News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Asa Jackson, 40, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to nine years in prison and three years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Mark A. Kearney for illegally possessing a loaded firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Earlier this week, EUGENE DESHON HALL, 41, of Norman, was sentenced to serve more than nine years in federal prison for illegal possession of a firearm after previously being convicted of a felony, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On April 8, 2021, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a superseding indictment charging Jonmeny Barros-Casadiego and Álvaro León Barros-Ramírez with Conspiracy to Import Cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 952(a), 960, and 963; International Cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant conspired with manipulative stock traders in China and United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell sentenced Ronald Keith Scronce, 65, of Lincolnton, N.C., to 168 months in prison and five years of supervised release for trafficking methamphetamine, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Yakima, Washington - Vanessa R. Waldref, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that a federal Grand Jury has returned indictments charging multiple Yakima residents with federal firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - Yesterday, a federal district judge in Miami, Florida sentenced Leonard Williams to 81 months’ imprisonment for bank robbery (57 months) and for violating his supervised release on a 2010 bank robbery case (24 months).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - Eric Werner Johansson, 59, a Morrisville resident was sentenced today to 150 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release for sharing child pornography on dark web chat rooms. On March 8, 2022, the defendant pled guilty to transportation and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two Inglewood companies pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for illegally importing protected live corals from Vietnam and, to conceal their unlawful activity, submitting false records with United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that an Allen, South Dakota, man convicted of Enticement of a Minor and Sexual Abuse of a Minor was sentenced on July 6, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Turkish businessman was extradited from Austria to face money laundering, wire fraud and obstruction charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Luis Carlos Eriksen, 56, of Nogales, Arizona, was sentenced Aug. 3, 2022, by United States District Judge James A. Soto to 66 months in prison for Smuggling Ammunition from the United States into Mexico and Possession of Ammunition by a Convicted Felon.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-Join the National Park Service (NPS) at the 2022 Experiencing National Parks Through the Lens of Youth photo exhibit on display at the White House Visitor Center August 27 through September 10. President’s Park invites the public to see DC-area national parks through the eyes of students who...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Admits Using Non-Public Information for Personal Benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: For Crimes Against Children. SOUTH BEND - Timothy Humphries, 40 years old, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty on his plea of guilty to receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson. Humphries was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of a Massachusetts-based food truck business has been arrested and charged in connection with allegedly filing fraudulent loan applications in order to obtain $1.5 million in pandemic relief under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the American Rescue Plan Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky.- An Irvine, Ky., man, Brian Keith Crim, 38, was sentenced to 360 months (or 30 years) in federal prison on Wednesday, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, after pleading guilty to production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Charles Lelande Boston (32, Orange Park) today pleaded guilty to receiving materials over the internet depicting the sexual abuse of children. Boston faces a minimum mandatory term of 5 years, and up to 20 years, in federal prison. Boston was arrested on Aug. 12, 2021, and remains in custody. A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that LUIS ENRIQUE GUTIERREZ-SAUSEDO, a/k/a “Armando Luis Gutierrez", a/k/a “Luis Gutierrez", a/k/a “Enrique Sausedo", and a/k/a “Luis E. Sausedo", age 41, was charged in a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KATIE LAROCHE, age 54, a resident of Dallas, Texas, pleaded guilty as charged on July 27, 2022 to a one-count bill of information charging her with wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.
