U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas
Recent News About U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas
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A 36-year-old Irish national, Matthew Liam Johnstone, has been extradited from Ireland to Houston and is scheduled to appear in the Southern District of Texas on charges related to child exploitation.
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A 50-year-old Honduran national living in Houston has pleaded guilty to unlawfully reentering the United States, according to an announcement from U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
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A 27-year-old member of the Forum Park Crips gang has been sentenced to nearly 29 years in federal prison for his involvement in a sex trafficking operation targeting teenage girls.
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A Katy resident has pleaded guilty for his role in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 40 victims of over $17 million, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
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Mexican national sentenced to prison for illegal reentry after convictions for assault and indecency
A 42-year-old Mexican national, Juan Ignacio Miranda-Arente, has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for unlawfully reentering the United States.
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A 24-year-old legal permanent resident from McAllen, Texas, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to straw purchase a firearm intended for a Mexican drug trafficking organization.
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A Mexican national living in Houston has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States, according to an announcement from U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei of the Southern District of Texas.
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A Houston man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for his involvement in a large-scale drug trafficking operation.
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A Mexican national living illegally in Houston has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, according to an announcement from U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei of the Southern District of Texas.
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A Honduran national living illegally in Houston has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for unlawfully reentering the United States.
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A total of 413 individuals have been charged in immigration and border security enforcement actions between February 6 and February 13, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
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An 18-count superseding indictment was unsealed in Houston, charging 20 alleged members and associates of the “Free Money” gang with racketeering conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, drug trafficking, and firearms offenses.
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A 48-year-old Honduran national, Oscar Javier Quiroz Perdomo, has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States.
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A supervisor with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been arrested and charged with harboring an illegal alien, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
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A Belize national residing in Conroe has pleaded guilty to assaulting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei for the Southern District of Texas.
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Two women from Conroe, Texas, have been indicted on charges related to the kidnapping and forced labor of a minor, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
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A former Social Security Administration employee in Houston has been sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to steal government funds.
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Federal authorities in the Southern District of Texas have filed 363 cases related to immigration offenses between January 30 and February 5, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
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A 31-year-old resident of Beeville, Texas, has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for possession of child sexual abuse material.
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Two men from the Houston area have been convicted on several charges after a federal jury found them guilty in connection with a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the shooting of a Katy man.