News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, Jordon Mark Skinner, 29, of Safford, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Scott H. Rash to 48 months in prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release. Skinner previously pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Transport Illegal Aliens for the Purpose of Private Financial Gain, Transportation of Illegal Aliens for the Purpose of Private Financial Gain, and Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition by a Convicted Felon.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with Walker River Paiute Tribe under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA). This is the first LFPA cooperative agreement between USDA and a tribal government. Additional agreements with tribal governments will follow in the coming weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kaemon Bernard-Donyell King, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to 12 months of incarceration for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Leland man was sentenced today to 300 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, forty grams or more of fentanyl, and a quantity of cocaine, and five counts of distributing heroin and fentanyl. On Feb. 17, 2022, a federal jury found Benne Lee James guilty of all charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant defrauded investors of over $6 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on August 8, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio -- U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland honored the team of individuals who successfully investigated and prosecuted the person who illegally possessed and supplied the firearm used by the mass shooter in Dayton’s Oregon District on August 4, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark on Tuesday sentenced a convicted felon from St. Louis to more than 10 years in prison on gun charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: EL DORADO - A Magnolia man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing methamphetamine in Columbia County. The Honorable Chief Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in El Dorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A former Ontario Provincial Police officer was sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for abusive sexual contact with two minors at the Fortune Bay Resort and Casino on the Bois Forte Indian Reservation, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States and the American people, I congratulate the people of Bolivia on the 197th anniversary of your independence on August 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Karanjot Singh, 25, of Upper Darby, PA, was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison, and three years of supervised release by United States District Judge Joel H. Slomsky for cyberstalking a woman online for the better part of a year.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the conclusion of the fourth United States-Vietnam Energy Security Dialogue.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Aaron P. Arnzen (619) 546-8384.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Maria Delgado, 31, of Culiacán, Mexico, was sentenced today to four years in prison for her participation in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and heroin, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - Brett Thomas Kriz, age 32, was sentenced on July 19, 2022, to 260 months in prison for Conspiracy to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine and Possession with Intent to Distribute 50 Grams or More of Methamphetamine. Kriz was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release to follow his prison term. Kriz pleaded to the charges in December 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced today that Denver Public Schools (“DPS") has paid $2,123,811 to the United States to resolve a civil False Claims Act investigation into the operation of its AmeriCorps program and its misuse of AmeriCorps funds. DPS also agreed to pay for any outstanding AmeriCorps education awards yet to be distributed, up to approximately $614,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Naod Tsegay, 22, of Collingdale, PA; Fode Bangoura, 20, of Philadelphia, PA; and Zyier Williams, 19, also of Philadelphia, PA, were arrested and charged by Indictment with bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, possession of stolen...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: He Possessed Almost 1,000 Images and More than 200 Video Files While on Federal Supervised Release for Prior Child Pornography Conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four New Jersey men were charged for their alleged roles in drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
