By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - Hassan Chokr, the man who threatened preschoolers, parents, and other individuals outside a Jewish synagogue in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with lying on a federal firearms form when he sought to buy a shotgun, a rifle, and a semi-automatic pistol, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas resident was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Andrew P. Gordon to 18 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for committing six armed robberies of gas station convenience stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Dennis William Sheffield, Jr. (52, Keystone Heights) has pleaded guilty to receipt of child sex abuse images. Sheffield faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to 40 years, in federal prison. He has agreed to pay...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Wednesday, a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Viorel Pricop, 64, of Allen Park, Michigan, for Arson of Property in Interstate Commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - A federal grand jury in Des Moines returned an indictment on Dec. 14, 2022, charging Adair Chief of Police Bradley Wendt with unlawfully obtaining and possessing machine guns.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Scott Matthew Yotka (48, Jacksonville) to 60 years in federal prison for producing and distributing photos and a video depicting himself as he sexually abused two young children. Yotka was also ordered to serve a...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Kymoni Davis, also known as “Money," 33, of Redford, Michigan, was sentenced today to eight years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Davis admitted to shooting into a Huntington club after his ejection during a New Year’s Eve party.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Defendants Had Ties to Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Parveg Ahmed was sentenced by United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly to 153 months’ imprisonment and 15 years supervised release for one count of attempting to provide material support or resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization. The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge in June 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Hammond, Indiana, has been sentenced in federal court to 444 months in prison followed by lifetime supervision on his conviction of sex trafficking a minor and production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTHONY SMALL, also known as “Whompy," 31, of Shelton, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking narcotics in Bridgeport.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Keo Ibua Mike (29, Ocala) to eight years in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. Mike had pleaded guilty plea on Aug. 23, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Defendant Watched Members of Congress Evacuate, then Participated in Breaking the Windows of the Speaker’s Lobby Door.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A pharmacy employee today admitted conspiring to offer and pay bribes and kickbacks in exchange for having prescriptions steered to the Morris County, New Jersey, pharmacy where he worked, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON -Following a nine-week long trial, a D.C. Superior Court jury returned verdicts finding Derek B. Turner, 31, Ronnika M. Jennings, 44, and Duan M. Hill, 33, guilty of multiple felony offenses arising out of a violent gang feud between two neighborhoods in Southeast Washington, D.C. in 2016-2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Bonnie Jennifer Sherrard a/k/a May Bonnie Jennifer Sherrard, 46, of Ruston, Louisiana, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Shreveport for illegally dispensing and distributing controlled substances, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - In record time, a jury sitting in federal court in Providence returned a verdict for the plaintiff, finding that a school principal violated her 4th Amendment rights. The student, suspended for damaging school property, was punished based on information the principal discovered while searching her electronic devices during an unrelated investigation. The student claimed that the search was unreasonable, and unconstitutional.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Rodney Kent a/k/a “Hott Rodd," a/k/a “Hott," 51, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release by United States District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe after being convicted of sex trafficking earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - David Frazier, 42, of Huntington, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSHUA HALL was sentenced today by United Stated District Judge Gregory H. Woods to 20 months in prison for making threats to kill a member of the United States Congress and impersonating family members...
