News and reports from the Department of Justice.

A Philadelphia resident, Henry Collins, has admitted to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by paying himself and his co-workers in cash, a move intended to avoid payroll taxes.

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of California have initiated 116 border-related cases this week.

A Lebanese and Italian national, Alessandro Sabbagh, 27, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert Wier in London, Kentucky, to 78 months in prison for conspiracy to sell counterfeit drugs and knowingly causing the sale of a counterfeit drug.

An individual from Ocean County, New Jersey, has been charged with traveling abroad to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Alina Habba.

A Philadelphia man, Walter Tharrington, also known as "Black" and "Roaadblock," has been convicted of sex trafficking a minor and child pornography offenses.

United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced the conviction of Frank Long Black Cat, 31, from Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

Restaurateur Leronce Suel was sentenced to 42 months in prison in San Diego for submitting over $1.7 million in fraudulent COVID-relief applications and not reporting the income to the IRS.

An Ocean County, New Jersey resident has admitted to defrauding the Social Security Administration over nearly eight years, resulting in improper gains of more than $250,000. U.S. Attorney Alina Habba confirmed the development.

Dylan Thomas Walker, a resident of Broken Bow, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 355 months in prison for crimes committed in McCurtain County within the Choctaw Nation Reservation.

U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo has announced the arrest of 39-year-old Kyle Stack from Medina, New York.

Mexican and Salvadorian nationals, David Cristales-Machado and Juan Manuel Lopez-Mendez, appeared in court to face charges related to their illegal reentry into the United States after prior deportations.

A total of 229 cases related to border security offenses were filed from April 4 to 10, as announced by U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.

An Antelope Valley man, Gregory Cole Jr., has been found guilty in absentia of producing and receiving sexually explicit images of a teenage girl, according to an announcement from the Justice Department.

A Montgomery man has been sentenced to 174 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm at a shooting scene, where a four-year-old was injured.

In U.S. District Court in Seattle, Joseph Michael Quincy Jefferson, a member of the Lummi Nation, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison for Assault by Strangulation.