U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington
Recent News About U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington
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A 28-year-old man from Deering, Alaska, was found guilty of abusive sexual contact in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
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A former Washington state employee was sentenced to 18 months in prison for wire fraud after embezzling nearly $900,000 from the State of Washington.
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A Seattle man with previous state and federal convictions has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for illegal firearm possession.
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A member of a south Seattle street gang, Samuel N. Rezene, 38, was sentenced to four years in federal prison and three years of supervised release for illegal firearm possession.
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A woman from Temple, Texas, has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for setting fire to the Seattle Laestadian Lutheran Church (SLLC) in Snohomish County, Washington.
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The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington has ended federal oversight of the Seattle Police Department (SPD), returning full control to the City of Seattle.
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A 22-year-old Sinaloa, Mexico native, Jose Carlos Peraza Alvarez, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for operating a stash house linked to a drug trafficking organization,...
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A Tukwila man with a long criminal history has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for his role in a drug trafficking organization connected to Aryan Family and Omerta prison gangs, according to an announcement by Acting U.S. Attorney...
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Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies have disrupted a drug trafficking operation linked to the Sinaloa Cartel that distributed fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin throughout western Washington.
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Over the past 36 hours, law enforcement in Tacoma executed 13 search warrants and arrested eight of nine individuals indicted for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller.
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A Snohomish County man has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison for producing child sexual abuse material and attempting to entice minors, according to an announcement from Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller.
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Yehoshua Kilp, 39, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in U.S. District Court in Tacoma for leading a drug distribution cell linked to Aryan prison gangs.
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A group of federal prosecutors has completed an independent review of the criminal trial involving Tacoma Police Department Officers Burbank, Collins, and Rankine in connection with the death of Manuel Ellis on March 3, 2020.
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A Deming, Washington man was sentenced to 160 months in federal prison for receipt and possession of child sexual abuse material.
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Two Estonian nationals, Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, were sentenced in Seattle to 16 months in prison for running a large-scale cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide.
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Two men from the Seattle area have been sentenced to six years in federal prison for their roles in a violent drug trafficking organization.
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A Seattle resident, Richard Stanley Manness Jr., was convicted of producing child sexual abuse imagery in a case involving the direction and receipt of images from Vietnam.
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A registered sex offender from Washington state has pleaded guilty to federal charges of sexually exploiting ten minor girls, ages 12 to 16, after removing his electronic monitoring device and fleeing state supervision.
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A Seattle man with a history of violent threats and prior convictions was sentenced to 18 months in prison for lying during an attempt to purchase a firearm, according to an announcement from Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller.
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A Seattle man has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for carjacking and using a firearm during a crime of violence.