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A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges involving fentanyl.
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Kim: 'Blood sports, like dogfighting, are federal crimes'
A Baton Rouge man was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for owning canines with the intent to use them in a dogfighting business.
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Connors: ‘We will prosecute those who criminally violate the civil rights of those in their custody’
A former supervisory correctional officer at the Hawaii Community Correctional Center has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for encouraging an assault on an inmate and concealing the abuse for years.
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Clarke: Former police officer 'abused his position of power to carry out his own sexual assault'
A former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the sexual assault of a 15-year-old victim.
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Rivera-Esparra: 'Brown’s heinous actions cut short a precious life that can never be replaced'
After three days of testimony, a federal jury has convicted a Birmingham woman on kidnapping related charges in connection to the 2019 abduction and death of three-year-old Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney.
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Weiss: 'Defendants displayed utter disregard for the lives of innocents who crossed their paths'
Dion Oliver has been found guilty for his part in the June 2017 shootings that killed a Newark woman and permanently injured a six-year-old boy.
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Leary: 'Former bank employee was playing Russian roulette with other people's money'
A former loan officer at SunMark Community Bank in Bonaire, Ga., pleaded guilty to charges related to a $1.2 million asset misapplication scheme.
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Monaco: 'Department of Justice will continue to disrupt cyber threats and hold perpetrators to account'
A Russian and Canadian national is being charged for his alleged participation in the LockBit global ransomware campaign.
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Moore: Kansas 'physician abused his position of trust' in Medicare fraud scheme
A Kansas City-area pediatrician pleaded guilty for his part in a Medicare fraud scheme that involved more than 1,000 patients.
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Ison: Michigan man sentenced for using 'terror, threats and bombs'
A Michigan man was sentenced for two criminal cases related to a $5 million extortion plot using shrapnel-filled pipe bombs outside cellphone stores.
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Peace: Influencer leveraged 'his Instagram popularity to prey upon innocent investors'
A formerly famous Instagram influencer known as Jay Mazini pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering.
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Garland: ‘Nationwide takedown of a multimillion-dollar catalytic converter theft network’ arrests 21
Leaders and associates of a nationwide catalytic converter theft ring were arrested and/or charged during a nationwide, coordinated takedown Nov. 2.
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Aber: MS-13 gang receive life in prison after ‘the tragedy and senselessness’ of teens’ murders
Five members of La Mara Salvatrucha, the transnational street gang known as MS-13, received life in prison for kidnapping and murdering two teenage boys in 2016.
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Estes: 'Our communities are safer with these gun-carrying meth merchants off the streets' in Georgia
The last of 21 defendants in a drug trafficking conspiracy in a crime ring that distributed methamphetamine and other drugs in Georgia pleaded guilty to their crimes.
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Totten: Michigan 'inside job was a foolish endeavor' resulting in felony charges
Three Michigan men pleaded guilty for their roles in staging the armed robbery of a courier van carrying more than $1.2 million.
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Wray: 'This national network of criminals hurt victims across the country' with catalytic converter thefts
Law enforcement personnel at all levels of government executed a national, coordinated takedown of leaders and associates of a national network of thieves, dealers and processors for their roles in conspiracies involving the theft and resale of catalytic converters for tens of millions of dollars.
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Rollins: Sentencing of Massachusetts man on federal gun charges 'a step in the right direction'
A Massachusetts man was recently sentenced for the unlawful possession of firearms, resulting from his illegal dealing of rifles and handguns.
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Sutton: Oklahoma woman survived shooter, 'testified against him at trial'
A federal jury found an Oklahoma man guilty of shooting his girlfriend when she tried to break up with him in 2021.
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Diaz: Seattle police 'made getting firearms and illegal narcotics off our streets a top priority'
Eleven people were arrested in Washington and California in connection with cartel-connected drug trafficking schemes from Mexico across the border and up I-5 to the Pacific Northwest.
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Romero: 'Defendants kidnapped a teenager in an effort to extort money, a crime for which they have now been convicted'
Two men were sentenced to prison time for kidnapping charges in the abduction of a teenagers from northeast Philadelphia to New Jersey in June 2021.
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