News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Virginia man was charged with conspiring to launder money taken from victims across the United States, many of whom were elderly, as a part of a series of romance scams, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Price Montgomery has been sentenced in federal court to life in prison plus 80 years after having been found guilty at trial of retaliation against a witness by murder for the killing of Tina Crawford, attempted murder to silence a witness for the shooting of Patsy Crawford, use of a firearm during a federal crime of violence, conspiracy to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin, and money laundering, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Chicago man has been charged in connection with using Snapchat to threaten and coerce a Massachusetts minor to engage in sexual conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Jermaine Treadwell, 31, of Centerville was sentenced in U.S. District Court here to 57 months in prison for possessing cocaine with intent to distribute it. FBI's Southern Ohio Safe Streets Task Force, a multi-jurisdiction agency which includes FBI, Dayton Police Department, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, and Trotwood Police Department, investigated Treadwell.
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 today that Gregory Jojola, 32, of Bosque Farms, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Isleta, was sentenced to four years and two months in prison. On Nov. 24, 2020, Jojola pleaded guilty to one count of assault resulting in substantial bodily injury to an intimate partner and two counts of assault of an intimate partner by strangling and suffocating.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A long-time senior leader of the South Los Angeles-based East Coast Crips (ECC) street gang was sentenced late this afternoon to 420 months in federal prison for a series of criminal acts, including his participation in the 2014 murder of a rival gang member.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former resident of Johnstown, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Two Springfield, Illinois, residents, Brandy Friday, 36, and Brent Garner, 42, both of the 1200 block of South Livingston, were sentenced to five years and ten years respectively in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. Friday was sentenced on...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A federal jury convicted a Logan County man yesterday of accessing with the intent to view prepubescent child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced the filing of a civil complaint seeking forfeiture of assets acquired in an alleged fraud scheme involving almost $6 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Peabody man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for participating in a conspiracy that distributed fentanyl and drugs laced with fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today against Jesus Iribe, 26, of Stockton, charging him with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Repeat convicted felon allegedly possessed multiple firearms and over 100 rounds of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dominick Mickens, of Hagerstown, Maryland, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Frank Giacobbe and Michael Tremiti, who were convicted of bank larceny, were sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. Giacobbe was sentenced to serve one year probation and ordered to pay a $500 fine, while Tremiti was sentenced to time served and a $500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS SALAMAN, also known as “J," “Lou Benz," “Louie Benz" and “Benz," 20, of East Haven, pleaded guilty today via videoconference before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas O. Farrish in Hartford to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Los Angeles, California pleaded guilty in federal court to violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Pittsburgh resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a violation of the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - United States Attorney Chris Kavanaugh of the Western District of Virginia has been selected to chair the Terrorism and National Security Subcommittee for the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC). The Terrorism and National Security Subcommittee is comprised of 18 current...
