PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced the creation of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (“EDPA”) Interagency Fraud Task Force (“IFTF”), consisting of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Enforcement Division (“NFED”), and 14 other federal law enforcement agencies. Through expanded data-sharing and investigative cooperation, the IFTF will focus on detecting, investigating, and prosecuting those who defraud and steal from American taxpayers. Today, the U.S.…
National Fraud Enforcement Division · USAO - Pennsylvania, Eastern
BOSTON – A Queens, N.Y., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for allegedly travelling across state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a 13-year-old minor in Massachusetts.
OAKLAND — Michael Simon was sentenced today to eight years in federal prison for engaging in a Conspiracy to Commit Human Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Three women who formerly worked as daycare providers at Hill Air Force Base in Utah have been charged with simple assault against toddlers and young children who were entrusted to their care.
Today, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the University of Delaware for violating federal law by prioritizing the needs of illegal aliens over U.S. citizens in defiance of Congress’s commands. The Department is challenging the University of Delaware’s policy which grants in-state tuition for illegal aliens while denying reduced tuition to U.S. citizens. This policy unconstitutionally discriminates against U.S. citizens who are not afforded the same reduced tuition rate, which is in direct conflict…
Civil Division · Office of the Associate Attorney General
HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Tyler Daugherty, age 32, of York County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on September 29, 2026, to 78 months’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Jennifer P. Wilson for receiving child pornography. The court also ordered Daugherty to serve a five-year term of supervised release following his release from prison and required him to pay victims $9,000 in restitution. According to United States Attorney Brian…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jeremiah Dashaun Reed, of Charlotte, 25, of Charlotte, was sentenced today to 81 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possessing a machinegun and using a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, announced Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. According to court records and proceedings, on August 13, 2024, officers with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) saw Reed carrying a firearm. During a subsequent traffic stop…
DETROIT - Two Detroit-area residents were indicted for their roles in a scheme to embezzle money from incapacitated persons, announced United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. Joining in the announcement was Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Detroit Field Division. Kijuana Evans, 54, of Clinton Township and Lonnie Griffin, 57, of Harper Woods, were charged in an indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. According to the indictment…
MOBILE, AL – Tyler Matthew McIlwain, age 31, was sentenced to life in prison after entering guilty pleas to Sexual Exploitation of a Minor and Attempted Enticement of a Minor on March 25, 2026.
WASHINGTON – Three members of the Unknown Vice Lords (UVL), a violent street gang in Memphis, Tennessee, were sentenced to a total of over 42 years in prison for conspiring and attempting to commit a gang-related murder and firearms violations. “These individuals showed a blatant disregard for public safety by engaging in a gang shooting in the middle of a residential neighborhood,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Gang violence terrorizes our…
On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected all petitions for rehearing in cases challenging a land exchange that is necessary for the Resolution Copper project in Arizona. The order leaves in place the March 13 decision by the court’s panel, which allowed the federal government to proceed with a congressionally mandated land exchange crucial to advancing development of one of the largest known copper deposits in the world.
Energy and Natural Resources Division · ENRD - Appellate Section
The owner of a San Gabriel Valley-based technology company was arrested today on a three-count federal indictment charging him with smuggling more than $300 million worth of export-controlled high-end computer servers containing U.S.-manufactured graphics processing units (GPUs) commonly used for Super Intelligence (SI) applications to China.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · National Security Division (NSD)
A Billings man who was part of a large-scale drug ring operating out of Mexico that trafficked significant amounts of methamphetamine into Montana was sentenced today to 14 years and two months in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) · USAO - Montana
WILLIAMSPORT- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ryan Edward Mills, age 54, of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on September 29, 2026, to 121 months’ imprisonment by Chief United States District Judge Matthew W. Brann for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. According to United States Attorney Brian D. Miller, Mills possessed firearms after having been convicted of multiple drug trafficking felonies. In January 2024, Mills was wanted…
A federal jury in Miami found a Margate man guilty of participating in a murder-for-hire scheme that culminated in the November 2023 death of Suren Seetal.
Tallahassee, Florida – David Christopher Jensen, 54, of Steinhatchee, Florida, has pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana and one count of possession of an unregistered firearm. John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida announced the plea.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · USAO - Florida, Northern
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould announced that Badshah Sahi, a 21-year-old Afghan national, was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography on Sept. 29.
NASHVILLE – Juan Carlos Barturen, 47, of Loretto, Tennessee, was recently sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment on four counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor announced United States Attorney Braden H. Boucek for the Middle District of Tennessee. “One of our greatest responsibilities to the public is to protect children from sexual abuse,” said United States Attorney Braden H. Boucek. “Our office goes after these predators relentlessly and seeks the toughest sentences possible to keep them from ever harming…
BOSTON – A Waltham, Mass. man has been arrested and charged with stalking a former political advisor and prominent member of the Republican Party. Defendant allegedly contacted the victim using phone and text over 40 times over the course of less than two months, leaving disturbing messages about the victim and her husband. Defendant also allegedly sent the victim’s parents disturbing messages.
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that two foreign nationals unlawfully present in Oklahoma were sentenced on charges relating to a fraudulent payroll check scheme. Bairon Nayn Cabrera-Martinez, 36, an illegal alien from Honduras unlawfully present in LeFlore County, Oklahoma, was sentenced to a term of 33 months in prison for one count of Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, and 33 months in prison for one count of Unlawful Reentry of Removed Alien.…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - Oklahoma, Eastern
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Amara Dukuly, 44, of Woodlyn, Pennsylvania, a former immigration officer employed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”), was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison, three years of supervised release, a $6,000 fine, and $6,000 in restitution by United States District Judge John Milton Younge for accepting a $6,000 bribe. The defendant was arrested on a criminal complaint and warrant in June of last year, indicted that…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - Pennsylvania, Eastern