By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas - A Mexican national was sentenced in federal court in Austin last week to 14 years in prison for his role in a narcotics distribution network that spanned the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: BOISE - A federal grand jury in Boise returned an eight-count indictment on Feb. 15, 2023, charging five Idaho men with distribution of methamphetamine and fentanyl, aiding and abetting the distribution of methamphetamine, and conspiracy to do the same, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: The defendant also sentenced for two other home invasion robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - DAJANAE DRAKE, age 29, from Missouri City, Texas, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon to 24 months imprisonment, 3 years of supervised release and a mandatory special assessment fee of $100.00 after previously pleading guilty as charged to a one-count...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: A former salesman pleaded guilty today for his leading role in a bid rigging scheme involving the sales of certain brands of digital interactive whiteboards to the New York City Department of Education Public Schools (NYCDOE).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - CALLEIGH AMOS, age 30, a resident of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, pled guilty on February 9, 2023, before U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(C), and 846, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: Defendant Threw Object at Officers in One Incident, Poured Bucket Filled With Liquid on Officers in Second Confrontation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON -Joseph Oluwatobi Adebanwo, 26, of Laurel, Maryland, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today to 90 days in prison, suspended, three years of probation and $1,700 restitution on one misdemeanor count of exploitation of a vulnerable adult. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Inspector General for the District of Columbia Daniel W. Lucas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Statement from FBI Jackson. The FBI Jackson Field Office, the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi have opened a federal civil rights investigation into a color of law incident involving the Rankin County Sheriff's...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A third member of an Atlanta-based conspiracy that bilked unsuspecting seniors in Rhode Island and several other states out of more than $3.2 million was convicted today in federal court in Rhode Island after pleading guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Dennis Cotto-Alvarado, 45 years old, of Ponce, was sentenced to 151 months (12 years and seven months) in prison and 15 years of supervised release for transporting a female minor with the intent to engage criminal sexual conduct in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2423(a). The FBI investigated the complaint with the collaboration of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau and the Puerto Rico Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: TEXARKANA - An Ashdown man was sentenced today to 360 months in prison without the possibility of parole, followed by 20 years supervised release, on one count of Production of Child Pornography. The Honorable Chief Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the U.S. District Court in Texarkana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury indicted three women today on charges related to the attempted arson of a nail salon in Monroe, Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: An Ohio woman was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the IRS relating to her ownership and operation of illegal gambling businesses in Canton, Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The former mayor of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Javier García-Pérez, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy for his involvement in a bribery scheme in which he received cash payments in exchange for the awarding of municipal contracts and the payment of invoices related on those contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Jacky Lynn McComber (formerly Jacky Lynn Kimmel), age 50, of Elkridge, Maryland, on federal charges of submitting false claims and making false statements, in connection with the hours she claimed to have worked on a federal contract with the National Security Agency (NSA). McComber was the CEO and owner of InfoTeK, an information technology (IT) services corporation, which had an ongoing contract with the NSA.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Alphonso Jimenez, 31, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl and using a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bob P. Beris announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: A federal grand jury in Boston returned an indictment today charging a Massachusetts man with a federal hate crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brahm Persaud, 69, a Maryland resident, pleaded guilty today to assault with a dangerous weapon for an incident in which he confronted Mr. Kevin Pinkett and other civilians with a firearm while attending a birthday party in Southeast Washington, DC, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that AMOS MUNDENDI, a/k/a “Mos," a/k/a “El Ashile Mundi," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court by United States District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer to 42 months in prison for his participation in a scheme...
