News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to receive and distribute material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, as well as distribution and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

News Release: MONROE, La. - A former officer with the Monroe Police Department, Jared Preston Desadier, 44, was sentenced today to 78 months in prison, followed by 2 years of supervised release, for his role in the assault of an arrestee in Ouachita Parish and his efforts to cover up that abuse.

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Joseph Willard, 59, of Cole Camp, Missouri, was convicted at trial with 12 counts of child exploitation offenses arising from his abuse of seven minor children, ranging in age from eight to 17, while pretending to own an international modeling agency.

News Release: A Virginia couple and Missouri man pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a public official.

News Release: Former prisoner transport officer, Dewayne Dudley, 56, pleaded guilty in federal court in the Northern District of Oklahoma to violating a male detainee’s civil rights by sexually assaulting and kidnapping him.

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LENWOOD GATLING, 39, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 108 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man was arrested in East Rutherford, New Jersey for possessing with intent to distribute approximately 70 kilograms of cocaine and 25 kilograms of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.

News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Antonio Alvarez, 45, of New York, NY was arraigned today in United States District Court in Burlington on an indictment charging him with unlawfully attempting to transport individuals that entered the United States illegally. Alvarez pleaded not guilty at his appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin J. Doyle and remains on release conditions.

News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted producing multiple videos depicting him sexually assaulting a minor, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

News Release: FAYETTEVILLE - A Sheridan, Arkansas man was sentenced yesterday to 96 months in prison without the possibility of parole on one count of Distribution of Child Pornography. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the U.S. District Court in Fayetteville.

News Release: Unknown Bank Robber Wanted by the FBI.

News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Henry Salome Ramos, 38, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced last week, by United States District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 120 months in prison for child exploitation offenses. Ramos previously pleaded guilty to Distribution and Possession of Child Pornography. Upon release, Ramos will be placed on lifetime supervised release with sex offender conditions and will be required to register as a sex offender.

News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Carlos Alberto Roman (56, Orlando) has pleaded guilty to possession of controlled substances and possessing a firearm equipped with a silencer in furtherance of that drug crime. Roman faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 30 years...

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID KAMAL, 60, of Stafford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to tax evasion.

News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted producing multiple videos depicting him sexually assaulting a minor, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.