News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Peniel Olibris, age 32, of Denver, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison, plus one year of supervised release, for smuggling goods, specifically firearms, from the United States to Haiti.

News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - An Aurora man has been charged with two counts of dealing firearms without a license, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.

News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge Gregory A. Presnell has sentenced John Jones (56, District of Columbia) to 20 years in federal prison for assaulting a federal correctional officer with a deadly weapon and possessing contraband in a federal penitentiary. This sentence was imposed...

News Release: MIAMI - Dr. Ronald Lubetsky was sentenced this week to five (5) years in prison by U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks for unlawfully dispensing narcotics-specifically oxycodone and morphine.

News Release: A federal jury convicted a doctor formerly licensed in Ohio today for illegally prescribing controlled substance pills in violation of the Controlled Substances Act.

News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Michael Andrew Nelson, 30, of Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, by United States District Judge Scott H. Rash to 30 months in prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release. Nelson was convicted of Conspiracy to Transport Illegal Aliens for Profit and Transportation of Illegal Aliens for Profit following a bench trial held on Aug. 10, 2022.

News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Jan. 12, 2023, Jeremy Smallwood, 38, of Kingsport, Tennessee, was sentenced to life imprisonment in federal prison, by the Honorable Clifton Corker, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.

News Release: DEL RIO, Texas - A Del Rio man was sentenced Monday to 220 months in prison for receipt and distribution of child pornography.

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Daniel J. Kafafian and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger announced a Hudson County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 51 months in prison for conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute cocaine.

News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and for illegally possessing firearms.

The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Jan. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: PROVIDENCE - Tao Jiang, the president and owner of Broad Tech System, Inc., a California-based electronics distribution company, today admitted to a federal judge in Providence that he and his company participated in a conspiracy to conceal information from the U.S. Department of Commerce and from U.S.

News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Eric Paul Jones (44, New Port Richey) to 30 years and 5 months in federal prison for production and possession of child sex abuse material. The court also ordered Jones to forfeit the electronic devices used in the commission...

News Release: A federal district court in San Diego ordered today that over $17 million in restitution be distributed to approximately 800 victims from over 40 different countries due to their investment losses in BitConnect, a massive cryptocurrency investment scheme, which defrauded thousands of investors worldwide.

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARGARET BOISTURE, 51, of Windsor, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to 33 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for defrauding her former employer and one of its lenders of more than $700,000. Judge Williams also ordered Boisture to pay a $7,100 fine and to make full restitution.