Department of Justice Press Releases

BOSTON – A Middleborough man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston in connection with his alleged theft and attempted sale of three firearms from FedEx packages …

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”), …

Baltimore, Maryland – Yesterday U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Travis Joseph Crawford, age 34, of Edgewood, Maryland, to 15 years in federal prison, followed by 25 years …

Tampa, FL – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Robin Castro-Gomez (35, Colombia, South America) and his brother, Alvaro Castro-Gomez (41, Colombia, South America), have pleaded guilty to …

BOSTON – U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins announced today that $642,702 from the civil forfeiture of a Waltham home of two fugitives has been approved for deposit to the United States …

ST. LOUIS – A doctor from Ohio pleaded guilty Monday to three felony charges and admitted accepting $291,000 in kickbacks from telemedicine companies involved in a nationwide fraud scheme.  Despite …

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today intervened in a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by individuals with mobility disabilities against the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Jeffrey Lee Ward Jr., 31, of Bellaire, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to traveling in interstate commerce to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. According to …

Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEAN MANGUAL-CASTRO, 35, of West Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in …

GREAT FALLS — A Browning man suspected of beating another man in the head on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation admitted to an assault charge today, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. …

SHERMAN, Texas – A Denton physician has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. Stanley Charles Evans, 63, …

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Carthage man pleaded guilty in federal court today to sexually exploiting a child from Michigan whom he met online. Charles Ward Kuentzel, 26, pleaded guilty before …

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. – Terry Headen, 47, of Havaco, McDowell County, pleaded guilty today to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. According to court documents and …

MINNEAPOLIS – Two men have been sentenced to prison for stealing more than $2 million from victims of business email compromise and romance fraud schemes, announced United States Attorney Andrew …

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Hopkins man has been sentenced to life in prison for distributing controlled substances, including fentanyl, which resulted in the deaths of eleven people and caused …

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A Columbia man who is a registered sex offender was sentenced in federal court today for sending obscenity to a minor over Skype. Matthew Ray Stone, …

FRESNO, Calif. — Alejandro Galvan-Silvestre, 23, of Bakersfield, was arrested today, charged with knowingly aiming the beam of a laser pointer at Air One, a Kern County Sheriff’s Office helicopter, …

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 27-year-old man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of illegal re-entry into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Edgar …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Five physicians pleaded guilty in connection with prescription practices at HOPE Clinic, a purported pain management clinic that operated in Beckley, Beaver and Charleston, West Virginia, and …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Robert Pierre Duncan, 26, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for a conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a child, sex trafficking of …

PEORIA, Ill. – A Peoria, Illinois, man, DaJuan Edwards-Melton, 21, of the 2100 block of W. Antoinette Street, was sentenced on September 8, 2022, to an aggregate 37 months in …

PEORIA, Ill. – A Peoria, Illinois, woman, Keena Fauntleroy, 29, of the 3400 block of West Oakcrest Drive, was sentenced on September 9, 2022, to 24 months in federal prison …

          LOS ANGELES – A Beverly Hills man was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for attempting to hire a hitman to kill a woman he briefly dated …

          LOS ANGELES – An Orange County man was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for intentionally aiming a laser pointer’s beam at an in-flight Orange County Sheriff’s …

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Dianna Nolan, age 46, formerly of Utica, New York, has been charged by indictment with two counts of filing false income tax returns and 15 counts …