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News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Roderick Jones, age 43, of Albany, was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for two separate instances of unlawfully possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon.


News Release: PIERRE - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Mobridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Distribution of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.


News Release: St. Croix, USVI - U.S. Attorney Delia L. Smith announced that Ionian Management Inc. (IONIAN M), a New York-based company that commercially manages three vessels, including the M/T Ocean Princess, was sentenced yesterday in the District of the Virgin Islands before U.S. District Court Judge Wilma A.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Phillip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector...


News Release: Oxford, Mississippi- A Tupelo man was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday following his conviction for bank robbery. Jasper Wagner, 57, appeared for sentencing before United States District Judge Sharion Aycock, who departed upward from a lower suggested sentencing range and sentenced Wagner to...


News Release: Denver - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces a federal judge sentenced David Houston Vargas, age 30, to 26.5 years in prison for his role in robbing two stores using a firearm, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.


New Orleans Man Pleads Guilty to Two Carjacking Offenses

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on Oct. 25, 2022, MERVIN BAILEY, age 20, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to a three-count superseding bill of information. The charges include Count 1, carjacking in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...


Vineland Boys Member Who Helped Run the Gang’s Drug Trafficking Operations Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for RICO, Drug Crimes

News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of the San Fernando Valley-based Vineland Boys who helped run the street gang’s drug trafficking operations has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for federal racketeering and narcotics crimes, the Justice Department announced today.


News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Kyler Booker with conspiring to deal in firearms and making false statements to acquire firearms. According to public filings, Booker was a straw gun buyer who purchased at least 137 firearms from dealers in Arkansas between December...


News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Ricky R. Johnson, of Masontown, West Virginia, was indicted today on a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


Shannon Man Sentenced to More than a Decade in Prison for Drug Trafficking and Illegal Possession of a Firearm

News Release: Oxford, MS - A Shannon man was sentenced Tuesday to over 13 years in prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and illegal firearm possession.


46-Year-Old Fort Defiance Man Sentenced to 390 Months for Third Offense of Aggravated Sexual Abuse

News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Harrison Shirley, 46, of Fort Defiance, Arizona, was sentenced on Oct. 24, 2022, by United States District Judge Scott H. Rash to 390 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release. Shirley, a member of the Navajo tribe, was indicted on one count of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child in November 2020. One year later, Shirley pleaded guilty to Sexual Abuse, with a sentencing range of 20 to 40 years in prison.


Texas Man Sentenced to 12 Months and 1 Day for His Role as Executive National Marketing Director in Operating Sham Medical Reimbursement Account Program

News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOSEPH ANTHONY BORINO, age 65, a resident of Spring Hill, Texas, was sentenced on Nov. 1, 2022 to 12 months and 1 day in prison by United States District Judge Wendy B. Vitter after previously pleading guilty to a one-count superseding bill...


Jury Convicts Independence Man Following Home Invasion

News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Mo., man has been convicted by a federal trial jury of illegally possessing the firearm he used in a home invasion robbery.


USDOJ-OJP-BJA grant application closes on Nov. 9

BJA FY 23 Invited to Apply- Administrative Funding Adjustments to BJA Previously Funded Awards 1 grant opened on Nov. 3.


News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Skowhegan man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor for a bank fraud scheme arising from his applications for Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) loans, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.


Medical Doctor Plus Eight Others Indicted for Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering

News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Sept. 28, 2022, a grand jury in Phoenix, Arizona returned a 34-count indictment against nine individuals, including.


News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced on Oct. 27, 2022 in federal court in Springfield for his role in a large-scale heroin trafficking organization.


News Release: RUTLAND, Vt. - The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that Maurice Pompey, 34, of Columbia, South Carolina, Christopher Moton, 29, of Columbia, South Carolina, and Danielle Richardson, 30, of Rutland, Vermont, were arrested on Oct. 27, 2022 following the...


Wholesale Supply Corporation Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Scheme

News Release: MIAMI - LLC Wholesale Supply LLC (Wholesale Supply) has pled guilty to a money laundering conspiracy.