By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: HONOLULU - Bronson Kepa‘a, 38, of Pearl City, made his initial appearance today in United States District Court on charges filed in a criminal complaint that he possessed more than 50 grams of methamphetamine and more than 40 grams of fentanyl with intent to distribute them and carried a semi-automatic...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha today announced that the City of Central Falls has been awarded nearly $1.2 in grant funding through the Justice Department’s Office of Community Policing Services (COPS Office) Cops Hiring Program (CHP), and that the Rhode Island Department of Public Safety has been awarded $84,187 in support of the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Rodney Matthews, age 49, of Albany, pled guilty today to possessing and intending to distribute cocaine and heroin, and to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Katrina L. Coffman, 36, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Lincoln. United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Coffman to 180 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams of methamphetamine mixture...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: A federal jury convicted an Amarillo man of drug crimes after just seven minutes of deliberation on Wednesday, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: MOBILE, AL - A Mobile man was sentenced in federal court on Aug. 26, 2022, for his participation in the Darrin Southall drug distribution organization. Jamarcus Devonta Chambers, 28, was sentenced to 131 months for his role as a drug distributor for Southall in Mobile.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: BLOOMFIELD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found KENSTON HARRY, 41, of Bloomfield, guilty of drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Corporate Officer Defrauded Ten Victims Out of More Than $2.4 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Alejandro Rivera, 36, of Schenectady, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Springfield, Illinois, man, Demetrius Robertson, 30, of 2000 block of South 8th Street, was sentenced on Sept. 27, 2022 to an aggregate 60 months’ imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute marijuana and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Had prior federal felony conviction for possessing firearms as an unlawful drug user.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Warren L. Tisdale, 53, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to being felon in possession of a firearm, before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - The former Minister of the Government of Bolivia pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to launder bribes he received in exchange for corruptly helping a U.S. company win a $5.6 million contract from the Bolivian government.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Blandburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to violation of federal narcotics laws related to a nine-month Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking in and around the counties of Jefferson, Clearfield, and Allegheny, United States Attorney Cindy Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Ashley Kawczynski, 32, of Parkersburg, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2022
News Release: Oxford, Miss. - A Nesbit man was sentenced today to 2 1/2 years in prison for transmitting a communication in interstate commerce containing a threat to injure the person of another.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2022
News Release: EVANSVILLE- Ronnie Rich Jr., 43, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was sentenced to 200 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2022
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging two People’s Republic of China (PRC) intelligence officers with attempting to obstruct a criminal prosecution in the Eastern District of New York. The defendants remain at large.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Nikolas P. Kerest announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Michael Drescher will lead the efforts of this Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2022, general election. AUSA Drescher has...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2022
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Juan Carlos Garcia (39, Apopka) guilty of conspiracy and possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute it. Garcia faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for January 6, 2023. Garcia had been indicted on Feb. 16, 2022.
