit, Michigan-area tax return preparers and their Detroit-based business from preparing returns for others and from owning or operating any tax return preparation business in the future.


Former Kayenta Man Charged with Making False Statements, Cyberstalking, and Aggravated Identity Theft

News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - James Thomas Andrew McCarty, 22, of Charlotte, North Carolina, and formerly of Kayenta, Arizona, was arrested on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, following a federal grand jury indictment of 26 counts including Making False Statements, Cyberstalking, and Aggravated Identity Theft. A detention...


Maple Grove Man Indicted for Violent Carjacking at Blaine Grocery Store Parking Lot

News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A federal grand jury returned an indictment against a Maple Grove man for an armed carjacking at a Blaine grocery store, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TAJH WILEY, also known as “Yung," 27, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 144 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for drug trafficking offenses.


News Release: GRAND RAPIDS - Barry Croft Jr., 47, of Bear, Delaware, was sentenced today to 235 months (19 years 7 months) in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to kidnap the Governor of Michigan, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against persons or property, and knowingly possessing an unregistered destructive device, which was a commercial firework refashioned with shrapnel to serve as a hand-grenade.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that FRANK J. ADOLPH (“ADOLPH"), age 63, a resident of Kenner, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on Dec. 21, 2021 to conspiracy to defraud First NBC Bank, the New Orleans-based bank that failed in April 2017.


Two Armed Robbers Each Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher sentenced Noland Rheubotton, age 57, of Baltimore, Maryland, yesterday to10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for an armed commercial robbery and for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.


St. Louis Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin Trafficking in Springfield

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A St. Louis man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute kilogram-quantities of heroin in the Springfield, Mo., area.


BJS Releases its 2023 Publication Calendar

News Release: The Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, today released its 2023 publication calendar.


State Prisoner Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Kill Federal Judge

News Release: Jacksonville, Florida -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Curtis Brown (35, Raiford) has pleaded guilty to threatening to murder a federal judge in retaliation for performing his official duties and mailing a letter to a federal judge threatening to kill the judge and his family. Brown faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison on each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set.


News Release: David Sundberg Named Assistant Director in Charge of the Washington Field Office.


Gas Station Shooting Leads to Federal Firearm Charges

News Release: DETROIT - A shooting in broad daylight at a gas station in Detroit has led to federal firearm charges, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced today.


Norwalk Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Federal Prison for Drug Offenses

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TAJH WILEY, also known as “Yung," 27, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 144 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for drug trafficking offenses.


Former Greene County Man Indicted in Project Safe Childhood Case

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of Travel With Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct, Transportation With Intent to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity, and Receipt and Attempted Receipt of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Federal Grand Jury Indictments Announced—December 2022

News Release: United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced December’s Grand Jury A and B indictments.


News Release: GRAND JUNCTION - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces a federal grand jury has returned indictments charging Jeremiah Wesley Robinson, age 42; Efrain Velez, age 34; Vanessa Vasquez, age 33; Anna Munday, age 28; and Karlie Locke, age 29, with distribution of fentanyl that resulted in the death of an inmate in the Mesa County jail on May 21, 2022.


News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Ramon Antonio Monreal-Rodriguez, 36, of Vail, Arizona, was sentenced on Dec. 14, by United States District Judge James A. Soto, to 152 months in prison and ordered to pay $151,000 in restitution to the U.S. Border Patrol for salary drawn while engaged in criminal activity. Monreal-Rodriguez...


NH Man Pleads Guilty to Violent Home Invasion in York

News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Hooksett, New Hampshire man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland today to conspiracy and robbery charges stemming from a violent home invasion in York.


News Release: Barry Croft Jr., 47, of Bear, Delaware, was sentenced today to 235 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to kidnap the Governor of Michigan, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against persons or property, and knowingly possessing an unregistered destructive device, which was a commercial firework refashioned with shrapnel to serve as a hand-grenade.


News Release: Jacksonville, Florida -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Curtis Brown (35, Raiford) has pleaded guilty to threatening to murder a federal judge in retaliation for performing his official duties and mailing a letter to a federal judge threatening to kill the judge and his family. Brown faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison on each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set.