News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Briana Garland, age 29, of Uniondale, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring with a New York State prisoner to obtain unemployment insurance benefits by fraud. Garland’s plea is the fourth and final plea in related cases stemming from pandemic-related schemes involving prisoners at the Bare Hill Correctional Facility in Malone, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of The Guardians Project, a Federal Law Enforcement Initiative to Combat Corruption, Fraud, and Abuse in South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A Madison, Wisconsin man has been convicted of conspiring to transport and transporting stolen goods worth in excess of $5,000 across state lines. Ahmeeshadye Curtis, 36, was convicted following a four-day trial in federal court in Madison. The jury reached a verdict yesterday evening after approximately nine hours of deliberation. The guilty verdict is announced by Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Daniel “Grumpy" Hernandez, 34, of Silver City, New Mexico, was sentenced on July 26 to 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A Mercer County man was sentenced today to two years and six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of hydromorphone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Allen Gessen was arrested in Boston after a San Francisco federal grand jury indicted him for murder for hire, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. -An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted possessing quantities of heroin and cocaine he intended to distribute, and possessing several firearms, including an AM-15 rifle, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former police chief in Amite City and current Amite City councilmember pleaded guilty yesterday in New Orleans, Louisiana, to criminally violating federal election laws as part of a conspiracy to pay, or offer to pay, voters for voting in a federal election.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: Today, U.S. Embassy Bogota Chargé d’Affaires Francisco Palmieri and Colombian Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs Marta Lucía Ramírez signed a protocol of amendment to the 2011 U.S.-Colombia Air Transport Agreement (the ATA) in Bogota. The amendment adds seventh-freedom traffic rights for...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Fargo -United States Attorney Jennifer Klemetsrud Puhl announced that Tammy Longie of Tokio, ND, appeared before Chief Judge Peter D. Welte, U.S. District Court, Fargo, ND, and was sentenced to serve life in prison after having plead guilty to Second-Degree Murder within Indian Country; three counts of Child Abuse in Indian Country; and Child Neglect in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Chiefs of National Security and Narcotics & Money Laundering Units named.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Taylor Dawn Marlow, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A 23-year-old Sioux City man who unlawfully possessed a gun was sentenced on July 7, 2022, to six years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BENTON, Ill. - Kimberly J. Atkins, 45, of Effingham, Illinois, Tyler R. Schumacher, 36, of.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that Kimberly Kuncz, 53, of Montpelier, Vermont, and Frederick Campbell II, 19, of Detroit, Michigan, were arrested yesterday and charged today by criminal complaint. Kuncz was charged with distributing cocaine base...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Las Vegas, Nevada, man was convicted of Obstructing Justice by Retaliating Against a Witness following a federal court trial held in Rapid City, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant allegedly offered at least nine firearms for sale to cooperating witness, including AR-15 rifle.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Joined Fight at Barriers, Walked Through Rotunda.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Nine defendants are among those facing federal charges including drug trafficking and illegal possession of firearms after separate indictments by a grand jury in the Southern District of Georgia, while recent actions in U.S. District Court include guilty pleas and criminal sentences related to illegal gun possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On July 14, Jahque Dijion Williams, 21, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced by United States District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 120 months in prison. Williams previously pleaded guilty to Sex Trafficking of a Minor.
