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News Release: Readout of Southwest Border U.S. Attorneys Visit to Mexico.
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News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DONOVAN GRANT pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to participating in the armed robbery of Jercar Brooks in the Bronx on Jan. 23, 2014. As part of his guilty plea, GRANT admitted that during the robbery, he shot and killed Brooks. GRANT is scheduled to be sentenced before the Honorable Alvin K. Hellerstein on Nov. 28, 2022.
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News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Aleia Deborah Green (20, Brooksville) for possessing stolen mail. Green was sentenced to the maximum term of probation-five years-and ordered to make full restitution in the amount of $956.53 to the 23 victims of her offense. Green had pleaded guilty on June 1, 2022.
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News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The leader of the Eight Tray Gangsta (ETG) Crips gang in Baltimore, Trayvon Hall, a/k/a “Tru," and “G Tru," age 31, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to racketeering and drug conspiracy charges.
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News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Summerset, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Attempted Exploitation of a Minor, Transportation of a Minor with Intent to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity, Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet, and Travel with Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Activity.
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News Release: Departamento de Justicia. Office of Public Affairs. PARA DIVULGACION INMEDIATA. Viernes, 26 de agosto de 2022. Resumen de la visita de los fiscales estadounidenses del suroeste a México. Del 23 al 25 de agosto, una delegación de fiscales, sus jefes de división penal, y jefes de fuerzas de tarea contra el...
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News Release: Miami, Florida - A U.S. federal district judge sentenced 52-year-old Sherri Lynn Smith to 51 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release for stealing nearly $300,000 from two seniors by accessing their bank accounts while employed as their caretaker.
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News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL SMITH, also known as “Head," 36, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 156 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for narcotics trafficking, gun possession and money laundering offenses.
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News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Downey man is in federal custody today after being arrested on federal charges of selling counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl to a 17-year-old Downey female who suffered a fatal overdose from the synthetic opioid.
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News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Texas-based oil company and two of its subsidiaries have agreed to plead guilty to violating the federal Clean Water Act, pay a $7.1 million criminal fine, and compensate federal programs approximately $5.8 million in connection with the discharge of approximately 25,000 gallons of crude oil last October during an offshore leak in the 17-mile-long San Pedro Bay Pipeline, according to plea agreements filed today.
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News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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News Release: GREENSBORO - Ronnie Hiram Wessinger, Jr., age 49, of Gaffney, South Carolina, was sentenced today by United States District Judge William L. Osteen, Jr., to 180 months in prison followed by a three-year term of supervised release for two counts of bank robbery.
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News Release: Herman Wilson also charged with attempting to obstruct, influence and impede at least one official proceeding.
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News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Tashan Layton, age 32, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Aug. 24, 2022, to 256 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson for armed bank robbery, brandishing...
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News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Dakota Anderson, 25, of Beckley, was sentenced today to six years and six months in prison, to be followed by 25 years of supervised release, for possession of prepubescent child pornography. Anderson must also register as a sex offender.
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News Release: U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced that the State of Louisiana has received $23,554,389 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs and its component, the Office for Victims of Crime, to enhance crime victim services in the State and to enhance State compensation payments to...
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News Release: SAN DIEGO - Benjamin Robert Laubbacher of Carlsbad pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he committed six robberies of grocery stores and other businesses during a 15-day period in 2021, including several heists where he displayed a handgun.
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News Release: LOS ANGELES - A South Los Angeles man pleaded guilty today to a federal conspiracy charge and admitted to committing six armed robberies of businesses, mostly 7-Eleven stores, during a two-week crime spree late last year.
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News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, and tax fraud, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
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News Release: ST. LOUIS - The former president of the St. Louis Board of Alderman, along with a former alderman, pleaded guilty Friday to all charges against them and admitted accepting bribes to misuse their official positions in schemes that ran from 2020 through March of 2022. The alderman also admitted to committing insurance fraud in a separate case.