News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Amber Rewis Bruey (35, Lehigh Acres) to four years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and illegal monetary transactions. Her husband and co-conspirator, Anthony...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Joshua Adam Schulte was a CIA programmer with access to some of the country’s most valuable intelligence-gathering cyber tools used to battle terrorist organizations and other malign influences around the globe. When Schulte began to harbor resentment toward the CIA, he covertly collected those tools...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A husband and wife realtor team from Wise were sentenced today on federal wire fraud charges related to their scheme to create fake residential sales contracts in order to obtain advance sales commissions to which they were not entitled.
By Press Release | Aug 12, 2022
We, the 56 undersigned organizations dedicated to human rights in China and to the plight of persecuted ethno-religious groups in the Uyghur Region, urge you to sanction all Chinese officials responsible for the genocide in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), also known as East Turkistan.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
The Senate section of the Congressional Record published “STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS” on June 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Denver - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Omar Briceno-Quijano, age 31, of Montrose, Colorado, was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: EVANSVILLE - James Shultz, 37, of Louisville, Ky., was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. On Jan. 5, 2021, codefendant Sheena Garrett, 35, of Henderson, Ky., was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Billy Wesson, age 20, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Wesson also admitted to participating in a series of armed robberies of convenience stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the recipients for the 69th Annual Attorney General’s Awards, recognizing Department of Justice employees and partners for extraordinary contributions to the enforcement of our nation’s laws. This year, Attorney General Garland...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - Yesterday, a federal district judge in West Palm Beach, Florida sentenced the 34-year-old leader of a South Florida drug trafficking ring to 210 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit a Hobbs Act robbery and conspiring to traffic 100 kilograms or more of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that JUAN MARTINEZ-CASTANEDA, a/k/a “Fernando A. Lopez", a/k/a “Juan C. Martinez", a/k/a “Oscar Flores", a/k/a “Martin Peralta", a/k/a “Juan Castaneda", age 54, was charged on August 4, 2022 in a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Joe Ripka, 34, from Hartley, Iowa, pled guilty on Aug. 1, 2022, to being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Ripka was previously convicted of Failure to Affix Drug Stamp, in the Iowa District Court for Emmet County, on Oct. 23, 2017. This conviction prohibits a person from possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for laundering cash proceeds from a telemarketing scheme that defrauded elderly victims.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
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By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with Montana under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA). Through LFPA, the Montana Department of Agriculture seeks to purchase and distribute locally grown, produced, and processed food from underserved producers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: DES MOINES, IOWA - A federal grand jury in Des Moines returned an indictment on July 20, 2022, charging a West Des Moines man with exploiting minors to produce child pornography and attempting to entice and persuade other minors to do the same thing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Mohammed Khalifa Executed Two Syrian Soldiers on Behalf of ISIS and served as the English-Speaking Narrator on Exceptionally Violent ISIS Propaganda Videos.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been charged in federal court with carjacking a vehicle at gunpoint last week while two children were in the car.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Derrick Hart, 22, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to carjacking, discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and commission of federal felony while on pretrial release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Cottage Grove man was sentenced to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
