News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Johnathon Earl Hamrick, 33, of Parkersburg, was sentenced today to seven years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Qaya Mikel Gordon, 20, of Lapwai, Idaho was sentenced to six years in federal prison for assault with a dangerous weapon, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today.

News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Courtney Michelle McComas, 34, of Huntington, pleaded guilty today to distribution of a quantity of fentanyl.

News Release: Chase Winkle, a former officer with the Muncie Police Department, in Muncie, Indiana, pleaded guilty today to eleven civil rights and obstruction charges. Specifically, Winkle pleaded guilty to five federal civil rights offenses for assaulting arrestees, and to six obstruction offenses for writing false reports to cover up the assaults.

News Release: A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Mississippi returned an indictment that was unsealed yesterday charging two former Mississippi Department of Corrections officials with deprivation of rights under color of law.

News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Francis Cardinell, 76, of Penfield, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with obstruction of justice and lying under oath. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - YOLANI ASUCENA ENORADO-LEIVA, age 24, a resident of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, and LETICIA NICACIA DOS SANTOS, aka “La China,", age 18, who is a Brazillian national, pled guilty on Nov. 29, 2022, before U.S. District Judge Greg G. Guidry to participating in a conspiracy...

News Release: The Justice Department announced that a Mississippi man pleaded guilty in federal court to a hate crime for burning a cross in his front yard with the intent to intimidate a Black family.

News Release: DUBLIN, GA: A newly unsealed federal indictment charges 13 people with participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy distributing large amounts of methamphetamine and heroin in the Laurens County area.

News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Hollis man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Portland today for being a felon in possession of ammunition as well as for violating conditions of supervised release previously imposed by a federal court in New Hampshire.

News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A convicted felon and documented member of the Crips criminal street gang organization operating in Columbus was sentenced to serve more than ten years in prison for armed drug trafficking.

News Release: PITTSBURGH - After deliberating for three hours, a federal jury of five men and seven women found Jamal Knox guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute Forty Grams or More of Fentanyl, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Allen Levinson, formerly known as Allen Ameh, to six years and six months in federal prison for wire fraud conspiracy related to his orchestration of a large-scale international tax fraud scheme. Levinson, a resident of Nigeria, was arrested on Dec. 2, 2020, while attempting to enter the United Kingdom. He was extradited to the United States and pleaded guilty upon his arrival on Feb. 3, 2022.

News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Rossonno Borders, Jr. (25, Tampa) to three years and one month in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. Borders had pleaded guilty on July 27, 2022.

News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that yesterday, SEAN ESPRIT, age 27, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty before United States Senior District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle to violations of the Controlled Substances Act and the Gun Control Act.