News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: BANGOR, Maine: Two men from Manchester, England pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Bangor today to interference with a flight crew and assault. The charges stem from an incident on a TUI Airways flight that diverted to Bangor International Airport (BIA) last month.

News Release: Later today, Jo-Andy Christepher Marie Balentina, Joell Charles Marie Balentina, Sheriann Ann Marie Bryan, Leon George Hall, and Edlyson Reuel Elias Sophia will be arraigned at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on international cocaine distribution conspiracy and related cocaine importation charges. Jo-Andy Balentina is also charged with money laundering conspiracy for his role in laundering the proceeds of cocaine sales generated by the trafficking.

News Release: WASHINGTON - An Illinois man was found guilty, at a stipulated trial in the District of Columbia, of a felony and a misdemeanor 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.

News Release: The former leader of a drug trafficking organization that operated in Baja California, Mexico, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in leading an international drug trafficking organization which transported more than 450 kilograms of cocaine and 45,000 kilograms of marijuana into the United States from Mexico.

News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ALICE C. “SHANNON" CHABAUD, age 80, of New Orleans, pled guilty on Feb. 1, 2023 to access device fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1029(a)(2) and (c)(1)(A)(i), in relation to her theft from her former accounting client, a New Orleans-based band named as “Band A.".

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MARIANNA LEVIN was sentenced to 54 months in prison for her leadership role in a broad fraud scheme that defrauded Medicaid for home health and personal care services that were not actually rendered, resulting in the loss of more than $100 million. United States District Judge John P. Cronan imposed the sentence. LEVIN pled guilty to wire fraud on June 1, 2022.

News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Fernando Santiago, 67, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and being a felon in possession of ammunition. The fentanyl charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years, and a fine of $1,000,000 or both.

News Release: Defendants Accused of Interfering with Law Enforcement During a Riot.

News Release: Des Moines, IA - Kenneth Quinton Crosby, age 24, of Des Moines, was sentenced today to 12 months and 1 day in prison following his guilty plea to four counts of False Statement During Purchase of a Firearm and one count of Unlawful Drug User in Possession of Firearms. Following his prison term, Crosby also will have to serve three years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that NICKOLAS SHARP pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to multiple federal crimes in connection with a scheme he perpetrated to secretly steal gigabytes of confidential files from a public New York-based...

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - WAYNE HANDY, age 29, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Carl J. Barbier to violations of the Federal Gun Control Act and the Federal Controlled Substances Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.

News Release: A Puerto Rico man is scheduled to make his initial appearance this afternoon at the federal courthouse in Manhattan to face commodities fraud, commodities market manipulation, and wire fraud charges in connection with the manipulation of the Mango Markets decentralized cryptocurrency exchange.

News Release: Defendant Carried Flagpole Into Capitol, Joined in Confrontations With Officers.

The US Justice Department published a three page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Feb. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.