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NEWARK, N.J. – An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for illegal possession of a firearm and possession of methamphetamine and marijuana, Acting U.S. Attorney…

PORTLAND, Maine: The Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) has awarded over $1 million to the Maine Department of Public Safety to combat violent crimes against women, Acting U.S.…

           CONCORD – Robert Adkins, 34, of Alexandria, was sentenced on Tuesday to 66 months in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer announced today that Travis Shaqwann Fair, 31, of Asheville, has pleaded guilty to illegal possession of a firearm.Fair’s trial was scheduled to begin…

            ALBUQERQUE, N.M. – Brandon Charley, 36, of Prewitt, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty on Sept. 8 to voluntary manslaughter…

NEWARK, N.J. – A Passaic County, New Jersey, man with previous felony convictions today admitted illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced. Keyron Greene, 34, of…

PLANO, Texas – A Mexican national and high-ranking member of the Los Zetas cartel received a life sentence for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney…

DENVER – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Ronald Allen Grace Jr., age 54, of Arvada, was sentenced to 3 years in federal prison for possessing an unregistered silencer. According to the plea agreement, federal law…

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – On September 9, 2021, Robert Harrison Blevins, 54, of Jonesborough, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Clifton L. Corker, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District…

Forty defendants – including 15 arrested in Wednesday’s “Operation Taste the Rainbow” in Lubbock – have been charged with gun and drug crimes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah. The men and…

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Two Las Vegas residents — Norbert Ozemena Ikwuegbundo (28) and Omniyi Jonathan Omotere (35), both citizens of Nigeria — have been indicted for defrauding people seeking to rent…

NEWARK, N.J. – Two New Jersey men admitted to drug distribution charges in connection conspiring to distribute cocaine base and distributing fentanyl and cocaine base, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced…

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Red Lake man pleaded guilty today to illegally possessing a firearm as a felon and possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl, announced Acting U.S.…

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – A federal prison inmate was sentenced today to an additional six years and three months in prison for conspiring with his brother to defraud the IRS as part…

PITTSBURGH, PA- A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh has returned two separate, but related, Indictments following a four-month Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking and violence in and around the Hazelwood…

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett Dehart announced today that a joint team of dozens of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers, led by the U.S.…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Lexington man, Marquis Antonio Tompkins, 42, was sentenced on Friday, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves, to 336 months (28 years) in prison, followed by 6…