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Recent News About U.S. Department of Justice
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Three foreign nationals have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic cocaine from Colombia through Honduras and into the United States, according to court documents released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern...
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An Idaho resident has been sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine and fentanyl on the Flathead Indian Reservation, according to an announcement from U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme.
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Joshua Carney, a 32-year-old resident of Wheeling, West Virginia, has pleaded guilty to multiple federal drug charges.
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A Dominican national who has previously been deported twice from the United States is facing a third deportation after being sentenced in federal court for illegal reentry.
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A Jamaican national has been sentenced to six months in prison for illegally reentering the United States after previously being deported.
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A Nicaraguan national, Marco Orlando Vado, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States after previously being removed.
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Tiffany Dawn Shaffer, a 36-year-old resident of Charleston, has pleaded guilty to federal charges of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
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Carlos Sacanell, a 59-year-old resident of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of securities fraud (insider trading) and one count of making a false statement to a federal agency.
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A Hinesville resident has been convicted in federal court for making threatening phone calls to the Department of Veterans Affairs in December 2024.
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A Dallas man has pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition while attempting to board a plane at Louis Armstrong International Airport.
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Jeffry Gabriel Zamora-Pineda, a 33-year-old Honduran national, has been sentenced to time served for unlawful reentry into the United States.
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Hachikosela Muchimba, a former letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service and resident of the District of Columbia, was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison after being convicted for his role in a mail theft and bank fraud scheme that resulted...
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Brandon Turner, 39, was sentenced on August 26, 2025, by United States District Judge Susie Morgan after pleading guilty to three federal charges.
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A Mexican national has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to charges involving the sexual abuse of a minor and explicit communications over social media.
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Demetrius Brown, a 47-year-old inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Oxford, Wisconsin, has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for assaulting a prison guard.
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A Youngstown man has been sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for distributing large quantities of controlled substances, including fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine, in the Youngstown area.
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A Honduran national, Wilmer Antonio Garcia-Aquino, has been sentenced for illegally reentering the United States after being previously removed.
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A Columbia Falls resident, Zachary Matthew Gargasz, 38, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally possessing a firearm.
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A Somerset County resident has pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl and cocaine, resulting in the deaths of four people.
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Jorge Luis Villanueva, a 35-year-old Honduran national, was sentenced on August 14, 2025, for illegal reentry into the United States after having been previously deported.