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BUFFALO, NY – Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 36-year-old Keenan J. Redmon of Buffalo was arraigned on Friday morning before Buffalo City Court Judge JaHarr Pridgen …

Memphis, TN – Terrion Jones, 20, has been sentenced to 111 months in federal prison for attempted carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Acting U.S. Attorney …

PITTSBURGH – William Curry Brown, following a guilty plea entered on January 13, 2020, was sentenced in federal court today for terroristic attacks and violence against a railroad carrier and …

PORTLAND, Maine: As Domestic Violence Awareness Month ends, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced today that Caring Unlimited, York County’s domestic violence resource center, was recently awarded a $497,000 three-year …

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 …

As part of an ongoing effort to address gun violence in Connecticut’s major cities, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, in conjunction with Project Longevity, Bridgeport Hospital, the Bridgeport Police Department and …

NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, as part of a coalition of 20 attorneys general from around the nation, today took action to defend a Florida law …

NEWARK, NJ (VIA NEWARK PD) – His face and hands were covered with blood when Newark police officers spotted the man stumbling across Bergen Street, a major thoroughfare in the …

Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Glenda Hodges, age 72, of Clinton, Maryland, yesterday to two years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, …

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – At about 9:14 P.M, on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, Officers assigned to the Youth Violence Strike Force made an onsite firearm arrest of Shaldon Pascal, 23, of …

COLUMBIA, South Carolina —- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart stated today that on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO), along with their local, state, …

BOISE – Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. joins law enforcement partners, victim services professionals, advocates, and communities across the country in observing October as National Domestic Violence Awareness …

TRENTON, NJ – The Mercer County Homicide Task Force and the Trenton Police Department is investigating an overnight shooting at Donnelly Homes that left one man dead. Just after 11 …

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Last week, Roderrell Boyd Charley, 33, of Chinle, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 222 months of imprisonment. Charley previously pleaded guilty …

In commemoration of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio is announcing more than $3.3 million in grant funding awarded to …

HARISBURG –Acting U.S. Attorney Bruce D. Brandler announced that the Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) has awarded $172,076 to “PA Coalition Against Rape,” located in Enola, …

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – Daniel Alan Baker, 34, of Tallahassee, Florida was sentenced to forty-four months in federal prison for two counts of transmitting a communication in interstate commerce containing a …

Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that RONALD BLAISE JENKINS, 25, of Arapahoe Wyoming, pleaded guilty to using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of …

Merrick Garland, once hailed as a “moderate” choice for President Joe Biden’s attorney general, has now twice referenced unexplained threats of violence in directing authorities to investigate hot button culture …

BAY POINT, CA – At about 12:03 this morning, Muir Station Deputy Sheriffs were dispatched to a domestic disturbance on Island View Drive in Bay Point. Deputies arrived, finding a …

Ceremony Held During National Domestic Violence Awareness Month COLUMBIA, S.C. – Attorney General Alan Wilson led participants through the 24th annual Silent Witness Domestic Violence ceremony that was held today …

Attorney General Merrick Garland called on the FBI to “use its authority” against parents who threaten or use violence against public school officials in a Monday memorandum. Garland said there …

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Six additional defendants and new charges involving sex trafficking have been added to a case pending against a Columbus man who allegedly provided individuals cocaine and fentanyl …

The president of a think tank who once fantasized about maiming a St. Louis couple resigned in September after being charged with assaulting his wife, Politico reported. Jerry Taylor, president …