News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell sentenced to prison today four Texas men for trafficking more than 14 kilograms of cocaine, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: EVANSVILLE - Michael Dewayne Charles, 33, of Evansville, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On July 19, 2022, a Lost Nation, Iowa man, Gary Dale Smith, age 50, was sentenced to 126 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine and Felon in Possession of a Firearm or Ammunition. Following his prison term, Smith was ordered to serve five years of supervised release. Smith pleaded guilty in February 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Hugo Vigil Villagomez, 42, of Oakdale, and Serafin Villagomez Vigil, 27, of Riverbank, charging them with possessing and conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County pharmacy today admitted its role in a conspiracy to illegally distribute prescription opioids and to give kickbacks to healthcare providers, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on July 8, 2022, by Judge Karen E. Schreier, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Indictment Alleges More Than $41 Million in Fraudulent Medicare Claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding was sentenced on Aug. 1, 2022, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Thursday sentenced a St. Louis County man to 12 years and 10 months in prison for his role in carjacking two drivers in 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Frederick J. Haresign, age 63, of Oswego, New York was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison to be followed by 20 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography. Haresign also will have to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas resident was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Andrew P. Gordon to four years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possessing a stolen firearm and submitting fraudulent loan applications to the Small Business Administration under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley sentenced Liana Karapetyan, 42, of El Dorado Hills, today to 18 months in prison for one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to pay and receive health care kickbacks, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon, everyone. Mr. President, it’s a pleasure to have you here at the State Department in the United States. To our colleagues, I’m especially pleased to be able to meet today with the president of Guyana.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston area drug trafficker was sentenced on July 28, 2022 in federal court in Boston for his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS - A Lame Deer man who admitted to fatally stabbing another man during an argument at a Crow Agency convenience store on the Crow Indian Reservation was sentenced today to five years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Miami Growers Inc. satisfied a $6,960 reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Justice Department Obtains Temporary Restraining Order to Prevent Tampa-Area Physician from Writing Opioid Prescriptions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John DeVito, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, New York Field Division (ATF), and Keechant L. Sewell, Police Commissioner for the City of New York (NYPD), announced today...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Paul Bryan McCorkle (54, Interlachen) with possession of an explosive by a convicted felon. If convicted, McCorkle faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. The indictment also notifies McCorkle that the United States intends to forfeit an improvised explosive device, which is alleged to have been unlawfully possessed.
