News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake man was sentenced today to 17.5 years in prison for transportation of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On July 20, 2022, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 33 violent gang members from the municipality of Fajardo with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, possession and distribution of controlled substances, and firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Manuel Angel Velez-Acosta (33, Ecuador), Guillermo Cabrera Perez (48, Mexico), Andres Nixon Gonzales-Catagua (48, Ecuador), and Hernan David Gonzales-Quiroz (42, Ecuador) guilty of possessing and conspiring to...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: If you were at Happy Isles, near the start of the Mist Trail in Yosemite National Park, yesterday, August 4, around 7 pm, we may need your help.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Mark Totten announced that his office filed a criminal complaint today charging Joshua Brereton with setting fire to a Planned Parenthood building in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Brereton, age 25, is a resident of Paw Paw, Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Osiel Cardenas Jr. has pleaded guilty to smuggling goods from the United States into Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Second Defendant Sentenced to 10 Years for His Role in the Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Two Tulsa men have been convicted in federal court for tampering with witnesses who were slated to testify in court proceedings regarding a carjacking, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three Nigerian citizens were extradited from the United Kingdom (UK) and arrived in the United States in relation to their alleged participation in multimillion-dollar cyber-enabled business email compromise (BEC) fraud schemes in the Western District of North Carolina, Southern District...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant coerced a 13-year-old girl to engage in sexually explicit conduct via messaging app.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Threatened to Send the Images to the Victims’ Friends and Families If They Didn’t Send More Sexually Explicit Images and Videos as Directed by Walsh.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, a federal judge sentenced PATRICK SEAN HICKS, 40, of Del City, Oklahoma, to 84 months in prison for illegal possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with Intent to Commit Murder, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and Discharge of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment Thursday against Roderick Rigmaiden, 37, and his wife Onjale Nettles, 32, both of Sacramento, charging them with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Rigmaiden is also charged with possession of stolen mail and possession of mail keys or locks.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that a former Sergeant with the Erie County Sheriff’s Office was charged in a one-count indictment with deprivation of rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A Massachusetts man was arrested today in Falmouth, Massachusetts for allegedly sending a communication containing a bomb threat to an election official in the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: For Use of Firearms During Crimes of Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond woman was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for orchestrating a six-year scheme to defraud the United States Department of Education and the Commonwealth of Virginia of at least $230,000 in student financial aid funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Kevin Jamelle Archie, 40, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to eight years and four months in prison, and three years of supervised release by United States Court Judge Joel H. Slomsky for illegally possessing a loaded firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A newly unsealed federal indictment charges 14 defendants in a south Georgia drug trafficking conspiracy alleged to have been directed from inside a Georgia state prison.
