News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Andrew Daniel Sprinkle, 35, of Oak Hill, was sentenced today to seven years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant allegedly participated in a pump-and-dump and later misappropriated investor funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Steven Leroy Dillow, Jr., of Petersburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A man who possessed marijuana he planned to distribute and possessed multiple firearms was sentenced today in federal court.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: Digital press briefing with Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Molly Phee and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council, Judd Devermont to discuss the U.S. strategy for sub-Saharan Africa and U.S. efforts to address the global food security crisis. .
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Huntington Man Sentenced to Prison for Role in Multi-State Drug Ring
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Anthony Thompson was sentenced on July 26 to 14 years in prison. Thompson, 33, pleaded guilty on April 30, 2021, to failure to register as a sex offender, escape from custody and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Lee D. Weiss, 51, of Roslyn, NY, and Newton, MA, was sentenced today to five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $7.5 million in restitution and a $250,000 fine for his conviction of investment adviser fraud. The charges arose from Weiss’ multi-year investment scam that targeted his own clients and caused investor losses of more than $7 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Administrative Funding Adjustment to Previously Funded Award (OJJDP FY 2021 Supporting Tribal Youth: Training and Technical Assistance and Youth Leadership Development) grant opened on Aug. 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Meridian man pleaded guilty today to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Federal safety inspectors have cited the operator of several Baton Rouge-area car wash, oil change, fueling and convenience store locations after a workplace violence investigation into the stabbing of an assistant manager on Feb. 6, 2022. The employee was treated and later released from the hospital.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A Raleigh County man was sentenced today to 10 years and one month in prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, for attempted enticement of a West Virginia minor to engage in sexual activity. Kenneth Owens, 58, of Surveyor, must also register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: 18 Agencies Participated in Investigation Leading to Seizure of 29 Pound of Meth, Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NASHVILLE - Kara Adkins, 38, and Robert Adkins, 42, both of Clarksville, Tennessee, were sentenced yesterday to federal prison for child pornography crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Efrain Cabrera-Cabrera, age 35, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson to 18 months’ imprisonment for possessing a firearm as an illegal alien and illegal re-entry into the United States as a previously deported alien.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Former Owner of T-Mobile Retail Store in Eagle Rock Found Guilty of Committing $25 Million Scheme to Illegally Unlock Cellphones
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Mayhew, age 56, of Rome, New York, was sentenced today to serve 200 months in federal prison for receiving and possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and New York State Police (NYSP) Superintendent Kevin P. Bruen.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago physician prescribed opioids to patients without a medical examination or visit and then fraudulently billed Medicare for the nonexistent treatment, according to a criminal charge filed in federal court.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Former Louisiana State Senator and Chair of a State Political Party Pleads Guilty for Role in Nearly Seven-Year Scheme to Defraud Campaign Entity, Donors, And Political Party Organization
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - Two individuals involved in a heroin and methamphetamine trafficking network directed by inmates from two Georgia prisons were sentenced to federal prison today for their crimes.
