News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the November 2022 Federal Grand Jury B.

News Release: LAREDO, Texas - With the sentencing of a 37-year-old associate of the Texas Mexican Mafia, more than a dozen criminals are serving more than 1600 months combined for their respective roles in narcotics trafficking on the streets of Laredo, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.

News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, Shaan Ti Diyali, 37, was sentenced on Monday to six months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, for wire fraud.

News Release: RUTLAND, Vt. - The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Brownswell Cedano (a.k.a. “Twin," “T," and “J"), 28, of Hartford, Connecticut was sentenced to 84 months of imprisonment on Nov. 10, 2022 in United States District Court in Rutland by Chief Judge Geoffrey...

News Release: RAPID CITY - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced a federal grand jury has indicted a Kyle man for Second Degree Murder.

News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas- The owner of Jake’s Fireworks has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.

News Release: MIAMI - Today Miami resident Ari P. Weingrad, 51, pled guilty to willfully failing to pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The proceeding was held before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis.

News Release: NEWINGTON, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Nov. 10, 2022, ANGEL LUIS RODRIGUEZ, also known as “Lou Rock," 45, last residing in Newington, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervise release, for trafficking cocaine. Judge Bryant also ordered Rodriguez to pay a $3,000 fine.

News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Dominic Tyah Watchman, 20, of Lupton, Arizona, and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced on Nov. 2, 2022, by United States District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to 66 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Watchman previously pleaded guilty to robbery.

News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: A Columbia County man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to methamphetamine distribution.

News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Nov. 14, 2022, Kelly Joyce, 38, of Pinon, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Dominic W. Lanza to 202 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Joyce previously pleaded guilty to Second Degree Murder.

News Release: Bowling Green, KY - A Bowling Green man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years and 10 months in prison and fined $100,000, for conspiring with multiple people to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a methamphetamine mixture.

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man who was the subject of an undercover investigation in the United Kingdom has been sentenced in federal court on child sexual exploitation charges.

News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On November 7, 2022, Keenan Sherman Johnson, 26, of McNary, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Steven P. Logan to 180 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release. Johnson, an enrolled member of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, previously pleaded guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child.

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Royce Newcomb, 60, of Fresno, charged in connection with schemes estimated to have defrauded investors and the government out of more than $4.2 million was arrested today in Fresno, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.