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News Release: BOSTON - A Stoughton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for firearm offenses.
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News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Frank A. Tarentino III, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Drug Enforcement...
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News Release: BOSTON - The former Chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and the owner of an architecture-and-design firm in Providence, R.I. were sentenced today for bribery relating to the Tribe’s plans to build a resort and casino in Taunton, Mass.
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News Release: DETROIT - A Royal Oak man who repeatedly abused underage girls was sentenced to eleven years in federal prison for coercing and enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and for receiving child pornography, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
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News Release: A jury in the District of Columbia found former D.C. Metro Transit Police Officer Andra Vance, 48, guilty today of a civil rights violation for his unlawful beating of an unarmed transit rider with a metal baton without legal justification on Feb. 16, 2018.
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News Release: MIAMI - Members of an international primate smuggling ring have been charged with multiple felonies for their role in bringing wild long-tailed macaques into the United States.
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News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Chris Oliver, 24, of Gilbert, Arizona, was sentenced on Oct. 17, 2022, by United States District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 33 months in prison. Oliver previously pleaded guilty to Dealing in Firearms Without a License.
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News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg and FBI Special Agent in Charge David Walker announce that the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office has been presented with a Child Protection Award for its role in investigating more than 100 cases that have resulted in successful federal prosecutions of child exploitation offenses as part of the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood initiative.
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News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Will Thompson will join Mission West Virginia and other officials to help celebrate National Adoption Month on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, at 11 a.m. at Bible Center Church.
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News Release: A second attorney and two tax professionals have been indicted in the $1 billion Garza tax shelter scheme, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division Stuart Goldberg.
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News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jordan Anderson, age 27, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary, Canaan, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Nov. 15, 2022, by a federal grand jury for assaulting another inmate and possessing contraband in prison.
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News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A Burke County man faces decades in prison after admitting he coerced a child to produce sexually explicit images.
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News Release: MARTINSBURG WEST VIRGINIA - A Maryland man and a West Virginia woman are charged with working together to sell fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine for nearly two years in the Eastern Panhandle, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
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News Release: HOUSTON - A tax preparer is set to appear in court on charges of preparing a false joint income tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
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News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - Federal search warrants were executed at 13 locations in Cook and Tift Counties this morning in a joint law enforcement operation involving FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, GBI, Cook Co. Sheriff’s Office, Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office, Adel Police Department and Hahira Police Department.
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News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jeffrey Scott Hedges, 51, of Huntington Beach, was sentenced today to three years and 10 months in prison for committing wire fraud and money laundering in a scheme to defraud customers of his classic car business, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
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News Release: Seattle - A 48-year-old Bremerton, Washington man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 9 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour noted that it was Wood’s...
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News Release: Natchez, Miss. - A Vidalia, Louisiana man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette, III, to 14 months in federal prison for his participation in an interstate drug trafficking operation distributing kilogram quantities of illegal drugs in the Natchez area from 2016 through 2018, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Today, Nathan Alan Westbrook, a 44-year-old resident of Daleville, Alabama, received a 130-month prison sentence for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart.
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News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Drexel, Mo., man who shot at law enforcement officers while fleeing from a failed bank robbery was sentenced in federal court today.