U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennslyvania
Recent News About U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennslyvania
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RST-Sanexas, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of electric stimulation devices based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and its principal owners—Richard Sorgnard, Lisa Sorgnard, and Morhea Sorgnard—have agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve allegations that...
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Donte Samuel Brown, a 45-year-old resident of Philadelphia, has been charged with multiple counts related to a series of robberies in the area.
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David Easley, a 39-year-old man from Georgia, has been sentenced to 26 months of supervised release, with the first two months under home confinement.
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Saikeen Dixon, a 33-year-old Philadelphia resident, has been sentenced to over 12 years in federal prison for his involvement in the armed carjacking of a FedEx truck in August 2022.
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Recovery Centers of America (RCA) has agreed to pay a total of $2 million to settle allegations that it violated federal laws regarding the handling of controlled substances and improperly billed government health programs.
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Michael Hochman, a 52-year-old resident of Warminster, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for downloading and collecting thousands of images and videos depicting the sexual...
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A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman during a commercial flight from Los Angeles to Philadelphia.
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Five foreign nationals were sentenced in November for illegally reentering the United States after being previously deported, according to an announcement from U.S. Attorney David Metcalf.
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A Philadelphia man has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges related to making violent, racist threats against African Americans.
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Federal authorities have launched the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, aiming to dismantle cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) that contribute to fentanyl overdoses, violence, human...
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United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Scottie Girl, LLC, doing business as The Breastfeeding Shop in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, and its owner Patricia Gatter have agreed to pay $1 million to settle allegations of submitting false claims...
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A Philadelphia man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, according to an announcement from United States Attorney David Metcalf.
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Three Philadelphia residents, Rasheen Harvey-Fields, 18, Tavon Fry, 20, and Saair Steele, 21, have been charged in federal court with conspiracy to commit carjackings and related firearms offenses.
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Khalil Dickens, a 22-year-old Philadelphia resident, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for his role in a series of violent armed carjackings and robberies that took place during the summer of 2023.
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A Honduran national living illegally in Philadelphia has been sentenced to seven months in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon.
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A Philadelphia man, Chihean Jones, also known as “Cha,” was convicted by a federal jury of two commercial robberies and the murder of a gas station attendant during one of those incidents.
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Shaquan Brown, a 31-year-old Philadelphia resident, has been sentenced to more than 22 years in federal prison for his role in a series of violent armed home invasions targeting business owners and their families.
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A Philadelphia man, Norman Copper, 34, has been sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
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Willie Jordan, a 68-year-old resident of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to one year in prison for his involvement in two separate fraud schemes targeting both a religious and a political organization.
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A former Philadelphia Deputy Sheriff, Darryl T. Wells, pleaded guilty to bank fraud on Tuesday in federal court.