By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - William James Farber, 43, of Los Angeles, was sentenced Thursday to four years and nine months in prison for a conspiracy to distribute narcotics, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A real estate investor, who was previously charged in a $600,000 wire fraud scheme, has now been indicted for multiple counts of bankruptcy fraud totaling over $1.1 million, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Antitrust Subcommittee Chair David N. Cicilline (D-RI) issued the following statement after a healthcare staffing company pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday for conspiring with another staffing company not to compete for each other’s nurses and to fix the wages of those nurses, in violation of the Sherman Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport has returned an indictment charging DENNIS LEE WAITERS, 32, of Torrington, with assaulting five federal law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Two men were charged with civil rights crimes related to the use of excessive force during their employment with the Pike County Sheriff’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: EL PASO - This week, Jorge Mario Manjarrez-Reyes, 30, of El Paso, was sentenced to 200 months in prison for producing child pornography. Following his imprisonment, U.S. District Court Judge David C. Guaderrama ordered that Manjarrez-Reyes be placed on a lifetime of supervised release and pay a $5,000 assessment under the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Hassan Abdullah, also known as “San," 28, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to interstate travel with the intent to engage in dealing firearms without a license. Abdullah admitted to a role in a conspiracy to traffic over 140 firearms from the Beckley area to Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: Louisville, KY - A convicted felon pleaded guilty yesterday to illegally possessing a handgun and a “Glock switch" device which allows a semi-automatic handgun to function as an automatic. Glock switches are defined as machine guns under federal law.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Jonathan Jojola was sentenced on Oct. 26 to two years in prison. Jojola, 34, of Isleta, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Isleta Pueblo, pleaded guilty on May 6 to assault of an intimate partner by strangling.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: EL PASO, TX-The FBI El Paso Field Office announces the arrest of a 30-year-old El Paso man, Russell Rice III, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for his role in a wide-ranging fentanyl, heroin, crack and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOEY J. STEVENSON, age 40, from New Orleans, pled guilty on Oct. 25, 2022 for failing to pay the IRS employment taxes for his business, Community Care Solutions, Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Lynnette Chavez was arraigned on Oct. 25 on an indictment charging her with assault on a federal officer. Chavez, 26, of New Laguna, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna, will remain in custody pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: TEXARKANA, AR - An Arkansas man pleaded guilty on Oct. 25, 2022, to filing a false tax return with the IRS on which he did not report all of the income he earned from his business.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A former soldier in the Army National Guard was sentenced in federal court today for sexually abusing four children over several years while he was director of the youth ministry at Fort Leonard Wood U.S. Army Base.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Leonard Theodore Kern, 68, of Plano, Texas, was sentenced today to 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for obstruction of justice involving an investment scheme that cost a West Virginia woman $375,000. Kern must also pay $130,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Following a nine-week trial ending in guilty verdicts, two leaders and an associate of a violent drug trafficking and money laundering organization operating in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood have been sentenced to prison terms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in evading taxes for the tax years 2015 through 2018, United States Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: VDA OC LLC (VDA), a health care staffing company, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today for entering into and engaging in a conspiracy with a competitor to allocate employee nurses and to fix the wages of those nurses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2022
News Release: A resident of Montego Bay, Jamaica, was extradited to the United States and made his initial appearance in federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina, on charges relating to his participation in a fraudulent lottery scheme that targeted elderly victims in the United States, the Department of Justice and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced today.
