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News Release: Yesterday, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta and Director Karhlton F. Moore of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) met with judicial leaders and criminal justice professionals in Miami to discuss responses to mental health issues in the justice system. Associate Attorney General Gupta and Director ...
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News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Denise Johnson, 25, of Beckley, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to travel interstate with the intent to engage in dealing firearms without a license while Terri Lawhorn, 28, of Fayetteville, was sentenced today to two years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release...
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News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former resident of Clearfield, PA pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court in Johnstown on charges of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
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News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS SALAMAN, JR., also known as “J," “Lou Benz," “Louie Benz" and “Benz," 20, of East Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
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News Release: The owner of a Sergeant Bluff, Iowa construction firm pleaded guilty Nov. 16, 2022, to tax evasion for evading payment of his company’s employment taxes.
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News Release: PIERRE - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child and one count of Witness Tampering was sentenced on Nov. 14, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
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News Release: For the first time, a Mexican court has invoked its new civil forfeiture law to authorize the forfeiture of real property located in and around Guadalajara, Mexico pursuant to a request for mutual legal assistance from the United States. The forfeiture represents the United States’ groundbreaking use...
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News Release: PIERRE - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of First Degree Murder and Use of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence that Causes Death was sentenced on Nov. 14, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
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News Release: PIERRE - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm.
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News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 12-count indictment today against Darrell Anderson, 50, and Ricky Phienemanh, 35, both of Olivehurst, charging them with conspiracy to distribute heroin and methamphetamine, distribution of methamphetamine, distribution of heroin, and possession with intent to distribute heroin, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
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News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced that Tom Tso was arraigned on Nov. 15 on an indictment charging him with sexual abuse. Tso, 84, of Tse Bonito, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, will remain at a halfway house on conditions of release pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
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News Release: MIDLAND, Texas - A Guatemalan national man was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for immigration crimes.
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News Release: The Department of Justice, in close coordination with the Department of Education, announced today a new process for handling cases in which individuals seek to discharge their federal student loans in bankruptcy. The new process will help ensure consistent treatment of the discharge of federal student ...
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News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Thomas Moore, of Hagerstown, Maryland, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
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News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Wayne Myers, age 32, of Albany, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for distributing and conspiring to distribute cocaine, cocaine base, methamphetamine, and amphetamine.
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News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CORNEL MARTIN, SR. (“MARTIN"), age 61, of Thibodaux, Louisiana, was charged on Nov. 17, 2022, with failing to account for and pay over federal income taxes and Federal Insurance Contributions Act (“FICA") taxes, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7202.
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News Release: LONDON, Ky.- An Albany, Ky., man, Jeremy Lynch, 42, was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
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News Release: A federal jury convicted Michigan attorney Carl L. Collins, III on Nov. 16 of willfully filing five false tax returns for himself and one of his businesses.
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News Release: BOSTON - A Michigan man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his involvement in a fraudulent scheme to obtain COVID-19-related unemployment assistance and small business loans in 12 different states.