Convictions for October 2025
Referring Agency: Federal Bureau of Investigation
The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during October 2025 the government reported 846 new convictions 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 28.2 percent over the previous month.
The comparisons of the number of defendants convicted 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 convictions of this type are compared with those of the same period in the previous year, the number of convictions was down (-2.6%). Convictions over the past year are still much higher than they were five years ago. Overall, the data show that convictions of this type are up 61.6 percent from levels reported in 2020.
Figure 1. Monthly Trends in Convictions
The increase from the levels five years ago in convictions for these matters is shown more clearly in Figure 1. The vertical bars in Figure 1 represent the number of convictions 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 convictions of these matters in October 2025 was for "Project Safe Childhood", accounting for 14.7 percent of convictions. Convictions were also filed for "Drugs-Organized Crime Task Force" (14.2%), "Drugs-Drug Trafficking" (11.8%), "Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major" (9.8%), "Violence-Indian Country" (8.3%), "Violence-Other" (6.5%), "Fraud-Other" (3.8%), "Other Criminal Prosecutions" (2.6%), "Bank Robbery" (2.5%), "Withheld by Govt from TRAC (FOIA challen" (2.5%), "Fraud-Financial Institution" (2.1%). See Figure 2.
Convictions in U.S. Magistrate Courts
Top Ranked Lead Charges
In October 2025, no defendants in cases for these matters were convicted 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.
Convictions in U.S. District Courts
In October 2025, 843 defendants in new cases for these matters were charged in the U.S. District Courts. In addition during October there were an additional 0 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 October.
Top Ranked Lead Charges
Table 2 shows the top lead charges recorded in the convictions of matters filed in U.S. District Court during October 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 127 1 1 1 More 18 USC 1343 - Fraud by wire, radio, or television 78 2 4 5 More 18 USC 922 - Firearms; Unlawful acts 70 3 2 3 More 21 USC 846 - Attempt and conspiracy 58 4 3 2 More 18 USC 2252 - Material involving sexual exploitation of minors 48 5 6 7 More 18 USC 113 - Assaults within maritime and territorial jurisdictions 31 7 9 8 More 18 USC 1951 - Hobbs Act 31 7 5 6 More 18 USC 2113 - Bank robbery and incidental crimes 25 9 8 4 More 18 USC 2252A - Activity relating material constituting/containing chil 19 10 11 9 More Table 2. Top Charges for Convictions
"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 "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 5 five years ago.
Ranked 3rd was "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.
Among these top ten lead charges, the one showing the greatest increase in convictions — up 28.7 percent — compared to one year ago was Title 18 U.S.C Section 2252 that involves " Material involving sexual exploitation of minors ". Compared to five years ago, the largest increase — 255.2 percent — was registered for convictions under "Other US Code Section " (Title U.S.C Section ).
Again among the top ten lead charges, the one showing the sharpest decline in convictions compared to one year ago — down 17.7 percent — was " Bank robbery and incidental crimes " (Title 18 U.S.C Section 2113 ). This was the same statute that had the largest decrease — 18.2 % — when compared with five years ago.
Top Ranked Judicial Districts
In October 2025 the Justice Department's case-by-case records show that the government obtained 297.4 convictions for every ten million people in the United States.
Understandably, there is great variation in the per capita number of convictions in each of the nation's ninety-four federal judicial districts.
The districts registering the largest number of convictions per capita for these matters last month are shown in Table 3. Districts must have at least 5 convictions to receive a ranking.
Judicial District Percapita Count Rank 1yr ago 5yrs ago Wash, E 2,225 32 1 43 61 More Montana 2,005 19 2 29 21 More Ala, S 1,643 12 3 84 52 More N Mexico 1,577 28 4 15 16 More Vermont 1,295 7 5 80 56 More W Virg, S 1,144 8 6 57 85 More Okla, E 1,119 7 7 42 84 More Ill, S 1,086 11 8 67 52 More D. C. 1,025 6 9 1 69 More Mo, E 942 23 10 14 10 More Table 3. Top 10 Districts (per ten million people)
The Eastern District of Washington (Spokane) — with 2225 convictions as compared with 297.4 convictions per ten million population in the United States — was the most active during October 2025.
The District of Montana ranked 2nd.
Southern District of Alabama (Mobile) is now ranking 3rd.
Recent entrants to the top 10 list were Eastern District of Missouri (St. Louis), now ranked 10th , and New Mexico at 4th In the same order, these districts ranked 14th and 15th one year ago and 10th and 16th five years ago.
The federal judicial district which showed the greatest growth in the rate of convictions compared to one year ago — 213.3 percent — was Southern District of Alabama (Mobile). Compared to five years ago, the district with the largest growth — 687.5 percent — was Eastern District of Oklahoma (Muskogee).
In the last year, the judicial District Court recording the largest drop in the rate of convictions — 80.2 percent — was Washington, D.C. (Washington). But over the past five years, Vermont showed the largest drop — 4.5 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 resulting in convictions of this type during October 2025 are shown in Table 4.
Judge Count Rank Rice, Thomas Owen Wash, E 12 1 More Dimke, Mary K. Wash, E 9 2 More Morris, Brian Matthew Montana 8 3 More Mazzant, Amos L. Texas, E 8 3 More Brann, Matthew William Penn, M 7 5 More D'Agostino, Mae Avila N. Y., N 6 6 More White, Ronald A. Okla, E 6 6 More Brinkema, Leonie M. Virg, E 6 6 More Barber, Thomas Patrick Fla, M 5 9 More Sweeney, James Russell, II Ind, S 5 9 More Ebinger, Rebecca Goodgame Iowa, S 5 9 More Watters, Susan Pamela Montana 5 9 More Browning, James O. N Mexico 5 9 More Crone, Marcia A. Texas, E 5 9 More Hittner, David Texas, S 5 9 More Table 4. Top Ten Judges
A total of 6 out of the "top ten" judges were in districts which were in the top ten with the largest number of convictions per capita, while the remaining 9 judges were from other districts. (Because of ties, there were a total of 15 judges in the "top ten" rankings.)
Judge Thomas Owen Rice in the Eastern District of Washington (Spokane) ranked 1st with 12 convicted in convictions.
Judge Mary K. Dimke in the Eastern District of Washington (Spokane) ranked 2nd with 9 convicted in convictions.
Judges Brian Matthew Morris in the District of Montana and Amos L. Mazzant in the Eastern District of Texas (Tyler) ranked 3rd with 8 convicted in convictions.
Report Generated: February 19, 2026
