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News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Seth Estes Vanover (50, Diana, Texas) with attempting to entice an 11-year-old child to engage in sexual activity. Vanover faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, and up to life, imprisonment...


News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A White Bear Lake man was sentenced to 120 months in prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, ordered to pay $8,000 in restitution, and $3,000 to a victim assistance fund for possession of images and videos depicting child sexual abuse, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Joseph Cammarata, 48, of Monmouth Beach, NJ, was convicted after trial for his participation in a securities fraud claims scheme with two co-defendants from New York and New Jersey.


News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Fredericksburg man was sentenced yesterday to 18 years in prison for distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute high-grade methamphetamine.


Texas Man Sentenced to Prison for $375,000 Investment Scheme

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Leonard Theodore Kern, 68, of Plano, Texas, was sentenced today to 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for obstruction of justice involving an investment scheme that cost a West Virginia woman $375,000. Kern must also pay $130,000 in restitution.


News Release: SIOUX FALLS - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Mobridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances, Use of a Communication Facility in the Commission of a Drug Trafficking Crime, Importation of a Controlled Substance, and Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DEESHAWN PITTMAN, also known as “Low," 34, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking fentanyl and heroin.



FBI Releases 2021 Statistics on Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted in the Line of Duty

News Release: FBI Releases 2021 Statistics on Law Enforcement Officers Assaulted in the Line of Duty.


News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - A federal grand jury sitting in Statesville has convicted Spenc’r Denard Rickerson, 35, of Claremont, N.C., of bank robbery, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell presided over the two-day trial which ended today.


News Release: PROVIDENCE - A North Kingstown man today admitted to a federal judge that he transferred provocative material to another person online, after the other person represented that they were a child, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.


Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Found Guilty of Obstruction Charge Involving Investigation of January 6 Capitol Breach

News Release: WASHINGTON - A former U.S. Capitol Police officer was found guilty by a jury today of a federal charge of obstruction of justice stemming from his communications with a rioter and his actions in the aftermath of the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election.


News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with the Giant Company LLC d/b/a Giant Food (Giant), a Pennsylvania-based grocery store chain with locations in various states. The settlement resolves the department’s determination that Giant discriminated against non-U.S. citizen workers when checking their permission to work in the United States, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).


News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Jennifer Bosworth, 31, of Keene, was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and crack cocaine.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Oct. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Jury Convicts Colerain Township Man of Taking Sexually Explicit Photographs While 9-Year-Old and 12-Year-Old Victims Slept

News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal jury convicted a registered sex offender on all counts following a four-day trial in Cincinnati.


News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Peter Ko (619) 546-7359 and Mark Conover (619) 546-6763.


News Release: HOUSTON - The last convicted in a large-scale multi-year home health fraud conspiracy has been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


Member of Southwest Baltimore “NFL” Gang Sentenced to 29 Years in Federal Prison for a Racketeering Conspiracy, Including Two Murders and an Attempted Murder

News Release: Defendant Also Distributed Large Quantities of Heroin, Fentanyl, and Cocaine in Furtherance of the Criminal Enterprise.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Oct. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.