GREENVILLE, S.C. — Khalil DeShawn Gilliam, 31, of Greenville, has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
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United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”), Bryan DiGirolamo, and Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), Jessica S. Tisch, announced today that EDSON BROWN was sentenced to 135 months in prison by U.S. District Judge John P. Cronan for trafficking more than 100 guns from North Carolina and South Carolina to New York City.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Ardit Kutleshi, 28, a Kosovar national, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his creation and operation of Rydox, an illicit website and marketplace for cybercriminals to buy, sell, and trade stolen personal information, and to access devices and other tools for carrying out cybercrime and fraud. “Cybercriminals Ardit Kutleshi and his brother Jetmir—who pleaded guilty and was sentenced in December 2025 prior to his deportation back to Kosovo—operated the Rydox marketplace for their own gain…
U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Chun Yan, 42, a native and citizen of China, who entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico in 2023, has been denied a bond hearing as he awaits removal by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas woman made her initial appearance in federal court yesterday for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, a Schedule II controlled substance, and possession of two firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime as a result of a Las Vegas Homeland Security Task Force investigation.
DAVENPORT, Iowa – A St. Louis, Missouri man was sentenced on September 22, 2026, to 10 years in federal prison for attempted enticement of a minor and possessing child pornography.
MOBILE, AL – Two defendants were sentenced to 69 months and 40 months in prison, respectively, for conspiring to commit bank fraud involving stolen mail, aggravated identity theft, and illegal firearms possession.
A Harlem man who tried to hide a tin of fentanyl pills under a child’s leg was sentenced Wednesday to two years and 11 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release.
Jose Manuel Lopez-Maderos, 40, a Guatemalan national illegally living in the Kansas City, Mo. area, was sentenced to seven months in federal prison for violating immigration laws.
ROBERT CAPPELLETTI, 60, of Middlebury, has been charged in a nine-count indictment with fraud and money laundering offenses related to employment as the executive director of housing authorities in Meriden and Groton.
Davud Ansariy, a citizen of Uzbekistan and naturalized citizen of the United States, also known as “Kozimjon Gafurov” and “Kozim,” will be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lara K. Eshkenazi on an indictment charging him with one count of conspiring and one count of provision of material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and Al-Nusrah Front (ANF), both foreign terrorist organizations at the time of the charged conduct.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A federal grand jury has indicted a U.S. Postal employee for destroying U.S. mail, announced U.S. Attorney Phillip W. Williams Jr. A one-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges Sekondi Watts, 43, Center Point, Alabama, with destruction of mail by a U.S. Postal employee. According to the indictment, in April 2026, Watts destroyed a batch of campaign mailers for a candidate running for state Senate. The incident occurred in Shelby County, Alabama. “This indictment reflects our…
Sisters Sharilene Jeff and Sandra Jeff are accused of paying fake vendors with money from a federally funded housing entity serving Santa Ana Pueblo in order to collect most of that money back in cash.
HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Clyde Fa, age 52, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for a string of robberies in York as well as firearms offenses. According to United States Attorney Brian D. Miller, the indictment alleges that Fa committed five armed robberies and one attempted robbery of various businesses in York, Pennsylvania, between October 20, 2025 and December 12, 2025. The indictment also alleges that Fa…
SOUTH BEND – Rodney McLean, 38 years old, of Michigan City, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty after pleading guilty to production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Adam L. Mildred. McLean was sentenced to 292 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release. “Rodney McLean will spend the next 24 years in prison after he made videos of himself having sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16. After another person located the videos and…
David Samuel Leibbrandt, 44, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced on September 24, 2026, in federal court in Lincoln for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture and 50 grams or more of methamphetamine actual.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The Charlottesville man who was indicted in December 2025 on two counts of coercion and enticement of a minor, one count of sexual exploitation of a minor, and one count of possession of child pornography and charged a second time in February 2026 with assaulting a federal law enforcement officer, was indicted yesterday on both the original assault allegation and two additional counts of assault on law enforcement officers in April 2026. A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday…
Pensacola, Florida – Travis W. Carroll, 26, of Pensacola, Florida, was sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession of a firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
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