News and reports from the Department of Justice.

David X. Sullivan, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Devaro Taylor, 35, from New Haven, was sentenced to 28 months in federal prison.

Mobile resident Brandy Davis has been sentenced to five years of probation, including one year of home confinement with ankle monitoring, for tax fraud.

SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has announced that Christopher Essameddin Birry, 43, from Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, received a 15-year prison sentence.

The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has announced the indictment of Leonardo Mendoza-Zavala, a 44-year-old Mexican citizen, on a charge of illegal reentry.

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – Todd Philip Wilkerson, a 53-year-old resident of Ardmore, Oklahoma, has pleaded guilty to one count of sexual abuse in Indian Country.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has announced the indictment of Bryan R. Chapman, a 62-year-old resident of Missouri.

Two brothers from India, Avanish Kumar Jha and Rajnish Kumar Jha, were sentenced to 30 months in prison by a U.S. District Court in Seattle for selling counterfeit and adulterated drugs in the United States.

Geary Simon, a 71-year-old resident of the District of Columbia, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for defrauding the STAY DC rental housing assistance program and for possessing a firearm as a felon.

An Athens man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma has announced that two individuals have pleaded guilty to federal drug charges.

Yasmin Charisse Millett, a 22-year-old from Oakland, has been sentenced to two years and four months in prison for her involvement in bank robbery.

Marcus Gaines, a 34-year-old former postal worker from Toledo, Ohio, has admitted to his involvement in a drug trafficking operation that utilized the U.S. Postal Service for distributing illegal substances.

Jason Allen Rhule, a 45-year-old resident of Charleston, West Virginia, has been sentenced to six years and five months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

An Ohio man, John Carleton Johnson, Jr., has pleaded guilty to illegally possessing magnetic stripe credit card encoding devices.

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – Cody Lynn Lusk, a 35-year-old resident of Seattle, Washington, has been sentenced to 84 months in prison for burglary in the first degree in Indian Country.