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News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Keechant L. Sewell, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging LAMAR WILLIAMS with racketeering conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, and murder with a firearm. The charges relate to WILLIAMS’ murder of Rasheed Barton on Aug. 11, 2013, in the Bronx, New York.


News Release: Louisville, KY - A federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky returned an indictment today charging a local man with multiple business robberies.


News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - A Hattiesburg woman was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 60 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration.


Indictment Charges 3 New Haven Men with Narcotics and Firearms Offenses

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that DONELL ALLICK, JR., also known as “D-Nice," 23; SAMUEL DOUGLAS, also known as “Blamm," 24; and JOURDIN SENIOR, also known as “G," 30, all of New Haven, have been charged with federal narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.


South Florida Firearms Smuggler Sentenced to Prison

News Release: MIAMI - Firearms trafficker Jorge Chica-Giler, 28, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez to 262 months in prison for smuggling firearms from the United States to Ecuador.


Boston Man Indicted for Sex Trafficking

News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston on sex trafficking offenses, including allegedly trafficking a minor he met on social media.


News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Daniel Stephen King (28, Kissimmee) guilty of possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon. King faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 23, 2023.


News Release: United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the November 2022 Federal Grand Jury A.


Cambodian Officials and Six Co-conspirators Indicted for Taking Part in Primate Smuggling Scheme

News Release: MIAMI - Members of an international primate smuggling ring have been charged with multiple felonies for their role in bringing wild long-tailed macaques into the United States.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced that Tom Tso was arraigned on Nov. 15 on an indictment charging him with sexual abuse. Tso, 84, of Tse Bonito, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, will remain at a halfway house on conditions of release pending trial, which has not been scheduled.


News Release: BOSTON - A former landlord and associate of the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings) was sentenced today for racketeering and drug offenses.


Wilkes-Barre Man Indicted For Drug Trafficking And Firearms Offenses

News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dexter Yard, age 34, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.


News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A Burke County man faces decades in prison after admitting he coerced a child to produce sexually explicit images.


News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Steven D. Brinson, age 32, of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.


News Release: DEL RIO, Texas - A federal grand jury in Del Rio returned an indictment last week charging two Texas men with smuggling goods from the United States.


California Drug Traffickers Sentenced to Federal Prison for Distributing Kilogram Quantities of Methamphetamine in Natchez, Mississippi

News Release: Natchez, Miss. - A Victorville, California man and his wife were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette, III, for their participation in an interstate drug trafficking operation distributing kilogram quantities of illegal drugs in the Natchez, MS area from 2016 through 2018, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration.


News Release: PLANO, Texas- Two Los Zetas Cartel leaders has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.


Tattoo Shop Owner Sentenced to More Than Seven Years in Prison for Distributing Heroin and Methamphetamine on the Dark Web

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jason Keith Arnold, 46, of Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced today to seven years and three months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and methamphetamine on the dark web, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.


News Release: EVANSVILLE - Justin Owens, 63, of Evansville, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and distribution of child sexual abuse material.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Edward Ray Loretto was sentenced on Nov. 14 to three years and one month in prison for sexual abuse of a minor in Indian Country. Loretto, 41, of Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Jemez, pleaded guilty on Aug. 12.