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BOSTON – The owner and operator of two Massachusetts restaurants pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to paying employees in cash over the course of six years without withholding and paying federal employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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LAS VEGAS – Two men and one woman have been indicted in connection with illegal acquisition of firearms and unlawful entry with a concealed weapon into the secure U.S. Department of Energy Nevada National Security Sites North Las Vegas Facility.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – James Strahler II, 37, of Columbus, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 180 months in prison for cybercrimes that included both real and AI-generated sexually explicit images and threats of violence to numerous victims.
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PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Scott Testa, 60, of Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, was arrested and charged by indictment with two counts of cyberstalking, arising from online conduct targeting a local government official, a police officer, and their families. The defendant appeared in federal court this afternoon for a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Scott W. Reid, at which Testa was ordered detained in federal custody pending trial. The indictment alleges that, on multiple…
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Kennedy obtained $30,400 by withdrawing funds from preexisting home equity lines of credit.
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Today, Jeriah Mast, 45, of Millersburg, Ohio, entered a guilty plea today to two counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors in Haiti.
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EVANSVILLE- Six individuals, all from Evansville, have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine trafficking ring operating in Southern Indiana. DefendantSentenceCharge(s)Lovechild McGuire, 3328 years’ imprisonment, five years of supervised releaseConspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Christopher Flax, 5013 years’ imprisonment, three years of supervised…
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Stevens faces up to 30 years in prison, a maximum fine of $1 million, and up to five years of supervised release.
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United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier sentenced a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The sentencing took place on August 31, 2026.
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JAMIE PATTERSON, also known as “Diddy,” 28, of New Britain, has been charged by indictment with firearm possession and drug distribution offenses.
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Pensacola, Florida – Aubrey Darnell Joseph Sr., 36, of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl and possession with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl.
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RUTLAND – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont stated that on September 8, 2026, Alec Diaz, a/k/a “Benn Tenn,” 22, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was sentenced by United States District Judge Mary Kay Lanthier to a term of 144 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a 5-year term of supervised release. Diaz previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute fentanyl and cocaine base, possessing with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base, and carrying and using a firearm…
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United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould announced that federal prosecutors, in coordination with federal and local law enforcement partners, launched Operation New Day, a public safety initiative aimed at ridding the Fort Worth community of dangerous criminal offenders in advance of the upcoming holiday season.
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PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Manoach Chayaud, 43, of Carmel, Indiana, was convicted today at trial of a years-long conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”). The defendant was charged by indictment in December 2024, arising from a scheme that ran from approximately November 2013 through February 2022, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and elsewhere. As proven at trial, Chayaud recruited two individuals to assist him in a scheme to file false tax returns…
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Cordell Simms, 32, a convicted felon residing in the District of Columbia, was sentenced yesterday to 37 months in prison for carrying a loaded semiautomatic pistol in a backpack while he was serving a period of supervised release and prohibited from possessing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
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SAN DIEGO – Two complaints were unsealed in federal court this week charging 17 alleged members of a San Diego-based fentanyl trafficking organization with distributing large quantities of fentanyl throughout San Diego. In a coordinated takedown Thursday, more than 200 federal, state and local law enforcement officials arrested 13 defendants and executed a search warrant in San Diego; two defendants were arrested earlier in the week; and two are fugitives.
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Loretta Pyeatt admitted stealing at least $321,000 from a client.
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Ocala, FL – Justin Tyler Kress (34, Eustis) has been sentenced by United States District Judge Thomas P. Barber to 15 months in federal prison for the attempted destruction of an aircraft (law enforcement drone). The court also ordered Kress to pay $8,200 in restitution. Kress pleaded guilty on May 26, 2026. U.S. Attorney Gregroy W. Kehoe made the announcement.
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Five individuals living in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin were charged this week related to illegal voting in the 2022 or 2024 election.
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After a week long trial, a federal jury has convicted Varrick "Big V" Davis for his role in a meth pill distribution conspiracy. The pills were being manufactured in Lowndes County, with thousands of pills being distributed across Tennessee, Alabama and Arkansas in addition to Mississippi.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – John Bojorquez, 35, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in federal court to trafficking in counterfeit goods by importing counterfeit airbags from China – claiming they were Honda airbags – for vehicles he sold at his auto dealership JB Ohio Auto Sale, LLC.
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Davon Willis, 28, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison, in D.C. Superior Court for charges related to strangling his pregnant girlfriend in August 2025, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
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FELIX NARVAEZ, 55, of Waterbury, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 60 months of imprisonment and four years of supervised release for a firearm possession offense.
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A federal grand jury in the District of Massachusetts returned an indictment yesterday charging Erekle Gugava, 33, an illegal alien from Georgia, with conspiracy for laundering proceeds in connection with a $1.3 billion health care fraud scheme.
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