News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New Jersey real estate developer and attorney each admitted today to conspiring to orchestrate a mortgage fraud scheme that led to over $3.5 million in losses, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man was arrested for distributing videos and images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.

News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces James Ernesto Martinez, age 33, of Denver, has been sentenced to 46 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.

News Release: On Nov. 22, 2022, Justin Haubrich, 46, from Milford, Iowa, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison.

News Release: RAPID CITY - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on Nov. 18, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.

News Release: A man who possessed methamphetamine with intent to distribute it and who possessed a firearm as an unlawful drug user, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.

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

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: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KERVIN DIAZ, 39, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 95 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.

News Release: BOSTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts filed a civil forfeiture action today against a manuscript signed by Conquistador Hernando Cortés in 1527, believed to have been unlawfully removed from the Archivo General de la Nación de México - Mexico’s national archives...

News Release: SIOUX FALLS - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a Minneapolis, Minnesota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Nov. 21, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.

News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A federal grand jury in Jackson has returned indictments charging the former sheriff of Noxubee County and one of his deputies with receiving bribes, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

News Release: RAPID CITY - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on Nov. 18, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.

News Release: New Orleans, LA - The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) New Orleans Task Force (USMS Eastern District of Louisiana) sponsored its annual Operation Boo Dat 2019 from October 20 to Nov. 09, 2019. The partnership between USMS, Crimestoppers GNO, Louisiana State Police (LSP), Louisiana Probation and Parole...

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - David Stanley, 46, of Bolt, was sentenced today to three years and five months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for retaliation against a government witness.