SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an indictment charging a previously removed illegal alien from Mexico with drug trafficking and immigration crimes after he allegedly trafficked narcotics out of his residence and restaurant.
PROVIDENCE — A federal jury has found Justin Duffer, 36, guilty of attempted sex trafficking of a child, following a multi-day trial in U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island.
Tallahassee, Florida – Zeno Higgs, 51, of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, has been found guilty by a federal jury in Tallahassee following a single day jury trial for illegal re-entry into the United States following prior deportation.
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Gurlal Singh, 31, an Indian national who has been residing in the U.S. illegally, has been convicted at trial of drug and gun offenses. The defendant was charged by superseding indictment in September of last year and found guilty by a federal jury of possession with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine and possession of a firearm by an alien illegally and unlawfully in the U.S. As detailed in court filings and proven at trial…
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
LAKE CHARLES – On September 16, 2026, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Fernando Mejia, 36, of Mexico, residing in Leesville, with Possession of a Firearm by an Alien. Mejia faces up to 15 years in federal prison if convicted. “Firearm possession by illegal aliens poses an unnecessary, unacceptable, and preventable danger, and this case presents the tragic consequences that can result,” said U.S. Attorney Zachary A. Keller. “Louisiana’s state, local, and federal law enforcement partners are…
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · USAO - Louisiana, Western
Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 74, a former Syrian prison warden and provincial governor, was sentenced today to 60 years in prison for torturing prisoners and lying to U.S. immigration officials to gain entry to the United States.
Criminal Division · Criminal - Human Rights and Special Prosecution Section
Michael Garrett, 70, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced on September 11, 2026, to 25 years in prison, in D.C. Superior Court in connection with the December 3, 2021, murder of Sylvia Matthews, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
Multiple defendants, one of whom was a Bureau of Prisons correctional officer, have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a scheme to introduce contraband into Federal Correctional Institute – Jesup (FCI-Jesup).
Department of Justice · Office of the Inspector General
BOSTON – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced recent charges, convictions and sentencings in five cases involving fraud against COVID-19 pandemic relief programs as part of a nationwide enforcement surge led by the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the SBA Office of Inspector General.
Gainesville, Florida –Ronald Pate Newman, III, 27, of Youngstown, Ohio, was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release for two counts of the production of child pornography.
NELSON ROMERO-MARTINEZ, also known as “Nelson Dario Martinez,” “Nelson Martinez,” “Jose Del Arca,” and “Jose Delarca,” 48, a citizen of Honduras, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with unlawful reentry of a removed alien.
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 WILLIAM CARLTON has been charged and pled guilty to securities fraud for his role in a scheme to defraud his investment advisory clients by “cherry picking,” systematically allocating profitable trades to himself and allocating unprofitable trades to his clients.
A Kansas businessman was sentenced to 18 months in prison for violating United States customs laws by selling advanced aviation technology to Russian end users.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - Kansas
Daveion Antonio Ervin, 28, a previously convicted felon residing in the District, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 27-months in prison in connection with his illegal possession of a loaded Springfield Armory pistol discovered after he was stopped by police for smoking marijuana on a public street, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould announced that a West Dallas man pleaded guilty today to bank fraud and admitted to using stolen identities and fake IDs to deposit over $15 million in U.S. Treasury checks intended for various business throughout the United States.
Baltimore, Maryland – A Baltimore man pled guilty in federal court to charges stemming from his role as a high-volume drug trafficker. Rodrigo Lacayo, 48, is charged with possession with intent to distribute a quantity of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. The charges are in connection with a multi-state, federal drug investigation.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) · USAO - Maryland
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould announced that a Four Deuce Oakland Crip gang member was sentenced Sept. 16 to 90 months in federal prison for his role in an armed carjacking committed in Dallas’s Deep Ellum entertainment district.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · USAO - Texas, Northern
A former Syrian government official who was the head of one of that nation’s major prisons was sentenced today to 60 years in federal prison for torturing inmates, then later lying about it to United States immigration officials to fraudulently obtain a green card and attempt to naturalize as a U.S. citizen.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On September 1, 2026, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 17 individuals with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of controlled substances, announced Héctor Ramírez Carbó, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. This investigation was led by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with the collaboration of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) · Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)