By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, NY--Christopher A. Parris, 42, formerly of Rochester, NY, and currently of Lawrenceville, Georgia, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud related to a Ponzi scheme, as well as to wire fraud involving the fraudulent sale of purported N95 masks during the pandemic, was sentenced to serve 244 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Parris was also ordered to pay approximately $106-million dollars in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: The FBI, in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, is issuing a national public safety alert regarding an explosion in incidents of children and teens being coerced into sending explicit images online and extorted for money-a crime known as financial sextortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Mariluz Arias De Gonzalez (“Arias"), age 49, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, to 12 months and 1 day of imprisonment and a 3-year term of supervised release, for distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - Travis Lester, 42, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison as a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. A federal jury convicted Lester of this offense after a four-day trial earlier this year. United States Attorney Kevin Ritz announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Oscar Williams Jr., 30, of Opa-Locka, Fla., has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for extorting four girls into producing child sexual abuse material. He previously had been convicted on four counts of production of child sexual abuse material and one count of extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: St. Croix, VI - United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced today that Vicent Mata Anyelo a/k/a Vicent Mata, age 33, the captain and last to be sentenced of eleven Venezuelan nationals apprehended at sea off the coast of St. Croix, was sentenced on Dec. 13, 2022 to 65 months imprisonment followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: SEATTLE - A 50-year-old Washington State man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to seven years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl pills, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Preston Joseph Smith was arrested in December 2021 in Port Angeles, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Mexican nationals have been convicted in federal court of kidnapping and murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: U.S. Virgin Islands - United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced today that the District of the Virgin Islands collected $246,498.00 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2022. Of that amount, $244,898.00 was collected in criminal actions and $1,600.00 was collected in civil actions. Additionally...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - UOP LLC, dba as Honeywell UOP, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., has agreed to pay more than $160 million to resolve parallel bribery investigations by criminal and civil authorities in the United States and Brazil stemming from bribe payments offered to a high-ranking official at Brazil’s state-owned oil company.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department announced today it has secured a settlement agreement with the San Bernardino City Unified School District to resolve the department’s investigation into the district’s educational program for English learners.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Gerald D. Harris, a former supervisor in DeKalb County’s Tax Commissioner’s Office, has been charged with wire fraud for falsely claiming that he could register a stolen vehicle by bribing an employee in the tax office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A fire department administrator and former 911 dispatcher has been charged federally with crimes related to at least 24 arson fires since spring 2022 in Wayne National Forest.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - The former office manager for a Pawtucket dermatologist’s office and her son are facing federal charges following a joint federal and state law enforcement embezzlement, fraud, and health care fraud investigation, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDIL RAMOS, also known as “E," 40, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 54 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Che Jaron Durbin, age 44, of Aberdeen, Maryland, on Dec. 19, 2022, to 20 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: DEL RIO, Texas - A federal grand jury in Del Rio returned an indictment last week charging a Mexican national with conspiring and attempting to smuggle firearms and ammunition into Mexico from the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida has convicted the former National Treasurer of Venezuela and her husband for their roles in a billion-dollar currency exchange, bribery, and money laundering scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Will Thompson, along with law enforcement partners, will hold a pair of press conferences on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, to announce outcomes in three high-profile cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Montgomery, ALABAMA - On Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, Harley Dakota Wambles, a 25-year-old from Samson, Alabama, received a 72-month prison sentence after being convicted of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart. In addition to imposing a 6-year prison sentence, the judge ordered Wambles to serve 5 years on supervised release and to pay a total of $18,000.00 in restitution to 6 victims. There is no parole in the federal system.
