Maryland man pleads guilty to $1.5M COVID fraud and drug-trafficking crimes involving machine guns and marijuana
GREENBELT, MD – A 33-year-old Temple Hills man admitted in federal court to a wide-ranging scheme that combined pandemic unemployment fraud with firearms and drug-trafficking offenses, including possessing a machine gun and…
State Grand Jury issues Indictments against Richard Alexander Murdaugh for Breach of Trust, Obtaining Property by False Pretenses, Money Laundering, Computer Crimes, and Forgery
(COLUMBIA, SC) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced today that South Carolina State Grand Jury issued five indictments, totaling 27 counts, against suspended attorney Richard Alexander Murdaugh. These indictments charge…
Charleston, S.C., man admits sex trafficking, cocaine crimes stemming from scheme to coerce women and girls into prostitution
BILLINGS – A Charleston, South Carolina, man accused in a large sex trafficking scheme of coercing women and girls into prostitution for him in Montana and other states admitted to charges today,…
Rome Business Owners Found Guilty of Tax Crimes
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – A federal trial jury in Utica convicted a Rome, New York couple and their son today for conspiring to defraud the United States and for tax evasion, announced…
United States Attorney’s Office District of Arizona October 2021 Immigration and Border Crimes Report
I. Illegal Reentry After Deportation (8 U.S.C. 1326) 289 individuals were charged in October with illegal reentry A. 217 of those 289 individuals had previously been convicted of non-immigration criminal offenses in…
Dothan Man Sentenced to More Than 15 Years in Prison for Federal Gun and Drug Crimes
Montgomery, Alabama – On November 9, 2021, Jimmy Lamar Berry, 36, from Dothan, Alabama, was sentenced to 188 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release,…
Jury convicts Chinese official of espionage crimes, attempting to steal trade secrets from Cincinnati company
CINCINNATI – The first Chinese intelligence agent ever to be extradited to the United States to stand trial was convicted today by a federal jury in Cincinnati. Yanjun Xu was found…
Bonifay Doctor Pleads Guilty To Federal Income Tax Crimes
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA – Ahmad T. Ismail, 70, of Bonifay, Florida, pled guilty on Wednesday to the subscription and transmission of multiple fraudulent federal income tax returns, announced Jason R. Coody, Acting United…
Nightclub Magnate Convicted of Drug Crimes
A DFW nightclub magnate and two of his managers have been convicted of operating an empire of clubs in which drugs were sold openly, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District…
Acting U.S. Attorney Chase Announces the Arrest of Three Beulah, ND, Men for Committing Financial Crimes While Employed at North Dakota Banks
BISMARCK – Acting United States Attorney Nick Chase announced that a federal grand jury has indicted Brady Daniel Torgerson, age 34; Brent D. Torgerson, age 60; and Kelly M. Huffman, age 32,…
Nine Defendants Charged with Drug Trafficking and Firearms Crimes after Joint Federal, State, and Local Operation
Florence, South Carolina — Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett Dehart announced today that a joint team of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers arrested eight individuals who have all been…
Gangster Disciples Enforcer and Hitman Convicted of RICO Murder, Killing Witness, and Other Violent Crimes
A federal jury convicted a Tennessee man today on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) charges, including murder in aid of racketeering activity, stemming from his participation in a violent, criminal…
Gangster Disciples Enforcer And Hitman Convicted Of RICO Murder, Killing Witness, And Other Violent Crimes
NASHVILLE – Following a two-week jury trial in U.S. District Court, a federal jury today convicted Brandon Durell Hardison, aka Creep, aka Creeper da Reeper, a member of the Gangster Disciples, of…
Mansfield Man Previously Convicted of Domestic Violence Crimes Sentenced for Illegal Possession of a Firearm
SHREVEPORT, La. – Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Mansfield man who was convicted by a jury earlier this year of illegally possessing a firearm was sentenced…
Oakland Oral Surgeon Sentenced To 16 Years In Federal Prison For Multiple Child Sex Crimes
SAN FRANCISCO – Cassidy Migan Lavorini-Doyle was sentenced today in federal court to 192 months (16 years) in prison for his convictions of attempted sex trafficking of a child, attempted production of…
Miami Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Possession of Firearms in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking Crimes
A Miami, Oklahoma, man was sentenced Monday for possessing firearms as part of a methamphetamine distribution operation. U.S. District Judge Claire V. Eagan sentenced Kenneth Dean Rosenberg, 38, to 60 months in…
Three Defendants Sentenced for Federal Drug and Firearms Crimes
LAFAYETTE, La. – Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that United States District Judge James D. Cain, Jr. sentenced three defendants to time in federal prison for federal crimes…
14 Defendants Charged with Drug Trafficking Conspiracy and Related Crimes in Racine, Wisconsin, and Elsewhere
Richard G. Frohling, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on October 20, 2021, a federal indictment was unsealed that charged thirteen Racine-area individuals with conspiracy to…
Parkersburg Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Gun and Drug Crimes
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Jonathan Ray Sindledecker, 40, of Parkersburg, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for prohibited possession of a firearm by a felon and possession with intent to distribute…
14 Defendants Charged with Drug Trafficking Conspiracy and Related Crimes in Racine, Wisconsin, and Elsewhere
Richard G. Frohling, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on October 20, 2021, a federal indictment was unsealed that charged thirteen Racine-area individuals with conspiracy to…
CBP Officers at Hidalgo International Bridge Arrest Two Fugitives Wanted on Sex Crimes
HIDALGO, Texas—U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Hidalgo International Bridge apprehended David Michael King, a male U.S. citizen and resident of Missouri and Christopher Colin, a…
Charleston Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Crimes
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Charleston man pleaded guilty today to two counts of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. According to statements made in court, Terrence Ramsey, 36, admitted that on November…
Beckley Woman Pleads Guilty to Federal Gun Crimes
BECKLEY, W.Va. – Cayla Danielle Lindsay, 28, of Beckley, pleaded guilty today to using and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime and to being a felon in possession…
Convicted Sex Offender Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Child Exploitation Crimes
BOWLING GREEN, KY – Barret Lawrence, 39, of Franklin, Kentucky, was sentenced by United States Chief District Judge Greg N. Stivers today to 15 years in prison followed by a life term…
Helena man sentenced to 10 years in prison for meth trafficking, firearm crimes
GREAT FALLS — A Helena man who admitted to trafficking methamphetamine and to possessing a stolen gun was sentenced today to 10 years in prison to be followed by four years of…
Seven-Time Felon Who Possessed Firearm and Crack Pleads Guilty to Federal Crimes
A man who illegally possessed a firearm and possessed crack cocaine he intended to distribute pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Patrick Green, age 50, from Dubuque, Iowa, was…
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