By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Demetrius Sanchez Mitchell (38, Tampa) with illegally possessing a firearm. If convicted, Mitchell faces a mandatory minimum term of 15 years, and up to life, in federal prison. The indictment also notifies Mitchell that the United States intends to forfeit the firearm traceable to his offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: Bowling Green, KY - A federal grand jury in Bowling Green returned three indictments today separately charging three men with drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that, on November 9, 2022, U.S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentenced WILLIAM HARRISON FARRIS (“FARRIS"), age 43, of New Orleans, and KACIE DOUCET (“DOUCET"), age 41, of Larose, Louisiana, for their participation in a scheme to drug and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces a federal jury convicted Rayzjaun Curry, age 25, of Denver, of possession of a firearm or ammunition by a prohibited person.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Nov. 10, 2022, Matthew Moore, 40, of Bradley County, Tennessee, was sentenced to 240 months by the Honorable Travis R. McDonough, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: BOSTON -The leader of a local MS-13 clique was sentenced on Nov. 8, 2022 in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Russian and Canadian national has been charged with participating in the LockBit global ransomware campaign, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, and FBI-Newark Special Agent in Charge James E. Dennehy announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: PIERRE - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for First Degree Murder, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon to a Child, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury to a Child, and Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS - An initiative by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Billings Police Department to catch those who steal personal information and use it to commit fraud in the community has resulted in dozens of federal prosecutions and mandatory federal prison sentences, federal and local law enforcement officials announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAEL GERALD MARCHESE, age 45, a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on November 8, 2022 before United States District Judge Wendy Vitter after previously being charged in a one-count indictment with receiving images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children, including children as young as approximately one (1) year old, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 2252(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Octavio Smith, 43, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by complaint with destruction of government property, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Christopher Gontaryk, age 47, of Wormleysburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson, to 18 months of imprisonment, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release. Judge Wilson also ordered Gontaryk to pay $9,919.61 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - A federal jury convicted two men Tuesday of multiple counts of drug trafficking. Additionally, one of the defendants was convicted of domestic and international money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on Nov. 10, 2022, TYRESE HARRIS, age 19, resident of Orleans Parish, was charged in a five-count superseding indictment for conspiracy, carjacking, and weapons violations. Count 1 charges HARRIS with conspiracy to commit carjackings...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Kevin Scott, 46, of Manchester was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute powder cocaine and cocaine base (“crack" cocaine), and for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDWARD F. ZIEGLER II, 63, of Bridgton, Maine, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to fraud and tax offenses stemming from a 15-year embezzlement scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on AUDREY BONET JOHNSON, 34, of Irvington, New Jersey, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to seven months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for an immigration marriage fraud offense. Judge Shea also ordered Johnson to serve 45 days in a halfway house when she is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Andrew Sherwood (619) 546-9690.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Greater Waterbury YMCA of Waterbury has entered into a settlement agreement with the government to resolve allegations that Greater Waterbury YMCA’s childcare programs and other services were not accessible to a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA").
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Ricky Gonzales to 48 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States. The court also entered an order of forfeiture in the amount of $500,731.13, the proceeds of the wire-fraud conspiracy. Gonzales had pleaded guilty to the charges on August 9, 2022.
