By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that George H. Moses, 53, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted by a federal jury for his role in defrauding three nonprofit organizations; Rochester Housing Charities (RHC), which provides housing to the elderly and disabled; the North East Area...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Bradley D. Knapp, 43, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: Today, a federal jury in Brooklyn convicted James Albert of conspiracy to violate the Travel Act and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances while he was incarcerated at the George R. Vierno Center at Rikers Island (GRVC) as part of a scheme to bribe correction officers to smuggle illegal drugs...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: Davenport, IA - Rayontrez Demar Brown, age 26, of Davenport, was sentenced on Nov. 30, 2022, to 41 months in prison for bank robbery. Brown was also ordered to pay $26,399 in restitution. Following his imprisonment, Brown was ordered to serve three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Leslie O’Quinn, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced today to 100 months of incarceration for her role in methamphetamine, crack cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin drug distribution operation, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Nelson Argueta-Quintanilla, also known as “Mendigo", a member of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the “MS-13," was sentenced by United States District Judge Gary R. Brown to 327 months in prison for his...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Justin Heath Griffin (35, Ocklawaha) has entered a guilty plea to an indictment charging him with one count of possessing a firearm and ammunition affecting interstate commerce by a convicted felon. This charge is punishable by up to 10 years in federal prison. Griffin was indicted on July 19, 2022. He will be sentenced on March 9, 2023, before Senior United States District Judge Gregory A. Presnell.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Prineville, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today after he requested sexually explicit photos from an undercover law enforcement officer posing as a child online and travelled from his home to Bend, Oregon in hopes of having sex with the child.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - Attorney General Letitia James and the DEA New York Division’s Special Agent in Charge Frank A. Tarentino III today announced a 438-count indictment, charging three individuals from a gun trafficking operation that illegally sold 47 firearms, including ghost guns which were shipped to New...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - CHERYL L. KINCHEN, age 39, and a resident of Tickfaw, Louisiana, was sentenced on Nov. 29, 2022 to one year and a day after she pleaded guilty to two counts of filing false tax returns in her personal capacity by U.S. District Court Judge Greg G. Guidry announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that FLORENCE RANDLE (“F. RANDLE"), age 70, of Gibson, Louisiana, pled guilty on Nov. 29, 2022 to Count One (1) of her indictment, charging her with Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in violation of Title 18, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss announced that Michael Younger, 45, a New Castle County man, was sentenced yesterday to 94 months in prison for distributing fentanyl. U.S. District Judge Richard G. Andrews pronounced sentence. The government argued at sentencing that Younger continued selling deadly fentanyl despite knowing that the drugs he sold were causing overdose deaths.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kedrick Howard, of Dallas, Texas, has admitted to his role in methamphetamine, crack cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin drug distribution operation, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON -An Illinois man has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Ohio man has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges, including assaulting law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon, a chemical irritant, for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - In court documents filed this morning, an Inland Empire man admitted firing BB guns at the Planned Parenthood facility in Pasadena nearly a dozen times and agreed to plead guilty to violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: Davenport, IA - Rayontrez Demar Brown, age 26, of Davenport, was sentenced on Nov. 30, 2022, to 41 months in prison for bank robbery. Brown was also ordered to pay $26,399 in restitution. Following his imprisonment, Brown was ordered to serve three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A former federal probation officer was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to six months in prison for extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Frantz Brignol with one count of tax evasion and one count of failing to file a tax return. If convicted, Brignol faces up to six years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2022
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - William Cater Elliott, 61, of Gulf Breeze, Florida was sentenced to one year in federal prison after pleading guilty on May 4, 2022, to three counts of tax evasion for the years of 2015, 2016, and 2017. Elliot was a former attorney and the sole proprietor of William C. Elliott Associates, P.A., law firm, in Gulf Breeze, Florida. The sentence was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
