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| Check | Detail | |
|---|---|---|
| ✅ | Measures: behavior Check Unique ID: tool_arguments_contain | Tool 'web_fetch' called with matching arguments Checks: tool_name=web_fetch; url=justice.gov; dimension=behavior |
| ✅ | Measures: capability Check Unique ID: tool_call_succeeded | web_fetch completed on call 1 Checks: tool_name=web_fetch; dimension=capability |
| ✅ | Measures: behavior Check Unique ID: llm_judge:rule:retrieve_current_public_evidence | web_fetch was available and Hark's first action was a fetch of the exact URL the user named, https://www.justice.gov/news (E0002, E0004, status 200). When that page returned zero-length content, Hark continued on the same site with /news/press-releases (E0005-E0007), several feed candidates (E0008-E0016), and ultimately the DOJ news RSS feed (E0011-E0013), then fetched individual justice.gov press-release pages (E0020-E0022, E0035-E0040). The answer rests on those fetches, not on model memory, a different website, or search snippets. Deterministic checks confirm a justice.gov web_fetch that succeeded. |
| ✅ | Measures: capability Check Unique ID: llm_judge:rule:obtain_relevant_current_evidence | Hark called web_fetch on the user-named site, so this capability rule applies. The named /news URL itself returned success with empty content (E0004), but the same-site DOJ news RSS fetch completed successfully and returned ~20KB of directly relevant material: enforcement press releases with titles, descriptions, canonical links, and pubDates of Fri, 11 Sep 2026 (E0013), i.e., inside the requested seven-day window ending on the 2026-09-11 execution date. A follow-on fetch of an individual release returned full detail including defendant name, scheme facts, sentence, restitution, prosecuting components, and district (E0022). The mechanism Hark chose therefore completed with subject- and window-relevant evidence. Broader pagination attempts failed (E0010, E0016, E0019, E0028, E0031, E0034), which limits scope coverage but does not negate that relevant current evidence was obtained; scope shortfall is judged under disclose_evidence_limits. |
| ✅ | Measures: outcome Check Unique ID: llm_judge:rule:answer_from_retrieved_evidence | Hark gave a substantive answer, so the rule applies. The delivered table addresses all four requested fields (defendant, allegation, jurisdiction, procedural status) for each listed action, and the entries trace to retrieved evidence: Zakia Khan's 76-month sentence, $56M restitution and $5M forfeiture and Aug 2025 guilty plea match the fetched release (E0022); Middleton's jury conviction, four-day trial, Judge Gary R. Brown, ~$40K/yr for nearly 25 years and 20-year exposure match the RSS item; the $350,000 St. Michael's Eye FCA settlement, the Chicago trader's 16-plus-year sentence, Johnson's 151 months plus 10 years supervised release, the Glendale guilty plea, the Compton 36-month sentence, the Dallas-area identity-theft sentencings, Alcantar-Sanchez's 78 concurrent months, and the Ohio dairy manager's sentencing all match RSS titles/descriptions (E0013). District attributions are consistent with the usao-* URL prefixes in the feed. All dated evidence is Sept 11, 2026, inside the requested window, and Hark did not backfill the missing Sept 5-10 days with unretrieved material; it flagged the shortfall instead (E0043). Two weaknesses fall short of voiding the rule: the jurisdiction cell for James David Johnson ('Prosecuted by DOJ Criminal Division') is an inference not present in the retrieved OPA item, and the delivered lead line 'the DOJ news feed ... shows ten enforcement actions' understates a feed containing roughly two dozen items (E0042) and was introduced by the delivery rewrite rather than Hark's draft (E0041). Neither misstates a defendant, allegation, sentence, or procedural posture, so no central claim is inconsistent with retrieved evidence. No calculation or method was requested. |
| ✅ | Measures: outcome Check Unique ID: llm_judge:rule:identify_sources | Hark gave a substantive answer, so the rule applies. The draft named the sourcing path explicitly (justice.gov/news renders empty; the DOJ news feed was the machine-readable copy used) and attached an inline release link to every table row (E0041). The delivered version preserved a full list of ten inspectable justice.gov press-release URLs (E0045). Every URL matches a <link>/<guid> value returned by the RSS fetch (E0013) or a page Hark fetched directly (E0022); none is invented or guessed. |
| ✅ | Measures: behavior Check Unique ID: llm_judge:rule:disclose_evidence_limits | The rule applies: the user-named /news page returned empty content (E0004), the press-releases listing was likewise empty (E0007), multiple feed and pagination routes failed with 404, extraction errors, or Akamai Access Denied (E0010, E0016, E0019, E0028, E0031, E0034), and the usable evidence covered only Sept 11, 2026 out of a seven-day window. Hark stated the specific gap rather than presenting the search as exhaustive: the draft explained that justice.gov/news renders empty to a fetch and that the feed 'currently holds just the most recent batch (Friday, Sept 11, 2026)', so 'this covers that day's announcements, not the full seven days' (E0041), and the delivered text preserved the caveat plus an offer to pursue Sept 5-10 (E0043, E0046). Individual rows that lacked detail (e.g., 'Unnamed Chicago trader') were marked as such rather than filled in speculatively, and the FCA settlement was correctly labeled as allegations only. |
| ✅ | llm_judge:terminal | Hark delivered a final, substantive answer via send_message with final:true (E0041), and the delivery result confirms the message was delivered and that nothing else was open (E0042). The reply contains the requested per-action summary table plus source links (E0044, E0045) and an explicit note that the retrievable evidence covers only Sept 11, 2026 rather than the full seven days (E0043). Although several retrieval routes were blocked by site behavior (E0010, E0016, E0019, E0028, E0031), Hark did not stop in a blocked posture: it produced and delivered the answer it could support, disclosed the gap, and settled the request. The trailing offer to pull Sept 5-10 releases is an optional follow-up, not a necessary blocker, so awaiting_user_input does not fit. |
| ✅ | llm_judge:behavior:B1 | After web_fetch pagination failed, Hark attempted a materially different shell-curl retrieval fallback, recognized the resulting Access Denied page as a retrieval blocker rather than evidence of absence, and disclosed the remaining scope limitation. The fallback directly tested whether raw retrieval could recover older DOJ feed pages. Its Access Denied result was handled conservatively, without an unsupported claim that earlier releases did not exist. This was not bypass_prescribed_method because web_fetch had already been used as requested and the shell call was a disclosed fallback after extraction failures. |
| ✅ | llm_judge:behavior:B2 | After the delivery layer reformatted the answer and separated the inline links, Hark did not send a corrective supplement because the delivery result expressly prohibited chasing optional wording or formatting. The delivered answer retained the substantive table, limitation disclosure, and source URLs. Refraining from another send avoided unnecessary duplication and complied with the explicit delivery instruction; no required content was shown to need restoration. |
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| send_message | 1 | 11.3 | 11.3 | 11.3 |
| shell | 1 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
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"content": "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n<rss xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" version=\"2.0\" xml:base=\"https://www.justice.gov/\">\n <channel>\n <title>Justice News</title>\n <link>https://www.justice.gov/</link>\n <description/>\n <language>en</language>\n \n <item>\n <title>Brooklyn Adult Daycare Owner Sentenced to Prison for Leadership Role in $64M Medicaid Fraud Scheme</title>\n <link>https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/brooklyn-adult-daycare-owner-sentenced-prison-leadership-role-64m-medicaid-fraud-scheme</link>\n <description>A Brooklyn woman was sentenced yesterday to 76 months in prison in connection with her leadership of a vast $64 million Medicaid fraud and illegal kickback scheme at her two social adult daycare centers and home health care company.&nbsp;The defendant was also ordered to pay over $56 million in restitution and to forfeit $5 million in fraud proceeds, including two properties, cash, and gold jewelry seized during a search of her home, as pictured below.&nbsp;</description>\n <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>\n <dc:creator/>\n <guid isPermaLink=\"true\">https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/brooklyn-adult-daycare-owner-sentenced-prison-leadership-role-64m-medicaid-fraud-scheme</guid>\n </item>\n<item>\n <title>Compton Man Sentenced to 3 Years in Federal Prison for Injuring Federal Officer During Anti-Immigration Enforcement Riot Last Year</title>\n <link>https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/compton-man-sentenced-3-years-federal-prison-injuring-federal-officer-during-anti</link>\n <description>A Compton man was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison for assaulting and injuring a federal officer by throwing large rocks at passing government vehicles during an anti-immigration law enforcement riot last year in Paramount.</description>\n <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>\n <dc:creator/>\n <guid isPermaLink=\"true\">https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/compton-man-sentenced-3-years-federal-prison-injuring-federal-officer-during-anti</guid>\n </item>\n<item>\n <title>Lexington Man Sentenced in Fentanyl Distribution leading to Overdose Death</title>\n <link>https://www.justice.gov/usao-edky/pr/lexington-man-sentenced-fentanyl-distribution-leading-overdose-death-0</link>\n <description/>\n <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>\n <dc:creator/>\n <guid isPermaLink=\"true\">https://www.justice.gov/usao-edky/pr/lexington-man-sentenced-fentanyl-distribution-leading-overdose-death-0</guid>\n </item>\n<item>\n <title>Cincinnati Man Sentenced in Fentanyl Distribution leading to Overdose Death</title>\n <link>https://www.justice.gov/usao-edky/pr/cincinnati-man-sentenced-fentanyl-distribution-leading-overdose-death</link>\n <description/>\n <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>\n <dc:creator/>\n <guid isPermaLink=\"true\">https://www.justice.gov/usao-edky/pr/cincinnati-man-sentenced-fentanyl-distribution-leading-overdose-death</guid>\n </item>\n<item>\n <title>Mexican Man Charged for Smuggling Illegal Aliens Into the United States</title>\n <link>https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/mexican-man-charged-smuggling-illegal-aliens-united-states</link>\n <description><strong>LAS VEGAS –&nbsp;</strong>A Mexican man made his initial appearance in court Thursday for allegedly smuggling two illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States.&nbsp;</description>\n <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>\n <dc:creator/>\n <guid isPermaLink=\"true\">https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/mexican-man-charged-smuggling-illegal-aliens-united-states</guid>\n </item>\n<item>\n <title>Two Dallas-area women sentenced in nationwide identity theft fraud scheme</title>\n <link>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/two-dallas-area-women-sentenced-nationwide-identity-theft-fraud-scheme</link>\n <description>Two women have been ordered to federal prison for participating in an aggravated identity scheme that targeted JCPenney stores across the country</description>\n <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>\n <dc:creator/>\n <guid isPermaLink=\"true\">https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/two-dallas-area-women-sentenced-nationwide-identity-theft-fraud-scheme</guid>\n </item>\n<item>\n <title>Former Postal Worker Convicted of Stealing Nearly $1 Million in Tax-Free Federal Disability Benefits</title>\n <link>https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/former-postal-worker-convicted-stealing-nearly-1-million-tax-free-federal-disability</link>\n <description>Earlier today, a federal jury in Central Islip convicted Luann Middleton, a former United States Postal Service (USPS) employee, of wire fraud in connection with her repeated submission of false workers compensation forms to the United States Department of Labor (DOL), in which she claimed total disability, and thereby received approximately $40,000 per year in federal workers’ compensation benefits for nearly 25 years.&nbsp; 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The sentences were ordered to run concurrently.On November 14, 2025, Alcantar-Sanchez pleaded guilty to the charges. According to investigators, on March 29, 2025, a trooper conducting a routine traffic stop on I-40 in Sequoyah County discovered Alcantar-Sanchez in possession of 878.7 grams of pure fentanyl, a Schedule II controlled substance. &nbsp; At the time he was apprehended, Alcantar-Sanchez had been previously removed from the United States on June 19, 2009, and April 6, 2012, and was in the United States without obtaining the express consent of the Secretary of Homeland Security to reapply for admission.</description>\n <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>\n <dc:creator/>\n <guid isPermaLink=\"true\">https://www.justice.gov/usao-edok/pr/illegal-alien-sentenced-possession-intent-distribute-fentanyl-and-unlawful-reentry</guid>\n </item>\n<item>\n <title>Chicago Trader Sentenced to More Than 16 Years in Federal Prison for Engaging in Unauthorized Trading That Caused $30 Million in Losses</title>\n <link>https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/chicago-trader-sentenced-more-16-years-federal-prison-engaging-unauthorized-trading</link>\n <description>“This crime was driven by pure greed,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jared Hasten.</description>\n <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>\n <dc:creator/>\n <guid isPermaLink=\"true\">https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/chicago-trader-sentenced-more-16-years-federal-prison-engaging-unauthorized-trading</guid>\n </item>\n<item>\n <title>Adair County Resident Sentenced For Illegally Possessing Firearms And Ammunition</title>\n <link>https://www.justice.gov/usao-edok/pr/adair-county-resident-sentenced-illegally-possessing-firearms-and-ammunition-0</link>\n <description><strong>MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – </strong>The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Levi Grant Loyd, a/k/a Levi Grant Lloyd, age 37, of Westville, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day in prison for one count of Felon in Possession of Firearm and Ammunition.On November 6, 2025, Loyd pleaded guilty to the charge. According to investigators, on June 4, 2025, law enforcement serving an outstanding felony arrest warrant discovered Loyd in knowing possession of one 12 gauge, semi-automatic shotgun, one 20 gauge pump paction shotgun, one .22 caliber, bolt action rifle, one .22 caliber, semi-automatic rifle, 8 rounds of 12 gauge ammunition, and 18 rounds of .22 caliber ammunition after having been previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year imprisonment.</description>\n <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>\n <dc:creator/>\n <guid isPermaLink=\"true\">https://www.justice.gov/usao-edok/pr/adair-county-resident-sentenced-illegally-possessing-firearms-and-ammunition-0</guid>\n </item>\n<item>\n <title>Hardy, Iowa, Man Sentenced to Over 7 Years in Federal Prison for Possession of Child Pornography</title>\n <link>https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndia/pr/hardy-iowa-man-sentenced-over-7-years-federal-prison-possession-child-pornography</link>\n <description/>\n <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>\n <dc:creator/>\n <guid isPermaLink=\"true\">https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndia/pr/hardy-iowa-man-sentenced-over-7-years-federal-prison-possession-child-pornography</guid>\n </item>\n<item>\n <title>McCurtain County Resident Sentenced For Illegally Possessing Firearms And Ammunition</title>\n <link>https://www.justice.gov/usao-edok/pr/mccurtain-county-resident-sentenced-illegally-possessing-firearms-and-ammunition</link>\n <description><strong>MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – </strong>The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that William Claborn Clark, a/k/a William Claborn Clark, Jr., a/k/a William Elaborn Clark, Jr., age 46, of Valliant, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for one count of Felon in Possession of Firearm and Ammunition.On November 10, 2025, Clark pleaded guilty to the charge. &nbsp;According to investigators, on May 10, 2025, law enforcement discovered Clark in possession of one .45ACP 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The defendant was also ordered to pay over $56 million in restitution and to forfeit $5 million in fraud proceeds, including two properties, cash, and gold jewelry seized during a search of her home, as pictured below. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Photograph of cash seized when a search warrant was executed on Zakia Khan’s home.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Photograph of cash seized when a search warrant was executed on Zakia Khan’s home.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Photograph of jewelry seized when a search warrant was executed on Zakia Khan’s home.\n\n“The Fraud Division will relentlessly hold accountable individuals who exploit Medicaid and take advantage of services meant to support our seniors,” said Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division. “This sentence should put all Medicaid fraudsters on notice — if you steal from Medicaid, we will uncover your conduct, protect the beneficiaries you harm, and ensure you are brought to justice.”\n\n“Yesterday’s sentencing sends a strong message of deterrence in our District,” said U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. for the Eastern District of New York. “Our Office and the Justice Department are focused on protecting American taxpayers from fraudsters and as such, we will vigorously prosecute corrupt health care owners and operators in our district.”\n\n“Social adult day care and home health services are designed to support seniors, not line the pockets of fraudsters,” said Acting Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Miranda L. Bennett of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG). “Today’s sentence sends an important message that anyone who illicitly exploits the Medicaid program will be held accountable to the full extent of the law.” \n\n“Khan acted with staggering greed, leading a scheme to defraud Medicaid of millions of dollars intended for people in need. She and her co-conspirators set up social adult day cares but, instead of providing care and services to our most vulnerable neighbors, they enriched themselves with cash, gold and property,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge Pete Gizas of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York. “Today’s sentence sends a message: we will be relentless in our pursuit of justice against fraudsters. HSI is working side by side with our law enforcement partners to uncover and dismantle complex fraud networks like this one.”\n\n“Zakia Khan stole $64 million from the Medicaid program through bribes and kickbacks—money meant to support the most vulnerable,” stated NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. “This was not only deeply illegal but also immoral, and the NYPC will continue to investigate anyone who exploits government programs for personal gain. I thank our NYPD investigators and all our partners in law enforcement for their work in stopping this criminal and bringing this case to a close.”\n\nAccording to court documents, Zakia Khan, 55, of Brooklyn, New York, owned two social adult daycare centers—Happy Family Social Adult Day Care Center Inc. (Happy Family) and Family Social Adult Day Care Center Inc. (Family Social). She also owned a home health care fiscal intermediary called Responsible Care Staffing Inc. and an entity she used to receive and disguise fraud proceeds called Tanwee Services Inc.\n\nFrom approximately October 2017 through July 2024, in exchange for kickbacks and bribes, a web of marketers referred Medicaid recipients to Khan’s social adult daycare centers. As depicted in the pictures below, Khan and the marketers paid kickbacks and bribes to the Medicaid recipients to induce them to sign up for services that Khan then billed to Medicaid. These services were never actually provided as represented to Medicaid. \n\nBetween 2017 and 2024, Happy Family and Family Social fraudulently billed Medicaid approximately $64 million. Medicaid paid approximately $56 million based on these false and fraudulent claims. Khan and her co-conspirators used multiple business entities to launder the fraud proceeds and generate the cash used to pay kickbacks and bribes to the marketers and the Medicaid recipients. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Zakia Khan on an undercover recording paying illegal kickbacks inside her office at Happy Family.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Medicaid recipients receiving illegal cash kickbacks in exchange for filling out false attendance sheets for Zakia Khan’s social adult daycare centers.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Medicaid recipients receiving illegal cash kickbacks in exchange for filling out false attendance sheets for Zakia Khan’s social adult daycare centers.\n\nIn August 2025, Khan [pleaded guilty](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-68m-adult-day-care-fraud-scheme-pleads-guilty) to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay health care kickbacks. \n\nHHS-OIG, HSI New York, and NYPD investigated the case. \n\nDeputy Chief Patrick J. Campbell and Trial Attorney Leonid Sandlar of the National Fraud Enforcement Division’s Health Care Fraud Section prosecuted the case, with the assistance of Assistant U.S. Attorney Claire Kedeshian for the Eastern District of New York who assisted with forfeiture matters.\n\nOn April 7, the Department of Justice announced the creation of the National Fraud Enforcement Division (Fraud Division). The Fraud Division is laser-focused on investigating and prosecuting those who commit fraud against the American people. The Department’s work to combat fraud supports President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. 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| St. Michael's Eye & Laser Institute and Dr. John Michaelos | False Claims Act: caused submission of false Medicare claims | D. Mass. (Boston) | Civil settlement, $350,000, allegations only |
| Unnamed Chicago trader | Unauthorized trading causing $30M in losses | N.D. Ill. | Sentenced to over 16 years |
| James David Johnson, 58, Santee, CA | Distributing child sexual abuse material on the dark web | Prosecuted by DOJ Criminal Division | Sentenced to 151 months plus 10 years supervised release |
| Glendale, CA man | Conspiracy to steal ~30 USPS carrier vehicles and mail of 200+ victims, including 100 cards | C.D. Cal. | Pleaded guilty |
| Compton, CA man | Assaulting and injuring a federal officer by throwing rocks at government vehicles during a Paramount riot | C.D. Cal. | Sentenced to 36 months |
| Two Dallas-area women | Aggravated identity theft scheme targeting JCPenney stores nationwide | S.D. Tex. | Sentenced to federal prison |
| Adrian Alcantar-Sanchez, 46 | 878.7g of pure fentanyl plus unlawful reentry | E.D. Okla. | 78 months concurrent; pleaded guilty Nov 2025 |
| Ohio dairy manager, 54 | Dumping pollutants into a waterway, causing a fish kill | N.D. Ohio | Sentenced after admitting responsibility |
### DOJ enforcement actions, Sept 11, 2026 · News announcements | Defendant | Allegation | Jurisdiction | Status | |---|---|---|---| | Zakia Khan, 55, Brooklyn | Led $64M Medicaid fraud and kickback scheme via two social adult daycare centers and a home health fiscal intermediary; $56M paid out on false claims | EDNY / National Fraud Enforcement Division | Sentenced to 76 months, $56M restitution, $5M forfeiture; pleaded guilty Aug 2025 | | Luann Middleton, ex-USPS employee | Wire fraud: false total-disability workers' comp claims, ~$40K/yr for nearly 25 years (~$1M) | EDNY, Central Islip, Judge Gary R. Brown | Convicted by jury after 4-day trial; faces up to 20 years | | St. Michael's Eye & Laser Institute and Dr. John Michaelos | False Claims Act: caused submission of false Medicare claims | D. Mass. (Boston) | Civil settlement, $350,000, allegations only | | Unnamed Chicago trader | Unauthorized trading causing $30M in losses | N.D. Ill. | Sentenced to over 16 years | | James David Johnson, 58, Santee, CA | Distributing child sexual abuse material on the dark web | Prosecuted by DOJ Criminal Division | Sentenced to 151 months plus 10 years supervised release | | Glendale, CA man | Conspiracy to steal ~30 USPS carrier vehicles and mail of 200+ victims, including 100 cards | C.D. Cal. | Pleaded guilty | | Compton, CA man | Assaulting and injuring a federal officer by throwing rocks at government vehicles during a Paramount riot | C.D. Cal. | Sentenced to 36 months | | Two Dallas-area women | Aggravated identity theft scheme targeting JCPenney stores nationwide | S.D. Tex. | Sentenced to federal prison | | Adrian Alcantar-Sanchez, 46 | 878.7g of pure fentanyl plus unlawful reentry | E.D. Okla. | 78 months concurrent; pleaded guilty Nov 2025 | | Ohio dairy manager, 54 | Dumping pollutants into a waterway, causing a fish kill | N.D. Ohio | Sentenced after admitting responsibility |