News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL MUNN, 55, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for participating in a narcotics conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ROCKFORD - A man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for setting fire to a store in Rockford during a period of civil unrest in 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Sprayed Chemical Irritant at Officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Tuesday, July 26, 2022, Maurice Daughtry, 38, of Marietta, Georgia, was sentenced to 130 months in prison for his role as one of the organizers of a conspiracy to illegally distribute oxycodone, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Olivia Ware, a former mayoral candidate for the City of Conyers, has been sentenced to prison for using a company she started to steal over $323,000 from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Washington - Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) previewed the Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards (OLPS) proposed rule in the Federal Register. With this publication, USDA proposes requirements for organic poultry and livestock living conditions, care, transport, and slaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Brooklyn, New York, man was arrested today for allegedly entering a laboratory business on false pretenses and destroying and stealing that business’ equipment, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that William Lee Shumaker, Jr. (39, St. Petersburg) has pleaded guilty to four counts of possessing a controlled substance with the intent to distribute it, and one count of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Shumaker faces a...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Quandrell Davis, 31, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, was sentenced to serve 63 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A Coweta man who received $192,071 from the Small Business Administration after fraudulently applying for an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EDIL) and a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan pleaded guilty in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Federal Court Orders Clinic to Close, Physician and Clinic Owners to Pay $600,000 for Alleged Unlawful Opioid Distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - An Urbana, Illinois, woman, Lawanda Rogers (formerly Moore), age 31, of the 1100 block of East Willard Street, was sentenced on July 12, 2022, to six months in prison for unlawfully transferring firearms to prohibited persons.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Rojas received meth from Mexico concealed in decorative masks.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Eurich Griffin III to four years and nine months in federal prison for conspiring to defraud the United States by preparing false and fraudulent tax returns. In addition to the term of imprisonment, the court also ordered Griffin to pay more than $1.6 million in restitution to the United States. Griffin had pleaded guilty on March 14, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Massachusetts Man Arrested for Making Bomb Threat to Arizona State Election Official.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Denver - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Haitian national Peniel Olibris, age 32, was indicted on charges of smuggling goods, specifically firearms, from the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber today sentenced Herman Fleming (29, Fort Myers) to 12 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl, and supervised release violations. Fleming had pleaded guilty in March 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant paid more than $120,000 to secure his daughter’s admission to Georgetown University as purported tennis recruit.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: One long-time Assistant U.S. Attorney from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania was recognized for his extraordinary career with the Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: EVANSVILLE - Matthew V. Palmer-Coy, 26, of Washington, Ind., was sentenced late yesterday to 46 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
