US Attorney

A man who admitted setting fire to a Dakota County government building has been sentenced to prison for several years and ordered to pay more than $200,000 in restitution.

The US Attorney’s office in Minnesota has opened a criminal case against a man who was seen on video starting a fire at the Target headquarters building in downtown Minneapolis.

A former Minneapolis police officer is being accused of being a “dirty cop” in a federal indictment that was released Friday that could have been written in Hollywood.

A Minnesota man has been sentenced to 6 years in federal prison for scamming a neighbor out of more than a quarter-million dollars - while he was waiting to go on trial for another scam.

A Duluth businessman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in what prosecutors say was a large income tax scam.

A central Minnesota man has been sentenced to prison for possessing a large number of weapons, including machine guns and pipe bombs.

A Minnesota man who is accused of faking his own death so he could collect a $2-million life insurance payment was arraigned in federal court this week.

A spokesman for the US Attorney in Colorado today declined to comment on a Rochester man’s case, but did indicate an announcement could be coming next week.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Federal authorities are accusing a Columbia Heights restaurant owner of bringing a teenager to America and forcing him to work for low wages.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the Justice Department is developing policies that would increase police seizures of cash and property.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a former Bemidji assistant principal with child pornography and trying to entice a minor.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is directing federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges possible against the vast majority of drug suspects, a reversal of Obama-era policies that is sure to send more people to prison and for much longer terms.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have charged five people, including three former executives of Starkey Laboratories, with stealing more than $20 million from the hearing aid company.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A survivor of the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145 is now facing terror charges after authorities say he went to Syria to join the Islamic State group.