News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio woman was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for financial and tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Springfield, Illinois man, Charles Jones, 26, of the 500 block of North 13th Street in Springfield, Illinois, was sentenced on July 27, 2022, for COVID-19 wire fraud. He was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release that includes three months’ home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A federal grand jury returned an indictment against a Chicago man for possession of a firearm as a felon, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that an Aurora, Colorado, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Aug. 1, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Jaden Z. Campbell, 18, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with carjacking and possessing and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - A federal grand jury in Columbia returned a 15-count indictment against Deveon Antonio Belk, 35, of Lexington, charging felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, seven counts of Hobbs Act robbery, and seven counts of brandishing a firearm in connection with a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that PATRICK EZELL, age 51, of Bogalusa, Louisiana pleaded guilty on Aug. 2, 2022 before the Honorable Wendy B. Vitter, U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Louisiana, to stealing items from the mail he was entrusted to deliver as a postal employee. Sentencing is set for Nov. 1, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Randy Xavier Jones (34, Sarasota) to five years and one month in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The court also ordered Jones to forfeit proceeds traceable to the offense, including 12 fraudulently obtained prepaid debit cards containing unemployment insurance benefits to which Jones was not entitled. Jones had pleaded guilty on March 24, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Steven L. Young pled guilty to theft of government property and admitted to civil violations of the False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence woman was sentenced on July 20, 2022 in connection with identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Methuen man pleaded guilty on Aug. 3, 2022 in federal court in Boston to his involvement in a fentanyl distribution conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - An inmate being housed at Western Virginia Regional Jail, who physically assaulted and pepper-sprayed a corrections officer while awaiting sentencing on federal drug charges, was sentenced this week in federal court for both offenses.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on online consumer privacy...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On August 4, 2022, United States District Judge Katherine A. Crytzer sentenced Kelvon Foster, 21, of Knoxville, TN, to 10 months’ imprisonment followed by two years of supervised release for making false or fictitious statements in connection with the purchase of a firearm in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(a)(6). Violations of that statutory provision are sometimes referred to informally as “straw purchasing.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Bellevue, Longview, and Renton school program to receive $1.4 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Devaris McClain (30, Tampa) to five years and one month in federal prison for conspiracy to commit access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. As part of his sentence, the Court also ordered McClain to pay $92,346.54 to the U.S. Department of Labor and various financial institutions. McClain had pleaded guilty on Jan. 18, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A Mercer County man was sentenced today to six years and six months in prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Sentenced for Illegally Possessing Firearm Used in Shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Daeshawn Jones, 21, of Holyoke, Massachusetts was sentenced on July 12 in United States District Court to 47 months’ imprisonment. Jones had previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine base, and cocaine. United States District Judge Christina Reiss also ordered Jones to serve a three-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA - Bryce Carter Studebaker, 25, of Moncks Corner, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for production of child pornography.
