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A Mexican national living in Houston without legal status has been charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer, resulting in serious injuries, according to an announcement from U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
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Two Chicago residents have been charged in federal court for allegedly using their vehicles to assault and impede federal agents.
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Three people have been charged in federal court in Chicago for allegedly using their vehicles to interfere with the work of federal agents.
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Julie Winters, a 47-year-old resident of Portland, pleaded guilty to felony intimidation of a federal officer and resisting arrest, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon.
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Nicholas John Roske, a 29-year-old from Simi Valley, California, was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for attempting to kill a United States Supreme Court Justice.
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A man appeared in federal court in Portland after being charged with aiming a laser pointer at a Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) helicopter.
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A federal grand jury has charged 14 individuals linked to the transnational criminal organization known as "La V" with drug trafficking, firearms offenses, and money laundering.
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A Portland woman, Katherine Meagan Vogel, 39, appeared in federal court after being charged with assaulting a federal law enforcement officer near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in South Portland.
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A federal complaint was unsealed in Brooklyn charging Elijah Roy, also known as “Eli Spice” and “Swervo,” with crimes related to a mass shooting that occurred on August 17, 2025, at Taste of the City Lounge in Brooklyn.
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Two men have been sentenced to federal prison for distributing fentanyl that led to the overdose death of a 17-year-old boy, according to an announcement from Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Nancy E. Larson.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon, together with the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, has filed a petition to enforce administrative subpoenas directed at four counties in Oregon: Clackamas, Washington,...
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Eileen Marie Hurley, a 71-year-old resident of Sheridan, Wyoming, has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison.
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A woman from California has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for transmitting a threat to a United States District Judge in the Northern District of Texas.
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A federal jury in Memphis has found Mervin Anderson, 40, guilty of possessing contraband while incarcerated at a federal detention center.
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Michael Jason Sanders, a 44-year-old resident of Pryor, Oklahoma, has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
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Three residents of Welch, West Virginia—Terry Headen, Charles “Chuck” Williams, and Taylor Headen—were arrested last week on federal charges alleging their involvement in a methamphetamine distribution network operating in the Western District of...
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A Maryland accountant has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in a scheme that submitted more than $24 million in fraudulent COVID-19 relief loan applications.
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Latvian citizen Oleg Chistyakov, also known as Olegs Čitsjakovs, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. export laws by illegally exporting avionics equipment to Russia and other countries operating Russian-built aircraft.
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DeWayne Allen McGill, a 40-year-old resident of Calhoun, Georgia, has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges including possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, assaulting a federal officer,...
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A Pennsylvania man has been charged with seven counts of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud Alaska’s 2022 Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program.