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News Release: A resident of St. James Parish, Jamaica, was extradited to the United States and made his initial appearance in federal court in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on charges relating to his participation in a phony sweepstakes scheme that targeted elderly victims in the United States, the Department of Justice and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced today.
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News Release: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today announced that he has selected Colette S. Peters to serve as Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Department of Justice.
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News Release: CINCINNATI - A Greene County man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to nine years and 364 days in prison for illegally possessing the gun he used to shoot an Ohio wildlife officer. Brian R. Liming, 45, of Jamestown, Ohio, was indicted by a federal grand jury and arrested by ATF agents in April 2021. He pleaded guilty in August 2021.
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News Release: The Justice Department announced today the establishment of the Reproductive Rights Task Force. The Task Force formalizes an existing working group and efforts by the Department over the last several months to identify ways to protect access to reproductive health care in anticipation of the possibility ...
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News Release: The Justice Department today released the following statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland following the Senate’s bipartisan confirmation of Steve Dettelbach as the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF):
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News Release: United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling announced that on June 28, 2022, Chief United States District Judge Pamela Pepper sentenced Darrell Chambliss (age: 31) to 72 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for arson.
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News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA - A newly unsealed federal indictment charges 14 defendants in a South Georgia drug trafficking conspiracy alleged to have been directed from inside a Georgia state prison.
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The US Justice Department published a two page notice on July 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that WARREN PICARD, age 26, of New Orleans, pled guilty to conspiracy to possess a firearm by a felon and misprision of felony.
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News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-A Josephine County, Oregon man who distributed marijuana throughout the U.S. using his private airplane, and who hired a hitman to kill a drug trafficking associate, was sentenced to federal prison today.
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News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Jeffrey Walt Boston (45, Orlando) to 8 years and 8 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for possessing with the intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing cocaine. He was also required to forfeit the firearm and ammunition used in the offense. Boston had pleaded guilty on Feb. 15, 2022.
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The US Justice Department published a two page notice on July 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
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There was activity on one bill related to the Judiciary Committee on July 12.
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News Release: Today, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the recipients for the 69th Annual Attorney General’s Awards, recognizing Department of Justice employees and partners for extraordinary contributions to the enforcement of our nation’s laws. This year, 298 Justice Department employees received awards, while 54 non-department individuals are also being honored for their work.
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News Release: Akron, OH - The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) and Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) recently began investigating the whereabouts of Makenzie Carson (15), a missing juvenile. Carson had been reported missing to the ODNR after she couldn’t be located around her campsite at the Mosquito Creek State...
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News Release: A Fort Worth man discovered with a Glock pistol equipped with a “switch" - a device that converts ordinary semiautomatic pistols into fully automatic machine guns - has been tried and convicted of a federal firearm crime, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California recently filed criminal charges against six defendants in four separate cases of cryptocurrency-related fraud.
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News Release: A Port Clinton, Ohio, woman was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for production and distribution of child sexual abuse material.
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OJJDP FY 2022 Youth Violence Prevention Program grant opened on July 13.
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News Release: EVANSVILLE - Rodney Allen Cannon, Jr., 36, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release.