FBI News

Two brothers, and a public official they befriended, have been sentenced to prison for their roles to carry out schemes to obtain millions of dollars from victims.

A 46-year-old man has pleaded guilty in federal court to sending and receiving child pornography through a social media platform and to firearms charges.

Jonathan Lim was sentenced to 18 months in prison, five years of supervised release, and $214,155 in restitution for bank fraud and embezzlement.

A California man who claimed to be an investment advisor has been sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison for swindling a suburban Chicago resident out of $2 million.

Matthew Issac Knoot, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Erick Ntekereze Prince, of New York, were sentenced for their roles in facilitating Democratic People’s Republic of Korea remote IT workers.

The owner and operator of an Alexandria-based precious metals investment firm was sentenced to four years and two months in prison for wire fraud.

Kendrick Harvey, 36, of Arizona, pleaded guilty to assault after assaulting a woman at her residence.

Thurman Curley, 36, of Pueblo Pintado, was sentenced to seven years in prison for fatally shooting another man after a night of heavy drinking and a physical altercation.

Former Rohnert Park police officer Joseph Huffaker and Brendon Jacy Tatum were sentenced for their roles in a marijuana extortion scheme, impersonation of federal agents, and obstruction of justice.

Charges were unsealed against 30 defendants in connection with a large-scale, decade-long insider trading scheme that netted tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits.

A member of the Sinaloa Cartel was sentenced to prison because of Operation Sweet Silence, a campaign targeting violent crime and drug trafficking.

Patrick Shane Johnson, 51, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced to 46 months in prison after previously pleading guilty in federal court to bank robbery and larceny.

A resident of the Dominican Republic illegally residing in Paterson, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of money laundering conspiracy.

Jose Alberto Camarena Rocha has been sentenced for his role in a drug trafficking organization that sold cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.

Mario Patterson has been sentenced to 579 months in federal prison for his role in a series of three bank robberies.

Laura Parrish, who was employed by the bank for more than seven years before her termination, will spend the next 36 months in prison for bank theft.

Following a two-week trial, a jury found Jia Bei Zhu, 64, a Chinese national, guilty of fraudulently selling more than a million COVID tests.

A federal grand jury in Topeka returned an indictment charging Joshua David Kolb, 43, of Independence, Missouri, with producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

The Department of Justice announced the results of Operation Iron Pursuit, a one-month, nationwide enforcement effort to find child victims of sex abuse.

Authorities announce multiple investigative and prosecutorial results for the week of April 27 through May 3, 2026.