FBI News

Officials provided an update on increased federal prosecutions and strategies implemented to combat violent crime in Chicago and the surrounding area.

A district judge sentenced a former Belleville attorney to spend 90 months in federal prison after he admitted to embezzling more than $1 million from his clients.

The former director of Fleet and Facilities for Boston Public Schools’ (BPS) fleet of school buses was arrested and charged for allegedly soliciting bribes.

A naturalized U.S. citizen from Bosnia and Herzegovina pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to her lying about her prior criminal conduct to obtain U.S. citizenship.

Two men involved in a southwestern Connecticut narcotics trafficking ring were sentenced to 84 months and 40 months in prison.

Martin DeJesus Maldonado, Jr., 44, of Lee County, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.

A Forsyth County, North Carolina, man was sentenced in Winston-Salem to a total of more than 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to felon in possession of a firearm.

A federal jury in Miami convicted a Malaysian national for abusive sexual contact of a minor aboard a cruise ship sailing in international waters.

Douglas Wayne Cornett of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was sentenced to life in prison in federal court after he pleaded guilty to two federal hate crime charges.

Three men have been sentenced to decades in federal prison for their roles in a violent alien smuggling and kidnapping conspiracy.

Troy R. Loadholt, a multi-convicted felon, will spend the next 25 years in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine conspiracy.

Oleksandr Didenko pleaded guilty in connection with a years-long scheme that stole the identities of U.S. citizens and sold them to North Korean IT workers.

Michael Anthony McCoy of Roanoke, who robbed multiple Truist Banks in October 2022, was sentenced on October 17 to 10 years in federal prison.

Eugene Campbell IV was charged with two counts of Hobbs Act robbery and two counts of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

FBI Indianapolis is participating in the first-of-its-kind Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF), which coordinates law enforcement efforts nationwide to crush violent crime.

A Neshoba County man pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.

Armoni Tyree Moody was found guilty of carjacking, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime, and possessing ammunition as a convicted felon.

Matthew Reid Davisson was sentenced to four years and five months in federal prison for possessing destructive devices that were not registered to him.

John Hill was sentenced to seven years in federal prison for possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) involving young children.

United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announces the return of an indictment charging Clarence Gardener with one count of wire fraud.