News and reports from the Department of Justice.

Shamiese Wright, a 32-year-old resident of Charleston, has pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting money laundering in connection with a COVID-19 fraud scheme.

A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City has indicted Leroy Casper Poowegup Reed, a 42-year-old man from Whiterocks, Utah, on charges of first-degree murder.

A Brazilian national living unlawfully in Massachusetts has been sentenced for selling firearms without a license.

A Leominster, Massachusetts man has been sentenced for attempting to open an emergency exit door and attacking a flight attendant during a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Boston in March 2023.

Today, a Honduran national named Jose Melgar-Rivas, aged 34, was charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer resulting in bodily injury.

An intense weeklong search for Benjamin Hanil Song, the alleged shooter at Prairieland Detention Center on July 4th, has concluded with his arrest by FBI agents in Dallas, Texas.

Damon Middleton, 32, and Michael Alston, 27, both from the District of Columbia, have been ordered to be held without bond following their arrests for armed kidnapping and carjacking.

A California man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for distributing methamphetamine and fentanyl in Bozeman, Montana. U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme announced that Shante Maurice Anthony, aged 47, will also serve five years of supervised release...

A Columbia, South Carolina resident, Sharon Thompkins, has been convicted of transporting illegal aliens.

A Saugus man has been indicted on charges related to a drug trafficking conspiracy involving counterfeit pills containing methamphetamine and fentanyl.

United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Ahmed Hassan, a 71-year-old from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to over five years in prison.

Jorge Olivares, also known as “Stomper,” was sentenced to 50 months in prison and two years of supervised release for possessing a firearm as a felon.

Kristin Keeble, a 54-year-old resident of Pageland, South Carolina, has been sentenced to five months in jail followed by three years of supervised release with six months of home detention.

Following an eight-day trial, a federal jury has found two defendants guilty of all charges related to their involvement in the Highs street gang.

Armando Reyes-Ascension, a 43-year-old Mexican national living illegally in the United States, has been sentenced to 58 months in prison.