News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A corrections officer at Bayside State Prison in Leesburg, New Jersey, today admitted agreeing with others to physically assault inmates for actual, perceived, and fabricated violations of the prison’s rules and customs in a manner that resulted in injury to the inmates, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

News Release: WASHINGTON - Three men, all from Washington, D.C., have been indicted on federal charges stemming from a series of armed robberies and carjackings that took place in Maryland and the District of Columbia over a period of less than two months earlier this year.

The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Nov. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: BOSTON - A Bronx, N.Y. man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston in connection with coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child pornography, as well as traveling with the intent to engage in illicit conduct with the minor victim.

News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Tomi Moscat-Lara, age 44, a native and citizen of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 18 months’ imprisonment, for illegally reentering the United States after being previously removed following conviction for a felony offense.

News Release: PIERRE - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for First Degree Burglary and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.

The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Nov. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that WILLIAM McCULLOUGH, 62, of Westerly, Rhode Island, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of wire fraud stemming from an embezzlement scheme.

News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Melody Gwen Nez, 32, of Dilkon, Arizona, was sentenced on Nov. 21, 2022, by United States District Judge Dominic W. Lanza to 51 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Nez previously pleaded guilty to Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.

News Release: MIAMI - This week the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hosted regional family summits across the country in support of those who have lost loved ones to fentanyl poisoning.

News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Fort Lauderdale, Florida man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland today to committing bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that on Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, Third Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation in the District of Delaware, sentenced Omar Morales Colon to 45 years’ incarceration for conspiracy to commit money laundering...

News Release: BOSTON - A Ludlow man has been arrested for a child pornography offense.

News Release: A Joplin, Missouri, woman pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to kidnapping a woman whose body was later found in rural Mayes County, Oklahoma, in 2020, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

News Release: Two former employees of the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs entered guilty pleas in a $2.9 million embezzlement scheme, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.