DETROIT – Chanise Coyne, 46, was sentenced today to 5 years in federal prison after having pleaded guilty to executing a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme involving fictional child modeling events, United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. announced. Gorgon was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan, Federal Bureau of Investigation. Coyne previously pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud and admitted that she obtained over $4.6 million from a local family by fraudulently claiming…
HAMMOND – Tanya Januszewski, 51 years old, of Cedar Lake, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Philip P. Simon after pleading guilty to wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Adam L. Mildred. Januszewski was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $481,197 in restitution. “Tanya Januszewski defrauded her employer—a local business in northwest Indiana—out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and will spend 15 months incarcerated as a result. The Defendant worked as a…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A Reidsville, North Carolina, man was sentenced to prison today for his role in a bank fraud scheme that defrauded at least 10 identity theft victims of more than $650,000, announced Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Jacob Lawson, 33, was sentenced to 15 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $656,781.46 as restitution. His co-conspirator, Cordara Mattox, 39, of Stallings, North Carolina, was previously sentenced…
Mark Edward Jeffery, a former Georgia Department of Corrections officer convicted of smuggling methamphetamine into state prison, appeared in federal court today following his arrest on new drug trafficking and firearms charges.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
TUCSON, Ariz. – Julio Cesar Rodriguez Rojas, 30, of Tucson, was sentenced earlier this month by Senior United States District Judge Raner C. Collins to 13 years in prison. Rodriguez Rojas previously pleaded guilty to Aiding and Abetting Conspiracy to Hostage Take.
Charles Reeser has been charged in federal court after allegedly pointing a loaded AK 47 style rifle at two Homeland Security Investigations agents who were conducting surveillance as part of an unrelated warrant operation.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - New Mexico
A Navy veteran was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison for defrauding the Navy out of more than $9 million through a fraudulent bid-rigging and contract steering scheme that involved paying kickbacks and other benefits to a co-conspirator who was a Navy insider at the time.
A federal judge in Montgomery has sentenced a second defendant for her role in a commercial sex trafficking scheme involving a minor. On September 21, 2026, Chloe Michelle Alexander, 32, originally from Columbus, Georgia, received a sentence of 135 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release. Alexander is also required to register as a sex offender for life. There is no parole in the federal system. United States Attorney Thomas Govan and Acting Special Agent in Charge Ellen Johnson of…
The Justice Department, on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), lodged a proposed settlement agreement with medical equipment sterilizer Steri-Tech Inc. yesterday to resolve allegations that it violated the Clean Air Act and related federal and Commonwealth of Puerto Rico regulations at its Salinas, Puerto Rico, sterilization facility. Under the proposed settlement, Steri-Tech will pay a $700,000 civil penalty and destroy its emissions of ethylene oxide by 99.99%.
Energy and Natural Resources Division · ENRD - Environmental Enforcement Section
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, and Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), James C. Barnacle, Jr., announced today that DANI AMANUEL, KENNY FETIERE, and KIBRET MELES have been charged in connection with their roles in an interstate kidnapping scheme. FETIERE and MELES were arrested this morning and are expected to be presented today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stewart D. Aaron in Manhattan federal…
PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court on September 21, 2026, to charges involving the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today. Luke Clements, 27, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge William S. Stickman IV to coercion and enticement of a minor and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor. In connection with the guilty plea, the Court was advised that, beginning on August 4, 2023…
SAN JOSE - Today, Todd Baldwin, of Bremerton, WA, pleaded guilty in federal court to an Information charging two counts of online child enticement and two counts of receipt of child pornography
An indictment was unsealed today charging a former postman with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) with unlawful secretion, destruction, and delay of mail after he allegedly unlawfully threw away mail that he was entrusted to deliver – including approximately 300 mail-in ballots to registered voters in Utah.
Office of the Deputy Attorney General · USAO - Utah
United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that U.S. District Judge Camela C. Theeler has sentenced a Kyle, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact. The sentencing took place on September 21, 2026.
A Dallas man has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison in connection with a violent crime spree in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - Texas, Eastern
Tallahassee, Pensacola and Gainesville – Today, United States Attorney John P. Heekin announced 22 new indictments since July 2026 against previously deported illegal aliens for illegal reentry into the United States. Since July, a total of 53 illegal aliens have been convicted of federal immigration crimes in the Northern District of Florida.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – An indictment was unsealed today charging a former postman with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) with unlawful secretion, destruction, and delay of mail after he allegedly unlawfully threw away mail that he was entrusted to deliver – including approximately 300 mail-in ballots to registered voters in Utah.
A routine traffic stop in Tulsa County resulted in the arrest of two New York men after deputies found about 50 pounds of cocaine and bundles of cash inside their rental van.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) · USAO - Oklahoma, Northern
MINNEAPOLIS – United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced that Brigit Marshall, 49, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for one count of wire fraud. She was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz on September 22, 2026. She previously pleaded guilty on May 19, 2026. According to court documents, beginning in 2017 and continuing through May 2025, Marshall embezzled over $1.2 million from her employer, Victim Company, a company headquartered in Minnesota that sells new trucks, parts, and…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - Minnesota
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging three individuals with conspiracy to engage in illegal firearms trafficking, announced Héctor Ramírez-Carbó, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · USAO - Puerto Rico