By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Illinois man, a member of the Proud Boys, pleaded guilty today to assaulting a law enforcement officer 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 2020 presidential election.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced on Oct. 25, 2022, that defendant CHRISTOPHER SMITH, age 31, resident of New Orleans, LA, pled guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Jay C. Zainey to a federal weapons violation of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - An Iowa City man and India native, Sameer Chandulal Patel, age 30, was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, to 210 months in prison for receipt and distribution of child pornography. Following his imprisonment, Patel was ordered to serve five years of supervised release, unless he is deported from the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Nov. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Juan Veras-Marcano, 29, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute more than 170 grams of fentanyl, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Clay Joyner announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Rob Coleman will lead the efforts of his office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2022, general election. AUSA Coleman has been appointed...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: A Guatemalan national was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Marra on Nov. 3 to 36 months in prison in the Southern District of Florida for smuggling an unaccompanied 15-year-old child into the United States for financial gain. The defendant was convicted by federal jury in July 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Bernardino County man - at whose home dozens of illegal firearms lacking serial numbers, commonly known as “ghost guns," allegedly were found - was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint alleging he acted as an unlicensed firearms dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Delaware man was arrested for transporting stolen goods obtained through a string of jewelry store thefts in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Lawrence Phillip Hernandez, age 58, of Littleton, was charged by information with wire fraud for taking money, which he received as a result of fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) applications he submitted.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 188 months in prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl analogue, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man admitted 12 counts of preparing a false tax return, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Gary Confredo, also known as “Gary Conte," the former operator of Goldstar Financial Management Corp. (Goldstar), a financial services business based in Commack, New York, pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging him with conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud Bank of America of more than $3.2 million in loans and lines of credit that were obtained under false pretenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Eric Gibson will lead the efforts of the Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2022, general election. AUSA...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Mark Totten today announced that Joseph Woods, 33, and his brother, Johon Woods, 28, both of Grand Rapids, were each sentenced to a total of 84 months in prison for stealing 53 firearms from an area gun store. U.S. District Judge Jane Beckering also ordered a 3-year period of supervised release to follow each defendant’s term of incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Shyheem Woodard-Smith, also known as “Peanut" and “Nut," 22, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to interstate travel with the intent to engage in dealing firearms without a license. Woodard-Smith admitted to a role in a conspiracy to traffic over 140 firearms from the Beckley area to Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Judge Wendy W. Berger has sentenced Dennis Lee Line (53, Winter Springs) to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to coerce or entice a minor to engage in sexual activity. A federal jury had found him guilty on Aug. 11, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Matthew W. Mensinger, age 49, of Berwick, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States Chief District Judge Matthew W. Brann, to 12 months of imprisonment for perpetrating a scheme to obtain bank loans through false statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
