News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - A resident of St. James Parish, Jamaica was extradited to the United States and made his initial appearance in federal court in Scranton, Pennsylvania on charges relating to his participation in a phony sweepstakes scheme that targeted elderly victims in the United States, the Department of Justice and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on Aug. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and Failure to Register as a Sex Offender (while Committing a Violent Offense) was sentenced on July 7, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced that Arturo Archuleta was arraigned on July 13 on an indictment charging him with five counts of attempting to evade or defeat taxes and one count of false statements relating to healthcare matters. Archuleta, 50, of Albuquerque, will remain on conditions of release pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: FBI Seeking Information Leading to Arrests of George Ajaltouni and Nakhle “Mike" Nader.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROGER RALSTON, the CEO of DirectView Holdings, Inc. (“DirectView"), a Florida-based video surveillance and security company, pled guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for defrauding...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg and United States Marshal William Berger announce the results of recent operations conducted by the United States Marshals Service Florida/Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force. In addition to finding and arresting fugitives charged with violent...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A Birmingham man was sentenced this week on the charge of Felon in Possession of a Firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Explosives, and Firearms Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: The lead defendant in a Waycross-area fentanyl and heroin trafficking operation has now pled guilty, joining the other five defendants who admitted their roles in the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Flint, Michigan, man was found guilty Monday, by a federal jury sitting in London, of armed drug trafficking and attempted robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Scott J. Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“HHS-OIG") New York Regional Office announced today the arrest of MATTHEW WITKOWSKI on charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Reginald Wester, Jr. (23, Tampa) to 15 months in federal prison possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Westser was also ordered to forfeit the firearm and serve 3 years of supervised release. Wester had pleaded guilty on April 26, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that George D. Licata, 44, of Vista, California, was sentenced today in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska. United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Licata to 72 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Hugo Hernandez, age 35, of Miami Lakes, Florida, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his roles in an access device fraud conspiracy and a money laundering conspiracy. Marlon Palacios, age 38, of Cape Coral, Florida, was sentenced today to four months in jail for his role...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: EVANSVILLE - Kyle D. Hollman, 33, of Boonville, Ind., was sentenced late yesterday to two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on July 8, 2022 by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On August 4, 2022, the Honorable Katherine A. Crytzer, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, sentenced Alan Malott, age 27, of Dandridge, Tennessee, to serve 195 months in federal prison, and on August 5, 2022, the Honorable Katherine A. Crytzer sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that MIHAI IONUT PAUNESCU, a/k/a “Virus," a dual Romanian and Latvian...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Paducah, KY - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Buddy Chambless with drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A suburban Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months imprisonment and five years of supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms and narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
