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United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, was sentenced on November 7, 2022, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.


United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Herbert Smith, 33, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 45 years in prison and lifetime supervised release by United States District Court Judge Eduardo C. Robreno for his extended sexual abuse of a child who was just eight years old when Smith began molesting her. Smith must also register as a convicted child sex offender under state law.


A Joplin, Missouri, woman pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to kidnapping a woman whose body was later found in rural Mayes County, Oklahoma, in 2020, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.


A federal grand jury today indicted the former chief executive officer and owner of a pharmaceutical company with wire fraud for his role in an embezzlement scheme, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.


In Exchange for Bribes, Two NYPD Officers Steered Damaged Vehicles to a Tow Truck Company Operated by a Former NYPD Officer


Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a jury returned a guilty verdict yesterday against DARNELL KIDD a/k/a “Black,” a/k/a “Donney,” a/k/a “Donney Black,” on one count of an indictment charging him with the 2011 murder of Jonathan Johnson, 21, in White Plains, New York. U.S. District Judge Nelson S. Román presided over the eight-day trial.


A former resident of Pittsburgh’s Troy Hill neighborhood has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months’ imprisonment and six years of supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


A Birney man suspected of killing another man near Lame Deer, on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, in June was arraigned today on murder and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.


On Friday, November 18, 2022, a federal jury found Michael A. Ferris, 44, of Mill Shoals, Illinois, guilty of twenty-five felony counts of extortion, cyberstalking, and production, distribution, and possession of child pornography involving nine minor victims.According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, from at least March 2020 until November 2020, Ferris targeted teenage girls on Facebook and engaged in a pattern of extortion, commonly known as “sextortion.”


Investigators Seized Over 4 Kilograms of Fentanyl and Heroin, Methamphetamine, and Four Assault Rifles


A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing methamphetamine to distribute.


A Missoula man who admitted to selling methamphetamine in the community for more than a year was sentenced today to eight years in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.


United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Alexander Lesczcynski (24, North Redington Beach) has pleaded guilty in two cases against him. In a case pending before U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven, Lesczcynski pleaded guilty to wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering.


A Belgrade woman who admitted to stealing more than $800,000 from her employer while she worked as an accountant and controller was sentenced today to 16 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said today.


Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SAADAH MASOUD pled guilty today to one count of participating in a conspiracy to commit hate crime acts in connection with MASOUD’s repeated physical attacks of Jewish victims in New York City between 2021 and 2022.


The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jose Dominguez, age 58, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson to 18 months’ imprisonment for conspiring to evade federal excise taxes on imported large cigars. Dominguez was immediately remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal.


Three defendants were sentenced this week in federal court for conspiracy to commit drug trafficking offenses after a major, multi-state organized crime operation, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Hairston of the Middle District of North Carolina.


The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Darius Jamal Scott, age 45, of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking offenses involving heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine.


U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Ubertino Zavala-Perez (59, Plant City, Florida) to more than 12 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Zavala-Perez pleaded guilty on August 31, 2022.


The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Al-Salaam I. Hale, age 46, of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for distributing heroin.