FBI News

Dwayne Davis was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for sex trafficking a minor.

Four defendants involved in a United States Postal Service bribery scheme were sentenced to a combined 99 months in federal prison.

A Mexican National pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute and distributing narcotics in and around Portland after being extradited from Canada.

Bryan S. Fletcher of Kansas City, Missouri, has been sentenced in federal court for his involvement in an armed assault against a member of a rival motorcycle club.

A former member of the Pagan’s Motorcycle Gang pleaded guilty for his involvement in an armed assault against a member of rival motorcycle club.

Zabdiel Aaron Rothschild of the District of Columbia has been charged with production of child pornography, coercion and enticement of a minor, and other child sex crimes.

Rabih Hamdan, 41, a business owner from Dearborn Heights, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud.

The FBI and partners are releasing this announcement to warn the public and encourage network defenders and device owners to take actions to remediate and reduce the attack surface of edge devices.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy (DOE), and United States Cyber Command – Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), hereafter referred to as the “authoring agencies,” are urgently warning U.S. organizations of ongoing cyber exploitation of internet-connected operational technology (OT) devices, including Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley-manufactured programmable logic controllers (PLCs), across multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors.

The Department of Justice and the FBI announced a court-authorized technical operation to neutralize the U.S. portion of a network of small office/home office (SOHO) routers compromised by a unit within Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) Military Unit 26165, also known as APT28, Sofacy Group, Forest Blizzard, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, and Sednit.

Officials announced a court-authorized technical operation to neutralize the U.S. portion of a network of small office/home office routers compromised by a unit within Russia’s GRU Military Unit 26165.

Ronald Patterson, Jr., 35, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for his involvement in a string of smash and grab burglaries.

Romoy Forbes, 31, a Jamaican national living in Deer Park, New York, has been indicted for allegedly conspiring to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of cargo for resell.

An associate of the violent Boston-based gang, H-Block, was sentenced in federal court in Boston to 51 months in prison for drug conspiracy charges.

A former accounting and real estate executive in Sudbury was sentenced in court in Boston for a multi-year scheme to cheat the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Christopher Barton, 26, a resident of Detroit, Michigan, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months in prison for violating federal narcotics and firearm laws.

George Walters, 78, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to serve 120 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography.

James Strahler II, 37, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S District Court to cybercrimes that included both real and AI-generated sexually explicit images.

Timothy Ray Dale, 64, of Paris, Kentucky, has been sentenced to 360 months in prison for the production of child pornography.

A former financial advisor who stole $8.6 million from friends and relatives over the course of a 20-year Ponzi scheme was sentenced to 60 months in prison.