News and reports from the Department of Justice.

Craig H. Missakian has been officially sworn in as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California.

A Hollywood resident, Kevin J. Gregory, 57, has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for fraudulently seeking over $65 million from the IRS through false tax claims.

A federal grand jury has indicted 16 individuals accused of creating and distributing the DanaBot malware, which was controlled by a cybercrime organization based in Russia.

Erik Roberto Machado-Mencia, a 36-year-old Honduran national, has been indicted for re-entering the United States after deportation.

A Montgomery man has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm equipped with a machinegun conversion device during a shooting incident at Tuskegee University.

Kentrell Flowers, a 19-year-old resident of the District of Columbia, received a 10-year federal prison sentence for attempting to carjack a Deputy U.S. Marshal at gunpoint.

United States Attorney David Metcalf announced the sentencing of Rashell Ortiz, a 23-year-old from Grove City, Ohio.

A Guatemalan national residing unlawfully in New Bedford has pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after being deported.

A resident of Edcouch, Texas, Fernando Aguilera-Chavez, has pleaded guilty to charges related to cocaine possession with the intent to distribute.

A federal grand jury in the Western District of Louisiana has indicted five individuals, including law enforcement officers and a central Louisiana business owner, on charges of conspiracy and fraud.

United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that Carlin Mellette, a 29-year-old from Mandan, North Dakota, has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.

David X. Sullivan, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Neysa Vazquez-Ferrer, a 35-year-old resident of Waterbury, has been sentenced to three years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea...

Spokane, Washington – Acting United States Attorney Richard R. Barker announced that United States District Judge Thomas O. Rice sentenced Brandon L. Scott, age 40, to 22 months in prison for making a bomb threat onboard a flight to Seattle.

A woman implicated in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme has been arrested and indicted on charges of wire fraud, according to an announcement by Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa D. Kirkpatrick.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has announced the sentencing of two former Harrisburg merchants, Mervat Gharib and Adam Rashwan.