By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Mississippi returned an indictment that was unsealed yesterday charging two former Mississippi Department of Corrections officials with deprivation of rights under color of law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Francis Cardinell, 76, of Penfield, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with obstruction of justice and lying under oath. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - YOLANI ASUCENA ENORADO-LEIVA, age 24, a resident of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, and LETICIA NICACIA DOS SANTOS, aka “La China,", age 18, who is a Brazillian national, pled guilty on Nov. 29, 2022, before U.S. District Judge Greg G. Guidry to participating in a conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department announced that a Mississippi man pleaded guilty in federal court to a hate crime for burning a cross in his front yard with the intent to intimidate a Black family.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: DUBLIN, GA: A newly unsealed federal indictment charges 13 people with participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy distributing large amounts of methamphetamine and heroin in the Laurens County area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Hollis man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Portland today for being a felon in possession of ammunition as well as for violating conditions of supervised release previously imposed by a federal court in New Hampshire.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A convicted felon and documented member of the Crips criminal street gang organization operating in Columbus was sentenced to serve more than ten years in prison for armed drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After deliberating for three hours, a federal jury of five men and seven women found Jamal Knox guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute Forty Grams or More of Fentanyl, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Allen Levinson, formerly known as Allen Ameh, to six years and six months in federal prison for wire fraud conspiracy related to his orchestration of a large-scale international tax fraud scheme. Levinson, a resident of Nigeria, was arrested on Dec. 2, 2020, while attempting to enter the United Kingdom. He was extradited to the United States and pleaded guilty upon his arrival on Feb. 3, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Rossonno Borders, Jr. (25, Tampa) to three years and one month in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. Borders had pleaded guilty on July 27, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that yesterday, SEAN ESPRIT, age 27, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty before United States Senior District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle to violations of the Controlled Substances Act and the Gun Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the arrest and filing of a criminal complaint charging Dylan Joseph Thibodeau (23, Punta Gorda) with enticement of a minor and transfer of obscene material to a minor. If convicted on all counts, Thibodeau faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison. Thibodeau made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Julie S. Sneed today and was ordered detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Alex Ulloa, age 46, an inmate at Federal Correctional Institute-Schuylkill, Minersville, Pennsylvania, was charged by criminal information for unlawfully possessing a prohibited object.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - The family of fallen Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent Paul S. Seema was recognized during a bench dedication ceremony honoring Seema Nov. 16, in New Prague, Minnesota. Seema died February 6, 1988, from gunshot wounds he received the previous day during an undercover operation in Pasadena, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A man from Novi was sentenced for orchestrating an unemployment insurance fraud scheme aimed at defrauding the State of Michigan and the U.S. Government of funds earmarked for unemployment assistance during the COVID19 pandemic, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Former Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency counselor Karen C. Lyke (formerly known as Karen C. Gregory) has been sentenced to five years in prison for forging educational records and creating fake students with non-existent disabilities and illnesses in an elaborate, multi-year scheme to steal more than $1.3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2022
National Sheriffs' Institute: Expansion and Delivery grant opened on Dec. 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2022
Transition From Jail to Community (TJC) Toolkit Revision/Update grant opened on Dec. 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2022
Pretrial Publication Series grant opened on Dec. 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Mo., physician pleaded guilty in federal court today to providing false information in order to receive Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to which she was not entitled.
