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Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OCTAVIO RAZON-MEJIA, also known as “Pachas,” 37, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Enfield, was sentenced …

PLANO, Texas – A Laredo man pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas on the day his jury trial was set to begin, announced …

EL PASO, Texas – A New Mexico man was sentenced in a federal court in El Paso to 150 months in prison for transportation of a minor with intent to …

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Frank A. Tarentino III, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the …

HOUSTON – A 33-year-old man who illegally resided in Houston has been ordered to federal prison for interstate travel with intent to engage in a sex act with a minor, …

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Monday sentenced a St. Louis County, Missouri man who used counterfeit identification and a fake credit card to steal a …

PITTSBURGH, PA – A resident of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to federal hate crime charges, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Tyler Smith, 32, …

BOSTON – A New Bedford man was sentenced on Dec. 1, 2023 for evading taxes on income he earned as a commercial fisherman. Joaquin Sosa was sentenced by U.S. District …

United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on November 30, 2023, Matthew Browndorf (age: 53) was sentenced to 48 months’ imprisonment, followed by …

U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell sentenced Dillon Charles Wilson, 27, citizen of Muscogee (Creek) Nation, to 262 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for second …

            WASHINGTON – Jonathan Robinson-Gripper, 31, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a 36-month prison term for burglarizing a home near Observatory Circle, NW, …

Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on December 4, 2023, Cory J. Herthel (age: 40) of Green Bay, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 180 …

Burlington, Vermont – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont announced that Javon Calderon (also known as “Juju,”) of Holyoke, Massachusetts, Christopher Morgan (also known as “Mula,”) of …

GREENSBORO – Med First Immediate Care & Family Practice, P.A. (Med First) has agreed to pay the government $1,450,000 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that its clinic in Dillon, …

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A Springfield, Illinois, woman, Lerin E. Hughes, 25, was sentenced on November 30, 2023, to 42 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, …

MACON, Ga. –  A recently convicted felon charged with escaping the Bibb County Jail on Oct. 16 pleaded not guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Weigle today during a brief arraignment …

Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara has sentenced Americo Bautista-Villarreal (59, Mexico) to seven years and eight months in federal prison months in federal prison for conspiracy …

Oxford, MS – Nine defendants pled guilty on Wednesday, November 29th, 2023, to impaired driving offenses on the Natchez Trace Parkway in the Northern District of Mississippi. These convictions stemmed …

Louisville, KY – A federal grand jury in Louisville returned an indictment on November 21, 2023, charging a New Albany, Indiana man with possession of a firearm by a convicted …

Acting United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Oscar Villa, 37, from California, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for his involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy.  United States …

LEXINGTON, Ky. – United States Attorney Carlton S. Shier, IV, announced Monday that the federal government has reached an agreement with the Big Sandy Regional Jail Authority, which operates the …

BOISE – Japheth Shipp, 35, of Boise, was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for attempted use of interstate facilities to transmit information about a minor, U.S. Attorney Josh …

Former hospital executive Peggy Borgfeld, of Lexington, Texas, and physicians Linh Nguyen, M.D. and Thuy Nguyen, M.D., of Dallas, and Heriberto Salinas, M.D., of Cleburne, Texas, have agreed to pay …

Ocala, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Katrina Denise McCoy (41, Minneola) has pleaded guilty to 14 counts of wire fraud. For each count, McCoy faces …