FBI News

The Southern District of Texas has filed 371 cases in immigration and related matters from March 13-19, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John G.E. Marck.

Anar Rustamov, a national of Azerbaijan, has been charged with perpetrating a large-scale fraud targeting federal health care funds.

Jose Carlos Morales-Gutierrez, 31, a Mexican national who is in the country illegally, has been charged with possession of 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.

During this week of enforcement operations, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona brought immigration-related charges against 185 individuals.

Carlos Luis Vera La Cruz, 45, of Miami, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, bank larceny, and accessing a protected computer in furtherance of fraud.

A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a four-count indictment charging a Guaynabo man with kidnapping and carjacking.

A man from the Turks and Caicos was sentenced to 240 months in prison followed by lifetime supervised release for the sextortion of a Missouri teen.

Michael Deon Woulard, 49, of Gainesville, has pleaded guilty to robbery and two counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime.

Jauan Searcy, 44, a resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 80 months in prison on his conviction of drug trafficking and firearm crimes.

An ongoing investigation into gun violence in the Helena-West Helena area has led to the arrests of seven individuals alleged to have illegally possessed, and in some cases used, firearms.

Jonathan Andrew Felkel, 34, of Columbia, has pleaded guilty to violating the housing rights of his black neighbor, J.M.

Robert Wolfe, Jr., 45, from Sisseton, South Dakota, was sentenced to two years and six months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.

A federal judge sentenced Rick Derrell McIntyre to 35 years in federal prison for leading a Fayetteville area drug conspiracy spanning over a decade.

United States Attorney Clint Johnson announced the results of the March Federal Grand Jury 2025-B Indictments.

Shane Daley, age 40, of Galway, pleaded guilty to cyberstalking for sending harassing and threatening voicemail messages to a family member of murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

A 41-year-old Mahoning County man, Christopher Helmick, has been sentenced to prison for possessing more than 2,700 images and videos of children being sexually abused.

Donald Leroy Smith, Jr., 51, of Woodburn, Oregon, made his initial appearance after threatening to kill a United States Senator.

Edwin Navarro-Artavia and Kyria Navarro-Santiago have been charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The owner of several cemeteries across North Central West Virginia has admitted to taking money intended for grave markers.

Eleven defendants, including two foreign nationals, were arrested on a 15-count federal indictment charging them with executing a fraud scheme.