By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: Darrell Taylor, 32, a former officer with the Louisville Metro Department of Correction, in Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for using unreasonable force against a detainee, thereby violating the detainee’s civil rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - MAURICE FLORANT, age 34, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on Jan. 26, 2023 in a two-count indictment for violations of the Federal Gun Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Florida man pleaded guilty today to a felony charge for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Houston, TX, woman who admitted to a federal judge in Providence, RI, that she collected and banked more than $1.26 million of the more than $2.5 million she and co-conspirators bilked from the unsuspecting victims of internet-based “romance scams" that they executed, was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: DETROIT - A Gibraltar man was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for sexual exploitation of children, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: The Justice Department filed a complaint today against the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs (WDMA) alleging that the WDMA discriminated on the basis of sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when it offered a woman a lower salary than similarly or less qualified men for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JULIO MARQUEZ ALEJANDRO, a/k/a “Chino," was sentenced to life in prison, and LUIS BLONDET was sentenced to 50 years in prison, each for their leading roles in a brutal drug cartel that is responsible...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging Ryan E. Dales, age 34, of Baltimore, Maryland, with illegal possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon and with wire fraud, relating to the submission of fraudulent applications for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES") Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Eldon, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a scheme to use the identities of deceased people to file hundreds of false stimulus claims under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Virginia man was arrested this morning on felony and misdemeanor charges, including civil disorder, for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A St. Joseph, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for making a bomb threat against the Social Security Administration field office in St. Joseph.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: CAPE GIRARDEAU - A man from Dunklin County, Missouri on Friday admitted selling seven devices that convert AR-15-style rifles into fully automatic weapons.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: A former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officer was arrested today in Oahu, Hawaii, on criminal charges related to his alleged sexual abuse of female inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Chad Lee Engel was sentenced in federal court today to 138 months in prison for blowing up ATM machines to steal the money contained inside.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Indiana man and an Arizona man yesterday admitted their roles in a health care fraud conspiracy in which they received payment for doctors’ orders for durable medical equipment (DME), namely orthotic braces, and genetic test referrals, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: MIAMI - A Miami federal grand jury has indicted Maikel Jose Moreno Perez, 57, former president of the Venezuelan Supreme Court and current Venezuelan Supreme Court justice, with conspiring to launder and laundering bribes he received in exchange for using his position to resolve civil and criminal cases in Venezuela to favor bribe payers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Dominican national detained on drug trafficking charges since March 28, 2022, today admitted to a federal judge that he acted as a member of a criminal drug conspiracy when he attempted to retrieve U.S. Priority Mail packages containing cocaine intended for later distribution, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Three more defendants have been indicted as part of an investigation into an armed and violent drug-trafficking organization operating in the Kansas City, Mo., metropolitan area.
