SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Edward Mercado, age 34, of Los Angeles, California, pled guilty yesterday to traveling to New York from California for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual…
Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL COPELAND, 58, of Bloomfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in…
BOSTON – A Worcester man was sentenced today for distributing nearly one kilogram of cocaine. Julio Rivera, 47, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman to five…
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Emily Baier, 28, of West Chester, PA, was sentenced to 14 months in prison and five years of supervised release…
Memphis, TN – A Tennessee nurse practitioner was arrested today for allegedly distributing prescription drugs unlawfully from the medical clinic she owned and operated. According to court documents, Kelly McCallum,…
Two Florida men pleaded guilty this week in the Northern District of Ohio for leading a nationwide scheme to fraudulently obtain over $35 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans…
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams and Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division announced that John Murray Rowe, Jr., 63, of…
SANTA ANA, California – Over the past 10 months, the Department of Justice has filed criminal charges against 10 defendants – four of whom were taken into custody today…
MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Briya Nychelle Harrington, of Baltimore, Maryland, has admitted distributing fentanyl, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced. Harrington, 26, pleaded guilty today to one count…
BOSTON – The chief executive officer of a California liquor distribution company was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for her involvement in the college admissions case. Marci Palatella,…
ATLANTA – Robert Ward, who filed a false Form 7200 with the IRS, has pleaded guilty to a charge of filing a false claim with the United States. “Unfortunately, criminals…
LAREDO, Texas – Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents, with the assistance of Air and Marine Operations – Laredo Air Branch and Webb County Constable Precinct 2 deputies, discovered a stash…
TUCSON, Ariz. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Port of Nogales officers arrested a Mexican national this week in connection to a record seizure of methamphetamine…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials are reminding the public that ponche ingredients, guavas, hawthorn apples, and sugarcane are prohibited from entering the United States.Ponche, a…
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol (RGV) agents seize over 200 pounds of marijuana in Brownsville from three events. One of the seizures was the result of a…
SALTON CITY, Calif. – El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents seized narcotics with a combined estimated street value of close to $12,000 from three United States citizens attempting to smuggle…
NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in partnership with Carnival Cruise Line, expanded the use of facial biometrics into the debarkation process at the Port of New…
ALPINE, Texas–Big Bend Border Patrol agents arrest five subjects from a failed smuggling event at the Highway 118 Border Patrol Checkpoint. On Wednesday morning, Dec. 15, Border Patrol agents assigned to the Alpine…
A federal grand jury indicted three fossil fuel companies of negligence in the wake of a large oil spill off the coast of southern California in early October. The indictment…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sent letters to members of Congress on Thursday urging them to cut two sections of President Joe Biden’s spending bill that empower the Federal Trade…
The 12 remaining American missionaries kidnapped by a gang in Haiti in October were released Thursday, multiple sources reported. A Haitian gang kidnapped 17 missionaries of the Christian Aid Ministries…
California Democratic Rep. Alan Lowenthal announced his retirement Thursday after a decade in Congress. Lowenthal, who was first elected to California’s Long Beach-based 47th district in 2012, is the 20th…
Mask mandates do little, if anything, to make the air safer inside airplanes, two major airline CEOs argued before Congress Wednesday. “I think the case is very strong that masks…
McDonald’s announced Thursday that it settled a lawsuit with its former CEO who paid back the company over $100 million. Former McDonald’s chief executive Steve Easterbrook returned his severance package…
A majority of Georgia’s Republican state senators sent former Sen. David Perdue a letter to request that he not enter the 2022 gubernatorial race before he launched his campaign, Axios…