Press Release

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging Luis Rodríguez Cruz and Jason Morales de Jesús with firearms trafficking, sending and receiving firearms from out of…

Mascoutah, Ill. – The former water treatment manager for the City of Mascoutah has been sentenced for accepting illegal gratuities. Richard Lowell Jones, 60, of Troy, Illinois, was sentenced to 3 years’…

Metropolis, Ill. – Shawn Nowlin, 55, of Metropolis, Illinois, has been sentenced to one year in prison for assisting in the preparation of false federal tax returns. Court records show that Nowlin…

BANGOR, Maine: A Sidney man pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to making false statements with respect to work on a federally approved highway project, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.…

          GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN —United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that on June 10, 2021, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against three defendants following a four-day…

PITTSBURGH – A former supervisor for the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority has been charged in federal court with conspiring to violate the Clean Water Act, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R.…

FRESNO, Calif. — Jose Mario Quintero Beltran, 31, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to possessing with the intent to distribute fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According…

Seattle –The U.S. Department of Justice and Whatcom County have reached agreements to ensure individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing are able to effectively communicate during encounters with the criminal…

SAVANNAH, GA:  Seven defendants face felony firearms charges after indictments by a U.S. District Court grand jury in the Southern District of Georgia.  The cases are being investigated in collaboration with federal,…

SCRANTON—The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Manual Luna-Batista, 39, of Hazleton, Luzerne County was sentenced on Thursday, June 10, 2021 to 130 months’ imprisonment by…

            ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – James Darius Caje, 27, of Mescalero, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, pleaded guilty on June 10 in federal court to sexual abuse…

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont announced that Daniel Chase, 60, of Weathersfield, VT, pleaded not guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to charges that…

WILMINGTON, Del. – A Claymont, Delaware man was sentenced today to over 10 years in federal prison for possessing fake oxycodone pills containing fentanyl with intent to distribute.  According to court documents,…

NEWARK, N.J. – An Indiana man was convicted on all counts today in connection with a plot to pay a purported hitman to kill his estranged wife, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A.…

           ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Mundo Barela, 19, of Mescalero, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, was sentenced in federal court on June 8…

ANCHORAGE – In a first for Alaska, the Curyung Tribal Council of Dillingham and the Native Village of Unalakleet unanimously approved their Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Tribal Community Response Plans…

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Chad A. Worthington, age 43, of Ellisburg, New York, pled guilty today in federal court in Syracuse to one felony count of failing to register and update his registration…

Hagatña, Guam – SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Marites M. Barrogo, age 47 from Dededo, Guam was sentenced in…

Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman who pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on June 4, 2021, by…