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OAKLAND – Adalberto Borja Guardado pleaded guilty yesterday in Oakland federal court to enticement and coercion of a minor, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Homeland Security Investigations Special…

          LOS ANGELES – A former California Employment Development Department (EDD) employee has agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge for causing nearly 200 fraudulent COVID-related unemployment relief claims to…

Tampa, Florida – Acting United States Attorney Karin Hoppmann announces the extradition of Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev (28, Chernivtsi, Ukraine) in connection with charges of conspiracy, trafficking in unauthorized access devices, and trafficking…

FRESNO, Calif. — Daniel Santos Galaviz, 27, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to unlawfully possessing ammunition after being convicted of a felony crime, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to…

Tampa, Florida – Edgar Hurtado-Ramirez (52, Mexico) today pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder monetary instruments and engage in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity. Hurtado-Ramirez faces a maximum…

FRESNO, Calif. — Jorge Chavez, 36, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and marijuana, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court…

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. – A Galesburg, Illinois, man, Forest “Woody” Norville, 47, was sentenced to twenty years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, on August 10, 2021,…

TUCSON, Ariz. – On September 1, Carlos Antonio Vasquez, 41, of Nogales, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to 30 months in prison. Vasquez previously pleaded guilty to…

          LOS ANGELES – The Mexican leader of a transnational drug trafficking organization arrived here this afternoon after being extradited from Mexico to face federal charges that he conspired to transport cocaine…

ATLANTA – Rashad Sargeant has pleaded guilty to unlawfully exporting firearms to Barbados. Together with co-defendant David Johnson, Sargeant shipped at least 30 guns to Barbados after obliterating the serial numbers of…

McALLEN, Texas – A San Juan man and woman man have entered a guilty plea to conspiring to harbor nearly 100 individuals illegally in the country, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B.…

FRESNO, Calif. — A federal grand jury returned a six-count superseding indictment today adding Josue Morales, 23, to an April 29, 2021, indictment, that charged Madera residents Emilio Hernandez Yesca, 27, and…

FRESNO, Calif. – A federal grand jury has returned a three-count indictment against Andrew Michael Alonso, 31, of Fresno, charging him with sexual exploitation of a minor, receipt of a visual depiction…

A woman who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced on September 2, 2021, in federal court in Sioux City, Iowa. Jennie Kazena, 38, from Sioux City, pled guilty on February 18, 2021,…

Robert Board, age 45, originally from Brownsville, Texas, more recently living in Medalia, Minnesota, pled guilty on April 15, 2021, to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.  He was sentenced to over a dozen…

St. Croix, USVI – U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced that Moises Figueroa, Jr., age 45, of St. Croix, was charged today with Possession of a Firearm on U.S. Postal Service Property…