Ex-NASA employees admit to luxury home mortgage fraud scheme
HOUSTON – A Missouri City couple who once worked at NASA admitted Friday to running a years-long mortgage fraud scheme tied to the financing of their luxury home, federal prosecutors said. Noreen…
Toronto Man Extradited for Leadership Role in Racketeering Conspiracy, Operating Dozens of Illegal Asian Brothels in Three Countries
PORTLAND, Ore.—A Canadian man was extradited to the United States and arraigned in federal court today for his leadership role in an international sex trafficking organization operating illegal Asian brothels in the…
Informational: Federal Court arraignments
The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The…
Texas Man Indicted for Leadership Role in Multi-State Marijuana Trafficking Organization
PORTLAND, Ore.—A Houston, Texas man has been indicted for his leadership role in a conspiracy to traffic large quantities of marijuana illegally grown in Oregon for redistribution and sale in other states.…
Seventeen Charged With Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering in St. George, Utah
ST. GEORGE, UTAH – A recently unsealed 24 count indictment issued by a grand jury in the District of Utah charges 17 individuals for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to distribute…
Former Pittsburgh Resident Pleads Guilty and Is Sentenced to 12 Years’ Imprisonment for Narcotics Offense and Bribery of a Corrections Officer While Detained at the Indiana County Jail
PITTSBURGH, PA – A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court on charges of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, conspiracy, and bribery of a…
Springfield Man Pleads Guilty to Drug and Firearm Charges
BOSTON – A Springfield man pleaded guilty on Feb. 16, 2022, in federal court in Worcester to drug and firearm offenses. Lavon Pemberton, 34, pleaded guilty to one count of being a…
Indictment Charges Former State Rep, 3 Others, with Stealing West Haven’s COVID Relief Funds
Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Christina D. Scaringi,…
Armed Career Criminal Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Illegal Firearm Possession
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A federal judge today sentenced an armed career criminal to 15 years in prison for illegal possession a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
Indicted Man Charged with Firearm ‘Lie and Try’
A Dallas man has been charged with lying during two attempted firearms purchases, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham. Steven Royal, 29, was indicted this week…
Crystal Methamphetamine Dealer Sentenced to 5 years in Federal Prison
You are here FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, February 18, 2022 East St. Louis, Ill. – Demarko Hines, 50, of Cahokia Heights, Illinois, was sentenced today to five years federal prison for distributing crystal…
Three Men Plead Guilty in 2020 Slaying of 11-Year-Old Boy
WASHINGTON – Three men, all from Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to a charge of voluntary manslaughter while armed in the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old…
Reading Man Sentenced for Role in Meth Trafficking Conspiracy
BOSTON – A Reading man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a conspiracy to distribute meth in and around the Boston area. Aaron Smith, 34, was…
South Bay Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Creating Child Sexual Abuse Material of Young Children and Engaging in a Child Exploitation Enterprise
LOS ANGELES – A Hawthorne man was sentenced today to life without parole in federal prison for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, as well as creating child sexual abuse material…
San Diego Man Indicted for Sale of Ghost Guns, Possession of Homemade Machine Gun, and Distribution of Fentanyl
NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – February 18, 2022 SAN DIEGO – Gavin Michael Adcock of San Diego appeared in federal court today in connection with a grand jury indictment charging him with the…
Felon Subject to a No-Contact Order Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Possessing a Firearm
A man who unlawfully possessed a firearm was sentenced today to six years in federal prison. Donald Hunt, Jr., age 32, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after a July…
Southwest Georgia Man Pleads Guilty to Gun Store Thefts
ALBANY, Ga. – A Southwest Georgia resident has admitted that he broke into two Cordele, Georgia, gun stores, stealing multiple firearms and weapons, then selling or distributing the firearms in the community.…
Oregon Department of Human Services Employee Indicted for Sexual Misconduct and Kidnapping a Woman with Developmental Disabilities
PORTLAND, Ore.— A federal grand jury in Portland returned an indictment today charging an Oregon Department of Human Services employee with kidnapping a woman with significant disabilities in his care, driving her…
United States Obtains Consent Judgement And Permanent Injunction In Civil Case Against Two Clay County Pharmacists
NASHVILLE – In a settlement reached this week, two former Clay County, Tennessee, pharmacists have been barred from dispensing controlled substances for the better part of the next two decades, announced U.S.…
Philadelphia Woman Sentenced to Over One Year in Prison for Straw Purchasing Three Firearms in Montgomery County for Her Boyfriend
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Brihany Baker, 25, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, and two years of supervised release…
Two Defendants Sentenced in U.S. District Court
ALEXANDRIA, La. – United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that two defendants were sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Dee D. Drell in two separate cases. Gregory Leonard Jones, Jr.,…
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