Prosecutions for June 2025
Referring Agency: Federal Bureau of Investigation
The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during June 2025 the government reported 1103 new prosecutions for these matters. Those cases were referred by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), this number is down 8.4 percent over the previous month.
The comparisons of the number of defendants charged are based on case-by-case information obtained by TRAC under the Freedom of Information Act from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (see Table 1).
When monthly 2025 prosecutions of this type are compared with those of the same period in the previous year, the number of filings was up (6.7%). Prosecutions over the past year are still much higher than they were five years ago. Overall, the data show that prosecutions of this type are up 33.3 percent from levels reported in 2020.
The growth in these cases is partly related to increases in the matters filed in U.S. Magistrate Courts. If magistrate cases are excluded and only Federal District Court cases are counted, the overall increase in prosecutions is 23.9 percent instead of 33.3 percent. The evidence suggests that part of the difference may be the result of improvements in the recording of the magistrate cases by the Justice Department.
Figure 1. Monthly Trends in Prosecutions
The increase from the levels five years ago in prosecutions for these matters is shown more clearly in Figure 1. The vertical bars in Figure 1 represent the number of prosecutions of this type recorded on a month-to-month basis. Where a prosecution was initially filed in U.S. Magistrate Court and then transferred to the U.S. District Court, the magistrate filing date was used since this provides an earlier indicator of actual trends. The superimposed line on the bars plots the six-month moving average so that natural fluctuations are smoothed out. The one and five-year rates of change in Table 1 and in the sections that follow are all based upon this six-month moving average. To view trends year-by-year rather than month-by-month, see TRAC's annual report series for a broader picture.
Cases were classified by prosecutors into more specific types.
The largest number of prosecutions of these matters in June 2025 was for "Withheld by Govt from TRAC (FOIA challen", accounting for 27.9 percent of prosecutions. Prosecutions were also filed for "Drugs-Drug Trafficking" (10.1%), "Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major" (9.3%), "Project Safe Childhood" (8%), "Drugs-Organized Crime Task Force" (7.9%), "Fraud-Health Care" (3.9%), "Violence-Indian Country" (3%), "Fraud-Financial Institution" (2.7%), "Other Criminal Prosecutions" (2.6%), "Violence-Other" (2.5%), "Bank Robbery" (2.4%). See Figure 2.
Prosecutions in U.S. Magistrate Courts
Top Ranked Lead Charges
In June 2025, 265 defendants in cases for these matters were filed in U.S. Magistrate Courts. These courts handle less serious misdemeanor cases, including what are called "petty offenses." In addition, complaints are sometimes filed in the magistrate courts before an indictment or information is entered. In these cases, the matter starts in the magistrate courts and later moves to the district court where subsequent proceedings take place.
In the magistrate courts in June the most frequently cited lead charge was Title 21 U.S.C Section 846 involving "Attempt and conspiracy". This was the lead charge for 24.5 percent of all magistrate filings in June.
Other frequently prosecuted lead charges include: "21 USC 841 - Drug Abuse Prevention & Control-Prohibited acts A" (12.1%), "18 USC 922 - Firearms; Unlawful acts" (8.3%).
Prosecutions in U.S. District Courts
In June 2025, 838 defendants in new cases for these matters were charged in the U.S. District Courts. In addition during June there were an additional 165 defendants whose cases moved from the magistrate courts to the U.S. district courts after an indictment or information was filed. The sections which follow cover both sets of cases and therefore cover all matters filed in district court during June.
Top Ranked Lead Charges
Table 2 shows the top lead charges recorded in the prosecutions of matters filed in U.S. District Court during June 2025 referred by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Lead Charge Count Rank 1yr ago 5yrs ago 21 USC 841 - Drug Abuse Prevention & Control-Prohibited acts A 89 1 1 1 More 18 USC 922 - Firearms; Unlawful acts 69 2 2 3 More 18 USC 1343 - Fraud by wire, radio, or television 49 3 4 7 More 21 USC 846 - Attempt and conspiracy 46 4 3 2 More 18 USC 2252 - Material involving sexual exploitation of minors 39 5 5 5 More 18 USC 2113 - Bank robbery and incidental crimes 26 7 8 5 More 18 USC 1349 - Mail Fraud - Attempt and Conspiracy 19 8 17 14 More 18 USC 2250 - Fail to register as sex offender after traveling interstate commerce 19 8 9 10 More 18 USC 371 - Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud US 18 10 14 8 More Table 2. Top Charges Filed
"Drug Abuse Prevention & Control-Prohibited acts A" (Title 21 U.S.C Section 841) was the most frequent recorded lead charge. "Drug Abuse Prevention & Control-Prohibited acts A" (Title 21 U.S.C Section 841) was ranked 1 a year ago, while it was ranked 1 five years ago.
Ranked 2nd in frequency was the lead charge "Firearms; Unlawful acts" under Title 18 U.S.C Section 922. "Firearms; Unlawful acts" under Title 18 U.S.C Section 922 was ranked 2 a year ago, while it was ranked 3 five years ago.
Ranked 3rd was "Fraud by wire, radio, or television" under Title 18 U.S.C Section 1343. "Fraud by wire, radio, or television" under Title 18 U.S.C Section 1343 was ranked 4 a year ago, while it was ranked 7 five years ago.
Among these top ten lead charges, the one showing the greatest increase in prosecutions — up 60.3 percent — compared to one year ago was Title 18 U.S.C Section 1349 that involves " Mail Fraud - Attempt and Conspiracy ". Compared to five years ago, the largest increase — 143.8 percent — was registered for prosecutions under "Other US Code Section " (Title U.S.C Section ).
Again among the top ten lead charges, the one showing the sharpest decline in prosecutions compared to one year ago — down 14.4 percent — was "Other US Code Section " (Title U.S.C Section ). Compared to five years ago, the most significant decline in prosecutions — 8.8 percent — was for filings where the lead charge was " Bank robbery and incidental crimes " (Title 18 U.S.C Section 2113 ).
Top Ranked Judicial Districts
In June 2025 the Justice Department's case-by-case records show that the government brought 359.4 prosecutions for every ten million people in the United States.
Understandably, there is great variation in the per capita number of prosecutions that are filed in each of the nation's ninety-four federal judicial districts.
The districts registering the largest number of prosecutions per capita for these matters last month are shown in Table 3. Districts must have at least 5 prosecutions to receive a ranking.
Judicial District Percapita Count Rank 1yr ago 5yrs ago Miss, N 2,530 23 1 80 88 More Montana 1,695 16 2 16 20 More N Dakota 1,531 10 3 37 58 More Ala, M 1,405 14 4 80 78 More Okla, E 1,288 8 5 52 88 More Mo, W 1,242 34 6 24 20 More D. C. 1,237 7 7 1 23 More Ala, S 966 7 8 58 57 More Penn, W 943 29 9 48 7 More N. Y., S 859 37 10 5 2 More Table 3. Top 10 Districts (per ten million people)
The Northern District of Mississippi (Oxford) — with 2530 prosecutions as compared with 359.4 prosecutions per ten million population in the United States — was the most active during June 2025.
The District of Montana ranked 2nd.
District of North Dakota is now ranking 3rd.
Recent entrants to the top 10 list were Montana , now ranked 2nd , and Western District of Missouri (Kansas City) at 6th In the same order, these districts ranked 16th and 24th one year ago and 20th and 20th five years ago.
The federal judicial district which showed the greatest growth in the rate of prosecutions compared to one year ago — 90.5 percent — was Middle District of Alabama (Montgomery). Compared to five years ago, the district with the largest growth — 720 percent — was Eastern District of Oklahoma (Muskogee).
In the last year, the judicial District Court recording the largest drop in the rate of prosecutions — 72.3 percent — was Washington, D.C. (Washington). But over the past five years, Western District of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) showed the largest drop — 22.4 percent.
Top Ranked District Judges
At any one time, there are about 680 federal District Court judges working in the United States. The judges recorded with the largest number of new crime cases of this type during June 2025 are shown in Table 4.
Judge Count Rank 1yr ago 5yrs ago Block, Frederic N. Y., E 25 1 343 55 More Pepper, Pamela Wisc, E 21 2 100 67 More Aycock, Sharion Miss, N 18 3 343 - More Bough, Stephen Rogers Mo, W 15 4 100 115 More Berger, Wendy Williams Fla, M 13 5 83 399 More Dimitrouleas, William P. Fla, S 10 6 156 243 More Cogburn, Max Oliver, Jr. N Car, W 8 7 83 18 More Delgado Hernandez, Pedro Alberto Puer Rico 8 7 185 29 More Kato, Kenly Kiya Cal, C 7 9 407 - More Bloom, Beth Francine Fla, S 7 9 343 115 More Bordallo, Michael J. Guam 7 9 - - More Bunning, David L. Ken, E 7 9 43 67 More Table 4. Top Ten Judges
A total of 2 out of the "top ten" judges were in districts which were in the top ten with the largest number of filings per capita, while the remaining 10 judges were from other districts. (Because of ties, there were a total of 12 judges in the "top ten" rankings.)
Judge Frederic Block in the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn) ranked 1st with 25 defendants in cases.
Judge Pamela Pepper in the Eastern District of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) ranked 2nd with 21 defendants in cases.
Judge Sharion Aycock in the Northern District of Mississippi (Oxford) ranked 3rd with 18 defendants in cases.
Report Generated: July 29, 2025
