Bureau of Justice Statistics Proposes New Data Collection: Census of Tribal...
The Bureau of Justice Statistics encourages comments until June 9, 2017, on a new proposed data collection: Census of Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies. Comments should address points such as: Whether...
View ArticleDEA's Next Prescription Drug Take Back Day to be Held April 29
The Drug Enforcement Administration and its law enforcement partners will hold the 13th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, April 29, 2017, at thousands of collection sites across the...
View ArticleTennessee Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Federal Corruption and Civil Rights Charges
The sheriff of Fentress County, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today to three counts of honest services fraud and one count of deprivation of rights under color of law. Acting Assistant Attorney General...
View ArticleEight Members of Mexican Sex Trafficking Enterprise Plead Guilty to...
Prosecution Dismantles Transnational Sex Trafficking Organization that Compelled Women and Girls into Prostitution for Over a DecadeEight members of an international criminal organization, known as the...
View ArticleArmed Career Criminal Sentenced to More Than 20 Years in Federal Prison
Tampa, FL – U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Ernest L. Chambliss (45, Englewood) to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. A...
View ArticleInvestigators Conclude Scene Phase of Investigation at Lake City Army...
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — The National Response Team (NRT) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) along with Investigators from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigations Command, have...
View ArticleFour Former Corrections Officers Indicted for Civil Rights Violations
Former Officers Conspired to Assault Inmate at Missouri Detention CenterThe Department of Justice announced today that four former corrections officers at the Jackson County Detention Center (“JCDC”)...
View ArticleRussian National Indicted with Multiple Offenses in Connection with Kelihos...
A federal grand jury in Bridgeport, Connecticut, returned an eight-count indictment yesterday charging a Russian National with multiple offenses stemming from his alleged operation of the Kelihos...
View ArticleSix Additional Individuals Indicted for $2.5 Million High-Yield Investment Fraud
Six additional individuals were charged in an indictment unsealed today for their roles in a $2.5 million high-yield investment fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A....
View ArticleOregon Woman Sentenced to Prison for ID Theft
A Portland, Oregon resident was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison for aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Businessman Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Approximately...
Failed to Report More Than $1.4 Million in Embezzled Funds on Tax ReturnsA High Point, North Carolina businessman, who provided financial services to professional athletes, was sentenced today to 65...
View ArticleSingapore Man Sentenced to 40 Months in Prison for Plot Involving Exports to...
Lim Yong Nam, aka Steven Lim, 43, a citizen of Singapore, was sentenced today to 40 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy that caused thousands of radio frequency modules to be illegally...
View ArticleAttorney General Sessions Announces Continuing Litigation in Sanctuary City Case
Tonight Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued the following statement:“The American people demand a lawful system of immigration. Congress has established a lawful system of immigration. At the heart...
View ArticleMarch/April Issue of OJJDP News @a Glance Available
You can go to https://www.ojjdp.gov/newsletter/250686/index.htmlto read the latest issue of OJJDP News @a Glance, the online newsletter of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and...
View ArticleAttorney General Jeff Sessions Delivers Remarks on Violent Crime to Federal,...
Central Islip, NYUnited States~ Friday, April 28, 2017Remarks as prepared for deliveryGood morning. I am honored to be here today with all of you – the brave men and women of law enforcement. Your...
View ArticleATF, Firearms Industry Offer Reward in Ripley Firearms Theft
RIPLEY, W.Va. — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) – the trade association for the firearms industry – have announced a...
View ArticleOdenton, Maryland Man Exiled to 8 Years in Prison for Firearms Trafficking...
Baltimore, Maryland – On April 25, 2017, U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Delray Jamare Randall, a/k/a "Black," age 35, of Odenton, Maryland to eight years in prison followed by two years...
View ArticleDavon Lymon Sentenced to Eighteen Years for Conviction on Federal Heroin...
Lymon, who was Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst” Anti-Violence Initiative, Will Serve 18-Year Sentence Consecutive to 20-Year Sentence Imposed on April 5, 2017ALBUQUERQUE – This morning,...
View ArticlePursuant to Executive Order on Public Safety, Department of Justice Releases...
President Trump’s Executive Order on Public Safety in the Interior of the United States requires the Department of Justice to collect relevant data and provide quarterly reports on data collection...
View ArticleFormer North Charleston, South Carolina, Police Officer Michael Slager Pleads...
Former North Charleston, South Carolina, Police Department (NCPD) Officer Michael Slager, 35, pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights offense for his fatal shooting of Walter Scott, Jr. on April 4,...
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