News and reports from the Department of Justice.

The Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Matthew Podolsky, along with officials from the FBI and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, announced charges against seven individuals involved in armed drug trafficking...

A Guatemalan man has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for illegally re-entering the United States after deportation.

A Waterloo woman has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for embezzling over $135,000 from the Dupo Community Unit School District #196.

A federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, has indicted one former and two current Kentucky State Police Troopers on charges of violating civil rights.

A Dominican national, Melvin Villar, 60, from Lawrence, Massachusetts, was arraigned on charges of unlawfully reentering the United States after deportation.

Prescriptions Plus, a pharmacy located in Gastonia, North Carolina, has agreed to pay $204,000 following allegations of violating the Controlled Substances Act's recordkeeping requirements.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Thomas Edward Petro, 32, from Ashtabula, Ohio, has been sentenced to 140 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release.

United States Attorney Clint Johnson has disclosed the outcomes of the February Federal Grand Jury 2024-B indictments.

A Dominican national has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for allegedly reentering the United States illegally after being deported.

A Minneapolis man, Abdikadir Ainashe Mohamud, also known as "AK," has admitted to wire fraud in connection with a $250 million scheme that exploited a child nutrition program funded by the federal government during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cristian Josue Arteaga, a 35-year-old formerly from Hyattsville, Maryland, has been indicted by a grand jury in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

United States Attorney Delia L. Smith has announced charges against Jose Miguel Hodge, a 31-year-old from the British Virgin Islands, for alien smuggling.

A federal grand jury in New Haven has indicted Konstantinos "Kosta" Diamantis, 68, of Farmington, and Christopher Ziogas, 73, of Bristol.

Lucy Grace Nelson, also known as Justin Thomas Nelson, a 42-year-old resident of Lyons, Colorado, has been charged with one count of malicious destruction of property.

A Florida woman, Alihea Jones, was sentenced in a federal court in Boston for defrauding a Massachusetts housing agency and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) related to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).