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Buffalo Charity CEO Pleads Guilty To Tax Charge

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Jacqueline Mines, 66, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy to a misdemeanor charge of willful failure to file an income tax return, which carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.


News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Kansas man was sentenced to 345 months in prison for conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of a child (production of child pornography).


Gainesville Man Convicted Of Drug Trafficking And Firearm Offense

News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - A federal jury in Gainesville convicted Edwin Giovanny Mendoza-Verdugo, 20, of Sinaloa, Mexico, on one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, further finding Mendoza-Verdugo responsible for 40-400 grams of fentanyl, and one count of possession of a firearm in...


News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has secured a settlement agreement with the state of Alabama’s Medicaid Agency (Alabama Medicaid) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to ensure that Alabama Medicaid recipients with Hepatitis C (HCV) who also have a substance use disorder have equal access to medications to treat their hepatitis.


Providence Man Sentenced for Distributing Meth Pills

News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Providence man who, on multiple occasions, while under surveillance by members of the Rhode Island DEA Drug Task Force, sold pills containing methamphetamine, was sentenced today to three years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that ERIC RODRIGUEZ, 41, pled guilty on Nov. 30, 2022 to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21 United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1), and 841(b)(1)(A).


News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Newport News man on Friday on charges of brandishing a firearm while robbing a gas station convenience store in Henrico County.


News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - Alex Barrera, 26, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) McDowell, was sentenced today to one year and three months in prison, to run consecutively to the sentence he currently is serving, for possession of a weapon by an inmate of a federal prison. Barrera was also sentenced to three years of supervised release following his imprisonment.


Monongalia County man admits to firearms charge

News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Reece Dillon Shepard, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An opioid abuse treatment facility in Camden will pay a total of $3.15 million to resolve criminal and civil claims that it caused kickbacks, obstructed a federal audit, and fraudulently billed Medicaid, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced today.


News Release: DENVER - On Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, the DEA Rocky Mountain Division, in coordination with the Rocky Mountain HIDTA Front Range Task Force (FRTF), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Denver Division, and the Longmont Police Department Special Investigations Unit (SIU) seized almost 45 pounds of a fentanyl and cocaine mixture and arrested one person with direct ties to the Sinaloa Cartel.


Federal Grand Jury Indicts Seven Southern Colorado Residents on Drug and Weapon Charges

News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces the indictments of Leonard Singleton, age 44; Jaime Sanchez, age 39; Gabriel Sanchez, age 36; Jose Baeza, age 39; Stephanie Barker, age 38; Leanne Wilson, age 25; and Augustine Gallegos, age 36, after a 10-month federal investigation into drug trafficking in Colorado Springs.


Bonner Springs Man Sentenced for Child Sexual Exploitation

News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas man was sentenced to 27 years in prison for engaging in sexual acts with a child and taking nude pictures and videos of the child.


Harrison County man admits to drug charge

News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Edward Maxwell, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Beltrami County man has been sentenced to 144 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his role in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GLEN CAMPBELL, also known as “Nick," 41, a citizen of Guyana residing in Queens, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 12 months and one day of imprisonment for helping to sell U.S. Savings Bonds that had been stolen from an elderly woman who had purchased the bonds for her grandchildren and other family members.


New York Man Pleads Guilty to Felony Charge  For Actions During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

News Release: Defendant Assisted in Theft of Laptop from Office Suite.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DOMINIQUE ALAINA BERRY, age 33, a resident of Kentwood, Louisiana, was sentenced on Dec. 1, 2022 to 45 months in prison, the top of the range recommended by the United States Sentencing Guidelines, by United States District Judge Eldon E.


Florida Man Pleads Guilty to a Violation of the Federal Controlled Substances Act

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DANTE BOWMAN, age 23, a resident of Florida, pled guilty on Nov. 30, 2022 before United States District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to a one-count indictment charging him with possession with intent to distribute five hundred grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.


News Release: TUCSON, AZ-A fugitive wanted for his involvement in a criminal drug enterprise was extradited from Mexico and returned to Tucson on Wednesday, November 23.