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News Release: WASHINGTON - A Maryland man has been found guilty by a jury of assaulting two police officers during a demonstration that took place in December 2020 in downtown Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
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News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A federal grand jury returned an indictment against a Minneapolis woman for orchestrating an accounts receivable factoring fraud scheme and a PPP loan fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
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News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Russell Bryant Lester, age 41, of Boulder, has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud for taking money from pandemic relief funds by filing false applications.
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News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced today that Thomas Navaho, 29, of Shiprock New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced to eight months in prison. Navaho pleaded guilty on June 13 to escape from custody.
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News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) welcomed four new national law enforcement partners to the Strike Force, for a total of 34 agencies and offices committed to deterring, detecting, investigating and prosecuting antitrust crimes and related schemes that target government procurement, grants and program funding at all levels of government.
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News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, today announced that JACK JAKUPS, 39, of Trumbull, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to possession of firearms and ammunition by a felon.
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News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced that Deon Joe Bidtah was arraigned on Nov. 10 on a three-count indictment charging him with assault with a dangerous...
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News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A federal grand jury in Topeka returned an indictment charging a Kansas priest and a New York businessman in connection with a scheme to defraud a foster care organization of $10 million.
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News Release: WASHINGTON - On Oct. 29, 2022, communities across the country demonstrated their continued support for DEA’s bi-annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by safely disposing of more than 647,000 pounds of unneeded medications at nearly 5,000 collection sites across the country.
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News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Joseph Curtis Hubman, 50, of Henderson, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, for possession of prepubescent child pornography. Hubman must also register as a sex offender.
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News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Ryan Menkins, 37, of Malvern, PA, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge H. Slomsky, for his role in distributing more than 900 pills containing a dangerous fentanyl analogue, a Schedule I controlled substance.
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News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Woodland, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to violation of federal narcotics and firearms laws related to a nine-month Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking in and around the counties of Jefferson, Clearfield, and Allegheny, United States Attorney Cindy Chung announced today.
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News Release: DETROIT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan settled a complaint regarding the accessibility of a Burger King restaurant located in Indian River, Michigan. The settlement agreement resolves the Office’s investigation, prompted by the complaint of an individual who...
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News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Meridian man was sentenced today to 5 years in prison for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt H. Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
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News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Woody, of Morgantown, West Virginia, weas sentenced today to 136 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
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News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former executive at an Orange County commercial real estate agency was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint alleging a decade-long scheme in which he stole $2.5 million by submitting fictitious invoices for companies controlled by his family and friends whose services were never performed.
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News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Gary McComas, 27, of Chesapeake, Ohio, was sentenced today to five months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for structuring financial transactions to evade reporting requirements.
- Bristol Man Sentenced to 70 Months in Prison for Trafficking Cocaine from Puerto Rico to Connecticut
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Nov. 10, 2022, JORGE FREYTES, 37, of Bristol, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine from Puerto Rico to Connecticut through the U.S. Mail.
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News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - A Heath, Ohio, man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 180 months in prison for committing three armed bank robberies in Ohio in July and August 2021.
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News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-The former owner and general manager of dump truck hauling and concrete companies based in Damascus, Oregon pleaded guilty today to willfully failing to pay employment taxes despite withholding them from employee paychecks.