U.S. Department of Justice
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Recent News About U.S. Department of Justice
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A Mexican national has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for recruiting and forcing an 18-year-old woman from Mexico into commercial sex in Houston, Texas.
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Zimnako Salah, a 46-year-old resident of Phoenix, Arizona, has been sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted for targeting Christian churches across multiple states.
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The Department of Justice has announced that Baltimore County, Maryland, is no longer considered a sanctuary jurisdiction.
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Ji Wang, a resident of Painted Post, New York, was found guilty by a federal jury on charges including economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.
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Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, a 27-year-old Canadian national from Ontario, pleaded guilty to several charges related to a violent assault on correctional officers at the United States Penitentiary Allenwood in 2020.
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Last Friday, the FBI arrested several individuals who are now facing charges related to possessing firearms as part of an alleged conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS.
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Six people were sentenced in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on Thursday for their roles in a 2021 triple homicide that took place during Labor Day weekend.
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A jury has found Rai Thomas, 31, of Mount Vernon, New York, guilty of sex trafficking a minor and using interstate facilities to promote sex trafficking and prostitution.
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A federal jury in the Middle District of Alabama has convicted Kimani Jones, 32, also known as “Statik,” and Tremayne Lambert, 50, also known as “Bayrock,” both from Montgomery, Alabama, on multiple charges related to sex trafficking.
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Multiple suspects were arrested in Detroit last Friday and have been charged with possessing firearms as part of a conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS.
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A man from Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill former President Donald J. Trump.
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An Arizona man has been sentenced to 49 months in prison for sending antisemitic death threats and engaging in interstate stalking of Jewish victims in New York City.
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Colombian national Jose Orlando Buitrago-Rodríguez, also known as “Tito el Borracho,” has been extradited to the United States to face drug trafficking charges in the District of Puerto Rico.
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A New York man, Tarek Bazrouk, has been sentenced to 17 months in prison for hate crimes after repeatedly assaulting Jewish individuals at protests related to the Israel/Hamas war.
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Cameron McEwen has been sentenced to 210 months in prison for receiving sexually explicit photographs from a 16-year-old minor through a social media platform.
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A federal jury in Central Islip has convicted Michael Johnson, also known as “Wise,” on four counts including sex trafficking conspiracy, sex trafficking, and interstate prostitution.
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A federal grand jury in Arizona has issued a 29-count superseding indictment against Baron Cain Martin, known online as “Convict,” 21, of Tucson.
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Sidney Campbell, a 45-year-old resident of Honolulu, has been charged by criminal complaint with illegal possession of firearms as a convicted felon.
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Two members of an Azerbaijani faction of the Russian Mob have been sentenced to 25 years in prison for their roles in a murder-for-hire plot targeting Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist and human rights activist.
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A Ukrainian national has been extradited from Ireland to the United States to face charges related to his alleged involvement in deploying Conti ransomware.