News published on Federal Newswire in August 2022

News from August 2022


Georgia Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Drug Crime

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Georgia man pleaded guilty today to aiding and abetting the distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.



Seven More Defendants Plead Guilty to Drug-Trafficking Conspiracy, Illegal Firearms

News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Seven more defendants have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a major drug-trafficking conspiracy and to illegally possessing firearms.


News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A resident of Verona, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release on her conviction of violation of federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - Terrance Fred Tracy, Jr, 36, of Wilmington was sentenced today to 113 months in prison for trafficking methamphetamine and possessing a firearm as a felon. On March 8, 2022, he pled guilty to the charges.


News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Johvaughan Young, age 23, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on firearms charges.


News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Shawn L. Price, an inmate at Federal Corrections Institution Gilmer, was sentenced today to 60 months of incarceration for a threat charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on July 11, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.


Third defendant arraigned for Shiprock assault

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Raynorma Rae Billy was arraigned on July 20 on an indictment charging her with conspiracy to commit assault with a dangerous weapon and assault with a dangerous weapon with the intent to do bodily harm. Billy, 34, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, will remain on conditions of release pending trial, which has not been scheduled.


News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former owner of a T-Mobile retail store in Eagle Rock has been found guilty by a jury of 14 federal criminal charges for his $25-million scheme to enrich himself by stealing T-Mobile employee credentials and illegally accessing the company’s internal computer systems to illicitly “unlock" and “unblock" cellphones, the Justice Department announced today.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that RONIER SANCHEZ ALONSO, 46, a citizen of Mexico who is charged in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, has been extradited from Paraguay.


Justice Department Closes Review after the South Dakota Unified Judicial System Improves Access for People with Limited English Proficiency

News Release: Justice Department Closes Review after the South Dakota Unified Judicial System Improves Access for People with Limited English Proficiency.


Phoenix Man Sentenced to 40 Months for Six Valley Bank Robberies

News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Last week, Anthony Medina, 36, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge John J. Tuchi to 40 months in prison. Medina previously pleaded guilty to two counts of Bank Robbery. Medina was also ordered to pay full restitution for losses sustained during the six bank robberies.


U.S. Attorney’s Office partners with City of Detroit to host Peacenic in O’Hair Park.

News Release: DETROIT - More than thirty community organizations and state, and federal law enforcement agencies participated in the first Peacenic held in O’Hair Park on Saturday, July 9 from 11-2.


Joint Readout of the Fourth Convening of the Trilateral Working Group on Violence Against Indigenous Women & Girls

Release: The text of the following statement was released by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States after the fourth convening of the Trilateral Working Group on Violence against Indigenous Women and Girls.


Pallone on FTC’s Advanced Proposed Rulemaking on Privacy

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on online consumer privacy...


Career Armed Bank Robber Sentenced to Nearly 20 Years in Federal Prison for Latest String of 10 Heists Across Southern California

News Release: LOS ANGELES - A man who served more than two decades in state prison for a series of armed bank robberies in the 1990s was sentenced this morning to 235 months in federal prison for committing another 10 bank robberies across Southern California - a string that started only four months after he was released from custody for his prior robbery spree.


News Release: Richard G. Frohling, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 15, 2022, Scott Charmoli, formerly a licensed dentist, was sentenced to 54 months’ incarceration for committing healthcare fraud and making false statements related to healthcare matters.


News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging Isidore Iwuagwu, age 35, of Upper Malboro, Maryland, with the federal charge of conspiring to commit money laundering related to numerous online romance scams.


News Release: BOISE B A Caldwell man was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.