News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: For Firearm Offense. HAMMOND- Dante Jones, 26 years old, of East Chicago, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge James T. Moody on his plea of guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson. Jones was sentenced to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Adam Beliveau, 42, Downing, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 12 ½ years in prison for attempt to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Beliveau pleaded guilty to this charge on April 19, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jaykwan Mitchell, age 20, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: 16 Co-Defendants Guilty in Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) case.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced that U.S. Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced Philip Evans, age 50, of Marrero, Louisiana, to 97 months in federal prison following his conviction for distribution of child pornography. The Court further sentenced Evans to serve 5 years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment and he must register as a convicted sex offender for life.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Conner David Patterson, of Valley Grove, West Virginia, has admitted to a child pornography charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
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 Patrick Maestas was arraigned on Aug. 17 on a two-count indictment charging him with assault by strangling and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: Defendant allegedly created multiple forums and discussion groups about child sex abuse videos; posted videos of abuse of young children.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE - A Huntsville man was sentenced today to 144 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
“SENATE RESOLUTION 482--RECOGNIZING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT AND THE LASTING IMPACT OF THAT ACT ON THE STATE OF “ was published in the Senate section on pages S9265-S9269 on Dec. 16, 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: Masterminded $300 Million Ponzi Scheme Targeting Retirees and Military Pension Holders.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.8 million grant to IGNITE Pathways, Woodbine, Iowa, to provide equipment for a state-of-the-art STEM career and technical educational training facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, announced that BRANDI WIGGINS, 35, of Glastonbury, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to engaging in the business of dealing in firearms without a license.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer and Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Aug. 15, 2022, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Ventura County’s organized health system and three medical care providers have agreed to pay a total of $70.7 million to settle allegations that they broke federal and state laws by submitting or causing the submission of false claims to Medi-Cal related to Medicaid Adult Expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that five defendants who were indicted as a result of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) “Operation Lost and Found" have been sentenced by United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote for their involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Kevin Lee Co, 51, of Rocklin, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for wire fraud, money laundering and submitting false statements to a financial institution, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Billings felon who admitted to illegal possession of a firearm after his arrest in Poplar while absconding from Billings, was sentenced today to 38 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: Baltimore. Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III today sentenced Luis Rivera, age 34, formerly of Elkton, Maryland, to 20 years in federal prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, for production of child pornography. Judge Russell ordered that the federal sentence be served...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Andrew Allen Arnold, 35, of White Sulphur Springs, was sentenced today to four years and three months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.