WASHINGTON - A U.S. citizen has been arrested in Ohio and charged with conspiring to support terrorist activities both at home and abroad. 
The U.S. Justice Department describes the man, 43-year-old Christopher Paul, as a “violent jihadist.”
Paul was arrested Wednesday and charged with one count of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction in the […]

WASHINGTON — A former acrobatic performer who resides in Orlando, Fla., was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges of inducing aliens to enter the United States illegally and making false statements in visa applications, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher and Acting U.S. Attorney James R. Klindt for the Middle District of Florida […]

WASHINGTON — Miami resident Kent Frank was convicted of eight counts of sex tourism and child pornography charges following a five-week trial in federal court, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida announced today.
After less than two days of deliberations […]

WASHINGTON — Sinclair Tulsa Refining Company, a subsidiary of major oil and gasoline producer Sinclair Oil, and two company managers, were sentenced today for environmental crimes related to the operation of the Tulsa Refinery.
The court ordered Sinclair to pay a $5 million criminal penalty and to make a community service payment of $500,000 to the […]

Biloxi Attorney Paul Minor and Two Former Mississippi State Court Judges Convicted for Role in Bribery Scheme
WASHINGTON — A federal jury in Jackson, Miss., has convicted Biloxi attorney Paul S. Minor, former Mississippi state chancery court judge Walter W. Teel, and former Mississippi state court circuit judge John H. Whitfield of charges related to their […]

WASHINGTON — A former New Mexico corrections officer, John Gould, was found guilty today by a federal jury in Albuquerque, N.M., of physically assaulting two prisoners, one at the Dona Ana County Detention Center in October 2002, and another inmate at the Cibola County Detention Center in March 2004, in violation of their constitutional rights. […]

Defendant Agrees to 50 years for Arson involving the Family Dollar Store
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE – Anthony Paul Shaw pled guilty before U. S. District Judge Samuel H. Mays to three counts of arson announced David Kustoff, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. The Plea Agreement provides that the parties have agreed to a sentence […]

WASHINGTON — A Bulgarian member of a transnational criminal group has been arrested on U.S. charges by law enforcement authorities in Budapest, Hungary, in connection with an elaborate Internet scheme responsible for defrauding American citizens of over $350,000, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and FBI Assistant Director Chip Burrus of […]

WASHINGTON — Robert Lewis Young of Detroit was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison for running a criminal operation prostituting adults and children, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and Steven J. Murphy, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan announced.
Following the 25-year sentence in federal prison, Young […]

Indictment Charges Defendant Traveled from New York to Nebraska to Engage in Sexual Activity with a Minor
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Suffolk County resident John Monetti, 38, a former Long Island school teacher and elementary school principal, was arrested this morning on federal charges relating to child exploitation, announced U.S. Attorney Roslynn R. Mauskopf for the […]

AMARILLO, Texas — Jeffery Fulton, Special Agent in Charge of the National Response Team, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Steve Ross, Fire Chief for the City of Amarillo, announced today that they have completed their on scene investigation and classified as undetermined the cause of the Feb. 26 fire that severely […]

BOSTON — A Fall River man pleaded guilty in federal court late yesterday to narcotics charges stemming from a joint investigation by federal, state and local authorities aimed at reducing violent crime and drug dealing in the Fall River area.
United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan; Glenn N. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau […]

ST. LOUIS — Michael J. Devlin has been indicted on federal charges of production of child pornography and transportation of a minor for a criminal sex act, U.S. Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway of the Eastern District of Missouri announced today.
Devlin, 41, of Kirkwood, Mo., was indicted by a federal grand jury earlier today on four […]

BIRMINGHAM — Special Agent in Charge James Cavanaugh of the Nashville Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); Alice Martin, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama and Special Agent in Charge Carmen Adams of the FBI Birmingham Field Division announced today that Dedrick Lamon Griham, 36 of Birmingham, […]

MIAMI - U.S. officials have charged two men with helping thousands of people travel to Cuba with fraudulent religious visas. Authorities say the suspects used bogus church names and other information to avoid travel restrictions to the Communist island.
U.S. officials announced the indictment following a months-long probe that involved local police, immigration officials and the […]

WASHINGTON — A Special Agent with the U.S. Department of Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) pleaded guilty today to a charge of conspiring to defraud three Jacksonville, Fla., banks of $106,000, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today.
A seven-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Jacksonville […]

HOUSTON - Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon is sending more than 3,000 troops to two states on the US border, across from the US state of Texas. The military deployment is part of the anti-organized crime effort he began shortly after taking office on December 1 of last year.
In all 3,300 Mexican soldiers, sailors and federal […]

WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced today that it has signed an agreement with the German Federal Police (Bundeskriminalant or BKA) that will allow the Germans to use ATF’s eTrace system to electronically trace crime guns seized in their country.
The agreement, signed this week by ATF National Tracing Center […]

LOS ANGELES - International law enforcement authorities now meeting in Los Angeles say the problem of violent street gangs crosses borders. Officials from Canada, Mexico, and Central America have joined their U.S. counterparts in a three-day gang summit ending Friday.
Authorities from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Belize are contending with street gangs that started in […]

OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against Scott William Johnson, 34, of Lawton, Okla. for using the Internet to arrange a sexual encounter with a person who he believed to be a 13-year-old girl, U.S. Attorney John C. Richter of the Western District of Oklahoma announced today.
According to the indictment, […]

BUDAPEST - Austria says it has uncovered a child pornography network involving more than 2,300 people in 77 countries. People allegedly paid to view videos via the Internet of young children being sexually abused.  Many of the children are believed to be eastern European.
Speaking in Vienna, Austrian officials described the content on a Russian website […]

WASHINGTON — Neal Chapman Coombs, a 50-year-old resident of Hastings, Fla., was sentenced today to 14 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, the Justice Department announced today. Coombs pleaded guilty on August 16, 2006 to a racially motivated civil rights crime involving a cross burning.
In August 2006, Coombs was […]

THE HAGUE - In a historic decision, judges at the International Criminal Court are poised to begin hearing their first case. Judges found there was enough evidence against Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga to send him to trial for recruiting and using child soldiers to fight his war in the eastern Ituri region of the […]

ROANOAKE, VA — United States Attorney John L. Brownlee announced today that eight more defendants have been sentenced this week in relation to a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy in Augusta and Rockingham Counties that involved the distribution of methamphetamine to high school students. A total of sixteen defendants have now been sentenced in this case.
Matthew A. […]

WASHINGTON — Two former supervisors at the Winston-Choctaw County Regional Correctional Facility in Louisville, Miss., pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges relating to physical assaults on prisoners at the facility in October 2001.
Former Captain David Mitchell pleaded guilty to one felony count of violating the civil rights of inmate Jimmy Commer by violently assaulting […]