By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that defendant, ARTHUR ALLEN, of Orleans Parish, was sentenced on February 8, 2023 by U.S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to 90 months imprisonment, 3 years supervised release, and a $300 mandatory special assessment fee on Counts One, Two, and Four of a four-count indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: MIAMI - A federal judge in Key West, Florida has sentenced Elite Sky International, Inc. (Elite), a company that operates on Overseas Highway in Marathon, to a quarter million dollar fine and five years of probation for exporting falsely labelled spiny lobster and shark fins from Florida to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: MIAMI - After a two-week trial, a South Florida federal jury found Kejuan Brandon Campbell, Antonio Charles James Jr., and Dionte Alexander-Wilcox guilty on one count of conspiracy to kidnap, two counts of kidnapping, three counts of bank robbery, and three counts of carrying a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Khalif Marquee Coleman, 35, of Charleston, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute 40 grams or more of a mixture containing a detectable amount of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: MIAMI - Words have the power to uplift or destroy and that was the message staff from the Law Enforcement Coordination and Community Outreach Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida, recently brought to 7th graders at Charles R. Drew K-8 Center in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights or District of Columbia charges against a commander from the Metropolitan Police Department who was involved in the July 2022 fatal shooting of Lazarus Wilson, outside a restaurant in the Wharf neighborhood in Southwest Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Diamond Cook, age 31, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on Feb. 16, 2023, to 48 months in prison following his plea of guilty to being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. After he is released from prison, Cook will serve three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging JAMES ANDREW STILES, a/k/a...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: A federal jury today convicted Keith Wyche, also known as “Marco," of distributing fentanyl which resulted in the fatal overdose of a 43-year-old Staten-Island resident on April 18, 2017. Wyche and co-defendant Oneil Allen were also convicted of distributing heroin to a 28-year old woman on Oct. 27...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON ― The total correctional population in the United States fell 1% from yearend 2020 to 2021, according to statistics in Correctional Populations in the United States, 2021 - Statistical Tables and Probation and Parole in the United States, 2021, two reports released today by the Bureau of Justice...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Two government contractors were sentenced this week for their involvement in separate bribery schemes in which they gave payments to the mayor of the municipality of Cataño, Puerto Rico, in exchange for the mayor’s awarding of municipal contracts to their respective companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: A man was arrested today in the Northern District of Florida on criminal charges related to a murder on a U.S. Army base in Germany 21 years ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TONI JONES, age 33, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on Feb. 16, 2023 to a violation of the Federal Drug Control Act, Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: A Florida man pleaded guilty today to orchestrating an investment fraud scheme that defrauded more than 10,000 victims of over $55 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Today, former legislator Nestor Alonso-Vega was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge Raúl Arias Marxuach to serve 63 months in prison, announced United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow. On June 6, 2022, Alonso-Vega was found guilty of nine counts of Federal Funds Theft, Kickbacks, and Honest Services Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Bradley, 44, of Grand Blanc, Michigan, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for embezzling funds from a government employee union. The sentence was announced by United States Attorney Matthew M. Graves, FBI Special Agent in Charge Wayne A. Jacobs, of the Washington Field Office’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that, on Feb. 15, 2023, U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced HERBERT ALLEN (“ALLEN"), age 38, and DION RIDLEY (“RIDLEY"), age 23, after they pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in violation of Title 18...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Florida resident has been sentenced in federal court to 100 days in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, plus restitution of $150,000 on her conviction of mail fraud, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Cincinnati man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 54 months in prison for illegally possessing a high-powered, high-capacity pistol with a high-capacity magazine while he was on bond after serving two years in state prison for gun crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2023
News Release: A Hopkinsville, Kentucky, man made an initial appearance in federal court Wednesday after being indicted for drug conspiracy and related charges, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
