News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two Pennsylvania men have been sentenced on their convictions for violating federal narcotics laws related to a nine-month Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking in and around the counties of Jefferson, Clearfield, and Allegheny, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: DETROIT - An Inkster resident with 14 prior felony convictions was sentenced to 86 months in prison for bank robbery in federal court this afternoon in Detroit on charges stemming from his robbery of the Dearborn Federal Savings Bank, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison. This defendant had been apprehended by police after fleeing the bank and hiding out in a port-a-potty.

News Release: Defendant’s Brothers, Father and Mother Already Have Been Sentenced.

News Release: Defendant Struck Aggressively at Officers with a Long Pole.

News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Michael S. Murphy, 48, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 6 years for distributing heroin and fentanyl and possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking. Murphy pleaded guilty to these offenses on Oct. 11, 2022.

News Release: Mun Chol Myong (Mun), 55, a national of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to time served of 45 months’ imprisonment for multiple money laundering offenses. Mun laundered funds through the U.S. financial system...

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SHAVARIUS SMITH, 22, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for a firearm offense.

News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Recognizes New Mexico Department of Public Safety Employees for Improving Crime Statistics Reporting.

News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A multi-year investigation targeting members and associates of the Southside Locos gang who directed their drug-trafficking activities using contraband cell phones from state prison cells has resulted in 60 convictions through multiple federal and state cases, announced United States Attorney Robert J. Troester.

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LUCINDA THOMAS (“THOMAS"), age 67; MARY WADE (“WADE"), age 58; and JUDY WILLIAMS (“WILLIAMS"), age 62, all of Houma, Louisiana, were sentenced on Jan. 19, 2023 for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged automobile accidents with tractor-trailers occurring in New Orleans.

News Release: Charles F. McGonigal, 54, a former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office, has been arrested on charges relating to his receipt of $225,000 in cash from an individual who had business interests in Europe and who had been an employee of a foreign intelligence service, while McGonigal was serving as Special Agent in Charge of FBI counterintelligence efforts in the New York Office. McGonigal retired from the FBI in September of 2018.

News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - United States Attorney Robert J. Troester announced today that the Western District of Oklahoma (WDOK) collected $53,584,692 in criminal and civil actions and through asset forfeiture in Fiscal Year 2022.

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today the resolution of a matter involving the Louisiana Supreme Court (LASC) based on actions LASC has taken to improve access to state court proceedings and operations for people with limited English proficiency (LEP).

News Release: CONCORD -Tyler Townsend, 28, of Dover was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison today for one count of sex trafficking of a minor, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.