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News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Magdiel Perez-Bartolon, age 24, of Mexico, was indicted by a federal grand jury on illegal reentry charges.


News Release: Defendant Controlled Bank Accounts Totaling Over $5 Million, Which Primarily Consisted of Proceeds of Romance Schemes Targeting Elderly Victims.


U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich Announces Election Officer for November 2022 General Election

News Release: HELENA - United States Attorney Jesse Laslovich announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) John Newman will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2022, general election. AUSA Newman has...


News Release: STATESBORO, GA: The co-owner of multiple bars and a restaurant in Georgia has pled guilty to tax evasion.


Otsego County Man Sentenced to Approximately 7 Months’ Imprisonment  for Failing to Register as a Sex Offender

News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Hawkins, age 60, of Maryland, New York was sentenced today to just short of seven months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for failing to register as a sex offender as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA"). The...


Six Individuals Charged with Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the People's Republic of China

News Release: PRC Officials Directed Multi-Year Campaign of Harassment Intended to Coerce U.S. Resident to Return to the PRC.


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.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that on Oct. 18 Derick Martin Garcia Pacheco was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison. Garcia Pacheco, 33, of Albuquerque, pleaded guilty on May 10 to one count of assault on a federal officer using a deadly or dangerous weapon and inflicting bodily injury and one count of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.


Suburban Chicago Man Sentenced to More Than Ten Years in Federal Prison for Trafficking Fentanyl and Heroin

News Release: ROCKFORD - A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to more than ten years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl and heroin.


Luzerne County Man Pleads Guilty To Fentanyl Trafficking

News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that John Williams, age 42, of Kingston, Luzerne County, pleaded guilty on Oct. 19, 2022, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to the charge of conspiracy to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl.


Athens, Georgia, Grandmother Convicted of Trafficking Methamphetamine

News Release: ATHENS, Ga. -- An Athens resident was convicted by a federal jury of trafficking methamphetamine resulting from an investigation and subsequent arrest during which she and a co-defendant attempted to flee law enforcement with her two-year-old grandchild in the car.


Seven Chicago-Area Residents Charged With $16 Million COVID-Relief Fraud

News Release: CHICAGO - Seven Chicago-area residents have been indicted on federal charges for allegedly fraudulently obtaining at least $16 million in small business loans and grants under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES") Act.


News Release: New Orleans, LA - On Oct. 15, 2019, with critical support from the U.S. Border Patrol, New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), and the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) International Division, the USMS New Orleans Task Force located and arrested NOPD fugitive, Martin Jose Jarquin-Estrada, 31 years of age, in Zacatecas, Mexico. He was wanted by NOPD for a 2017 Murder.


U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona Observes Domestic Violence Awareness Month

News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - United States Attorney Gary Restaino joins the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), advocates, survivors, victim service providers, justice professionals, police and first responders, communities across the U.S. and sovereign tribal nations in observing October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM).


News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - A federal grand jury in Indianapolis, returned a five-count superseding indictment late yesterday charging a former New Castle, Indiana, police officer with excessive force and obstruction of justice, and a former Henry County, Indiana, Reserve Sheriff’s Deputy with obstruction of justice.


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was arrested this morning for unlawfully using victims’ personal identification information to steal over $1 million, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.


Oelwein Man Who Possessed Loaded Guns and Fled from Police Sentenced to 70 Months in Federal Prison

News Release: A man who possessed eight loaded guns and fled from the police was sentenced today to more than five years in federal prison.


News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Red Lake man was sentenced to nine years in prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release for sexually abusing a minor announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.


North Mississippi Man Wanted for Federal Charge and Alleged Sex Crime Captured by U.S. Marshals in McNairy County in West Tennessee

News Release: Burlington, VA - On Oct. 10, 2019, Christopher Edwards, 31, was arrested in South Burlington, VT when located by members of the United States Marshals Service at the University Mall.


Miles City meth trafficker sentenced to six years in prison

News Release: BILLINGS - A Miles City man who admitted to trafficking methamphetamine in the community was sentenced today to six years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.