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News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States District Judge Susie Morgan sentenced KYLE ARMSTRONG, 20, of New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 8, 2022 to three (3) years probation for theft or receipt of stolen mail matter in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1708 and 2 and with unlawful possession of a postal key in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1704 and 2, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.


Cooper County Sex Offender Indicted for Child Pornography

News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Prairie Home, Mo., sex offender has been indicted by a federal grand jury on multiple charges related to producing child pornography.


Grand Jury Returns Indictments

News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.


News Release: A Tulsa man who shot and killed a 13-year-old during an argument at Parkview Terrace apartments in Tulsa pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.


Bowling Green Federal Grand Jury Returns Three Indictments Charging Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses

News Release: Bowling Green, KY - A federal grand jury in Bowling Green returned three indictments today separately charging three men with drug trafficking and firearms offenses.


News Release: BAY CITY - A Whittemore, Michigan, resident was sentenced today to 75 months on two separate criminal cases related to a $5 million extortion plot using shrapnel-filled pipe bombs the defendant placed outside cellphone stores in Cheboygan, and Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, announced Eastern District of...


News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Hennepin County man has been sentenced to 115 months followed by five years of supervised release for a violent armed carjacking, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.


Fairfax Man Sentenced for Attempted Production and Possession of Child Pornography

News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Fairfax man was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for attempted production of and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).


News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Missouri man has been charged by criminal complaint with one count of bank robbery and one count of attempted bank robbery.


News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brian Jones, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has admitted to his role in a drug distribution enterprise, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


Man Sentenced to More Than 17 Years in Prison for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS

News Release: A Pennsylvania man was sentenced yesterday to 208 months, more than 17 years, in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, aka ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization.


Houma Man Sentenced to Seventeen and a Half Years for Enticing Teen Boys to Create Sexually Explicit Images and Videos

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that STEVE C. MERGEY (“MERGEY"), age 52, of Houma, Louisiana, was sentenced on November 8, 2022 for Production of Child Pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2251(a) and (e).


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment today charging LONNY CROSS, 44, and REBECCA...


California Man Extradited from Australia to Face Charges for Investment Scheme

News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Gustavo Guzman, 59, previously of Fullerton, Calif., made his initial appearance in federal court in Charlotte today following his extradition from Australia, to face wire fraud, securities fraud and transactional money laundering charges related to an alleged $2 million investment fraud scheme, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.


Two Drug Runners for Drug Trafficking Organization Connected to CJNG Cartel Sentenced to Prison

News Release: SEATTLE- Two men who served as drug runners for a Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) cartel connected drug trafficking organization were sentenced to prison following an extensive wiretap investigation. In sentencing 28-year-old Armando Fierro-Ponce to eight years in prison, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour noted that he had acted as a debt collector for the organization, obtaining guns and making threats of violence against those who owed the group money.


News Release: DETROIT - A Detroit man who sex trafficked two minor girls while he was on bond and an electronic tether for state sex trafficking charges was sentenced to 16 years in prison, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced today.


Man Sentenced to More Than 17 Years in Prison for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS

News Release: A Pennsylvania man was sentenced yesterday to 208 months, more than 17 years, in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, aka ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization.


Former Firefighter Sentenced for Two Bank Robberies

News Release: A Bixby man was sentenced Wednesday in federal court for robbing two Oklahoma banks of nearly $320,000, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.


News Release: Earlier today, a federal jury in Central Islip returned a guilty verdict on all five counts of superseding indictment charging Lorraine Pilitz, also known as “Lorraine Christie," and “Lorraine Storms" with illegally structuring financial transactions, corruptly obstructing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and filing false tax returns. The verdict followed a two-week trial before United States District Judge Joanna Seybert.


News Release: MADISON, WIS. - An indictment has been returned today by a federal grand jury sitting in Madison, Wisconsin, charging a Windsor, Wisconsin man with two counts of making threats to injure an individual. The indictment is announced by Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.