U.S. Attorney’s Office

ROANOKE, Va.  – A Southwest Virginia nonprofit legal aid society will receive more than $585,000 from the Legal Assistance for Victims (LAV) Program of the Department of Justice’s Office on …

ABINGDON, Va. – An inmate at USP Lee in Jonesville, Virginia was sentenced last week to 72 months for assaulting another inmate and for unlawfully possessing a weapon inside the …

LONDON, Ky.— A Belfry, Ky., man, Brian Keith Wells, 45, was sentenced on Monday to 197 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Robert E. Wier, for conspiracy to distribute …

RALEIGH, N.C. – A Henderson man was sentenced today to 235 months in prison for two counts of Felon in Possession of Ammunition.  On June 10, 2021, Caleb Malik Batchelor, …

RALEIGH, N.C. – A Jones County man was sentenced today to 115 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, which he used to assault …

A Tulsa man was sentenced Monday in federal court for assaulting and strangling his former intimate partner, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson. U.S. District Judge Claire V. Eagan sentenced …

HOUSTON – A 37-year-old Indian citizen who was illegally residing in Houston has entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. …

HOUSTON – Formosa Plastics Corporation has agreed to pay $2.85 million in civil penalties and improve its risk management program to resolve alleged violations of the Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions …

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – A resident of Cresson, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to a total of 262 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release on his conviction …

TRENTON, N.J. – A Romanian national was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to steal bank account information from thousands of customers by …

          LOS ANGELES – A South Bay man pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for producing thousands of sexually explicit images and videos of nearly three dozen children and …

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A federal jury convicted a California woman and Russian-born man on Friday on charges of conspiracy and obtaining U.S. citizenship by fraud. According to court records and evidence …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Richard Beldon Waters III, 29, of Contra Costa County, pleaded guilty today to bank fraud and possession of stolen U.S. mail, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert …

          GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN — Alexander Scott Yossett, 28, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced to 293 months (more than 24 years) in federal prison for …

MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Brayan Mengou, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced today to 60 months of incarceration for participating in a firearms trafficking conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard …

GREAT FALLS — A Belt man who admitted to trafficking methamphetamine in Cascade County was sentenced today to 38 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised …

Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILTON REYNOSO, also known as Manuel Jose Echevarria-Lugo, 47, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last …

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Scott Douglas Born, a former correctional officer at Federal Correctional Institution Hazelton’s Female Facility, was sentenced today to three months of incarceration for the sexual abuse …

NEW ORLEANS –  U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RICHARD YUAN LI, age 21, a resident of Hercules, California, was charged on August 26, 2021 by a federal grand …

NEWARK, N.J. – A Passaic County, New Jersey, man with previous felony convictions today admitted illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced. Keyron Greene, …

I.  Illegal Reentry After Deportation (8 U.S.C. 1326) 212 individuals were charged in August with illegal reentry A.  180 of those 212 individuals had previously been convicted of non-immigration criminal …

BOISE – Jason Lee Gentry, 44, of Boise, pleaded guilty to distribution of methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today. Gentry was indicted by a federal grand …

            ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Trudy Martinez, 30, of Bread Springs, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced on Sept. 10 in federal court to 19 …

BOSTON – A former clerk for Boston Police Department’s (BPD) District A-1 Detectives Unit pleaded guilty today in connection with an investigation of overtime fraud at the Boston Police Department. …

PLANO, Texas – A Mexican national and high-ranking member of the Los Zetas cartel received a life sentence for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting …