By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Andrew Jace Larrabure-Tuma, 20, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to unlawful dealing and manufacturing firearms, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Last week, a federal judge sentenced a Birmingham teacher for transferring obscene material to a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Felix A. Rivera-Esparra.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Richard Hileman, age 39, of Marcy, New York, pled guilty today to mailing a threatening communication. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TEVIN GONZALEZ, 25, of Holyoke, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. Circuit Judge Sarah A. L. Merriam in Bridgeport to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for unlawfully possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former associate director of a global maritime service group was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company and failing to pay over hundreds of thousands in federal payroll taxes, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Elvis Eghosa Ogiekpolor has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering after being convicted at trial. Ogiekpolor opened and directed others to open at least 50 fraudulent business bank accounts that received over $9.5 million...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: FBI Columbia Warns of Potential Charity and Disaster Fraud Following Hurricane Ian.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: MACON, Ga. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia today announced that as part of its continuing efforts to protect older adults and to bring perpetrators of fraud schemes to justice, it is joining the Justice Department’s Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force, as one of 14 additional U.S. Attorney’s Offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A father and son who own and operate two Woburn restaurants, Taste of Brazil-Tudo No Brasa and The Dog House, were arrested today and charged with human smuggling.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jose Torres, age 27, and Luis Gonzalez, age 26, of Texas, were indicted by a federal grand jury for cocaine trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DIANTE FERNANDES and MARK FRANCIS, both of the Bronx, were arrested in connection with a series of recent carjackings in the Bronx and Yonkers, New York. FERNANDES and FRANCIS had their initial appearance today before United States Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy and were ordered detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Texas man has been arrested and charged with allegedly staging a hoax explosion at Northeastern University in Boston in September 2022 and providing law enforcement with materially false and misleading information about the incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Adrianna Bean, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: A federal jury found Patrick Campbell, of Sierra Leone, not guilty of the charges that were announced in the press release that appears below, originally issued on Aug. 22, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced on Sept. 30, 2022, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - United States Attorney Kenneth L. Parker announced today that nine prosecutions in the Southern District of Ohio are included in the Department of Justice’s National Elder Justice Sweep. The initiative also includes outreach within the Southern District of Ohio to connect with the District’s senior citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Charity Fraud Warning. Charity fraud schemes can happen at any time, but they are especially prevalent after disasters. Criminals use tragedies like Hurricane Ian to exploit those who want to help. Scammers will leverage a natural disaster to steal your money, your personal information, or both. Disaster...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: A Pryor man was sentenced Monday in federal court for repeatedly sexually abusing two of his children for ten years, starting when they were five. In 2020, when the two victims were adults, they came forward to report the abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Ryan Berte, age 33, of Eaton, New York, was indicted on Sept. 29, 2022, for receiving and possessing child pornography and for delay of mail while previously serving as a rural mail carrier for the United States Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Ethan Thomas Trainor, has pled guilty to attempted tax evasion. Trainor used sophisticated on-line techniques to conceal from the IRS over $1 million in cryptocurrency he earned through illegal dark web transactions.
