U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama
Recent News About U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama
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Four individuals were sentenced for their roles in a murder-for-hire plot, as well as other related crimes.
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A Mexican national has been sentenced for illegally re-entering the United States after previously being removed.
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Timothy Allen Arthur, a 66-year-old man from Bay Minette, has been sentenced to 210 months in prison following his guilty plea to the charge of Attempted Coercion and Enticement of a Minor.
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A Guatemalan national has been sentenced for reentering the United States illegally after having been deported twice before.
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The Department of Justice has announced the outcomes of Operation Restore Justice, a nationwide operation targeting child sex predators.
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A Mobile man, Derrick C. Busby, has been sentenced to two years in prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
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Michael Edward Terrell, 46, has been sentenced to 135 months in prison for attempting to receive and distribute child pornography.
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On April 29, 2025, in Mobile, Alabama, United States District Court Judge William H. Steele sentenced Isaiah Lorenzo Bess, aged 28, to 33 months in prison.
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A Honduran national, Saul Cruz-Argueta, was sentenced on April 21, 2025, for illegally reentering the United States after being deported in the past.
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On April 22, 2025, the United States District Court sentenced John Rodney Weeks III to 15 years of imprisonment for conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine.
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On April 21, 2025, a federal court in Mobile, Alabama, sentenced Phyliss Joy Ferris of Wake Forest, North Carolina to 24 months imprisonment for her role in a conspiracy to possess cocaine with the intent to distribute.
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A Honduran national has been sentenced for illegally reentering the United States after deportation.
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A Mobile woman has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on charges related to methamphetamine trafficking and firearms possession.
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The United States Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Alabama is observing National Crime Victims' Rights Week (NCVRW) from April 6 to 12, 2025.
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Vincent Sandifer, a 25-year-old resident of Mobile, has been sentenced to 63 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm.
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A man from Dothan has been sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in a wire fraud scheme that defrauded food distribution companies out of more than $750,000.
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Today, U.S. Attorney Sean P. Costello announced charges against seven individuals connected to a fraud scheme at the Prichard Water Board.
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Three individuals in Mobile, Alabama received life sentences for their roles in a murder-for-hire scheme, while another was sentenced to 84 months for transporting a stolen vehicle across state lines during a carjacking attempt.
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James Walker Stewart, aged 38, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison following his arrest on November 18, 2023, in Atmore, Alabama.
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Nijel Malik Smith, aged 22, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison for the illegal possession of a machinegun.