Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Brandon Dontrail Scroggins, a convicted felon, faces federal charges in the Northern District of Georgia after allegedly threatening Barrow County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm and the Barrow County District Attorney’s Office on the sentencing day for Colin Gray, the father of Apalachee High School mass shooter Colt Gray.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Gainesville, Florida – DaMorie Lamontay Miles, 20, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana and one count of receipt, possession, transfer, or production of a firearm which is not registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
BOSTON – A Chinese national residing in Andover, Mass. was arrested today for submitting a fraudulent voter registration and ballot in the 2024 presidential election in the name of another Chinese national. The defendant also allegedly submitted two fraudulent immigration forms on behalf of the victim, a Chinese national, and his wife, resulting in the confiscation of their Green Cards and causing them to enter into removal proceedings.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
ST. GEORGE, Utah – A Houston, Texas, inmate was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment today and a lifetime of supervised release after he attempted through threats and intimidation from behind bars to transport a victim from Utah to Texas to engage in prostitution while receiving the proceeds.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
SAN DIEGO – Georgina Bribiesca Chavez of Tijuana, Mexico, appeared in federal court today to face a wildlife trafficking charge after she allegedly participated in a years-long scheme to smuggle exotic reptiles into and out of the United States. Chavez’s alleged wildlife trafficking partner, Salvador Pelayo of Chula Vista, was arrested in July and faces a similar federal charge for trafficking exotic wildlife.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Seattle – A repeat offender, who continued to deal methamphetamine and cocaine in Thurston County even as he was on supervised release from a prior conviction, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 132 months in prison, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd.
Source: United States Department of Justice
Memphis, TN – Clayton Bratcher, 25, has been sentenced to fourteen years and one day in prison following his convictions for multiple armed robberies of fast-food restaurants in Memphis. United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant, of the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.According to court documents, officers with the Memphis Police Department Safe Streets Task Force responded to three separate armed business robberies at fast food locations (two McDonald’s locations and a Taco Bell) in the late night through early morning hours, between July 8th and July 9th of 2023. In each instance an individual, later identified as Clayton Bratcher, placed an order in the drive-through. After approaching the window, Bratcher pointed a firearm at employees through the drive-through window and demanded money from the cash register.Bratcher was developed as a suspect through social media and tips from citizens after a media release. Initially, Bratcher was indicted on each robbery by the Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office in state court. However, as part of a plea agreement, two of the three robberies were dismissed by the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office, and Bratcher was sentenced to eight years in state prison as a result.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Seattle – The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women has awarded grants totaling more than $2.3 million for services to survivors of sexual assault, abuse, and stalking, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
DENVER – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Benjamin Smith, 30, of Durango, was sentenced to forty years in federal prison, and a lifetime of supervision after pleading guilty to a count of production of child pornography, committed against 36 victims; a count of coercion and enticement of minors, committed against 11 minors; and a count of attempted coercion and enticement of minors, committed against eight minors. In total, the defendant admitted to victimizing 37 adolescent boys in the Durango area.
Source: United States Department of Justice
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, Harmeet K. Dhillon, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), James C. Barnacle, Jr., and the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), Jessica S. Tisch, announced today that LARRY MONTES was charged with two counts of committing hate crimes in connection with his race- and religious-based assaults of a congregant and a security guard during a Shabbat service at a synagogue in Manhattan on August 14, 2026, as well as one count of destruction of religious property resulting in bodily injury.