News from August 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Kendall Liberty, 21, of South Burlington, Vermont, was sentenced today to 6 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three months of home confinement and two years of supervised release, following his conviction for possessing...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Jeremy Inderyas, 37, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced in federal court.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Portland man was sentenced to federal prison today for his role in a conspiracy to traffic marijuana illegally grown in Oregon to several U.S. states for resale.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded handgun during an altercation on a Chicago street.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: ATHENS, Ga. - An Athens resident with a violent criminal history who shot at two people attempting to repossess a vehicle and then led police on a high-speed chase through a residential area pleaded guilty to illegal gun possession in federal court recently.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Robert Coney, 50, Madison, Wisconsin was sentenced Friday, Aug. 19, by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 15 months in prison for possessing ammunition as a felon. Coney pleaded guilty to this charge on May 12, 2022.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, the final three defendants in a 15-count, 6-defendant gang case involving the Only the Brothers (OTB) street gang were sentenced to federal prison. All three were found guilty following a ten-day jury trial in April 2022. Raekwon Malik Patton, a/k/a Kwon a/k/a...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey on Monday sentenced a former high school security guard who recorded his repeated sexually abuse of a child it to 25 years in prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - Ricky Pulley, age 39, of Iowa City, was sentenced on Friday, Aug. 18, 2022 to 87 months in prison for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm. Following his imprisonment, Pulley was ordered to serve three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: DETROIT, MI - An Inkster resident pleaded guilty to bank robbery in federal court this morning in Detroit on charges stemming from his robbery of the Dearborn Federal Savings Bank, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.

By Homeland Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a three page rule on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JONATHAN ORPILLA SINLAO, age 37, a resident of San Jose, California, pled guilty on Aug. 18, 2022 to Count One of his indictment, charging him with Conspiracy to Commit Access Device Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1029(b)(2). In exchange, the government has agreed to dismiss seven (7) counts of Access Device Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1029(a)(5).

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Corey Michael Perkins, 33, of Huntington, was sentenced today to 11 years and eight months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to have drugs smuggled into the Western Regional Jail. In a separate case, Perkins was sentenced to three years and one month in prison for aiding and abetting the illegal straw purchase of firearms. The two sentences will run concurrently.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Nicole Sprague (38, Cape Coral), to two years and nine months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and mail fraud. As part of her sentence, the court also ordered restitution to the identified victims in the amount of $297,900, and entered an order of forfeiture in the amount of $250,000, representing the proceeds of the fraud. Sprague had pleaded guilty on May 24, 2022.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - Five Burlington, Iowa men were sentenced to decades in prison for conspiring to distribute drugs in the Burlington area. The conspiracy started by at least Dec. 1, 2019 and continued until Nov. 2, 2021. Those sentenced as part of this drug conspiracy include.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the August 2022 Federal Grand Jury B.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: A Tulsa man was sentenced Monday in federal court for participating in an attempted robbery and home invasion that ended in two deaths.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Aug. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Press release submission | Aug 22, 2022
Chair Grijalva Demands Action on LUMA Contract, Promises Oversight
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2022
News Release: Multiple guns, ammunition, cash seized. ABINGDON, Va. - A Southwest Virginia man, who distributed methamphetamine in Southwest Virginia as part of a multi-member drug trafficking ring, pled guilty last week to federal drug charges. Travis Nelson Farmer, 44, of Rural Retreat, Virginia, pleaded guilty...