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News Release: BOSTON - A Pawtucket, Rhode Island man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to charges related to a violent kidnapping tied to a Cape Cod heroin trafficking ring.


News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury on Wednesday returned a three-count indictment charging a 28-year-old registered sex offender with allegedly enticing a 12-year-old Rhode Island girl to engage in sexual activity and later launching a murder-for-hire plot from within the state prison where he was being...


Barton Residence Searched and Woman Arrested on Federal Drug Charges

News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Vermont resident Erika Desormeaux, 36, was arrested and held in federal custody following the search of her residence on Maple Hill Road in Barton, Vermont this morning. Desormeaux is charged in a criminal complaint alleging...


News Release: BOSTON - A member of a Brockton drug crew pleaded guilty yesterday to fentanyl distribution and firearm charges.


News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Minneapolis man has been arrested and charged with carjacking a woman at gunpoint in Arden Hills, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.


News Release: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today announced significant revisions to the Justice Department’s regulations regarding obtaining information from, or records of, members of the news media.


LaPorte Man Convicted by Jury of Drug and Gun Offenses

News Release: SOUTH BEND - Donta Bridges, 38 years old, of LaPorte, Indiana, was found guilty following a three-day jury trial presided over by United States District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.


Eleven people arrested in Washington and California in connection with cartel connected drug trafficking schemes

News Release: Three interconnected drug trafficking groups - 17 total defendants indicted since late September 2022.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of robbery and firearm violations, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


News Release: HOUSTON - A 28-year-old Dickinson man has been handed a significant sentence for receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


West Valley City Man Charged with Possessing 50 Pounds of Methamphetamine, 33 Pounds of Heroin, 13 Pounds of Cocaine, 5,000 Fentanyl Pills, and 19 Firearms

News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Innocente Ramirez, 38, of West Valley City, was charged by federal criminal complaint with the possession of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl, with the intent to distribute, and with the possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.


Federal Jury Convicts Fort Towson Resident Of Voluntary Manslaughter

News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that Shonda Lynette Johnson, age 51, of Fort Towson, Oklahoma was found guilty by a federal jury of Voluntary Manslaughter.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Superseding Indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh charging Sahire Walker with committing crack cocaine trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


News Release: Over three years he stole more than $129,000 for his personal expenses.


News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Brackenridge, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 180 days of home detention and three years’ probation on her conviction of theft of government funds, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Bruceton Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Child Pornography

News Release: Memphis, TN - Carl Goodson Ragsdale, 58, of Bruceton, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 12 years for.


Cocaine Distributor in Fidelis Way Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced

News Release: BOSTON - A drug distributor working for a Boston-area drug trafficking organization (DTO) was sentenced today for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving cocaine and cocaine base.


News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-A Medford man previously convicted for raping a child was sentenced to more than 13 years in federal prison today for possessing 4,500 photos and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children, including infants and toddlers.


Illinois Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Operating $20 Million Nationwide Retail Crime Ring

News Release: An Illinois man was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for running a multi-million dollar retail crime scheme, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.


Chinese Foreign National Attending Southeast Missouri State University Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Possessing Child Pornography

News Release: CAPE GIRARDEAU - The United States Attorney's Office announced that Haoyu Wang, age 29, has been sentenced to serve seven years in federal prison for the offense of Possession of Child Pornography. Wang appeared for his sentencing hearing Monday before United States District Judge Stephen R. Clark at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.