U.S. Attorney’s Office Honors over 200 Law Enforcement Officials in Annual...
LOS ANGELES – United States Attorney Nick Hanna is presenting awards today to more than 200 members of law enforcement agencies for their outstanding work in dozens of cases prosecuted by the United...
View ArticleAkron man sentenced to 10 years in prison for firearms violation
An Akron man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for firearms violations.Lashawn Johnson, 40, previously pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.Akron Police officers responded on...
View ArticleMinkler Announces Arrests in Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative
U.S. Attorney’s Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative targets the most violent offenders collaborating with ATF and local law enforcementIndianapolis - United States Attorney Josh Minkler and Trevor...
View ArticleKCK Man Who Sold a Pound of Meth a Week Sentenced to 13 Years in Federal Prison
KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A Kansas City, Kan., man who admitted selling a pound of methamphetamine a week was sentenced Monday to 13 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. Joseph L....
View ArticleNew Orleans Man Sentenced for Murder and Carjacking
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced that MICHAEL BROWN, age 24, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced today for murder through use of a firearm and carjacking. BROWN pled...
View ArticleATF and Firearms Industry Offer $5,000 Reward in Reno Firearms Theft
RENO, Nev.– The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) -- the trade association for the firearms industry -- has announced a reward...
View ArticleTF and Firearms Industry Offer $5,000 Reward in Reno Firearms Theft
RENO, Nev.– The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) -- the trade association for the firearms industry -- has announced a reward...
View ArticleThird Real Estate Investor Pleads Guilty to Bid Rigging in Florida Online...
Real estate investor Avi Stern pleaded guilty today in West Palm Beach, in connection with an ongoing investigation into bid rigging at online public foreclosure auctions in Florida, the Department of...
View ArticleActing Attorney General Whitaker Statement on the FBI's 2017 Hate Crimes...
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker released the following statement on the FBI’s announcement of the 2017 Hate Crimes Statistics:"This report is a call to action—and we will heed that call. The...
View ArticleNorth Providence Dentist Sentenced For Tax Evasion
PROVIDENCE, RI – A North Providence dentist who admitted to diverting and failing to report as much as $1.2 million dollars in payments made to his business was sentenced yesterday to 3 years probation...
View ArticleCalifornia Resident Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison and $1 Million Fine for...
Naum Morgovsky, 69, of Hillsborough, California, was sentenced to 108 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to illegally export components for the production of...
View ArticleDeputy Assistant Attorney General Roger Alford Delivers Remarks at the...
Designing a System to Secure the Fair Administration of Competition LawsI am delighted to be with you today to discuss how competition authorities can promote fundamental due process in competition...
View ArticleDetroit Clinic Owner Sentenced to Over 13 Years in Prison for $8.9 Million...
The owner of two Detroit-area clinics was sentenced to 160 months in prison today for her role in a scheme involving approximately $8.9 million in fraudulent Medicare claims for home health care and...
View ArticleThree South Korean Companies Agree to Plead Guilty and to Enter Into Civil...
Three Companies Agree to Plead Guilty and Pay a Total of $236 Million in Criminal Fines and Civil DamagesSouth Korea-based companies SK Energy Co. Ltd., GS Caltex Corporation, and Hanjin Transportation...
View ArticleBay Minette Drug Dealer Sentenced in Federal Court
United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Chaney Darnell Thomas, 30, of Bay Minette, Alabama, was sentenced to 262 months’ imprisonment for his...
View ArticleTwo Charged with Armed Robbery of Business
MADISON, WIS. – Scott Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jeremiah D. Edwards, 33, Madison, Wisconsin, and Kanasha L. Woods, 24, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,...
View ArticleWisconsin Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening Jewish Community Center
Chadwick Grubbs, who is currently in state custody on separate cases, pleaded guilty today to federal charges related to threatening letters he wrote on three separate dates in May to the Harry and...
View ArticleKansas City, Kan., Man Sentenced After DNA Found on Gun
KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A Kansas City, Kan., man whose DNA was found on a handgun was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.Jason M. Trevillion, 33, Kansas...
View ArticleTwo from Lorain indicted for selling fentanyl
Two men from Lorain were indicted for selling fentanyl.Julius Ruffin, 39, was indicted on one count of possession with intent to distribute a mixture of heroin and fentanyl. Ruffin had nearly 100 grams...
View ArticleSeventh Individual Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Role in Opa Locka...
Dante Starks, an influential figure in Opa Locka and close associate of former City Commissioner Luis Santiago, was sentenced today to five years in prison by U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez for...
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