News and reports from the Department of Justice.

Curtis Ellington, a registered sex offender from Junction City, Kansas, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.

A Buna resident, Billy Ray Robinson, Jr., has been sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for drug trafficking offenses.

A second individual has pleaded guilty and two more have been charged in connection with the March 10, 2025, robbery of a dry cleaning business in Montgomery, Alabama.

Rashaad Tariq Lee, a 31-year-old resident of Pensacola, Florida, has been sentenced to 25 months in federal prison after being convicted of unlawful possession of stolen mail and means of identification.

A Mexican national, Maria Vega-Villalba, 45, appeared in federal court in Las Vegas on charges of illegally reentering the United States after being previously deported.

A Dominican national living unlawfully in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced in federal court for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.

A Port Arthur resident has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for her role in a wire fraud scheme that defrauded an elderly victim out of more than $1.4 million, according to an announcement from Acting U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs for the...

Federal authorities have announced charges against Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of the La Luz del Mundo Church, and several associates for alleged racketeering, sex trafficking, and child exploitation.

Gary Hall, a 34-year-old Baltimore resident, has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison and three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon, as well as possessing a firearm in a school zone.

Daniel Reginald Hanna, II, a 38-year-old resident of Gainesville, Florida, has been indicted on federal charges related to child pornography.

Ahmed Hussain, a 23-year-old resident of Prince George’s County, Maryland, has been sentenced to 102 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $557,078 in restitution.

Rodney Berry, 42, of Tangipahoa Parish, pleaded guilty on August 28, 2025, to multiple violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act before United States District Judge Barry Ashe.

A Shiprock resident has been indicted on federal charges related to the sexual assault and kidnapping of two minors in Indian Country, according to court documents released Tuesday.

A woman from Alexandria, Virginia, has been sentenced to more than 22 years in prison for the murder of a man at Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio.

Three men have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to a series of armed robberies that led to the temporary closure of the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.