News and reports from the Department of Justice.

FY 2023 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) Implementation Projects grant opened on Feb. 21.

The Justice Department joins survivors, victim services providers, justice professionals and others in recognizing the month of January as National Stalking Awareness Month (NSAM).

Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTOPHER LISCIO, 40, of Wallingford, pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to child sexual exploitation and drug trafficking offenses.

News Release: Deputy Attorney General (Deputy AG) Lisa Monaco was in Munich this week to participate in both the 2023 Munich Cyber Security Conference and the Munich Security Conference, which brings together leaders from around the world to tackle current and future challenges to our global security.

“Crime (Executive Calendar)“ was published in the Senate section on pages S411-S412 on Feb. 15

A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 25 years’ incarceration and lifetime supervised release on his conviction for four counts related to the sexual exploitation of minors, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

Two men pleaded guilty this week in federal court to child pornography charges, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

Dana Michael Russell, also known as “Anthony Roberts,” 36, of Giffithsville, Lincoln County, pleaded guilty today to possession of prepubescent child pornography.

A Logan, Ohio, man was sentenced in federal court here today to 540 months for producing child pornography of a three-year-old child and possessing thousands of images of child sexual abuse, some of which depicted other minor children to whom the defendant had access

United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier has sentenced a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Transportation of Child Pornography. The sentencing took place on February 13, 2023.

United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Zachary Ray Ellis (45, Jacksonville) has been arrested and charged with using the internet to attempt to entice a 12-year-old child to engage in sexual activity.

A Byron, Ill. man was sentenced today to fourteen years in federal prison for transportation of child pornography.

U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten announced that yesterday a federal grand jury returned an indictment containing five charges against Arisknight Arkin-Everett Winfree of East Lansing, Michigan

A Massachusetts man who engaged in a series of online communications, often of a sexual nature, with someone whom he believed to be a 12-year-old girl, and then traveled to Rhode Island with the intent of having sex with the girl and sexual contact with her younger sister, has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.

On Friday, February 10, 2023, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested an Arecibo man for violation to Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252 (a)(2), which criminalizes the attempted receipt of any visual depiction that involves a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct and Title 18, United States Code, Section 1470, which criminalizes the transfer of obscene material to a minor.