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News Release: RAPID CITY - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on Nov. 18, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.


News Release: A man who possessed methamphetamine with intent to distribute it and who possessed a firearm as an unlawful drug user, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Railpulse, LLC discussed on Nov. 23 by Justice Department

The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Nov. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Bowling Green, KY - A Bowling Green man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years and 10 months in prison and fined $100,000, for conspiring with multiple people to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a methamphetamine mixture.


Meriden Man Sentenced to Nearly 8 Years in Federal Prison for Trafficking Cocaine

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KERVIN DIAZ, 39, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 95 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.


News Release: BOSTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts filed a civil forfeiture action today against a manuscript signed by Conquistador Hernando Cortés in 1527, believed to have been unlawfully removed from the Archivo General de la Nación de México - Mexico’s national archives...


News Release: SIOUX FALLS - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a Minneapolis, Minnesota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Nov. 21, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.


Former Mississippi Sheriff and Deputy Indicted on Bribery Charges

News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A federal grand jury in Jackson has returned indictments charging the former sheriff of Noxubee County and one of his deputies with receiving bribes, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


Sioux Falls Man Sentenced for Illegal Possession of Firearm

News Release: RAPID CITY - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on Nov. 18, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.


News Release: New Orleans, LA - The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) New Orleans Task Force (USMS Eastern District of Louisiana) sponsored its annual Operation Boo Dat 2019 from October 20 to Nov. 09, 2019. The partnership between USMS, Crimestoppers GNO, Louisiana State Police (LSP), Louisiana Probation and Parole...


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - David Stanley, 46, of Bolt, was sentenced today to three years and five months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for retaliation against a government witness.


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced a voluntary compliance agreement under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA") with New York University (“NYU" or the “University") to increase the accessibility of NYU’s student housing facilities for individuals with disabilities. The agreement covers all of NYU’s student housing facilities in the New York metropolitan area.


News Release: COVINGTON, Ky - A Mason, Ohio, woman, Amanda Baker, 38, was sentenced on Tuesday to 168 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.


News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A federal jury convicted an Olmsted County man for conspiring to distribute controlled substances and for possession with intent to distribute cocaine after being arrested with four kilograms of cocaine in his rental car, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.


Mother Accused of Using Children to ‘Mule’ Fatal Fentanyl

News Release: An Albuquerque mother who allegedly concealed a deadly dose of fentanyl inside her children’s luggage has been charged with a federal drug crime, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.


Roswell fentanyl dealer and his supplier sentenced to federal prison for causing overdose death

News Release: ATLANTA - Hubert Nathans has been sentenced to federal prison for selling fake Roxicodone pills containing fentanyl to multiple people in Roswell, Georgia, in 2017 and 2018, including pills that resulted in the death of one buyer and serious bodily injury to another. Nathans’ drug supplier, Edward Culton, was sentenced to federal prison earlier this year.


West Falls Man Going To Prison For Child Exploitation

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Nicholas Turnquist, 36, of West Falls, NY, who was convicted of transportation and attempted transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, was sentenced to serve 156 months in prison and 15 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr.


Justice Department Grant Establishes New Center to Improve Conditions and Environments in Jails

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Office of Justice Programs (OJP)’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) announced today a grant award of almost $2 million to establish the Department of Justice Jails and Justice Support Center to help create and maintain safe environments for people in the custody of the nation’s jails and those who work in jail facilities.


News Release: DES MOINES, IA - John Dale Parmer, age 59, of Osceola, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for Social Security Fraud - Concealment. Parmer pleaded guilty on June 21, 2022. Following completion of his prison term, Parmer will be on supervised release for three years. Parmer was ordered to pay $234,552 in restitution to the Social Security Administration (SSA).


Cleveland Convenient Store Shooting Suspect Arrested by U.S. Marshals

News Release: Essex Junction, VT - The U.S. Marshals Service arrested a fugitive who has been actively evading apprehension.