News from July 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Six defendants face felony firearms charges, with two also charged with illegal drug possession, after indictment by a U.S. District Court grand jury in the Southern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney Karin Hoppmann announced today that Garrett Eric Weber (30, Green Cove Springs) has been arrested and indicted by a federal grand jury for attempting to entice a 9-year-old child to engage in sexual activity, and for soliciting and distributing child...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Alan J. Liphart, 36, of Darlington, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 96 months in prison for receiving child pornography. This term of imprisonment will be followed by 25 years of supervised release. Liphart pleaded guilty to this charge on April 8, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Court Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Sean Dean, age 29, of Baltimore, Maryland to 10 years in federal prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a minor. Judge Hazel also ordered that, upon his release from prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAYLEN WILSON, also known as “Jay-Dot," 22, of Ansonia and Derby, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to a racketeering charge stemming from a gang-related murder in Bridgeport’s East End in August 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that Wicahpe “Chops" Milk, age 37, of Wanblee, South Dakota, was found guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person, and Obstruction of Justice following a five-day federal jury trial in Rapid City, South Dakota. The verdict was returned on July 2, 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Ryan (D-OH-13) released the following statement on the urgent need for Senate action to fund the Capitol Police.
By Federal Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
Varun Gupta, a former engineer, has pleaded guilty to possessing trade secrets from his previous employer, a major semiconductor manufacturer based in Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Paul Chibuzo, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 21 months of incarceration for charges related to hiding a fugitive, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Donald Noel Smith, of Oakland, Maryland, was sentenced today to three years probation for drug trafficking, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Stela Sacara, 34, a citizen of Moldova residing in Pembroke, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to making a false statement to a federal agent, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL CASTILLO, a/k/a “Squirrel," pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court in connection with the March 10, 2011, murder of Hector Arias in the Bronx, New York. U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl accepted the defendant’s guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal jury in Charlotte returned a guilty verdict late yesterday against Ron McQuay Garland, 38, of Charlotte, for his role in a string of armed robberies and attempted armed robberies, and related firearms offenses, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell presided over the three-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - Eight individuals were charged and arrested yesterday in connection with a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking ring operating between California and New England. Investigators seized approximately 152 pounds of methamphetamine throughout the investigation from controlled purchases, motor vehicle stops and package seizures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STIEVE FERNANDEZ, 35, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 71 months of imprisonment for operating lottery scams that defrauded victims of more than $1.8 million, including an elderly Connecticut victim who lost nearly $1.2 million.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today announced a bipartisan agreement to provide long-term Medicaid funding to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Territories.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - An Orange County man was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for conspiring to smuggle counterfeit Apple, Samsung and Motorola cell phone components from China that were then sold to consumers in the United States, a scheme that generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - A Vincennes man and his co-defendants have been sentenced for federal felony firearm violations. Dakota S. Lovellette, 20, was sentenced to 4 years of probation for making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm. He was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine. Lovellette and Nicholas P. Apple had previously been indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 10, 2020.
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States, I congratulate the people of Argentina on 205 years of independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Christopher Eberlein, age 54, of Albany, pled guilty today to multiple counts of transportation and possession of child pornography. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Jodi Cohen, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
