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Vincent Jerome May, a 37-year-old resident of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, has pleaded guilty to multiple offenses, including robbery in Indian Country, interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle, and assault resulting in substantial bodily injury to a...
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Florida man receives prison sentence for threats against CAIR Michigan

Michael Shapiro, a 73-year-old resident of West Palm Beach, Florida, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for making death threats against the Michigan Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
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Dominican national pleads guilty to illegal re-entry into US

A Dominican national, Odanis Manuel Brea Mejia, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland to the charge of illegally entering the United States after a prior removal.
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Cuban national charged with bank robbery using replica firearm

A Cuban national, Anoy Lopez-Bles, made his initial court appearance in Las Vegas before United States Magistrate Judge Nancy J. Koppe on Wednesday.
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Tahlequah resident pleads guilty to federal firearm charge

Laura Gema Carroll, a 36-year-old resident of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, has pled guilty to a federal firearm charge, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
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California doctors settle fraud claims involving electroacupuncture devices

Zachary J. Lipman, MD, from Chico, and Michael Woo-Ming, MD, from Murrieta have agreed to settlements totaling $375,000 with the United States government.
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Philadelphia man sentenced for role in drug trafficking organization

United States Attorney David Metcalf announced the sentencing of Alex Wellman Castro Frias, a 51-year-old Dominican citizen residing in Philadelphia.
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Rhode Island man pleads guilty to enticement of minor and murder-for-hire plot

A Rhode Island man, previously convicted of child molestation and registered as a sex offender, has admitted to enticing a minor for sexual encounters and plotting a murder-for-hire to silence the victim.
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Mexican man indicted for false claim to US citizenship

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has announced the indictment of Jose Arturo Perez Ramirez, a 33-year-old Mexican citizen.
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Lexington Park man faces federal charges for illegal firearm possession

A federal grand jury has indicted Jerod Adam Taylor, a 39-year-old resident of Lexington Park, Maryland, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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Former office manager sentenced for embezzling $1.5 million from senior care facility

Amy Elizabeth Curry, a former office manager at Silver Bluff, LLC in Canton, North Carolina, has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for embezzling over $1.5 million from the senior living facility. U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson announced the...
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Man arrested for alleged bomb threats across multiple Alaskan locations

A man was apprehended on March 6 in Flagstaff, Arizona, following an indictment by a federal grand jury in Alaska.
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Federal air marshal charged with defrauding airline using fake military leave

Matthew Podolsky, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Dior Jay-Jarrett has been charged with wire fraud in connection to a scheme involving falsified military records.
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Mexican national sentenced to federal prison for third illegal US reentry

Pedro Zuniga-Lopez, a 35-year-old Mexican national, has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for illegal reentry into the United States.
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Asheville man sentenced to over 12 years for drug trafficking and gun offenses

Tyrone Eugene Sitton, also known as "Dirty," has been sentenced to 151 months in prison for fentanyl trafficking and gun charges.
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Elizabeth man receives five-year sentence for illegal firearm possession

An Elizabeth man, Stanley Claiborne, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for illegal firearm possession.
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Dominican national sentenced for intent to distribute over one kilogram of fentanyl

A Dominican national residing in Boston has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for distributing fentanyl.
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Canadian citizen sentenced for grandparent scam targeting U.S seniors

A Canadian man has been sentenced to five years and one month in federal prison for his involvement in a "grandparent scam" that targeted victims in Kentucky and other parts of the United States.
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Corpus Christi gang member sentenced for coordinating drug deals from prison

A Corpus Christi resident has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, according to U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
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Utah man sentenced for attempting to receive child sexual abuse images

Todd Robert Michels, a 54-year-old resident of Washington City, Utah, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison and will be under lifetime supervised release.
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