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News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Detroit, Michigan pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Romanian Indicted on Immigration Violation

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Romania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal immigration laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


News Release: A Comerica employee pleaded guilty Wednesday to embezzling more than $120,000 from the bank, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham announced today.


Seven Chilton County Residents Sentenced for Felony Violations of the Animal Welfare Act, Ending One of the Largest Cockfighting Operations in the Country

News Release: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - A seventh and final Verbena, Alabama, resident was sentenced yesterday for violating the Animal Welfare Act’s prohibition against animal fighting ventures in connection with an expansive cockfighting operation. This marks the end of a series of sentencings in which the Court held...


Three Men are First Capitol Breach Defendants Convicted at Trial of Assaulting Police Officers with Pepper Spray

News Release: Jury Found Defendants from Pennsylvania, California, and Virginia Assaulted Officers Four Times with Pepper Spray and a Chair.


News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Loretta Jean Minor, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


Roane County Man Sentenced to Prison After Pipe Bomb Found

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Joseph David Bailey, 52, of Spencer, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing an unregistered destructive device.


News Release: MACON, Ga. - A career offender with a violent criminal history who participated in a Middle Georgia drug trafficking network responsible for distributing approximately 16 kilograms of methamphetamine was sentenced to serve 20 years in federal prison resulting from an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) investigation centered in Warner Robins, Georgia.


North Carolina Man Sentenced for Offenses Committed During January 6 Capitol Breach

News Release: Defendant Encouraged Rioters to Battle Law Enforcement Officers.


Bully Hard Gang Member Charged With Murder Of A Minor Victim In Poughkeepsie

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William Grady, the District Attorney for Dutchess County, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the filing of a superseding...


News Release: The Justice Department, together with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced today the entry of a court order that resolves the government’s long-running civil racketeering lawsuit against the largest United States’ cigarette companies. The lawsuit was filed in 1999 in the U.S. District ...


Tillamook County Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Unlawfully Transporting Explosive Materials

News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Tillamook County, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today after he was found driving a stolen vehicle while possessing explosive materials housed in a metal bottle.


Justice Department to Monitor Polls in Georgia for Compliance with Federal Voting Rights Laws

News Release: The Justice Department announced today its plans to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in four counties in Georgia for the Dec. 6, 2022, federal general runoff election.


News Release: Defendant Encouraged Rioters to Battle Law Enforcement Officers.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Dec. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: A Virginia couple and Missouri man pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a public official.


News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A West Plains, Mo., man was convicted by a trial jury today of the sexual exploitation of a 13-month-old child and of distributing child pornography.


California Man Indicted for Transporting 165 Pounds of Meth

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Cucamonga, California, man was indicted by a federal grand jury today after a state trooper found 165 pounds of methamphetamine in his vehicle.


Former Assistant Atlanta City Attorney and Police Officer Charged in $7 Million PPP Fraud Scheme

News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Georgia woman with a scheme to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a federal stimulus program authorized as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.


Indictment Charges New Britain Man with Cocaine Trafficking and Gun Possession Offenses

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging NERICK DIAZ-QUESADA, 24, of New Britain, with cocaine trafficking and firearm possession offenses.