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You are subscribed to U.S. Attorneys News news updates. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. Greene County Man Pleads Guilty to Sexual Exploitation of a Child 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Albany County Man Indicted for Receiving Child Pornography 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Fulton County Man Charged with Distributing Child Pornography 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Warm Springs Man Pleads Guilty to Assault with a Dangerous Weapon on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT A Warm Springs, Oregon, man pleaded guilty today for assaulting his girlfriend with a pistol on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Alaska Resident Found Guilty of Wire Fraud 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT A federal jury in Portland found Peter Igwacho, 64, a Cameroonian national residing in Anchorage, Alaska, guilty Thursday for wire fraud. District of Arizona Charges 170 Individuals for Immigration-Related Criminal Conduct this Week 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT PHOENIX, Ariz. – During the week of enforcement operations from August 16, 2025, through August 22, 2025, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona brought immigration-related criminal charges against 170 individuals. Rochester man pleads guilty to drug and gun charges 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Brandon Washington a/k/a B Mack, 40, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 100 kilograms or more of marijuana, and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a fine of $8,000,000.     Vallejo Man Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Illegal Possession of Ammunition 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Jeffrey Caldwell, 37, of Vallejo, was sentenced today to 14 years and seven months in prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition. Chinese National Sentenced to 24 months in prison for Scam Targeting Elderly Americans 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT SAN DIEGO – Jiaci Liu, a Chinese national, was sentenced in federal court today to 24 months in prison for engaging in a multinational fraud conspiracy targeting seniors, including a 63-year-old man from Poway who exposed the scam by reporting his suspicions to authorities. Today's sentence is in addition to three months Liu already served in state custody before his case was charged federally. Liu was originally arrested in February 2024 and charged by the San Diego District Attorney's Office. He was transferred to federal custody in May 2024, when he was charged by federal criminal complaint for his role in the conspiracy. Crimes are sometimes transferred from state to federal prosecutors because federal law allows for the prosecution of offenses that involve victims beyond the state's jurisdiction. Stockton Man Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison for Trafficking Firearms on Instagram 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Julian Arellano-Taylor, 21, of Stockton, was sentenced today to nine years in prison for dealing firearms without a license and distribution of cocaine. Lewiston Man Pleads Guilty to Cyberstalking 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Brent Ouellette, 33, posted sexually explicit videos or pictures of his victim online. Mexican National Sentenced for Illegally Reentering the US After a Prior Removal 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Miguel Gomez-Sanchez, 45, had previously been removed from the U.S. several times. U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Mexico Weekly Immigration and Border Crimes Report 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Today, the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Mexico announced its immigration enforcement statistics for this week.  U.S. Attorney's Office Filed 103 Border-Related Cases This Week 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT SAN DIEGO – Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of California filed 103 border-related cases this week, including charges of bringing in aliens for financial gain, reentering the U.S. after deportation, and importation of controlled substances. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California is the fourth-busiest federal district, largely due to a high volume of border-related crimes. This district, encompassing San Diego and Imperial counties, shares a 140-mile border with Mexico. It includes the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the world's busiest land border crossing, connecting San Diego (America's eighth largest city) and Tijuana (Mexico's second largest city Teacher's Aide at New York City Public School Charged With Child Pornography Offenses 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT                           Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Alejandro F. Santos was arraigned on an indictment charging him with transportation of child pornography and possession of child pornography.  Santos was arrested on a complaint in July 2025.  At the time of his arrest, Santos was employed by the New York City Department of Education as a teacher's aide at a public school in the Bronx for children with disabilities.   Man Pleads Guity to Murder in Drive-By Shooting 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Korriek Akinola, 24, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to murder for his role in a 2023 drive-by shooting that resulted in the death of Joshua White, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. Convicted Sex Offender Pleads Guilty to New Charges of Sexually Exploiting Children on Long Island 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Earlier today, in federal courthouse in Central Islip, Anthony Pangallo, a previously convicted sex offender, pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child and, during the plea hearing, admitted to soliciting and receiving sexually explicit images and videos from four young female victims.   Shooting That Killed One Man and Wounded Another Leads to Guilty Plea 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Walter Jenkins, 36, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty yesterday to second-degree murder while armed and assault with a dangerous weapon for the November 2021 shooting of two men, killing one and wounding another, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.  Atwater Prison Inmate Indicted for Threatening to Kill Prosecutor's Family 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT A federal grand jury returned an indictment Thursday against Stanislav Yelizarov, 35, an inmate in the United States Penitentiary, Atwater, charging him with threatening the family of a federal official. Vacaville Man Pleads Guilty to Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Armond Bass, 40, of Vacaville, pleaded guilty Thursday to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. SDTX files a whopping 372 new cases this week as part of ongoing Operation Take Back America efforts 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT A total of 376 people have been charged from Aug. 15-21 in continuing efforts to secure the southern border Gambian Man, First Non-U.S. National Convicted of Torture, Sentenced to More Than 67 Years in Prison 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Michael Sang Correa, 46, was sentenced today to 810 months in prison by Senior Judge Christine M. Arguello for the District of Colorado after being convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit torture and five counts of torture. Correa's actions included burning victims' flesh with molten plastic and subjecting them to repeated, vicious beatings over the course of weeks using a variety of weapons. San Diego Man Sentenced to More Than 21 Years for Sexual Exploitation of 14-Year-Old Girl 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT SAN DIEGO – Eric Jin of San Diego was sentenced in federal court today to 262 months in prison for sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl by directing her to produce child sex abuse material. Jin was indicted on May 15, 2024, and pleaded guilty in October 2024, admitting he ordered the young victim to take sexually graphic pictures of herself without clothing in December 2022 and again in February 2023. The girl did as Jin directed. Dominican Republic Man Pleads Guilty for Role in a Fentanyl and Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT Guatemalan Man Sentenced for Harboring an Illegal Alien Who Crossed from Canada into the United States 08/22/2025 08:00 AM EDT

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