U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
Recent News About U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
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Jermaine Knight, 36, of Washington D.C., was sentenced to 43 months in prison after pleading guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm and felony strangulation.
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Andre Rushing, 23, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 108 months in federal prison for his involvement in a series of armed carjackings and robberies that took place in March 2023.
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Nathalie Rose Jones, a 50-year-old resident of Lafayette, Indiana, was arrested in Washington, D.C., on August 16 after being charged with making threats on social media against President Trump.
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Derek Turrentine, 43, has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder while armed in connection with the fatal shooting of James Thomas Price in September 2024.
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Stephon Martin, a 25-year-old resident of Washington, D.C., was found guilty on August 14, 2025, for his involvement in the armed robbery and assault of his former employer.
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Two Washington, D.C. men have been indicted and arraigned in connection with a daytime shooting that took place in November 2024 in a residential neighborhood of southeast D.C., according to an announcement from U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
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Damion Barnett, a 22-year-old resident of the District of Columbia, has been indicted for illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition as well as unlawful discarding of a firearm.
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Duarte Santos, a 25-year-old resident of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for his involvement in a shooting at a bar and restaurant on July 5, 2024.
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Jajuan Gripper, 22, of Washington, D.C., was convicted on all charges in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the murder of Rynell Bradford.
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Emily Gabriella Sommer, a 32-year-old resident of the District of Columbia, has pleaded guilty to three counts of assaulting a government official.
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Kamanye Williams, 26, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 16.5 years in federal prison for his involvement as the gunman in a series of seven inside-job robberies at a Walgreens store located in Chinatown.
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Sean Charles Dunn, 37, has been charged in U.S. District Court for allegedly assaulting a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer by shouting insults and throwing a wrapped sandwich at the officer.
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Marcel Vines, 28, who is currently serving a life sentence for kidnapping and murder, received an additional 46-month federal prison sentence for his involvement in smuggling contraband into the Central Detention Facility (CDF) in Washington, D.C....
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Saul Castillo-Crespo, a 28-year-old Mexican national, has been indicted in U.S. District Court for violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) and for illegally re-entering the United States after deportation.
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Lamaas Lowery-Bey, a 28-year-old resident of the District of Columbia, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
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Victor Renato Blythe, a 60-year-old child psychotherapist from Washington, D.C., has been charged by federal complaint with allegedly distributing and possessing child pornography.
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An indictment was unsealed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., charging Jimmy Cherizier, known as “Barbecue,” and Bazile Richardson with conspiring to transfer funds from the United States to support gang activities in Haiti.
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The Justice Department has announced coordinated actions targeting the BlackSuit (Royal) Ransomware group, including the takedown of four servers and nine domains on July 24.
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Mario Miguel Banegas Deras, 43, was sentenced to 24 years in prison for the killing of Maria Magdalena Ayala Guardado in Northwest Washington, D.C. The sentencing took place in Superior Court, where Banegas Deras had previously pleaded guilty to...
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Randall Meck, a 52-year-old resident of Virginia, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for crimes related to child sexual exploitation.