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A Waynesboro resident has been sentenced to federal prison for a series of commercial armed robberies across several counties in Georgia.
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Man sentenced for drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy

Jonathan Ponce has been sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, as well as international money laundering.
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Sun Prairie man sentenced for illegal firearm possession

Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, has announced the sentencing of Javaris Nunn, a 33-year-old resident of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
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Mexican national charged with illegal reentry after multiple deportations

A Mexican national, Jose Mendoza-Zarrate, has been indicted on charges of unlawful reentry into the United States after deportation.
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Kansas man indicted for alleged assault on Tribal land

A federal grand jury in Topeka has indicted a Kansas resident, Wesley Reel Bennett, on charges of assaulting an individual on Tribal land.
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Florida man indicted for mailing hoax white powder letter

Henry Garcia, a 63-year-old resident of Vero Beach, Florida, has been indicted for sending a letter containing a hoax white powder to the New York State Attorney General's Office.
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Remote patient monitoring firm settles lawsuit over false Medicare claims

Health Wealth Safe, Inc. and Dr. Subodh Agrawal have agreed to pay $1.29 million to settle allegations of submitting false claims to Medicare.
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New Orleans man receives eight-year sentence for federal gun crimes

A New Orleans man, Cardell Glover, has been sentenced to 96 months in prison after pleading guilty to federal gun charges.
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Philadelphia school district faces criminal charges over asbestos violations

United States Attorney David Metcalf has announced criminal charges against the School District of Philadelphia for alleged violations related to asbestos management in schools.
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Two men convicted in multi-million dollar telephone scam targeting elderly Americans

Pradip Parikh, 67, from Valley Stream, New York, and Alpesh Patel, 40, from Louisa, Virginia, have been found guilty for their involvement in a transnational telephone scam that defrauded numerous Americans out of millions.
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Former doctor indicted for naturalization fraud after prior conviction

A federal grand jury has indicted a former medical doctor, Yousif Abdulraouf Alhallaq, on charges of naturalization fraud.
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Oxford man receives over 12 years for attempted enticement of a minor

An Oxford man, Eric Gene Rundle, was sentenced to 156 months in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor into illicit sexual activities and receiving child pornography.
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Utah man indicted for alleged shooting with stolen pistol

A federal grand jury has indicted Hiram Bokadrik, a 29-year-old from Salt Lake County, Utah, on multiple firearm charges.
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Federal felon convicted for selling drugs causing two overdose deaths

A federal jury has convicted Cody Kinzie Dittmar, 34, for distributing and conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl, which resulted in two overdose deaths in Marion, Iowa.
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Federal inmates sentenced for roles in fellow inmate's death

Jonathan Guillory and Anthony Bell, both inmates at the U.S. Penitentiary-Florence, Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Colorado, have been sentenced for their involvement in the death of another inmate.
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Houston lawyer pleads guilty in client fraud case

A former attorney from Houston has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to commit mail fraud and filing a false tax return, as announced by U.S. Attorney Nicholas Ganjei.
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Salt Lake City man sentenced for multiple convenience store robberies

Andrew Armani Deionte Rowe, a 29-year-old resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, received a sentence of 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for robbing several 7-Eleven stores in the Salt Lake Valley during 2023. U.S....
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Charges filed against two more correctional officers at FCI Dublin

Two former correctional officers at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, Jeffrey Wilson and Lawrence Gacad, have been charged with sexual abuse of female inmates.
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Former SKAEL CEO pleads guilty to fraud charges

Baba Nadimpalli, the founder and former CEO of SKAEL, Inc., has pleaded guilty to securities fraud and wire fraud in a federal court.
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Saginaw man sentenced to 30 years for violent crimes on Isabella Reservation

A Saginaw man, Michael Lee Johnson, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison following a conviction for multiple offenses including unlawful imprisonment, strangulation, suffocation, interstate domestic violence, and witness tampering.
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