News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former resident of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal child sexual exploitation laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: POCATELLO - Melvin Misael Alcaraz-Valdez, of Declo, Idaho, was sentenced to federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit, today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye sentenced Alcaraz-Valdez to 135 months. Alcaraz-Valdez, upon completion of his time, was ordered to serve an additional five years of supervised release.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SOUTHAVEN, MS - The operator of five Wing Stop franchise locations in Mississippi who made employees pay for their uniforms, safety training, background checks and cash register shortages - and violated child labor regulations - has been held accountable by the U.S. Department of Labor, and paid $114,427 in back wages, liquidated damages and civil penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Lorenz Quiambao, age 41, of Easton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on August 9, 2022, to 120 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a 10-year term of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for using the internet to attempt to entice a 12-year-old minor female to engage in prohibited sex acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, Matthew Dylan Ramirez, 20, of Tempe, Arizona, and Jesus Madrid-Varela, 19, of Mexico, both pleaded guilty to Conspiracy and Transportation of Illegal Aliens for Profit Resulting in Death. Sentencing for both defendants is scheduled for Nov. 1, 2022, before United States District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Faces 15 Years in Prison. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today on charges related to heroin and methamphetamine trafficking and to illegally possessing firearms. Brian K. Tice, 58, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner to one count of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tyler Purvis-Mitchell, age 28, of Albany, was sentenced today to 150 months in prison for possessing and intending to distribute methamphetamine-laced pills in the city of Albany.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal jury convicted a Kansas veteran of wire fraud and theft of government funds charges related to a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) out of disability benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A federal jury sitting in Laredo has convicted a 67-year-old Laredo man of conspiring to transport people in a sealed trailer, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Nicholas Vassallo announced today that PAUL MCCOWN, 33, of Lander, Wyoming, was sentenced on July 5, 2022, by Chief United States District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl, for four counts of wire fraud in relation to pandemic relief programs administered by the Wyoming Business...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Three Miami Residents Stole $1,400,000 From Hundreds of Depositors by Posing as Security Officials to Obtain Access to Online Accounts.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Lyndzie M. Carter (619) 546-8780.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man convicted of multiple crimes stemming from a broad investigation into a sex trafficking network that involved nearly 20 victims, including minor girls, violence, drugs and the shooting death of a victim, was sentenced today to 26 years and 10 months in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Dr. Don Flanagan, D.D.S., and his affiliated companies, Dental Center, Inc. and Dental Center, P.C. d/b/a Cloudland Dental (“Cloudland Dental"), have agreed to pay $1,500,000 to resolve allegations that they knowingly and improperly...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A federal grand jury returned an indictment against a St. Paul man for illegally possessing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Conspiracy also Linked to Overdoses and Death.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Rocky Mount man was arrested today on charges of dealing firearms without a federal firearms license and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. If convicted, Antonio Joseph Santos, 49, faces a maximum penalty of 120 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was convicted of narcotics and firearms offenses, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced today that a Cleveland man was charged in a 16-count indictment with illegally obtaining more than $400,000 in pandemic unemployment insurance benefits using other people’s personal identifying information.
