U.S. Department of Justice
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Recent News About U.S. Department of Justice
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Adetomiwa Seun Akindele, a 37-year-old Nigerian national who had been living in Minnesota, has been sentenced to 71 months in federal prison for defrauding a Colorado woman through an online romance scam.
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A Minnesota resident, Jay Anthony Tapper, has been sentenced to nine months in federal prison for harboring a fugitive.
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Two Honduran nationals, Elvis Trujillo, 27, and Yeferson Vallecillo Cambar, 23, have been extradited to the United States from Honduras to face racketeering charges.
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Dekoda Scott Clark, 32, of Tell City, Indiana, has been sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison for bank theft and access device fraud after stealing over $158,000 from customer accounts while working as a Relationship Banker at a bank...
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A Sioux Falls man, Boru Guye Wako, Jr., has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for possessing a firearm illegally. U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier handed down the sentence on September 15, 2025.
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Robert Williams, 57, of Indianapolis, has been sentenced to 29 years in federal prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to six counts of interference with commerce by robbery, three counts of brandishing a firearm during...
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A Davenport man, David Anthony Tumea, has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography.
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A third man from Trumbull County has been indicted on firearms charges related to an August 3 shooting at a convenience store in Warren, Ohio, which resulted in one death and another person injured.
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An Ecuadorian national living unlawfully in Lawrence, Massachusetts, has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
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A former deportation officer with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for laundering drug proceeds.
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A Montgomery County woman has pleaded guilty to charges related to a scheme that defrauded the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of more than $1.5 million in disaster relief funds following Hurricane Ida.
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A federal grand jury in Charleston has indicted Ala Aldeen Alshaikh, a 31-year-old resident of Goose Creek, on four counts related to lying about his connections to ISIS and obstructing a federal investigation.
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Two Pennsylvania men have been indicted for allegedly defrauding the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program of nearly $220,000.
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Lisa Evans, a 43-year-old resident of Olive Branch, Mississippi, has been sentenced to federal prison for defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of more than $5 million.
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A North Platte man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy.
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Darius Robertson, 32, from the District of Columbia, has been sentenced to 46 months in prison for leading a scheme to smuggle weapons, fentanyl, and cell phones into the Central Detention Facility (CDF) while awaiting trial for murder.
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Leroy T. McNamara, 62, of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
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A federal grand jury has indicted Diego Masiel Torres, 19, of Penitas, Texas, on charges of impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement agents.
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Two men from Lawrence, Massachusetts, have been charged in connection with an alleged drug manufacturing operation.
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A Henderson, Nevada man appeared in court on September 10, 2025, to face charges related to the alleged smuggling and distribution of misbranded prescription drugs containing sildenafil and tadalafil.