News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: Today, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that Colonel Hugh T. Clements Jr. has been appointed to serve as the new Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office). The COPS Office is the component of the Justice Department responsible for advancing the practice of community policing by the nation’s state, local, territorial, and Tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources.

News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A former resident of Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotic laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

News Release: FBI Buffalo Continues to Offer $25,000 Reward for Information in the CompassCare Arson Investigation.

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DEREK JONES, a disbarred California attorney, was sentenced today to five and a half years in prison. JONES ran fraudulent investment funds, including real-estate investment firms and a venture-capital firm...

News Release: A Queens man was sentenced for participating in a scheme to mail fraudulent prize notices that tricked consumers into paying fees for falsely promised cash prizes.

News Release: A dual citizen of the United States and Syria who evaded arrest for over two decades pleaded guilty today in the District of Columbia for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the United States and to pay gratuities to a federal public official.

News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that David Guest, 25, of Hilton, NY, who was convicted of cyberstalking, was sentenced to 27 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.

News Release: Defendants Accused of Assaulting Officers in Lower West Terrace Tunnel.

News Release: Memphis, TN - Kevin G. Ritz, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, issued the following statement today.

News Release: An American businesswoman with international ties was sentenced in the District of Hawaii yesterday to two years in prison for her role in facilitating an unregistered lobbying campaign of the Administration of the former President of the United States and the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of foreign principals in exchange for millions of dollars.

The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Kyle William Staebell, age 33, of Evergreen, has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with making threats to commit mass violence.

News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-An Arizona woman is facing federal charges after she was caught trafficking approximately 45,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl and several additional pounds of bulk heroin on Interstate 5 near Salem, Oregon.

News Release: An Arkansas man pleaded guilty today to attempting to evade the assessment of federal income taxes.

News Release: A Dearborn woman was convicted on Friday by a federal jury on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, related to her participation in a multi-year scheme to obtain more than $65 million from numerous pharmaceutical co-pay assistance programs, announced U.S. Attorney Dawn N. Ison.