Armored truck heist in Chicago Loop ends with suspect shot and cash recovered
CHICAGO – A 23-year-old man was charged in federal court Friday after allegedly attacking an armored truck driver and stealing a bag of cash during a brazen daylight robbery in the Loop.…
Pensacola Man Pleads Guilty To Purchasing A Firearm For A Convicted Felon
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA – Tavaris East, 42, of Pensacola, Florida, pled guilty to making a false statement to a federally licensed firearms dealer when purchasing a firearm. The plea was announced by Jason…
Ohio Man Pleads Guilty for Unlawfully Stealing Over 712 Seized Bitcoin Subject to Forfeiture in Brother’s Pending Criminal Case
Defendant’s Brother Convicted of Running the Money Laundering Service Helix WASHINGTON – Gary James Harmon, 31, of Cleveland, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to perpetrating a scheme…
Five Narcotics Traffickers Extradited From Curaçao to Face International Cocaine Distribution and Importation Charges
Later today, Jo-Andy Christepher Marie Balentina, Joell Charles Marie Balentina, Sheriann Ann Marie Bryan, Leon George Hall, and Edlyson Reuel Elias Sophia will be arraigned at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on…
Reality Show Cast Member Jennifer Shah Sentenced To 78 Months In Prison For Running Nationwide Telemarketing Fraud Scheme
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JENNIFER SHAH was sentenced today by United States District Judge Sidney H. Stein to 78 months in…
Monroe County Man Sentenced To 25 Years’ Imprisonment For Distributing Controlled Substances Resulting In Death
According to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam, Johnson and Nickas were engaged in a conspiracy to obtain and distribute controlled substances, heroin and fentanyl, for the time beginning January 2020 through…
Detroit Man Sentenced to Serve 30 Years in Federal Prison for a Large Drug Distribution Enterprise Targeting the Spirit Lake, Turtle Mountain and Fort Berthold Indian Reservations
FARGO – United States Attorney Mac Schneider announced that on January 6, 2023, United States District Judge Daniel L. Hovland sentenced 32-year-old Darius Sledge, a/k/a Ace, a/k/a Man Man, a/k/a Frank Love,…
Ex-Correction Officer Charged with Accepting Bribes to Smuggle Contraband into Rikers Island Jail
An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging Karin Robinson, a former correction officer employed by the New York City Department of Correction (DOC), with conspiracy to…
Convicted Felon Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Drug Offenses, and Possessing Three Firearms with Extended Magazines
NEWARK, N.J. – An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 72 months in prison for possessing quantities of heroin and cocaine he intended to distribute, and possessing several firearms, including…
Luzerne County Man Pleads Guilty To Methamphetamine And Fentanyl Trafficking
SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that William Heck, age 41, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on January 5, 2023, before U.S. District Court…
Italian Citizen Pleads Guilty To Multi-Year Manuscript Theft And Impersonation Scheme
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that FILIPPO BERNARDINI pled guilty to one count of wire fraud in connection with a multi-year scheme…
Former Claims Adjuster Pleads Guilty To Assisting Individuals Who Committed Armed Robberies, Shootings, While Dressed As Police Officers
Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Jasmine Weber (28, Tampa) pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act Robbery. Weber faces a maximum penalty of 20 years…
Bylas Man Sentenced to 293 Months for Second Degree Murder
PHOENIX, Ariz. – Marvin Tona, 48, of Bylas, Arizona, was sentenced on December 19, 2022, by United States District Judge Steven P. Logan to 293 months in prison. Tona pleaded guilty to…
Former Bank Manager in Orange County Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud for Stealing $1.2 Million from Elderly Customers’ Account
SANTA ANA, California – A former Orange County-based bank manager pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for stealing $1.2 million in savings from elderly customers by using one the…
Fentanyl Distribution Nets West Texas Man 12 Years in Federal Prison
MIDLAND, Texas – An Odessa man was sentenced yesterday to 151 months in prison for distributing fentanyl. In late 2021, agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) received information that Jesus Arevalo,…
Woman Charged with Threatening to Bomb Democratic Campaign Office Detained During Initial Appearance
MACON, Ga. – A northeast Georgia resident charged with threatening to bomb the Athens-Clarke County Democratic Committee Campaign headquarters in Athens, Georgia, last month and lying to federal investigators was remanded from…
New Orleans Man Pleads Guilty to Violating Federal Gun Control Act
NEW ORLEANS, LA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAEL CRAWFORD, age 27, from New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on January 4, 2023 to being a Felon in Possession of…
Woodbridge Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Narcotics to 14-Year-Old
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Woodbridge man pleaded guilty yesterday to distributing a Schedule II controlled substance to a person under age twenty-one. According to court documents, in April of 2022, Latae’veion Woods,…
Former DSP Trooper Sentenced To Six Months Imprisonment for Civil Rights Violation
WILMINGTON, Del. – David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that former Delaware State Trooper Jamal Merrell, 32, of Newark, was sentenced today to six months in…
Long Island Medical Doctor Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Medicare Billing Fraud Scheme
Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Morris Barnard, a gastroenterologist practicing in Great Neck, New York, was sentenced by United States District Judge Gary R. Brown to 30 months in…
Michigan man indicted for setting fire to nine commercial trailers in New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Brendan Iber, Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol,…
Man sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison in New Mexico truck stop fraud case
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Bruce Beckner was sentenced on Jan. 4 to 17 years and six months in prison.…
Allentown Man Sentenced To 180 Month’s Imprisonment For Possession With Intent To Distribute Fentanyl
SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Shakier Jamean Kingsley, age 31, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday to 180 months’ imprisonment to be…
Westport Investment Advisor Pleads Guilty to Federal Tax Charge
Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joleen D. Simpson, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that THOMAS PACILIO, 64, of…
Digital Advertising Business Owner And Operator Sentenced To Prison For $5 Million Ponzi Scheme
LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas business owner and operator who pleaded guilty to wire fraud was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey to 34 months in prison followed…
Fourteen Firearms to be Forfeited as Convicted Felon Admits to Federal Firearm Charge
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A California man who leaped into the Providence River in a bid to evade arrest pled guilty today in federal court in Providence to a charge of being a…
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