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Recent News About U.S. Department of Justice
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Eight individuals are being charged in a drug conspiracy after an indictment was unsealed Jan. 12.
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Anyone who would like to nominate someone — even themselves — to be part of the FBI's Jacksonville, Fla., field office's 2023 Citizens Academy have until the end of January.
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More than 70 people allegedly associated with the Ghost Face Gangsters criminal street gang have been named in a recently unsealed federal indictment that authorities are calling the "largest ever in the Southern District of Georgia."
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A San Antonio man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for receiving child sexual abuse material, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation remains "committed to finding, investigating and bringing to justice those responsible for" the Jan. 6, 2021, violence at the U.S. Capitol.
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A Tampa man was recently sentenced in federal court for his part in elder fraud schemes.
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Two men have been charged in Washington state in connection to the Christmas Day attacks on power substations that resulted in thousands of people losing power and millions of dollars in damage.
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Three Wisconsin residents have been charged in the Dec. 9, 2022, murder of an on-duty U.S. Postal Service letter carrier.
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A federal grand jury recently indicted six Baltimore men on violent racketeering enterprise charges as members of the Black Guerilla Family.
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Virginia's Eastern District announced hundreds of illegal firearm forfeitures over the past year.
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The FBI issued a public safety alert following an increase in "financial sextortion" schemes targeting minors.
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld James Michael Wells' October 2019 murder convictions in the killings of Coast Guard Electrician's Mate First Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Boatswain's Mate Richard Belisle.
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A Georgia man, formerly of New York, was sentenced to 244 months in prison for a nationwide Ponzi scheme and trying to sell false N95 masks during the pandemic.
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A career criminal with multiple convictions for drug trafficking is headed to prison for more than a decade after he was apprehended with methamphetamine following a car crash.
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The underboss of a Philadelphia mafia family has been sentenced to five years in prison for leading a racketeering conspiracy that engaged in loansharking, gambling and extortion.
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A former corrections officer at Green Haven Correctional Facility and his supervisor face charges of assaulting an inmate, then falsifying reports to cover up the incident.
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A former stockbroker was sentenced to 10 years in prison for participating in a conspiracy to manipulate the price of shares in publicly traded companies.
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The Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance announced the 67 fellows selected to participate in the inaugural class of the Reaching Rural: Advancing Collaborative Solutions initiative.
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics is announcing the release of statistical tables on Jail Inmates in 2021 and Prisoners in 2021. Of note, the two incarcerated populations diverged in 2021, with the number of persons held in local jails increasing by 16% from 2020, while the number of persons in prison decreased 1%. Both populations decreased from 2019 to 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, today released Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2020.