Philadelphia DA says city doesn’t have crisis of crime despite record-breaking year for murder
Philadelphia, PA – Back in November, the city of Philadelphia reported its 500th murder of 2021, surpassing a record set in the city back in …
Philadelphia, PA – Back in November, the city of Philadelphia reported its 500th murder of 2021, surpassing a record set in the city back in …
Philanthropist Jacqueline Avant was killed in her Beverly Hills home on Wednesday, sparking renewed concerns about Los Angeles’ rising violent crime bleeding into wealthy neighborhoods. …
SAN JOSE –Ole Hougen was sentenced to 82 months in prison for committing a federal hate crime in connection with attacking a Black man with …
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A St. Albans man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime. According to court documents, on September 23, 2020, a trooper …
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Marmet man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime. According to statements made in court, Kevin Maurice Crider, 52, of …
CHICAGO — John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today provided an update on federal prosecutions and strategies to …
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A Hurricane man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime. According to court documents, on November 15, 2020, a trooper with …
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dan Bean, 42, of Toledo, Ohio, was sentenced today to three years in prison for a federal drug crime. After completing his …
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A former Columbus man was sentenced today in federal court to six months in prison, a $50,000 fine and one year of …
Gulfport, Miss. – A Jackson County man was sentenced to 120 months in prison for possessing a sawed-off shotgun in furtherance of a drug trafficking …
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Parkersburg man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime. According to court documents and statements made in court, in July …
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Ronald Pleasant, 26, of St. Albans, was sentenced to five years and 11 months in federal prison for distribution of 50 grams …
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Charleston man to pleaded guilty today to a federal drug trafficking crime. According to court documents, Rance McNeil, 46, sold an …
BALTIMORE, MD – A former police officer alleged to have kidnapped his daughters was found dead inside a car with a current Baltimore police sergeant …
PORTLAND, Ore.—On November 15, 2021, the Department of Justice announced that it will award more than $177 million to improve public safety and serve crime …
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN – U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that, as part of a national rollout, the Department of …
BEACHWOOD, NJ – The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office has announced Thomas Jann, 34, of Beachwood, pled guilty to two counts of Robbery in the First …
BREVARD COUNTY, FL – A criminal fugitive out of New York was arrested in Florida after breaking into vehicles owned by Brevard County Sheriff’s Office …
Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that an Okreek, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree …
EUGENE, Ore.—A Springfield, Oregon man has been charged with a federal hate crime after using the internet to target and brutally assault a gay man, …
HARRISBURG –Acting U.S. Attorney Bruce D. Brandler announced that the Department of Justice’s Office of Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) has awarded over $236,000 of …
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A Huntington man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime. According to court documents and statements made in court, on May …
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A Huntington man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime. According to court documents and statements made in court, on February …
NEW YORK CITY, NY – If New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams gets tough on crime, Black Lives Matter leaders say they will once again …
BECKLEY, W.Va. – A Beckley man pleaded guilty to a federal gun crime. According to court documents, Kaine William Durham, 25, was stopped by …
Memphis, TN – Terrion Jones, 20, has been sentenced to 111 months in federal prison for attempted carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime …
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Justin Andrew Beardsley, 33, of Parkersburg, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. …
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Dunbar man was sentenced today to three years and six months in prison for a federal gun crime. David Wayne Watson, …
The president of a motorcycle club involved in a shootout at a Lubbock bar was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison for a …
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Lincoln County man was sentenced today to 15 years and eight months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute …
BROOKLYN, NY – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a man has been convicted of charges of strangulation and assault as hate crimes …
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A Maryland man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime. Edward Sample, 37, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm in furtherance …
MOBILE, AL – A federal judge sentenced a Selma, Alabama man today to 112 months in prison for possessing a firearm while being a previously …
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office …
MACON, Ga. – The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office has been approved to purchase a ballistics tank using money from a Department of Justice Project Safe Neighborhood’s …
A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine pled guilty October 21, 2021, in federal court in Sioux City. Dustin Joe Martinez, 33, from Sutherland, Iowa, …
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that two men have been indicted for attempted murder as a hate crime and …
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – William Edward Byers II, 44, of Charleston, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for prohibited possession of firearms by a …
GREAT FALLS — A Florida man who admitted to trafficking methamphetamine in Great Falls and to transporting $80,000 in stolen ATVs and other property in …
SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY – Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini and Acting Suffolk County Police Commissioner Stuart Cameron announced the indictment of a Selden …
Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska said Tuesday that he expects to be indicted over lying to the FBI about a campaign finance violation, but …
Bryan Babb on October 19, 2021 Violence against law enforcement officials increased dramatically in 2020, according to a Monday FBI press release. Over 60,000 assaults on …
Assistant U. S. Attorneys Connie Wu (619) 546-8592 and Cindy Cipriani (619) 546-9608 NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – October 19, 2021 SAN DIEGO – To address …
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Parkersburg man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for a federal gun crime. According to court documents and statements made …
Seattle – A dozen cities in Western Washington will receive funding from the U.S. Department of Justice for specific community safety needs identified by their …
A woman who distributed fentanyl to a man who overdosed pled guilty on October 14, 2021, in federal court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Emily Ann …
SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on October 15, 2021, Ahmyr Younger, age 19, of Kingston, …
Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Antoinette Thomas (32, Tampa) to three years in federal prison for access device …
Orlando, FL – U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Mikel Wayne Nunnally (44, Longwood) to 60 years in federal prison for using a …
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The United States has reached a settlement with Sayre School (Sayre), a Lexington-based private school, resolving allegations of disability discrimination and taking …