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MINNEAPOLIS – A federal grand jury returned an indictment against a Minneapolis man for making threats against Hennepin County employees and illegally possessing firearms as a felon, announced Acting U.S. …

CONTACT: Barbara Burns PHONE: (716) 843-5817 FAX #: (716) 551-3051 BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Paul Krieger, 46, of Sloan, NY, who was convicted of breaking into …

DEL RIO – A Fort Worth woman was sentenced today to 262 months in prison for her part in a conspiracy to import methamphetamine. According to court documents, Maria Tello, …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A convicted felon pleaded guilty today for being a felon in possession of  a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A convicted felon pleaded guilty today for being a felon in possession of  a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, …

BOSTON – A Melrose man was sentenced today in connection with his role in an unemployment insurance fraud scheme.  Alan Neal Scott, 68, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge …

U.S. Attorney William S. Thompson CHARLESTON, W.Va. – William S. Thompson took the oath of office today to become the United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia.  …

INDICTMENT           LOS ANGELES – Longtime politician Mark Ridley-Thomas and the former dean of the School of Social Work at a university in Southern California were indicted today on federal …

NEW ORLEANS, LA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DEMETRIA MYERS SILVIO, age 32, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty on October 13, 2021 to Wire Fraud, in …

Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Arsenio Cleckley, a/k/a “Bund”, age 39, of Accokeek, Maryland to eight years in federal prison, followed by five years of …

ST. LOUIS – United States District Court Judge Ronnie L. White accepted a plea of guilty from Kevin Karll on today’s date for the crimes of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine …

NEWARK, N.J. – A dual New York and Florida resident today admitted his role in a scheme to fraudulently obtain federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans totaling over $6.8 million, …

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SHANNEL SMITH, age 41, of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, was charged on October 12, 2021 in a one-count superseding …

Miami, Florida – A Georgia man was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining $285,742 through a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan guaranteed by the Small …

ST. LOUIS – United States District Court Judge Henry E. Autrey accepted a plea of guilty from Keith A. Kos, Jr., on October 12, 2021, for the crimes of distribution …

            WASHINGTON – Davon Robinson, 28, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a 10 ½-year prison term for robbing a fast-food restaurant in Northeast …

FRESNO, Calif. — On Oct. 7, 2021, a grand jury returned an indictment against Kenneth Gould, 65, of Clovis, charging him with bank larceny for stealing over $1 million from a …

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that former New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) officer JOHN CICERO pled guilty today to distributing …

MISSOULA – A Kalispell man accused of taking sexually explicit photographs of a child while boating on Ashley Lake in Flathead County admitted charges today, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. …

GREAT FALLS — A Billings man who had absconded from probation and was arrested on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation was sentenced today to two years in prison to be followed …

ST. LOUIS – Tracey Ray, 48, of Center, Missouri, was sentenced today to eighteen months in federal prison and ordered to make restitution to the City of Center, Missouri in the …

BOSTON – A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for participating in a money laundering conspiracy that laundered or attempted to launder between $150,000 and $250,000 …

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 …

BOSTON – A North Carolina man was sentenced yesterday in connection with a scheme to defraud his former employer, a Massachusetts-based uniform-supply company, by falsifying invoices. Keith Smedley, 49, was …

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that it has opened a statewide investigation into the conditions in the five secure juvenile correctional facilities run by the Texas Juvenile Justice …