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News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Nov. 2, 2022, John Milton Lee, 63, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced by United States District Judge James A. Soto to 33 months in prison. On May 16, 2022, Lee was convicted by a federal jury of Smuggling Goods from the United States and Impeding and Threatening a Federal Officer.
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News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Ryan Menkins, 37, of Malvern, PA, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge H. Slomsky, for his role in distributing more than 900 pills containing a dangerous fentanyl analogue, a Schedule I controlled substance.
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News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Defendant Dion Oliver was convicted of Stalking, Kidnapping Resulting in Death, and Conspiracy after a 7-day federal trial. As a result of the conviction, Defendant Oliver is facing a sentence of mandatory life in prison.
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News Release: A federal jury convicted a California man yesterday for his role in an approximately $723,000 health care fraud and prescription drug diversion scheme involving two Southern California pharmacies.
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News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Stefanie Marie Wells, 37, of of Jasonville, Indiana, was sentenced today to two years and six months in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release, for bank fraud and aggravated identify theft. Wells was also ordered to pay $10,100 in restitution.
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News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman sentenced Steven Martin Bickling, age 48, of Baltimore, Maryland to 12 years in federal prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for coercion and enticement of a minor to produce child pornography.
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News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 27-year-old man residing in Mission has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession with the intent to distribute nine kilograms of heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
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News Release: GREENSBORO, NC - Two Asheboro men, Deante Tre’Devaughn Cheek (“Cheek") and Amir Joseph Marshall (“Marshall"), pleaded guilty to robbery and firearms charges, announced U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Hairston of the Middle District of North Carolina.
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A Michigan man was sentenced for two criminal cases related to a $5 million extortion plot using shrapnel-filled pipe bombs outside cellphone stores.
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News Release: MACON, Ga. - A former bank loan officer entered a guilty plea in federal court yesterday in an asset misapplication scheme involving $1.2 million dollars.
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News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: A South Georgia man who participated in a widespread drug-trafficking conspiracy and two state prison guards who smuggled drugs behind bars are among the final defendants sentenced to federal prison as a major meth-distribution prosecution comes to a close.
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FY 2023 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Training and Technical Assistance Program grant opened on Nov. 17.
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News Release: HELENA - U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich today announced a grant award of $346,984 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) to a Montana task force that investigates internet crimes against children and the exploitation of children.
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News Release: MACON, Ga. - Federal search warrants were executed at six locations in Bibb County, Georgia, yesterday morning in a joint law enforcement operation involving FBI, Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, Middle Georgia Safe Streets Gang Task Force, GBI Gang Task Force, Bleckley County Sheriff’s Office, Butts County...
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News Release: SIOUX FALLS - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a Yankton, South Dakota, man convicted of Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography was sentenced on Nov. 14, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
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News Release: The Justice Department today announced the appointment of Cynthia M. Ferguson as the Director of the Office of Environmental Justice, where she will lead efforts to engage all Justice Department bureaus, components and offices in the collective pursuit of environmental justice.
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News Release: The first Chinese government intelligence officer ever to be extradited to the United States to stand trial was sentenced today in federal court in Cincinnati.
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News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man was sentenced today to six and a half years in prison for possessing multiple firearms in furtherance of a cocaine-distribution operation.
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News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A Cuban citizen living in Madison, Wisconsin is charged with 3 counts of violating the Migratory Bird Trafficking Act in an indictment returned on Oct. 12, 2022, by a federal grand jury sitting in Madison. The indictment is announced by Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
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News Release: A federal jury convicted a California man yesterday for his role in an approximately $723,000 health care fraud and prescription drug diversion scheme involving two Southern California pharmacies.