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News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Kevin Shibilski, 61, Merrill, Wisconsin was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 33 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for...


News Release: The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today launched a two-day joint workshop as part of this year’s first Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s (APEC) Senior Officials Meeting, which the U.S. is hosting in Palm Springs, California. This year marks the first time the U.S. has hosted APEC since 2011.


DePodesta: 'Wearing a badge does not make one above the law'

A former Memphis Police Department officer faces up to 10 years in prison for assaulting and injuring a man who was in custody.


Woman Pleads to Voluntary Manslaughter While Armed in August 2022 Killing

News Release: WASHINGTON - Alexis Hawkins, 46, of Washington, D.C. pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter while armed in the Aug. 14, 2022 killing of Cynthia Stewart and one count of assault with a dangerous weapon in an unrelated case, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Israel Garcia-Cocotle, also known as “Israel Cocotle Rayon" and “Israel Cococle-Garcia," 33, a Mexican national, pleaded guilty today to the felony offense of reentry of a removed alien and was sentenced to 10 months in prison. Garcia-Cocotle will be remanded to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation proceedings at the conclusion of his sentence.


Three Individuals Charged for Trafficking Fentanyl and Methamphetamine on and Around the Red Lake Reservation

News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Three individuals from northern Minnesota have been charged in a drug trafficking conspiracy that brought fentanyl and methamphetamine to the Red Lake Reservation and surrounding area, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.


News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Madani Ilara Tejan, a/k/a “Malik," “Mylik," and “Dani," age 30, of Washington, D.C., late on Feb. 17, 2023, for using a firearm in connection with murder and robbery, and for a drug distribution conspiracy.


News Release: EL PASO, Texas - A Mexican national was sentenced in federal court in El Paso Wednesday to 144 months in prison, along with an El Paso man who was sentenced to 200 months in prison, for violation of federal law concerning hostage taking.


USDOJ-OJP-COPS offers new grant application process starting Feb. 22

FY23 COPS Anti-Heroin Task Force Program grant opened on Feb. 22.


Leader Of Sunset Trinitarios Sentented To Life In Prison For Racketeering, Including Ordering Multiple Murders

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EDIBERTO SANTANA, a/k/a “Flaco Veneno," was sentenced to life imprisonment for leading the Sunset Trinitarios gang from at least 2010 through 2019 and, in that capacity, ordering multiple acts of brutal...


News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging six Nigerian nationals - three residing in the United Kingdom and three residing in Spain - with operating a large transnational fraud scheme. One of the charged defendants made his initial appearance today, after being extradited from the United Kingdom.


Broken Arrow Man Pleads Guilty After Illegally Applying For and Receiving a $20,665 Paycheck Protection Program Loan

News Release: A man who received $20,665 from the Small Business Administration after fraudulently applying for a Paycheck Protection Program loan pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.


News Release: A federal jury convicted a Washington man on Feb. 17 of using a firearm in connection with murder and robbery.



USDOJ-OJP-COPS grant application closes on April 18

FY 2023 COPS Technology and Equipment Program Invitational Solicitation grant opened on Feb. 22.


Investiture Remarks by Kevin G. Ritz

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News Release: EL PASO, Texas - A Seminole man was arrested Thursday in El Paso on criminal charges related to his alleged bribery of a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agent.


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANTHONY RICCARDI, an owner and manager of the Connecticut insurance firm Employee Benefit Solutions LLC (“EBS"), pled guilty today in White Plains federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and...


Woodland Woman Sentenced to 10 Years Conspiring to Distribute and Possessing with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine

News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Woodland, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to a total of 120 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release on her convictions of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today.


USDOJ-OJP-BJA offers new grant application process starting Feb. 22

BJA FY 23 Invited to Apply - Administrative Funding Adjustments to BJA Previously Funded Awards 2 grant opened on Feb. 22.