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Jan. 23, 2025 ¡ª Arden McCann has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for his role in operating an international narcotics distribution ring over the dark web where millions of counterfeit Xanax pills were imported and sold to customers in the United States.

June 17, 2024 ¡ª Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that William Mayo of Manchester, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to an offense related to the operation of the Electric Blue strip club in Tolland.

August 7, 2023 ¡ª Three members of a San Antonio family pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges related to government contracts fraud for services at U.S. Army medical facilities.

Feb. 13, 2024 ¡ª Gabriel Alva of Winnetka, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine over the dark web, and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

Nov. 19, 2024 ¡ª United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced that on November 19, 2024, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman accepted the guilty plea of William S. Gallagher to one count of failure to truthfully account for and pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in violation of 26 U.S.C. ¡ì 7202.

Dec. 12, 2024 ¡ª United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the indictment and arrest of Liridon Masurica (Gjilan, Kosovo), a Kosovo national also known as ¡°@blackdb.¡± Masurica was taken into custody today by authorities in Kosovo. U.S. authorities are pursuing Masurica¡¯s extradition to the United States, pursuant to the extradition treaty between the United States and the Republic of Kosovo.

Jan. 16, 2025 ¡ª A Nashville man was sentenced to 48 months in prison, and three years of supervised release, for orchestrating a scheme to fraudulently obtain emergency rental assistance designated for households affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. On August 12, 2024, Joe Lewis Jefferson pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and one count of failure to file a tax return. As part of the judgment, Jefferson was also ordered to pay $323,824 in criminal restitution to the U.S. Department of Treasury.

Feb. 3, 2025 ¡ª Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives Terrance John ¡°TJ¡± Cox of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to one count of wire fraud and one count of wire fraud affecting a financial institution, Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith announced.

September 8, 2022 ¡ª Former City of Atlanta Director of Human Services, Mitzi L. Bickers, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for accepting approximately $3 million in bribe money to influence government contracts, money laundering, lying to the City of Atlanta to maintain her salary and cabinet-level position, and failing to disclose more than $600,000 in income on her federal tax return.

Sept. 18, 2024 ¡ª A federal grand jury in Lafayette, Louisiana returned an indictment today charging a former Louisiana assistant district attorney with conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, using his cell phone in furtherance of bribery, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and obstruction of justice.