News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Former mail carrier Robert Elliott Sheppard has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges for recruiting fellow mail carriers to deliver packages of controlled substances while he was on disability leave.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After deliberating for approximately one hour, a federal jury of six men and six women found James Taric Byrd guilty of three counts of federal narcotics trafficking and firearms charges, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ANITA WILLENE HOBDY, age 68, from LaPlace, pled guilty on July 21, 2022 to wire fraud, stemming from fraudulent charges made from First Baptist Church of LaPlace.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SIERRA HUDSON, age 35, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty to obstruction of mail in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1701 on July 15, 2022. HUDSON was sentenced to five years’ probation, 100 hours of community service, a $1,000.00 fine, and a $100 mandatory special assessment fee by United States District Court Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been indicted on federal firearm charges for allegedly illegally possessing machine guns in Chicago this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Lawrence County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 150 months’ imprisonment and five years of supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hewlett, New York man was sentenced today to 22 months in prison for his role in a scheme through which he defrauded over 260 customers of his moving company causing losses in excess of $540,000, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Robert Shelton, 37, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAN JOSE - Johnny Ray Wolfenbarger was sentenced today to 210 months in federal prison for the attempted production of child pornography, the attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in child pornography production, and the receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan. The sentence was handed down by United States District Judge Edward J. Davila.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A California man was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and 36 months of supervised release for renovating two apartment complexes in violation of federal Clean Air Act regulations intended to prevent human exposure to toxic airborne asbestos fibers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - Today, a federal district judge in Fort Lauderdale, Florida sentenced three members of a theft ring to federal prison terms for stealing large quantities of N-95 respirator masks, nitrile medical gloves, and medical gowns from a Broward County medical supply company during the early spread of Covid-19 in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A man from Wentzville, Mo. appeared in court Tuesday to face charges accusing him of three armed robberies or attempted robberies of St. Louis County businesses and the discharge of a firearm during one of the incidents.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Mechanicsburg, Illinois, man, Gerald Hurley, 47, of the 13000 block of Darnell Road, was sentenced on July 18, 2022, to five years in federal prison to be followed by five years of supervised release, for possession of 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: FLORENCE, SOUTH CAROLINA -Stanley J. Kowalewski, 50, of North Carolina, has pleaded guilty to mailing threatening communications to a United States District Court Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: More Than $3.7 Million Embezzled in Scheme to Defraud National Cancer Research Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on July 29, 2022, MICHAEL SIMPSON, 33, of Bloomfield, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MISSOULA - A Bozeman man on Wednesday admitted to stealing more than $57,000 in government benefits from an individual for whom he was the fiduciary, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MISSOULA - A Florence man who admitted to receiving numerous files of child pornography was sentenced today to seven years in prison, followed by ten years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. The defendant was also ordered to pay $51,000 in restitution to the victims. Senior U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy presided.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the recipients for the 69th Annual Attorney General’s Awards yesterday, recognizing Department of Justice employees and partners for their extraordinary contributions to the enforcement of our nation’s laws.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
The Congressional Record published “FEDERAL EXTREME RISK PROTECTION ORDER ACT OF 2021” in the House section on June 9.
