By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio man pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and computer fraud for a scheme utilizing Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) swapping. SIM Swapping is an increasingly common method of fraud in which a victim’s cell phone carrier is compromised to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $541,026 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program in the Middle District of Florida. Funding will support law enforcement and community efforts to address the epidemic of gun crime...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Brigit Marie Bissell, 27, of Bothell, Washington, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to destroy or remove property to prevent seizure, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: Conspiracy Had Ties to Atlanta, Houston, and Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
There were 1,553 press releases published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys in September.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced more than $139 million in grant funding through the department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The awards provide direct funding to 180 law enforcement agencies across the nation, allowing those agencies to hire 973 additional full-time law enforcement professionals.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment and arrest of Derrick Evans (44, St. Petersburg) for seven counts of possessing with the intent to distribute narcotics, one count of carrying a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - An Allen Park man was convicted today by a federal jury in Port Huron on charges of possessing fentanyl and heroin with the intent to distribute them, maintaining a drug premises, and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a previously convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man who admitted to sending a nude picture of himself to a fictitious girl during an undercover sting operation was sentenced today to five years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring with his brother to extort multiple general contractors of approximately $14,000 in cash, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White on Wednesday sentenced a Florissant woman who committed coronavirus pandemic fraud to two years in prison and ordered her to repay $787,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Oct. 18.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 43-year-old Waller County man has admitted to willfully injuring or committing depredation against property of the United States by ramming his truck and trailer into the signage entrance of the FBI, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky.- The owner and chief financial officer of a former business in Perry County were both convicted on Thursday, by a federal jury in Lexington, of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, multiple counts of wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Katie R. Crews, 29, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, pleaded guilty in federal court to violating an individual’s rights by using excessive force while acting as a police officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A high-ranking member of the Oxnard-based Surtown Chiques street gang was sentenced today to 162 months in federal prison for attempting to secure control of drug trafficking in Ventura County and extorting “taxes" on behalf of the Mexican Mafia prison gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that HERBERT ALLEN (“ALLEN"), age 37, and DION RIDLEY (“RIDLEY"), age 23, agreed to plead guilty to count one (1) of their indictment, charging Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Kyle Ritchie, 31, Schofield, Wisconsin was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 24 months in federal prison for making false statements during the purchase of firearms. This prison term will be followed by 3 years of supervised release. Ritchie pleaded guilty to this charge on July 15, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Keechant L. Sewell, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD") announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging JUSTIS COLON and ARIEL MARTINEZ with racketeering conspiracy, murder in aid of...
