Memphis, TN – Dock Exum, 50, of Memphis, pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm as an Armed Career Criminal. United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant, for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today. According to the evidence, on September 30, 2025, Memphis police officers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle that had visible fraudulent tags. Officers approached the vehicle and identified the ...
Tallahassee, Florida – Andy Dean Biggs, 63, of Marianna, Florida was sentenced to forty-five months in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of marijuana.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
U.S. Attorney Scott Leary with (from left to right) Captain Steven Markway, Sergeant Josh Bryant, AUSA Stringfellow, Special Agent Josh Moore, Leary, AUSA Addison
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) · USAO - Mississippi, Northern
RALEIGH, N.C. –United States Attorney Ellis Boyle, along with several federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, will hold a press conference to announce the sentencing of Alexander Trowbridge, 41, of Henderson, NC who was sentenced on August 20, 2026, for fentanyl and heroin trafficking. USA Boyle will also discuss the EDNC and our federal partners’ efforts to combat drugs and guns in Eastern North Carolina. WHERE: U.S. Attorney’s Office, 150 Fayetteville Street, Suite 2100, Raleigh, NC 27601WHEN: Monday…
Thomas Robert Hoyt, 32, a former insurance agent from Melfa, pled guilty today to wire fraud related to a scheme to pocket the premiums he was paid for policies he sold.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A Marietta, Georgia, man has been sentenced for his role in a scheme to cash stolen U.S. Treasury checks in the Montgomery area using false identification. On August 20, 2026, a federal judge sentenced Devin Zia Adkins, 33, to 60 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud. Adkins previously pleaded guilty to the offense. Following his prison term, Adkins will serve three years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system. According to court documents and…
Jacksonville, Florida – Leo Denard Robinson (39) and Brian Gregory Brightman (33), both of Jacksonville, have been charged by indictment with obstruction of the due administration of justice. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe made the announcement.
U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Nicholas Mangione, 45, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography following a prior conviction, was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – A self-proclaimed “sovereign diplomat” from Michigan, who had been living in a makeshift camp site in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, and was convicted for not registering as a convicted sex offender as required under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), was sentenced yesterday to 33 months in federal prison. Deon Andre Green, 38, a.k.a. “Dalayah Assir Yahar’al” was convicted of failing to register as a convicted sex offender following a jury trial…
U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Fangfang Yan, 41, of Shanxi, China, and Pittsford, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr to misprision of a felony, which carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.
OKLAHOMA CITY – MATTHEW RAY JONES, of Wynnewood, Oklahoma, has pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging him with murder in the second degree in Indian Country and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester. According to public records, on April 18, 2025, Jones and another individual, Whyitt Collins, broke into a residence located on a marijuana grow outside Wynnewood, Oklahoma. Both men were armed with a handgun. Once inside, Jones and…
Robert Cochran and Tejuana Dillard will go from being federal prison guards to federal prison inmates after each was sentenced to 30 months’ incarceration in separate cases after getting caught smuggling contraband into the Forrest City Federal Correctional Complex (FCC).
Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) · Office of the Inspector General
In a significant victory for President Trump’s efforts to unleash American energy, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California affirmed the federal government’s authority to protect national energy security under the Defense Production Act. The ruling ensures that domestically produced oil can reliably reach California refineries and safeguards the continued operation of critical pipeline infrastructure on the California coast.
Energy and Natural Resources Division · Office of the Associate Attorney General
A man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to more than four months in federal prison. Mario Israel Ortiz-Gonzalez, age 22, a citizen of Mexico illegally present in the United States and residing in Dubuque, Iowa, received the prison term after a June 1, 2026, guilty plea to one count of illegal reentry into the United States after having been deported. At the guilty plea, Ortiz-Gonzalez admitted he had previously been deported from the United States and illegally…
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas is proud to announce that Courtney Coker, currently serving as First Assistant United States Attorney, has been nominated by President Donald J. Trump to serve as a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas.
Juan Manuel Gouveia-Aguilera, 27, originally of Venezuela, was sentenced on August 20, 2026, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for his role in a conspiracy to deploy malware and steal millions of dollars from ATMs in the United States, a crime commonly referred to as “ATM jackpotting.”
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - Nebraska
MINNEAPOLIS – United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced that Steve Michael Kelley, 58, a former nurse who worked at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, was indicted by grand jury for one count of obtaining controlled substances by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, or subterfuge. His initial appearance was before U.S. Magistrate Judge Elsa M. Bullard on August 21, 2026. According to the indictment, Kelley is alleged to have wrongfully obtained hydromorphone, a controlled substance…
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) · USAO - Minnesota