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Eight individuals associated with the House of Prayer Christian Churches of America (HOPCC) have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Georgia for their alleged involvement in various fraud schemes and tax violations.
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Former New York City Police Department officer Jason Rodriguez has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for his role in a fraudulent investment scheme involving Technical Trading Team LLC, a foreign exchange trading fund.
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Fred Bolden, a 61-year-old resident of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted in federal court to failing to update his sex offender registration after moving from Ohio to West Virginia in 2023.
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Jordan Alston, a 28-year-old Brooklyn resident, was found guilty in federal court of possessing a makeshift knife while incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC).
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A New Orleans man has pleaded guilty to federal drug and weapons charges, according to an announcement from Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson.
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A federal grand jury has indicted Renato Jardines-Santiago, a 37-year-old citizen of Mexico, on a charge of illegal reentry.
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Sandra Pavlock, also known as Sondra L. Pavlock, has pleaded guilty to charges related to a narcotics conspiracy in federal court.
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Jariatu Jalloh, a 39-year-old resident of Maryland, was arraigned on September 8, 2025, facing nine counts each of first-degree fraud and first-degree theft.
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A federal jury has found Deizman Deandre Ellis, 24, of McCalla, Alabama, guilty on five charges related to a conspiracy involving stolen checks.
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A 16th-century Hebrew religious text, known as the Chamisa Humshe Torrah (Five Books of Moses), printed in Venice by Giovanni di Gara in 1588, along with Haftarot from 1589, has been returned to the Jewish Theological Seminary of the University of...
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A New Orleans resident has pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl, according to an announcement from Acting United States Attorney Michael M. Simpson.
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A man from El Salvador, Miguel Angel Ruiz Guevara, 53, has been arrested and charged in Buffalo, New York, with illegal reentry into the United States after having previously been removed following a felony conviction.
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A North Las Vegas man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and five years of supervised release for distributing and possessing with intent to distribute more than 30 pounds of methamphetamine in the Las Vegas area.
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A Providence resident has pleaded guilty in federal court to trafficking cocaine, according to an announcement from Acting United States Attorney Sara Miron Bloom.
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A Mexican national residing in Hampton, Iowa, has been sentenced to over a year in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States after multiple removals.
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Erik Alberto Beal, a 28-year-old resident of Nogales, Arizona, has been sentenced to 32 months in prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to assaulting a federal officer.
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Desmond Waukau, a 22-year-old member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and former resident of Keshena, has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
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A federal jury in Laredo has convicted a 57-year-old Mexican national, Jose Luis Valverde-Ramos, of conspiracy to import at least 50 grams of methamphetamine.
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Leevah Mills, a 25-year-old resident of Philadelphia, has been sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for his involvement in an armed carjacking that occurred in July 2023.
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Federal authorities have charged an Albuquerque man in connection with a significant drug trafficking operation, following an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).