News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey on Thursday sentenced a St. Louis man who created child pornography and sold it online to 25 years in federal prison to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Barry Bryan Edwards, 66, of Hickory, N.C., was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison and one year of supervised release for accepting kickbacks and bribes from a private contractor, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, the Court previously issued a $30,000 money judgement against Edwards.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A Delaware County man pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court for sexually abusing three boys, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Quinton L. Pete, 33, of Ocala, Florida, was indicted by a federal grand jury charging him with attempted Hobbs Act robbery and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The indictment was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. Pete was arrested on this case in Dallas, Texas, a day after the armed robbery in Pensacola.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A Tulsa man was sentenced Thursday in federal court to more than nine years in prison after being found with a firearm, ammunition and two stolen vehicles, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jango Omar Touray, 27, of Charlotte, was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for stealing a Maserati and robbing a pawn shop at gunpoint, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. also ordered Touray to serve three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Ralph St. Croix, a.k.a. “Stretch," age 39, most recently of Schenectady, New York, formerly of Long Island, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for distributing heroin laced with fentanyl, and for possessing two firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Wounded Knee, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: For Production of Child Pornography. HAMMOND - Romio Xavier Hawkins, 24 years old, of Portage, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Philip P. Simon after pleading guilty to production of material depicting a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, announced United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was charged on July 21, 2022 in connection with a scheme to submit false applications to obtain Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDL) funds through the Small Business Administration (SBA) which were made available under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A Friona woman allegedly who held 17 undocumented immigrants hostage in her home has been charged with a federal crime, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that David Wesley Swanson, 37, of Wahoo, Nebraska, was sentenced on August 4, 2022, to 15 years for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine actual, (pure), in July of 2020, with a prior violent felony conviction by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard. Following his release from prison, Swanson will serve ten years on supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: The Feds Feed Families food drive is in full swing and pantries and food banks across the country still need our help. Review the options below to get involved and remember to record your donations online in the Feds Feed Families Hub.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that on Monday a federal jury convicted a Bear, Delaware couple on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and various other money laundering offenses, in connection with an eight-year scheme to launder...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS CIURO, 37, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 180 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for trafficking narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: EL PASO - An El Paso school teacher was sentenced today to life in prison for coercion and enticement of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Brother Pretended to Be a Mobster as Part of Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Was Shot During a Gun Fight on the Streets of Waterloo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty today to participating in a scheme to fraudulently obtain nearly $70,000 in unemployment benefits issued by the State of Massachusetts’s Employment Security Department (ESD).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
