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Recent News About U.S. Department of Justice
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After three days of testimony, a federal jury has convicted a Birmingham woman on kidnapping related charges in connection to the 2019 abduction and death of three-year-old Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney.
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Dion Oliver has been found guilty for his part in the June 2017 shootings that killed a Newark woman and permanently injured a six-year-old boy.
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A former loan officer at SunMark Community Bank in Bonaire, Ga., pleaded guilty to charges related to a $1.2 million asset misapplication scheme.
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A Russian and Canadian national is being charged for his alleged participation in the LockBit global ransomware campaign.
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A Kansas City-area pediatrician pleaded guilty for his part in a Medicare fraud scheme that involved more than 1,000 patients.
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A Michigan man was sentenced for two criminal cases related to a $5 million extortion plot using shrapnel-filled pipe bombs outside cellphone stores.
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A formerly famous Instagram influencer known as Jay Mazini pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering.
- Garland: ‘Nationwide takedown of a multimillion-dollar catalytic converter theft network’ arrests 21
Leaders and associates of a nationwide catalytic converter theft ring were arrested and/or charged during a nationwide, coordinated takedown Nov. 2.
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Five members of La Mara Salvatrucha, the transnational street gang known as MS-13, received life in prison for kidnapping and murdering two teenage boys in 2016.
- Estes: 'Our communities are safer with these gun-carrying meth merchants off the streets' in Georgia
The last of 21 defendants in a drug trafficking conspiracy in a crime ring that distributed methamphetamine and other drugs in Georgia pleaded guilty to their crimes.
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Three Michigan men pleaded guilty for their roles in staging the armed robbery of a courier van carrying more than $1.2 million.
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Law enforcement personnel at all levels of government executed a national, coordinated takedown of leaders and associates of a national network of thieves, dealers and processors for their roles in conspiracies involving the theft and resale of catalytic converters for tens of millions of dollars.
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A Massachusetts man was recently sentenced for the unlawful possession of firearms, resulting from his illegal dealing of rifles and handguns.
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A federal jury found an Oklahoma man guilty of shooting his girlfriend when she tried to break up with him in 2021.
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Eleven people were arrested in Washington and California in connection with cartel-connected drug trafficking schemes from Mexico across the border and up I-5 to the Pacific Northwest.
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Two men were sentenced to prison time for kidnapping charges in the abduction of a teenagers from northeast Philadelphia to New Jersey in June 2021.
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An New Mexico felon was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in prison for the 2020 shooting of an FBI agent.
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Five Russian nationals and two oil traders are charged in a global sanctions evasion and money laundering scheme.
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A Georgia co-owner of multiple bars and a restaurant pleaded guilty to tax evasion.
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The son of a murder victim and his co-conspirator were convicted of a murder-for-hire committed at a McDonald's drive-thru.