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News Release: CINCINNATI - A Sardinia, Ohio, woman pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to stealing more than $700,000 from the family-owned business for which she worked.


News Release: Seattle - A Washington man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Seattle, Washington, in connection with a May 15, 2018, shooting that damaged a Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall.


News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - United States Attorney Prim F. Escalona joins the Drug Enforcement Administration in support of the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 29. The biannual event will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at sites across Alabama.



News Release: CAPE GIRARDEAU - The United States Attorney's Office announced that Duramus T. Coleman, age 38, of Charleston, was sentenced to serve 115 months in federal prison for the offense of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Coleman appeared for his sentencing hearing today before United States District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.


Final Defendant in Eight-Person Indictment Pleads Guilty to Gun Conspiracy

News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Biloxi man pled guilty to conspiracy to possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration.


News Release: The Justice Department announced today the results of its efforts over the past year to protect older adults from fraud and exploitation. During the past year, the Department and its law enforcement partners tackled matters that ranged from mass-marketing scams that impacted thousands of victims to bad...


News Release: DUBLIN, GA: With a final guilty plea to federal charges entered in U.S. District Court, all charges have been resolved against 30 defendants involved in a Laurens County methamphetamine-trafficking ring indicted just over a year ago.


Baldwin Felon Indicted for Firearms Law Violation

News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of suburban Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearm laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


New York Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Transporting Minor to Engage in Sexual Activity

News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Armando Daniels, 33, of New York, was sentenced in federal court today in Omaha, Nebraska, for transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Daniels to 10 years of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing his term of imprisonment, Daniels will begin a 5-year term of supervised release.


News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Stockton, California, pleaded guilty in federal court to violation of federal narcotics laws related to a nine-month Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking in and around the counties of Jefferson, Clearfield, and Allegheny, United States Attorney Cindy Chung announced today.


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Ricky Lee Clark Jr., 29, of St. Albans, was sentenced today to two years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.


News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Michael Eugene West, 39, of Grand Island, Nebraska, was sentenced on Sept. 28, 2022, in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced West to 112 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, West will begin a 4-year term of supervised release.


DEA Gears Up for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

News Release: Memphis, TN -The Drug Enforcement Administration will host its 23rd National Prescription Drug Take.


News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - A Davenport man, Colique Depree Brown, age 28, was sentenced to 60 months in prison on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, for Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Following his imprisonment, Brown was ordered to serve three years of supervised release.


News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - David Abreu, of Fisher, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 51 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


Hastings Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Distribution of Methamphetamine

News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Zachary D. Ellis, 28, of Hastings, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Lincoln. United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Ellis to 120 months in prison for distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (actual) and 50 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture. After serving his sentence, Ellis will be placed on supervised release for 5 years. There is no parole in the federal system.


News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that David Leroy Earls, age 36, of Tuskahoma, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 140 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for three counts of Sexual Abuse in Indian Country. Each count is ordered to run concurrently. The charges arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury in Houston has convicted a 45 year-old Houston woman on two counts of drug trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


Convicted Felon Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison on Drug Charge

News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a convicted felon on a drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley.