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News Release: The Justice Department announced today its months-long disruption campaign against the Hive ransomware group that has targeted more than 1,500 victims in over 80 countries around the world, including hospitals, school districts, financial firms, and critical infrastructure.


News Release: Five members and associates of a white supremacist gang were sentenced in Alaska this week to life in prison without the possibility of parole for racketeering, including murder in aid of racketeering, kidnapping, and other offenses.


Man Indicted for Violations of The Federal Gun Control Act and Controlled Substances Act

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - TOWNSEND GRANT, age 19, was charged today in a three-count indictment by a federal grand jury for possession of a machinegun, possession with the intent to distribute heroin, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U. S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.


News Release: Law Enforcement Seize Nearly 200 Pounds of Drugs, 69 Guns, and $300,000 in Cash.


Virginia Beach Man Sentenced for Possessing Unregistered Silencers

News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for unlawfully possessing unregistered firearm silencers.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Office of Justice Programs Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Amy L. Solomon announced today that President Biden has appointed Judge Helena Heath of Queens, New York, as Director of the Office of Justice Programs’ Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking Office. Her appointment is effective Monday, January 30.


Loveland Man Charged and Detained in Connection with Arson Church Fire

News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Darion Ray Sexton, age 21, of Loveland, has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with causing damage to a Loveland Church by fire. Sexton was ordered detained today pending trial by United States Magistrate Judge James P. O’Hara. Sexton had been arrested and charged in a criminal complaint filed on Jan. 23, 2023.


News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - A Clinton man was sentenced yesterday to eight years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition, related to his involvement in a January 2022 shooting in Davenport.


New York Man Sentenced for Straw Purchasing and Unlawfully Possessing Firearms

News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Brooklyn, New York, man was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and aiding and abetting a straw purchase firearm transaction, both part of a large gun trafficking conspiracy.


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Jeffrey Lee Ward Jr., 31, of Bellaire, Ohio, was sentenced today to five years in prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, for traveling in interstate commerce to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor.


Justice Department discusses Notice of Opportunity To Comment on Proposed Settlement Under the Oil Pollution Act on Jan. 26

The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


USDOJ-OJP-NIJ offers new grant application process starting Jan. 27

NIJ FY23 Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults grant opened on Jan. 27.


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced today the unsealing of a sweeping 42-count indictment charging defendants Bhaskar Savani (56), Arun Savani (55), Niranjan Savani (51), Amen Dhyllon (45), Alesksandra Radomiak (44) - all of Montgomery County; and Sunil Phillip (56) of...


USDOJ-OJP-NIJ grant application closes on April 13

NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime grant opened on Jan. 27.


Davenport Man Sentenced to 20 years for Possessing a Firearm as a Felon and Tampering with a Witness Related to 2021 Shooting

News Release: DAVENPORT, IA -A Davenport man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of tampering with a witness.


Federal Grand Jury Indicts Man for Attempted Carjacking

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that KYREN WASHINGTON, age 19, a resident of Orleans Parish, was charged on Jan. 26, 2023 in a one-count indictment for an attempted carjacking that occurred on Oct. 20, 2022.


News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Santonio Pierre Malone, a 36-year-old man with past addresses in Shenandoah and Mahanoy City.


News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Monday, Orlando Miguel Valenzuela, 28, of Tucson, Arizona, pleaded guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact. Sentencing is scheduled for April 10, 2023, before United States District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson.


News Release: Trenton, N.J. - A Somerset County, New Jersey man yesterday admitted to paying kickbacks in return for fraudulent overtime payments that he received in connection with his former role as the Director of Buildings and Grounds for the Hillsborough Township School District, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.


News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Jan. 27, 2023, United States District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller sentenced Esmond King (age: 33) to 60 months in federal prison for arson of a building used in interstate commerce, in violation of Title ...