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MACON, Ga. – A metro Atlanta resident with a lengthy criminal past, including aggravated assault and obstructing a police officer, was sentenced to serve more than eight years in prison for illegally possessing a firearm in the Middle District of Georgia.
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BOSTON – A Massachusetts woman has been sentenced in federal court in Boston to nearly four years in prison for performing thousands of cosmetic injection procedures using counterfeit Botox and dermal fillers imported from China and Brazil. The defendant, who was not licensed to perform injections and falsely represented herself as a nurse, received more than $1 million in payments from more than 900 clients for these procedures. Defendant owned and operated Skin Beaute Med Spa, with locations in Randolph and South…
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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JAKE ALEXANDER GRZELKA (“GRZELKA”), age 40, of New Orleans, pled guilty on September 3, 2026, to Receipt of Materials Involving the Sexual Exploitation of Minors, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252(a)(2) and (b)(1), announced U.S. Attorney David I. Courcelle.
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A Dillon man who unlawfully kept a cache of firearms in his home was sentenced today to 18 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and a fine of $10,000.
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Memphis, TN – Four convicted felons have been sentenced to federal prison for selling firearms at a local hotel and to undercover federal agents. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentences today. The individuals involved in the...
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DETROIT – Timothy Higle, 34, of Clawson, Michigan and former substitute teacher, was sentenced this week to 40 years in federal prison after having pleaded guilty in April 2026 to charges that he sexually exploited minors and received child pornography, announced Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr., United States Attorney of the Eastern District of Michigan. Gorgon was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Detroit Field Division. According to court records, Higle…
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An illegal alien on the run has been arrested in the Western District of Washington near Seattle.
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Fort Myers, Florida – Johnny Lewis Hunter (53, Clewiston) has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Kyle Dudek to 19 years and 2 months in federal prison for distributing fentanyl. He pleaded guilty on June 3, 2026. United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe made the announcement.
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A Mexican national, Carlos Erick Vazquez Gonzalez, 48, pleaded guilty today for his role in the laundering of approximately $4 million in drug trafficking proceeds in the United States and the return of those proceeds via cryptocurrency to Mexico as part of a money laundering conspiracy.
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United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Ryan Raybould announced that Lukman Owolabi Ganiyu, a former Senior Immigration Services Officer with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Adeniyi Akeem Somoye were arrested on federal charges for their roles in an alleged multi‑year scheme to receive illegal gratuities in exchange for manipulating and expediting immigration applications.
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A Union County woman was charged in a criminal complaint with illegally voting in a federal election.
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Kwesi Pyne, 20, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today, for a series of robberies committed in October 2023 and February 2024, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.
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SAN DIEGO – David Alfonso Barrera Nunes, pilot of a smuggling boat that capsized off Imperial Beach in rough surf last year, resulting in the deaths of five undocumented immigrants, was sentenced in federal court today to 57 months in prison. On November 14, 2025, U.S. Border Patrol agents were notified of a small vessel crossing north from Mexico, heading towards Imperial Beach. Attempts to intercept the vessel were unsuccessful because dense fog significantly limited visibility. About an hour later, agents saw a…
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HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Katya Rodriguez, 30, from Mexico living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to Rodriguez illegally voting as an alien in the 2024 election. Specifically, Rodriguez was charged with false statement of citizenship in order to vote, fraudulent registration, and voting as an alien. “The integrity of our elections, which are fundamental to democracy, should be of utmost…
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PHOENIX, Ariz. – During the week of enforcement operations from Aug. 29 through Sep. 4, 2026, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona brought immigration-related criminal charges against 265 individuals.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia is proud to share two new online safety flyers designed to help parents, caregivers, educators, and community leaders safeguard children in an increasingly digital world.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – COLLIN SHANE KIRBY, 21, of Oklahoma City, and SHANE MICHAEL BURGESS, 24, of Mustang, Oklahoma, have both pleaded guilty to distributing a controlled substance analogue, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester. According to public records, on December 12, 2025, Kirby sold pills to Burgess that contained N-Propionitrile Chlorphine, a synthetic opioid known as cychlorphine. That same day, Burgess resold the pills he bought from Kirby to another individual. Court records show the individual died as a…
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Jose Carlos Ferreira had been ordered removed in 2005, and subsequently removed from the U.S. twice in 2010.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, United States Attorney Thomas Govan announced that a Montgomery man has been sentenced to federal prison following his guilty plea to possessing firearms as a convicted felon and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. On September 2, 2026, a federal judge sentenced Ryan Deleon Johnson, 48, of Montgomery, Alabama, to 106 months in federal prison. Following his term of imprisonment, Johnson will serve three years of supervised release. There is no parole in the…
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A Mexican national, Luis Carlos Davalos-Lopez, 29, pleaded guilty today in El Paso, Texas, to conspiracy to bring in aliens to the United States. According to court documents, Davalos-Lopez conspired with others to smuggle migrants through an underground tunnel from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas.
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Stephen Craig Campbell, fugitive who lived for more than 40 years under the stolen identity of a deceased Arkansas man, was sentenced to 81 months in prison for federal identity theft, passport fraud, and firearms offenses.
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BECKLEY, W. Va. – Nathaniel Wilburn, 35, of Ghent, was sentenced today to two years and nine months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. According to court documents and statements made in court, on October 30, 2024, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Wilburn’s residence and found a Hi-Point JCP .40-caliber pistol, a Charles Daily 12-gauge shotgun, a Ruger EC9 9mm pistol, and a Taurus 12-gauge shotgun. As part of his guilty…
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SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two co-defendants, James P. Cullen, V., age 32, and Michelle Lindsay Ferranti, age 33, both of Bartonsville, Pennsylvania, were sentenced on September 3, 2026, by United States District Judge Julia K. Munley, for a drug trafficking conspiracy that resulted in death. The Court imposed a sentence of 25 years in prison, as to Cullen, and 20 years in prison, as to Ferranti. Supervised release will follow the prison…
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The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a proposed consent decree today to resolve the United States’ claims against Pinnacle Property Management Services LLC, as part of its ongoing enforcement action in the Middle District of North Carolina against algorithmic coordination, the use of competitors’ competitively sensitive data, and other anticompetitive practices in rental markets across the country that artificially increase housing costs for the American people. Today’s proposed decree builds on the…
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