WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Raymond Poust, Jr., age 23, of Hughesville, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. According to United States Attorney Brian D. Miller, the indictment alleges that on June 30, 2026, the Pennsylvania State Police and the Fugitive Tracking Unit encountered Poust in Lycoming County where he was in possession of a stolen handgun. At the time…
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced today that Independence Blue Cross, a Pennsylvania insurer, has agreed to pay $22,500,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the civil False Claims Act by submitting and failing to withdraw inaccurate and untruthful diagnosis codes for its Medicare Advantage Plan enrollees in order to increase its payments from Medicare. Under the Medicare Advantage (“MA”) Program, also known as Medicare Part C, Medicare beneficiaries may opt out of traditional…
BOSTON – A Longmeadow woman was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield, Mass. for defrauding commercial lenders out of more than $18 million over a four-year period. Together with her co-conspirators (her husband, Louis R. Masaschi, and her sister, Christine Gendron), she provided financial institutions with numerous false and fraudulent rent rolls and forged lease agreements for numerous properties located in Springfield, Mass.; East Longmeadow, Mass.; and Enfield, Conn.
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Scotty Edward Lester, age 46, of Idabel, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to one count of Felon in Possession of Firearm, punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The Indictment charged Lester with knowingly possessing one .38 Special caliber revolver on November 29, 2025, after having been previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year imprisonment.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · USAO - Oklahoma, Eastern
An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to creating a phony investment opportunity which he used to convince unsuspecting victims to trust him with their money and then used their funds for his own personal benefit such as to gamble at casinos.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - Ohio, Northern
Seattle – A resident of North Ireland who disrupted an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Seattle on June 19, 2026, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd.
United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier has sentenced a Glendale, Arizona, man convicted Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance – Methamphetamine and Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance – Fentanyl. The sentencing took place on September 28, 2026.
United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier has sentenced a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Distribute. The sentencing took place on September 28, 2026.
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Billy Jack Janoe, age 43, of Antlers, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to one count of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon with Intent to do Bodily Harm in Indian Country, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The Indictment alleged that on or about March 18, 2026, Janoe assaulted the victim with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - Oklahoma, Eastern
LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas man was sentenced today by United States District Judge Gloria M. Navarro to 54 months in prison and three years of supervised release for selling methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance. The government recommended a sentence of 78 months in prison.
U.S. Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that U.S. District Judge Camela C. Theeler has sentenced a Mexican man convicted of Illegal Reentry after Deportation. The sentencing took place on September 22, 2026.
Pensacola, Florida – Bobby Womack, 45, of DeFuniak Springs, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The plea was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) · USAO - Florida, Northern
Seattle – A 54-year-old Federal Way, Washington, man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy that preyed, in part, on unhoused people in “The Jungle” under I-5 and Seattle’s International District, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Charle Neil Floyd.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal grand jury in Columbia returned a single-count indictment, presented by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, charging Renardo Tyson, Jr., 24, of Columbia, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · USAO - South Carolina
U.S. District Judge Stacey D. Neumann sentenced Ken Yiu, 49, of Brooklyn, New York, to time-served (one day) prison to be followed by three years of supervised release.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) · Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Romulo Hernandez Murillo, 46, an illegal alien from Honduras, and Lisa Marie Lopez Perdomo, 49, of Syracuse, Kansas, pleaded guilty today to submitting a sponsorship application containing false statements to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to gain custody of an unaccompanied alien child (UAC).
Criminal Division · Criminal - Human Rights and Special Prosecution Section
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia yesterday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2018 biological opinion and 2025 consultation determination for oil and gas activities in the Gulf of America.
Energy and Natural Resources Division · ENRD - Wildlife and Marine Resources Section
DETROIT - Brandon Robinson, 42, of Detroit, was sentenced to 92 months in federal prison for orchestrating overlapping federal student aid and PPP fraud schemes, announced Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Enforcement Division and United States Attorney Jerome Gorgon, Jr. U.S. District Court Judge Laurie J. Michelson ordered that Robinson, the ringleader of the scheme, serve three years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment and pay…
Memphis, TN – Tavious Bruce, 21, of Memphis, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for possession of a Glock 9mm pistol equipped with a machinegun conversion device while driving a stolen Porsche SUV. United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant, for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today. According to information presented in court...
United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court, sentenced a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person. The sentencing took place on September 28, 2026.