By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two California men today received prison sentences of up to 11 years for participating in an extensive multimillion-dollar conspiracy - much of it committed by Nigerian nationals - that perpetrated a wide variety of frauds, including business email compromise (BEC) fraud, romance scams, elder fraud and fraud using malware.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: Natchez, Miss. - A Wilkinson County man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette, III, to 168 months in federal prison for participation in an interstate drug trafficking operation distributing kilogram quantities of illegal drugs in the Natchez area from 2016 through 2018, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced the filing, on Nov. 10, 2022, of a one-count bill of information charging ALICE C. “SHANNON" CHABAUD, age 79, of New Orleans, with access device fraud in relation to her theft from her former accounting client, a New Orleans-based band named as “Band A" in the bill of information.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: PIERRE - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of First Degree Murder and Use of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence that Causes Death was sentenced on Nov. 14, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: CLEVELAND - A Northeast Ohio Correctional Center (NEOCC) correctional officer was charged on Nov. 14, 2022, in a four-count Information for his role in a scheme to smuggle contraband into the NEOCC in return for bribery payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Gladstone, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for attempting to hire an arsonist to destroy her commercial building in Kansas City, Mo., which contained several businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - An Auburn man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that STEPHFAN SANDERSON, also known as “Birdy" and “Beans, 24, of Covington, Georgia, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to a firearms trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former administrative manager of a carpenters’ union pension fund was sentenced today to six months of home confinement and three years of probation for embezzling approximately $140,000 and making false statements on a required report to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
FY 2023 National Criminal History Improvement Program Supplemental Funding grant opened on Nov. 17.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Massachusetts man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for conspiring to violate the federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Sean Van Demark (619) 546-7657.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Ge Tang (41, St. Augustine) and Yanshen Huang (36, St. Johns) have pleaded guilty to harboring undocumented aliens for commercial advantage and private financial gain. Each faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that a federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging ten individuals with conspiring to distribute fentanyl and cocaine base between February 2022 and August 5, 2022. The indictment includes nine additional counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A Michigan man was charged with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, commonly known as ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization, and for being a felon in possession of a destructive device. The charges were set forth in an Indictment that was unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Crafton, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: Natchez, Miss. - A Mesquite, Texas man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette, III, to 90 months in federal prison for his participation in an interstate drug trafficking operation distributing kilogram quantities of illegal drugs in the Natchez area from 2016 through 2018, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 54-year-old woman residing in Corpus Christi has been ordered to federal prison for mailing meth-laced papers disguised as mail to the Coastal Bend Detention Center (CBDC), announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted distributing fentanyl that caused the death of another person, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ERNEST DUNN, age 32 of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on Nov. 10, 2022 for a violation the Federal Gun Control Act. He was convicted of a single count indictment charging him with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
