HAMMOND – Thomas J. Lemmen, 51 years old, of Schererville, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Gretchen S. Lund after pleading guilty to wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Adam L. Mildred. Lemmen was sentenced to 70 months in prison followed by 2 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $1,601,505.27 in restitution to the victims of the offense. According to documents in the case, Thomas Lemmen worked as a licensed independent insurance agent in the state of Indiana since 2012.…
Criminal - Criminal White Collar and Corporate Enforcement · Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. Kenneth Charles Trenholm, 36, of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for two counts of sexual exploitation of a child. U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson imposed the sentence in Cheyenne.
Criminal - Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section · Defending Childhood
Jiair Olajuwan Tidwell, 30, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to three years and five months in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · USAO - Virginia, Eastern
BOSTON – A Dominican national unlawfully residing in Lawrence, Mass. has been charged with illegally reentering the United States after deportation. The defendant was previously deported after completing a state prison sentence for fentanyl distribution.
INDIANAPOLIS- Cameron Love, 28, of Rockford, Illinois, has been sentenced to 33 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release for the armed robbery of a Burger King restaurant. In February 2026, a federal jury convicted Love of interference with commerce by robbery, brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. According to court documents, on January 16, 2025, Love entered the Burger King located at 7620 North…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · USAO - Indiana, Southern
Poul Thorsen, a Danish researcher who was one of the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s top ten most wanted fugitives since 2011, pleaded guilty today to operating a wire fraud scheme that stole CDC grant money awarded for autism research overseas.
ROANOKE, Va. – A Franklin County man, who possessed thousands of images of child sex abuse material (“CSAM”) after previous court-martial convictions for similar behavior, pled guilty today in federal court and faces up to 20 years in prison. Kevin Michael Robinson, 28, of Wirtz, Virginia, pled guilty today to one count of knowingly possessing CSAM, including images of prepubescent minors and minors under 12 years old.
Today, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, joined by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas, filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools (KCKPS) to stop the district from facilitating secret “gender transitions” for children at school without their parents’ knowledge or consent.
A second superseding indictment was unsealed today charging a total of nine alleged gang members with racketeering influenced corrupt organization (RICO) conspiracy, racketeering murder and attempted murder, and firearms charges, all as part of their membership with the United Bloods Nation gang and the Cautious District subset of the Immaculate Balla Family, commonly called the Makk Ballers.
A Grove man was sentenced today after he discharged a firearm while intoxicated and arguing with family, announced U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Nassar.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · USAO - Oklahoma, Northern
Today, the Civil Rights Division is monitoring polling sites in Massachusetts for the Commonwealth’s primary election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.
Civil Rights Division · Civil Rights - Voting Section
LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas man was sentenced today by United States District Chief Judge Andrew P. Gordon to 24 months in prison to be followed by four years of supervised release for unlawfully manufacturing and selling firearms and machinegun conversion devices and possession with the intent to sell methamphetamine. The government requested 57 months’ imprisonment.
Novum Pharmaceutical Research Services of Delaware, Inc. (“Novum”), a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $3,345,000 to resolve allegations that it improperly obtained a Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) for which it was not eligible.
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Delos Thurston, age 28, of Clinton, New York, was sentenced on August 27, 2026, to 3 years’ probation for money order fraud. First Assistant United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III and Matthew M. Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Area Field Office of the United States Postal Service, Office of Inspector General (“USPS-OIG”), made the announcement.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – A resident of Westover, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his conviction of distribution of fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury or death, United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today. United States District Judge Stephanie L. Haines imposed the sentence on James Gill, 41, who pleaded guilty to the charge in March 2026. According to information presented to the Court, in and around February…
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Arthur Thompson, 40, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 150 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release by United States District Judge Karen Spencer Marston for illegally possessing guns and ammunition as a felon. At back-to-back trials earlier this year, two federal juries convicted the defendant of separate firearms offenses. On March 31, 2026, Thompson was convicted of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a…
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) · USAO - Pennsylvania, Eastern
JOSE ISRAEL TENESACA MEJIA, 22, a citizen of Ecuador unlawfully present in the U.S. and last residing in West Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to child exploitation offenses.