A Colombian national has been charged with impersonating a high-ranking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official and allegedly using that false authority to threaten and attempt to extort an employee of a Miami Gardens food truck.
U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging Aden Ibrahim, 30, of Buffalo, NY, with being a felon in possession of ammunition, possession with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine, and maintaining a drug involved premises, which carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
Tallahassee, Florida – James Dalton Bryant, 54, of Tallahassee, Florida, has pleaded guilty in federal court to a single count of bank robbery. The plea was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - Florida, Northern
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today its finding that the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF Medical School) discriminated based on race in granting and denying admission to its 2023-2025 incoming classes. UCSF Medical School’s discriminatory conduct violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA), which banned…
Civil Rights Division · Civil Rights - Educational Opportunities Section
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas yesterday allowed a land exchange to proceed between the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and SpaceX in South Texas. The court denied a preliminary injunction request, finding that the plaintiffs failed to establish an injury in fact to support standing and they failed to establish irreparable harm.
Energy and Natural Resources Division · ENRD - Natural Resources Section
A man who sexually exploited children and distributed, received, and possessed child pornography, was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison. Steven William Acklin, age 29, formerly from Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison term after a March 23, 2026, guilty plea to sexual exploitation of children and receipt of child pornography. Information at the sentencing hearing showed that in the fall of 2023, while he was living in Waterloo, Acklin contacted an undercover police officer who was posing as a mother of…
Greenbelt, Maryland – The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced, today, that authorities arrested a Hyattsville man in connection with a fraud scheme that targeted senior citizens. Roy Dave Davis, 34, of Hyattsville, is charged by criminal complaint with bank fraud.
An Orange County woman who is the former girlfriend of a cryptocurrency fraudster who called himself “The Godfather” was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for failing to report more than $2.6 million in ill-gotten gains she obtained via her then-boyfriend’s criminal activities.
A federal jury in New Haven found RYAN FIELDS, 52, of Port Neches, Texas, guilty of federal offenses related to illegally selling misbranded and unapproved prescription drugs.
Crown Medical Solutions LLC (Crown) and its owners, Michelle and Philanzo King, have agreed to pay $825,000 to resolve allegations that Crown and its owners violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for payment to Medicare.
HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Sean Stark, age 38, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was charged by criminal information with involuntary manslaughter. According to United States Attorney Brian D. Miller, the information alleges that on March 12, 2026, Stark killed Private First Class Krystofer Lopez at Letterkenny Army Depot while conducting firearms training in a grossly negligent manner. Along with the information, the U.S. Attorney’s Office also…
CONCORD – A federal Grand Jury returned a superseding indictment charging six individuals in an interstate drug conspiracy that spanned nearly two years and culminated in a drug-motivated kidnapping, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces. The superseding indictment charged Tyron Harris, Damarcus Bonner, Nicole Palardy, Jessenialyz Jones, Sheldon Stocker, and Jesse Emerson for their role in the drug conspiracy, which involved conduct in multiple states. Harris and Bonner were charged separately with the kidnapping…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - New Hampshire
HAMMOND – Anthony Mayers, 36, of Gary, Indiana, was convicted of six felony counts after a nine-day jury trial before United States District Judge Philip P. Simon, announced United States Attorney Adam L. Mildred. Mayers was found guilty of four counts of sex trafficking, one count of forced labor, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Sentencing will be scheduled at a later time. “We are thankful for the jury’s careful deliberation and attention to detail on each specific count after hearing…
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · Criminal Division
Today, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro announced significant outcomes from her multi-agency summer crackdowns aimed at reducing violent crime and dismantling narcotics trafficking networks throughout the District.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Javier Aguilar, 52, a Mexican national living in Houston, Texas, and a former oil trader, was sentenced in Brooklyn, New York, to four years in prison for his role in two separate schemes to bribe foreign officials in Ecuador and Mexico. He was also ordered to pay $7.13 million in forfeiture and a $100,000 fine.
Memphis, TN – Gregory Luss, 44, has been sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to being in possession of goods stolen from an interstate shipment. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today. According to information presented in court, a semi-tractor trailer filled with Water Piks that were intended for shipment to Amazon was stolen from...
Tomás Niembro Concha, 64, a Spanish and Venezuelan national, the former chief executive officer of Nodus International Bank (Nodus Bank), a Puerto Rican international bank, was sentenced to 112 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Niembro led a scheme to fraudulently obtain at least $24.9 million from Nodus Bank and conspired to evade U.S. sanctions against Venezuela. Niembro was ordered to forfeit over $16.9 million, which represents the value of the proceeds he derived from the wire fraud…
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould announced charges against four defendants for allegedly orchestrating a multi‑year mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in the funding of more than 20 fraudulent home loans totaling approximately $7,339,699.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida today announced the successful transport of 18 defendants from Haiti to Miami to face newly unsealed federal charges related to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse on July 7, 2021.
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney David I. Courcelle announced today that WILHELM MOLINA FLORES (“FLORES”), age 20, of Terrytown, was charged on September 17, 2026, in a one-count indictment for Possession of Materials Involving the Sexual Exploitation of Minors, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252(a)(4)(B) and (b)(2). If convicted, FLORES faces a maximum sentence of twenty (20) years, a term of supervised release of no less than five (5) years and up to life, $250,000.00 fine, and a…
Pensacola, Florida – Dr. Twan Phanijphand, M.D., a gastroenterologist located in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, agreed to pay $300,000 to resolve allegations that he unlawfully prescribed opioids and other controlled substances in violation of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
Diversion Control Program (DEA) · USAO - Florida, Northern