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A foreign national residing in Taylorsville, Utah, has been charged following an alleged break-in and theft of firearms at the Park City Gun Club.
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Former JBLM soldier sentenced to 25 years for abusing four minors

A former soldier previously stationed at Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the sexual abuse of four young children who had been left in his care.
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UK man sentenced for operating online drug market; over $28 million forfeited

Matthew Simon Grimm, a 51-year-old citizen of the United Kingdom, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for his role in operating an illegal online drug market that shipped controlled substances into the United States.
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Bradford County man pleads guilty to wire fraud after collecting deceased mother's benefits

A Bradford County resident has admitted to wire fraud after unlawfully collecting government benefits intended for his deceased mother over a period of nearly 17 years.
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Jury convicts Ronnell Offutt in 2019 Southeast D.C. mass shooting

Ronnell Offutt, 36, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury on four counts of assault with intent to kill while armed, including one count with a minor-victim enhancement.
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Mexican national sentenced for using stolen identity to obtain passport and driver’s license

Alfredo Mendoza Montero, a 45-year-old Mexican national, has been sentenced to two years and one day in federal prison for crimes including passport fraud, false impersonation of a citizen, and aggravated identity theft.
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Chicago man convicted for distributing fentanyl in Northern Panhandle

A Chicago resident has been convicted for leading a drug trafficking operation that brought fentanyl and cocaine from Illinois to West Virginia.
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Mexican man extradited to Texas on charges tied to major alien smuggling ring

A Mexican national, Efrain Zuniga-Garcia, appeared in court in Del Rio, Texas, following his extradition from Mexico.
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Former Seattle-area financial advisor sentenced for stealing over $500K from client

A former financial advisor from the Seattle area, Michael P. Raineri, was sentenced to 32 months in prison for wire fraud after stealing more than $500,000 from a client’s trust account over six years.
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Former Ohio deputy receives over nine-year sentence for inmate sexual abuse

A former deputy in Ohio has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison for sexually abusing a female inmate under his supervision.
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Mexican national sentenced to 15 years for methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy in Arizona

Jorge Anaya-Valencia, a 48-year-old Mexican national from Guyamas, Sonora, was sentenced to 180 months in prison on September 23 for his role in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy.
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Ohio man sentenced to two years for defrauding tech company

A Wood County man has been sentenced to prison for defrauding a Toledo-based computer technology support company of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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New Jersey man among six indicted in multi-million dollar investment fraud scheme

JOSIAH DAVID, also known as Dennis Lee, from Vernon, New Jersey, and JAMES MICHAEL KAFES of Carmel, New York, along with four corporate entities—Provision Corporation LLC, The Premier Healthcare Solution LLC, Out of Pocket Relief for Americans...
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Houston men receive 14-year sentences for armed convenience store robberies

Two Houston men, Derian Joel Caesar and Centel Devon Willis Jr., have been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for their roles in two armed convenience store robberies.
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Long Island credit supervisor pleads guilty to $1.6 million wire fraud

Tony Ream, a former credit supervisor at a Long Island-based health care distribution company, pleaded guilty to wire fraud at the federal courthouse in Central Islip.
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Five plead guilty in multimillion-dollar tech support scam targeting elderly

Five individuals have pleaded guilty to their roles in a scheme that defrauded elderly victims in ten states through a tech support scam, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri.
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Dayton woman sentenced to over two years for embezzling veterans group funds

A woman from Dayton, Oregon, has been sentenced to 25 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $1.7 million from the Department of Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW).
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St. Louis siblings sentenced for multi-year identity theft and fraud schemes

Two siblings from the St. Louis area, Alexandria Collins and Wayne M. Collins, have been sentenced to prison for their roles in aggravated identity theft and fraud schemes. U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark handed down the sentences on...
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Canadian man sentenced for pandemic unemployment benefit fraud

Joseph Osei, a 30-year-old Canadian citizen formerly residing in Albany, has been sentenced to 54 months in prison for his involvement in a scheme to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 pandemic-related unemployment insurance benefits using stolen...
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Justice Department launches new civil division branch focused on enforcement and litigation

The Department of Justice has established a new Enforcement & Affirmative Litigation Branch within its Civil Division.
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