News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Attacks Took Place From 2018 to 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An active duty U.S. Army staff sergeant at Fort Leonard Wood has been indicted by a federal grand jury for the sexual exploitation of two minor victims and for receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Columbus man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 78 months in prison for two separate armed robberies of United States Postal Carriers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Thomas J. Hook, 43, of La Crosse, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 20 years in federal prison for possessing and transporting child pornography. This term of imprisonment will be followed by a lifetime period of supervised release. Hook pleaded guilty to these offenses on Jan. 13, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Withheld more than $1 million from employee paychecks, but failed to pay it over to IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Pekin, Illinois, man, Nathan Golden, 24, of the 2200 block of Sierra Drive, was sentenced on July 11, 2022, to 97 months in prison for receipt of child pornography, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release. Golden also is required to pay $54,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: AKRON - First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that Ronald Smith, 39, of Akron, was charged in a 22-count indictment with dog fighting, drug trafficking and illegal possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Loretta Jean Minor, of Moundsville, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark on Tuesday sentenced a woman who tried to set fires at a St. Louis 7-Eleven during a 2020 protest to 27 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A convicted felon was sentenced to 151 months in prison today for selling firearms without a license and illegal gun possession, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, Anthony Dewayne Daye, 38, of Statesville, N.C., was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Employees Attacked ‘Armed’ Robber, Held Him Until Police Arrived.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that William Watts, Sr., 56, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge Joel H. Slomsky to the charges of receiving and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Linn County, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today after he sold methamphetamine and a firearm to an undercover federal agent while on federal supervised release for a previous conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Dennis Dewayne Jackson (39, Lake City) to 11 years and 6 months in federal prison for receiving visual depictions of child sexual abuse. The Court also ordered Jackson to serve a 20-year term of supervised release, to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk on Friday sentenced a St. Louis County man to five years and four months in prison for traveling to Springfield, Ill. in 2019 to have sex with a 15-year-old.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 44-year-old San Benito resident has pleaded guilty to possessing with intent to distribute liquid meth, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge John A. Ross on Tuesday sentenced a New York man to 40 days in jail for causing a Las Vegas-bound American Airlines flight to be diverted to St. Louis in 2020 and ordered him to pay $8,000 to the airline.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Carried Loaded Gun Onto Capitol Grounds, Led Charge Against Law Enforcement, Later Sought to Obstruct Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography was sentenced on July 25, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that the Financial Litigation Program (FLP) of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio collected full restitution in the amount of $624,122.15 from a defendant convicted of participating in a securities fraud scheme that caused a $39 million loss to investors.
