News from February 2025

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
Jason Travis Shook, a 42-year-old resident of Conover, North Carolina, has been sentenced to 210 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for drug and gun charges.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
Terry Randall Hinkle, a 56-year-old resident of Delbarton, West Virginia, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for receiving child pornography.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
Ezra Griffith, a 34-year-old from Washington D.C., was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for unlawful possession of a loaded firearm on a District playground.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
A Sioux Falls man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for the production of child pornography. U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange delivered the sentence on February 7, 2025, following a guilty plea from Len Homelvig, age 55.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
Marc H. Silverman, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, has announced that Joshuwa Diaz, a 34-year-old resident of New Haven, entered a guilty plea in a narcotics trafficking case.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
Six individuals involved in a scheme to defraud the United States through pandemic unemployment benefits have been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, Virginia.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
Federal authorities have announced charges against Daniel Sikkema, a Manhattan resident, in connection with a murder-for-hire plot that led to the death of his husband in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
Aaron Michael Correia, a 38-year-old resident of San Joaquin County, has been sentenced to five years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
Jason Edward Lewis, a 48-year-old resident of Kenefic, Oklahoma, has pleaded guilty to one count of assault with intent to commit murder in Indian Country.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
Edgar Castro, a 40-year-old resident of Marysville, has been arrested and charged with assaulting a federal employee.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
Willie Mills, a 31-year-old resident of Schenectady, New York, has pleaded guilty to charges related to firearm possession and drug distribution.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
A Raleigh man, Cory Sean Heard, has been sentenced to 152 months in prison following his guilty plea to charges including wire fraud, conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin, and possession of a firearm in...

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Progreso International Bridge have apprehended a teenager from Monte Alto, Texas, who was wanted on an outstanding felony warrant for sexual assault of a child.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
A Houston man has pleaded guilty to laundering money from a significant bank fraud scheme, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
A woman from Somerset County, New Jersey, has been arrested and charged with bank robbery, according to an announcement by Acting U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
An Albuquerque man has been sentenced to over 20 years in federal prison for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
The owner of a Vancouver, Washington-based tax preparation business has been sentenced to nine months in prison for tax fraud.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Cincinnati port intercepted two shipments on February 7 containing the illegal substance tianeptine.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
A federal grand jury has indicted four men from Brockton, Massachusetts, in connection with a shootout that resulted in a woman being shot in the chest.

By Federal Newswire | Feb 11, 2025
A firefighter with the Department of Veterans Affairs has admitted to engaging in a scheme to commit workers' compensation fraud, according to an announcement by U.S. Attorney John Giordano.