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News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that COLBI TRENT DEFIORE, age 30, a resident of Carriere, Mississippi, pleaded guilty as charged on November 16. 2022 before United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance after previously being charged with attempted transfer of obscene matter to a minor, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1470.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Donnell Peterson, 46, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to a 14-month prison term for assaulting a woman last summer at a lounge in Southeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
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News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Browning man accused of beating a man in the head with a claw hammer admitted to an assault charge on Nov.16, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said today.
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News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former resident of Indiana, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to a total of 108 months in prison followed by 4 years of supervised release on her convictions of possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl, and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
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News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Seventeen individuals were indicted federally, with most being arrested, following an intensive violent crime initiative on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. The charges filed in this investigation include arson, aggravated assault, firearms violations, domestic violence assaults, assault against an officer, child abuse, sexual assault, kidnapping, manslaughter, and murder.
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News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - Three individuals involved in an illegal drug ring responsible for distributing approximately ten kilograms of methamphetamine in Southwest Georgia were sentenced to prison today for their crimes.
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News Release: A Louisiana man was sentenced yesterday to 12 months and one day in prison for possessing dogs for the purpose of using them in an animal fighting venture.
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News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang today sentenced Edward T. Buford III, age 70, of Silver Spring, Maryland, to 30 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and healthcare fraud. Judge Chuang also ordered Buford to pay $1,267,630 in restitution.
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News Release: The Bureau of Justice Statistics is announcing its report on. Of note, an estimated 21% of U.S. residents age 16 or older (about 53.8 million persons) reported experiencing contact with police during the past 12 months in 2020, down from 24% in 2018. Approximately 10% of residents had experienced contact...
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News Release: MISSOULA - A Butte man who robbed at gunpoint three business in three cities in five days was sentenced today to 13 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
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News Release: HOUSTON - Two local men have been ordered to federal prison for their roles in two Houston-area robberies, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
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News Release: FBI Media Alert: Armed Man Wearing Sunglasses, Beanie Robs Albuquerque Bank.
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News Release: This week, the Human Rights Campaign announced in its annual report that at least 32 transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed in the United States in 2022 - “at least" because transgender victims may be misgendered in news or police reports, and deaths of transgender people often go unreported. The report described the victims as “overwhelmingly Black, under 35 and killed with a firearm" with trans women disproportionately at risk.
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News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Blaine man has been arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint for illegal possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
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News Release: PROVIDENCE - A former employee of the Department of Veteran Affairs, Veteran Benefits Administration Regional Office (VARO) in Providence has been charged by way of a federal criminal complaint with retaliating against a federal official by threatening, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
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News Release: A California couple who fled to Montenegro to avoid serving lengthy prison sentences has been returned to the United States after approximately one year and two months as fugitives.
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Davenport man, George Winston Taylor, was sentenced on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, to 260 months in prison for Receiving Child Pornography. Taylor was also ordered to pay $48,000 in restitution. Following his imprisonment, Taylor was ordered to serve five years of supervised release.
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The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dary T. Son, age 36, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to failing to collect and pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.
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Theodore L. Snow, III, age 39 of Council Bluffs, was sentenced on Friday, October 28, 2022, to 130 months in prison following his plea of guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. Snow will be on supervised release for five years after his release from imprisonment
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An Iowa City man and India native, Sameer Chandulal Patel, age 30, was sentenced on Friday, October 28, 2022, to 210 months in prison for receipt and distribution of child pornography.