U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of Illinois
Recent News About U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of Illinois
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In Springfield, Illinois, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of Illinois is observing National Police Week by recognizing the contributions and sacrifices of law enforcement officers at various levels.
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Luisito Espanola, a 65-year-old resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, has been sentenced to 32 months in federal prison.
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The Department of Justice has announced the outcomes of Operation Restore Justice, a nationwide initiative aimed at apprehending child sex offenders.
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A 36-year-old resident of Peoria, Illinois, Paul Graf, has been sentenced to 120 months in prison for attempted enticement of a minor.
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Anthony Westemeyer, a 37-year-old from Nebo, Illinois, received a 30-year prison sentence for sexual exploitation of a child, as adjudicated on April 9, 2025, in Springfield, Illinois.
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A jury in Peoria, Illinois, has found Joseph Perkins, 32, guilty of attempting to entice a minor.
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Romel Michael Turner, aged 31, of Peoria, Illinois, was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison for distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm handed down the sentence on March 25, 2025.
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A woman from Clinton, Indiana, has pleaded guilty to involvement in a murder-for-hire plot.
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Two siblings from Decatur, Ademeko Maclin-Carney and Ausarian Carney, have been sentenced to thirty and twenty-four years in federal prison, respectively.
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A Decatur, Illinois man, Brian R. Lewis, 46, has been sentenced to 63 months in prison for possessing child pornography.
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A Peoria man, Joshua Michael Williams, aged 43, has been sentenced to 135 months in prison for attempted enticement of a minor.
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A Marquette Heights resident, Dalton Lee Mattus, 35, has been sentenced to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
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Two Peoria men, Isaiah L. Holland and Tyrone Anthony Curtis, have been sentenced to federal prison for robbery and firearm offenses.
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Travis Jay Nyhoff, a 42-year-old inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Pekin, Illinois, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for aggravated battery.
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A Guatemalan national, Julio Cucul-Bol, has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of possessing false identification documents and making false statements.
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A Springfield, Illinois man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for assaulting a United States Postal Service employee.
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A Springfield, Illinois man, Derrick Bailey, has been sentenced to 180 months in prison for his involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy linked to the street gang Boss Playas.
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Chad Dickerson, a 34-year-old resident of Brighton, Illinois, was sentenced to three years in prison on February 6, 2025.
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Jacob R. Kirkley, a resident of Bismarck, Illinois, has been sentenced to four years in prison for his second federal counterfeiting conviction and an additional 18 months for violating his federal supervised release.
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A federal jury has found Carrie Musselman, a chiropractor from Eureka, Illinois, guilty of defrauding Medicare and other insurance companies out of more than $1.5 million.