News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Vershaun Lamar Puzie (34, Jacksonville) to 10 years in federal prison for two counts of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The Court also ordered Puzie to forfeit a Smith & Wesson 9mm pistol, which he used during one of the offenses. Puzie had pleaded guilty on April 28, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A former vice chancellor for City Colleges of Chicago has been sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison for devising and engaging in a procurement fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - Jermaine Rose, a former lead claims examiner for the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (MUIA), was sentenced to two years in federal prison today arising from his participation in a $1.5 million pandemic-related unemployment insurance fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Markus Saez, 28, of Bloomfield, Connecticut, was sentenced today to serve 54 months in prison after his conviction for possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl, heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine. United States District Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered Saez to serve a three-year term of supervised release after his incarceration.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: In recognition of a shared commitment to advancing marine research and innovation and building on the previous cross-Atlantic collaborations, today in Washington, D.C., officials from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Cabo Verde, the European Union, Morocco, South Africa, and the United States came together...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Swampscott man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by falsely inflating taxpayer’s federal income tax refunds and diverting a portion of those refunds to accounts he and his co-conspirators controlled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Bellevue, Ky., man, Perrin George March V, 27, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, before U.S. District Judge David Bunning, to illegal possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PECOS - Yesterday, a federal jury convicted Thomas Scott Perkins, 31, of Fort Stockton on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that David Gainer, Jr. (50, Lutz) has pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud. Gainer faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that DEVIN WEAVER, age 30, of New Orleans, was found guilty after a two-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A Detroit resident was convicted by a federal jury yesterday on charges of producing, transporting, and possessing child pornography, and sex trafficking using force and coercion, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Erie, Pa - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LEAH BOUCHER, 30, of Bristol, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 12 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally purchasing firearms for individuals she knew were felons.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Eleven defendants are among those facing federal charges including illegal possession of firearms after separate indictments by a grand jury in the Southern District of Georgia, while recent actions in U.S. District Court include guilty pleas and criminal sentences related to illegal gun possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men have pleaded guilty in a conspiracy that operated an illegal business that built and sold unserialized AR-15-type firearms - commonly referred to as “ghost guns" - capable of accepting high-capacity magazines.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 55-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to mailing meth-laced papers disguised as mail to the Coastal Bend Detention Center (CBDC), announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A federal judge has ordered a Fontana man to serve a quarter-century in a federal prison for enticing girls as young as 9 years old to film themselves in sexually explicit ways, sometimes in exchange for online gaming currency, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, a federal judge sentenced DONTE EARL GRIFFIN, 36, of Cincinnati, Ohio, to serve an additional 12 months and 1 day in federal prison for Indecent Exposure, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ADRIAN JOSEPH, 55, a citizen of St. Lucia last residing in Bridgeport, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sarah A. L. Merriam in Bridgeport to offenses related to his acquiring federal documents under an assumed identity.
