News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: TOLEDO - A federal jury today convicted Antuan Wynn, 47, of Toledo, Ohio, Marquise Figures, 37, of Wayne, Ohio, and Christopher Simpson, 31, of Toledo, Ohio, of participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed large quantities of cocaine, cocaine base (crack) and fentanyl throughout the Toledo area.

News Release: EL PASO, Texas - A federal jury convicted two men Tuesday of multiple counts of drug trafficking. Additionally, one of the defendants was convicted of domestic and international money laundering.

News Release: A Louisiana man was sentenced yesterday to 12 months and one day in prison for possessing dogs for the purpose of using them in an animal fighting venture.

News Release: A former Tribal government official of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (MHA Nation) was sentenced today to six years and three months in prison for a bribery scheme involving soliciting and accepting bribes and kickbacks from a contractor providing construction services on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, which is the home of the MHA Nation.

News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Vladimir Natera Abreu was sentenced to 15 years in prison for drug trafficking by United States District Court Judge Silvia Carreño Coll.

News Release: CLEVELAND - A Cleveland man was charged in a superseding indictment with distributing narcotics that led to the overdose death of another individual in January 2022.

News Release: A federal jury convicted an Illinois woman yesterday for conspiring to defraud Medicare of over $6 million.

News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 21-year-old Mexican citizen has been sent to prison following his conviction of conspiracy to transport over four thousand pounds of marijuana, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.

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.

News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -Dominican drug lord Cesar Emilio Peralta-Adamez, also known as “El Abusador," plead guilty to drug trafficking charges, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.

News Release: PROVIDENCE - Two Providence brothers previously convicted in New York state court on violent crime charges are facing federal charges following the seizure of five firearms, including four “ghost guns," and ammunition during searches of their residences as part of a Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) investigation, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.

News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: A South Georgia man who participated in a widespread drug-trafficking conspiracy and two state prison guards who smuggled drugs behind bars are among the final defendants sentenced to federal prison as a major meth-distribution prosecution comes to a close.

News Release: CONCORD - Jerry S. Roberts, Jr., 38, of Concord, was sentenced to 360 months in federal prison and lifetime supervised release for exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.

News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge, New York Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced today that Julio A. Rodriguez, 31, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 40 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 174 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Christopher Baca, 35, of Española, New Mexico, was sentenced on Nov. 16 to nine years and one month in prison for possession of child pornography. Baca pleaded guilty on March 11.