News Releases

Washington, D.C. – Throughout Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) highlight a year of noteworthy collaboration to investigate cybercrime and remind the public to do their part to…

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on Thursday, September 23, 2021, the Honorable Judge Carl J. Barbier sentenced DARREL FITZPATRICK, aged 31, to 60 months in the Bureau of Prisons in what…

LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that two men from South Louisiana have been sentenced by United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays.

Deondrick W. Brown, 26, of New Iberia…

RALEIGH, N.C. – Shawn Franklin, Anthony Maryland, and Sabrina Wiggins Branch pleaded guilty today to defrauding financial institutions and other lenders by using synthetic identities to obtain credit cards and consumer loans with no intention…

LEXINGTON, Ky. —A Lexington, Ky., man, William S. Evans, III, 69, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison Tuesday, by U.S. District Court Judge Karen K. Caldwell, for commodities fraud and wire fraud. 

Evans, doing…

Chicago  — Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force today announced criminal charges in a complex, organized statewide car theft ring. The charges Raoul filed against the man and woman who allegedly…

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Clarissa Mosley, of Chicago, Illinois, has admitted to a counterfeit charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.

Mosley, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of “Possession of Counterfeit…

Orlando, FL – U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell has sentenced Michael T. Watters (51, Ocoee) to six years and five months in federal prison for aggravated identity theft and wire fraud. Watters had pleaded guilty on July 12, 2021.

LOUISVILLE, KY. – A federal jury convicted Joseph Samir Zakhari on September 24, 2021, of multiple child exploitation offenses following a five-day trial held before United States District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings.

According to…

A Texas man was sentenced to 70 months in prison today for conspiring to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, in connection with a scheme to file false tax returns using stolen identities.

Emmanuel Akoto, also…

ROANOKE, Va. – The owner of Seaford and More in Danville, Virginia, was sentenced today to 12 months and one-day in prison for defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by exchanging cash for SNAP benefits.

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NEWARK, N.J. – An Illinois man was arrested today for allegedly using other individuals’ personal identification information to obtain unemployment insurance benefits while he was incarcerated, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced…

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Asante James, of Freeport, Illinois, has admitted to a counterfeit charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.

James, 21, pleaded guilty to one count of “Possession of Counterfeit…

PORTLAND, Maine: A Maryland man was sentenced today in federal court for using counterfeit credit cards, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.

U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., sentenced Charles Harris, 38, to…

A Catoosa woman halted her own jury trial and pleaded guilty Wednesday to a 28-count indictment charging her, in part, with submitting false loan applications totaling $1 million, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson. At the time of…