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A district judge sentenced a Granite City man to 175 months of federal imprisonment after he admitted to driving a minor across state lines and committing criminal sexual assault.   

A Collinsville man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in Nepal.

A Correctional Officer and Correctional Lieutenant employed at Lawrence Correctional Center appeared in federal court Tuesday to admit to conspiring to deprive a restrained inmate of civil rights. 

A district judge added 224 months of additional federal imprisonment to an FCI-Marion inmate’s sentence after he admitted to producing hand-drawn child sexual abuse material while incarcerated. 

A former account technician at Pinckneyville Correctional Center, which is a part of the Illinois Department of Corrections, appeared in district court to plead guilty to federal charges for wire fraud and misapplication of property from federally funded programs. 

A federal district judge sentenced a Carbondale store owner to 46 months’ imprisonment after he admitted to fraudulently acquiring Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (“SNAP”) benefits he and his store were not entitled to receive. 

A district judge sentenced a Metropolis man to 63 months of federal imprisonment after he admitted to attempting to possess with intent to distribute over 54 grams of fentanyl.  

The coordinated effort was executed over the month of June and was designed to promote safe communities in advance of our country’s 250th Birthday.