FY25 Annual FOIA Reports due to OIP for review
https://www.justice.gov/oip/event/fy25-annual-foia-reports-due-oip-review
Published: December 12, 2025 12:00
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Convicted Murderer Sentenced to Additional Prison Time for Assaulting Detention Officer
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
Antonio Chaco, a convicted murderer already serving a federal prison sentence for the 2020 murder of Thomas Brown, received additional prison time for attacking a CoreCivic detention officer while in federal custody awaiting that murder trial.
Wichita man indicted for firearms charges
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/wichita-man-indicted-firearms-charges
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
A federal grand jury in Topeka returned an indictment charging a Kansas man with multiple illegal firearms offenses.
Dorchester Man Pleads Guilty to Being a Felon in Possession of Firearms and Ammunition
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
BOSTON – A Dorchester man pleaded guilty yesterday to unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon.
Fall River Woman Sentenced to Nearly Six Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking Conspiracy
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
BOSTON – A Fall River woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for her role in a sex trafficking conspiracy.
Ghanaian National Charged with Running Romance Scams That Took Over $8 Million From Elderly Victims
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
A federal grand jury has returned a 2-count indictment charging a Ghanaian National with defrauding elderly victims out of over $8 million.
Religious Liberty Commission Hosts Fourth Hearing on Religious Liberty in the Military
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
DALLAS, TX – Yesterday, the Religious Liberty Commission hosted its fourth hearing to discuss religious liberty issues in the Military, including the perspectives of servicemembers, chaplains, and veterans, as well as state and local religious liberty…
York Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty To Bank Fraud For Submission Of Fraudulent PPP Loan Applications
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
Reward Offered for Information Leading to the Arrest of High-Ranking Member of Los Choneros, a Violent Foreign Terrorist Organization
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
Earlier today, the U.S. State Department’s Narcotics Reward Program (NRP) announced the offering of a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Ecuadorian fugitive Francisco Manuel Bermúdez Cagua, also known as…
Company to Pay $102,000 to Resolve Civil Fraud Allegations Related to Pandemic Loan
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
CROSS CITY CORRECTIONAL OFFICER CHARGED WITH CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA – Devin Waldeck, 35, of Cross City, Florida, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with one count of sexual exploitation of children and one count of distribution of material constituting child pornography.
California Woman Sentenced for Decades Long Fortune Fraud Scheme
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/california-woman-sentenced-decades-long-fortune-fraud-scheme
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
Lanette Bashore was sentenced to 30 months in prison and will be ordered to pay more than one million dollars in restitution for orchestrating a decades long advance fee fraud scheme that promised victims access to a nonexistent multi-million-dollar…
Illegal Alien Indicted on Illegal Reentry Charges
https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/illegal-alien-indicted-illegal-reentry-charges
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
Baltimore, Maryland – A federal grand jury indicted Vanessa Yalixa Munoz-Baque, 31, of Ecuador, charging her with illegally reentering the United States after removal. According to the indictment, on September 11, 2024, local law enforcement apprehended…
VENEZUELAN NATIONAL PLEADS GUILTY TO CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT BANK THEFT
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdms/pr/venezuelan-national-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-commit-bank-theft
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
Anthony Man Sentenced for Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/anthony-man-sentenced-drug-trafficking-and-firearms-offenses
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
David Amaya was sentenced to 235 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine and possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
Two Men Sentenced for $17M COVID-19 Unemployment Fraud
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-men-sentenced-17m-covid-19-unemployment-fraud
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
Two Cordele, Georgia, men were sentenced today for their participation in a scheme to defraud the Georgia Department of Labor (GaDOL) out of millions of dollars in benefits meant to assist unemployed individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mexican National Sentenced to Prison for Illegally Reentering U.S.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/mexican-national-sentenced-prison-illegally-reentering-us-0
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
JUAN JOSE CARRASCO CARDENAS, 40, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to six months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
New Orleans Woman Charged With Cares Act Fraud
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edla/pr/new-orleans-woman-charged-cares-act-fraud
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
NEW ORLEANS – Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson announced that CHELSEY POWELL (“POWELL”), age 34, of Laplace, LA, was charged on December 5, 2025 by bill of information with making false statements related to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic…
Hancock County Man Sentenced for Methamphetamine Trafficking
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndwv/pr/hancock-county-man-sentenced-methamphetamine-trafficking
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
Lawrence James Reagan, 40, of Weirton, West Virginia, was sentenced to 78 months in prison for methamphetamine distribution, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew L. Harvey. According to court documents and statements made in court, Reagan was selling…
Filipino Man Pleads Guilty to Sexually Exploiting and Sex Trafficking Children
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
BOSTON – A Filipino national living in Baltimore, Md., pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to sexually exploiting and conspiring to sex traffic minor children.
Skiatook Man Indicted for Threatening to Kill Federal Agents
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndok/pr/skiatook-man-indicted-threatening-kill-federal-agents
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
A Skiatook man’s indictment is unsealed after being charged with ten counts related to threatening federal law enforcement officers.
Bronx Man Convicted Of Kidnapping, Sex Offenses Involving A Minor, And Child Pornography Offenses
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced that a jury returned a guilty verdict against ANTHONY WALLACE for kidnapping a minor, coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sex, transportation of a…
18 Members of a Yuma-Based Alien Smuggling Ring Sentenced for Conspiring to Harbor and Transport Illegal Aliens
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
PHOENIX, Ariz. – On November 21, 2025, United States District Judge, Krissa M. Lanham, District of Arizona, sentenced the eighteenth and final defendant in a joint operation investigated by United States Border Patrol along with the United States…
Mescalero Man Pleads Guilty to Child Abuse
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/mescalero-man-pleads-guilty-child-abuse
Published: December 11, 2025 12:00
Emilio Morales pleaded guilty to child abuse after firing a weapon near two young children and placing them in a situation that endangered their lives.
Virtual Exemption 1 and Exemption 7 Training
https://www.justice.gov/oip/event/virtual-exemption-1-and-exemption-7-training-1
Published: December 10, 2025 12:00
Virtual Litigation Seminar
https://www.justice.gov/oip/event/virtual-litigation-seminar-1
Published: December 10, 2025 12:00
Virtual Chief FOIA Officer Report Refresher Training
https://www.justice.gov/oip/event/virtual-chief-foia-officer-report-refresher-training-1
Published: December 8, 2025 12:00
North Dakota Company Sentenced on Clean Air Act Violation
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nd/pr/north-dakota-company-sentenced-clean-air-act-violation
Published: December 5, 2025 12:00
Man Sentenced to Nine Years for Fentanyl Overdose Death
https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/man-sentenced-nine-years-fentanyl-overdose-death
Published: December 5, 2025 12:00
PHOENIX, Ariz. – Dominik Israel Lopez, 24, of Mesa, Arizona, was sentenced on November 24, 2025, by United States District Judge Krissa Lanham to 108 months of prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Lopez pleaded guilty to…
YOUNGSTOWN MAN SENTENCED TO FEDERAL PRISON FOR RECEIPT OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Published: December 5, 2025 12:00
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA – Matthew Allen Kitchen, 39, of Youngstown, Florida, was sentenced to five years in prison for receipt of child pornography.
PENSACOLA MAN SENTENCED TO FEDERAL PRISON FOR ROLE IN INTERSTATE DRUG TRAFFICKING OPERATION
Published: December 5, 2025 12:00
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA – Charlie N. Steans, 58, of Pensacola, Florida, and of Texas City, Texas, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine between Texas and Escambia County, Florida.
Former Senior DEA Official Indicted For Conspiring To Provide Material Support To A Foreign Terrorist Organization
Published: December 5, 2025 12:00
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, and Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), Terrance C. Cole, announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging PAUL CAMPO and ROBERT SENSI with…
Thibodaux Resident Sentenced After Pleading Guilty to Aggravated Identity Theft, Providing False Statement to Firearms Dealer, and Providing False Statement to Federal Agency
Published: December 5, 2025 12:00
NEW ORLEANS – Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson announced that BRETT GABRIEL, age 32, of Thibodaux, Louisiana, was sentenced on November 19, 2025 by U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo.
Florida, Virginia Residents Indicted in $26 Million Wire Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme
Published: December 5, 2025 12:00
Wilkinsburg Resident Charged with Production and Possession of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of Minors
Published: December 5, 2025 12:00
Two Thurston County men appear on federal charges involving brutal assault on JBLM
Published: December 5, 2025 12:00
Tacoma – Two Lacey, Washington, men – both former members of the military – will appear in federal court in Tacoma today at 1:30 PM on a criminal complaint filed in June following a brutal assault on Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM), announced U.S. Attorney…
Central Ohio man sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison after arranging online to meet ‘minor’ in Cincinnati for sex
Published: December 4, 2025 12:00
CINCINNATI – A Dublin, Ohio, man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 151 months in prison for arranging online to meet up with who he believed was a minor to engage in sexual conduct. The defendant drove to Cincinnati within hours of when he first…
Repeat Offender Sentenced to More Than 3 Years for Unlawfully Possessing a Firearm and Violating Terms of Federal Supervision
Published: December 4, 2025 12:00
Rochester Man Sentenced to 54 Months in Prison
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndin/pr/rochester-man-sentenced-54-months-prison
Published: December 4, 2025 12:00
St. Pete Man Sentenced To 27 Years For Production Of Child Sexual Abuse Material And Attempted Enticement Of A Minor To Engage In Sexual Activity
Published: December 4, 2025 12:00
Ocala, Florida – United States District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced David Araujo (57, St. Petersburg) to 27 years and 3 months in federal prison, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, for production of child sexual abuse material…
Box Elder man arraigned on robbery charges
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mt/pr/box-elder-man-arraigned-robbery-charges
Published: December 4, 2025 12:00
Marion County Man Pleads Guilty To Attempting To Meet A Minor To Engage In Sexual Activity
Published: December 4, 2025 12:00
Ocala, Florida – United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announces that Shawn Adampeter Grunther (42, Marion County) has pleaded guilty to attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. Grunther faces a minimum penalty of 10 years, up to…
Former President of Failed Oklahoma Bank Indicted for Bank
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-president-failed-oklahoma-bank-indicted-bank
Published: December 4, 2025 12:00
A federal grand jury in the Western District of Oklahoma returned an indictment yesterday charging the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the First National Bank of Lindsay for his role in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, making…
U.S. Attorney's Office Hosts Annual Meeting Of The Western District's Health Care Fraud Working Group
Published: December 4, 2025 12:00
Urbandale Man Charged with Making False Statements on Loan Applications and in Bankruptcy Proceedings
Published: December 4, 2025 12:00
DES MOINES, Iowa – On November 13, 2025, a federal grand jury in Des Moines returned a three-count indictment with offenses relating to false statements on two loan applications and during bankruptcy proceedings.