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USDOJ-OJP-OVW grant application closes on March 31

OVW Fiscal Year 2023 Sexual Assault Services Culturally Specific Program - Solicitation grant opened on Feb. 8.


News Release: FBI Springfield Advises Caution in Online Relationships to Avoid Romance Scam Remorse.


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARK O’MARA, a disaster relief consultant, pled guilty to fraud in connection with his work for an Illinois-based consulting firm (“Company-1") that provided Hurricane Sandy-related recovery services to...


News Release: Durango - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Kenneth and Suzanne Fusco, of Durango, Colorado were each sentenced to six months of house arrest, 150 hours of community service, a $25,000 fine, more than $160,000 of restitution, and five years of probation supervision after pleading guilty to tax evasion.


News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for drug trafficking and illegally possessing a machine gun following the police chase of a stolen car driven through the back yard of an Independence, Mo., residence.


Carrollton Couple Tied to Possibly 10 Juvenile Overdoses Charged with Fentanyl Conspiracy

News Release: DALLAS, TX - Two fentanyl dealers allegedly tied to as many as 10 juvenile overdoses, three of them fatal, have been federally charged, announced Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Dallas Eduardo A. Chávez


Federal Arrest of an El Paso Man for Attempting to Transfer Obscene Material to Minors

News Release: EL PASO, TX-On Feb. 2, 2023, the Federal Bureau of Investigation El Paso Field Office arrested 46-year-old Orlando Solis from El Paso, Texas. Solis has been charged by a federal criminal complaint filed yesterday with one count of 18 U.S.C. § 1470-Attempted Transfer of Obscene Material to Minors.


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Dawn Emanuel, 48, of Easton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Lester Taylor Barnhouse, 43, of Craigsville, was sentenced today to 19 years and seven months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.


News Release: A federal criminal complaint was unsealed charging Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 34, of Catonsville, Maryland, and Brandon Clint Russell, 27, of Orlando, Florida, with conspiracy to destroy an energy facility.


Serial Rapist Convicted by Jury for 2010 Home Invasion Sexual Assault of Woman in Northwest D.C.

News Release: Defendant Had Been Convicted in Previous Sexual Assaults in D.C. and Virginia.


News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A former Columbus police officer was sentenced in federal court today to 108 months in prison for conspiring to distribute more than eight kilograms of fentanyl and accepting bribes to protect the transportation of cocaine.


News Release: CLEVELAND, OH The FBI Cleveland Cartel Gang Narcotics & Laundering Task Force (CGNL Task Force) announce the recent seizure of 36 kilograms of suspected fentanyl and other drugs stemming from a series of search warrants executed earlier this week in Painesville and Cleveland. Additional kilos were confirmed...


USDOJ-OJP-BJA offers new grant application process starting Feb. 7

BJA FY 23 Project Safe Neighborhoods Formula Grant Program grant opened on Feb. 7.


News Release: ANCHORAGE, ALASKA - A Nebraska man was sentenced on Feb. 3, 2023, for assaulting a flight attendant during a commercial airline flight.


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Erek L. Barron, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, and Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Sobocinski, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office, announced the filing of a federal criminal complaint charging Sarah Beth Clendaniel, of Catonsville, Maryland, and Brandon Clint Russell, of Orlando, Florida, with conspiracy to destroy an energy facility.


News Release: A federal criminal complaint was unsealed charging Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 34, of Catonsville, Maryland, and Brandon Clint Russell, 27, of Orlando, Florida, with conspiracy to destroy an energy facility.


Former Caldwell Police Department Lieutenant Sentenced to Federal Prison

News Release: BOISE - Joseph Alan Hoadley, 42, of Caldwell, was sentenced to three months in federal prison for falsifying a record or document in a federal investigation, witness tampering by harassment, and destroying a record to impair its use in an official proceeding, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today.


News Release: FBI Warns of Romance Scams Ahead of Valentine’s Day.


Huntington Man Sentenced to Prison for Federal Drug Crime

News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Jeremy Lee Pettry, 39, of Huntington, was sentenced today to seven years in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing 5 grams or more of methamphetamine.