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
DAYTON, Ohio – A federal grand jury has indicted a former fugitive wanted at the time in two northeast Ohio counties for aggravated murder and rape, charging him with four crimes related to firing at federal agents as they executed an arrest warrant on him.
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Souleymane Kah, 36, of Westerville, Ohio, was sentenced today to 60 months’ imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and $578,221 in restitution by United States District Judge Kelley Brisbon Hodge for his role in a scheme to steal and sell more than 20 rental cars. The defendant was charged by superseding indictment in September of last year and pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy and two counts of transportation of stolen vehicles. As…
PHOENIX, Ariz. – Eric Rope Jr., 41, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 108 months in prison. Rope previously pleaded guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
ALEXANDRIA – On September 15, 2026, United States District Judge Jerry Edwards, Jr., sentenced Terrence D. Taylor, Jr., 28, of Alexandria, to 102 months in federal prison with six years of supervised release, after his guilty plea to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. On the same day, Judge Edwards also sentenced Mikell Dewayne Boyd, 30, also of Alexandria, to 37 months in federal prison, with two years of supervised release…
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · USAO - Louisiana, Western
An Armenian citizen, extradited from Ukraine to the United States, was sentenced to federal prison today for his role in RYUK ransomware attacks and an extortion conspiracy targeting companies throughout the United States, including in Oregon.
PROVIDENCE – A Providence attorney pleaded guilty in federal court today to wire fraud and tax evasion in connection with a scheme to defraud immigration clients and evade the payment of federal taxes.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - Rhode Island
Dave Shumpert III, 30, of Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa to life in prison after being found guilty by a jury on June 11 of charges related to sex trafficking, distribution of a controlled substance, and obstruction.
Criminal Division · Criminal - Human Rights and Special Prosecution Section
A woman who distributed methamphetamine was sentenced today to more than 16 years in federal prison. Larissa Marie Ruffin, age 48, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after a March 12, 2026, guilty plea to one count of distribution of a controlled substance. Information from the sentencing hearing showed that Ruffin distributed methamphetamine to an individual working with law enforcement officers or an undercover officer on multiple occasions between April and July 2023. On September 30, 2023…
DENVER – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Clinton Roosevelt Dale, age 51, of Denver, Colorado, has been charged by a federal grand jury with twelve counts of willfully preparing false tax returns for clients and money laundering.
Olamide Shanu, 35, a Nigerian national, pleaded guilty yesterday in the District of Idaho to charges related to his role in several cyber-enabled schemes that defrauded approximately 150 American victims and caused millions of dollars in losses. Shanu made more than $2,500,000 from these fraud schemes.
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney David I. Courcelle announced that on September 17, 2026, PHALANDERS RASHAAD KING (“KING”), age 37, was sentenced to 87 months as to Counts One, Two, Three, Four, and Six of the superseding bill of information pending against him, and a consecutive term of 60 months as to Count Five, for a total of 147 months.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · USAO - Louisiana, Eastern
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Today, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell sentenced a former Charlotte City Councilwoman and her two daughters after they pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy for fraudulently obtaining more than $146,665 in COVID relief funds. Tiawana Brown, 55, of Charlotte, was sentenced to 10 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, and agreed to forfeit $22,500 in fraud proceeds. Tijema Brown, 32, and Antionette Rouse, 34, also of Charlotte, were each sentenced to two years of…
National Fraud Enforcement Division · USAO - North Carolina, Western
MOLINE, Ill., - A Markham, Illinois, man, Orlando Dampier, 47, of the 15000 block of Whipple Street was sentenced on September 16, 2026, to 15 years of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release for distribution of methamphetamine.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) · USAO - Illinois, Central
HONOLULU – United States Attorney Ken Sorenson announced that Bernadette Acaso, 20, a Filipino national residing in Honolulu, Oahu and Kahului, Maui, pleaded guilty on September 18, 2026, to unlawfully voting as an alien.
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 Aiding and Assisting in the Preparation and Presentation of a False and Fraudulent Return and Wire Fraud. The sentencing took place on September 21, 2026.
Albany, Ga. – A Valdosta resident is facing up to 15 years in federal prison after he admitted to illegally possessing three firearms, including a stolen machine gun, when he was taken into custody for a probation violation for a prior domestic violence misdemeanor conviction.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · USAO - Georgia, Middle
Greenbelt, Maryland – A former General Services Administration (GSA) contracting officer’s representative received a federal-prison term, today, for his role in agreeing to accept bribes from construction companies. U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman sentenced Lennie Lamont Miller, 61, of Brandywine, Maryland, to three years in prison, for two counts of conspiracy to commit bribery of a federal official.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - Maryland