News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York company was sentenced today to one year of probation and fined $314,165 for its role in price gouging a chain of New Jersey grocery stores in connection with the sale of KN95 masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A 39-year old Bidwell, Ohio man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court here today to dealing and possessing hundreds of grams of deadly fentanyl on a rural property in southern Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Treatment Clinic Owner Convicted of Unlawfully Distributing Opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Blake Aron Davis, of Bellaire, Ohio, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A former Ottawa County Assistant District Attorney pleaded guilty in federal court after he provided drugs and performed favorable legal actions that benefitted defendants in exchange for sex, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: COLUMBIA - Congaree National Park will temporarily close front country areas on the following dates and times.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Roane County man pleaded guilty today to possessing an unregistered destructive device, after law enforcement officers found a pipe bomb at his residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal judge has ordered a Buena Park man to stop preparing or helping to prepare tax returns after federal authorities determined his clients filed tax returns that claimed bogus dependents and fraudulently sought more than $50 million in tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Rhode Island woman today admitted to a federal judge that she falsely claimed to be a cancer-stricken U.S. Marine decorated with the Purple Heart and Bronze Star, and that she used those claims, the stolen identities of actual veterans, and fraudulent documents that she created to obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars in charitable benefits and services intended for injured veterans, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Illegally Entered Senate Chamber. WASHINGTON - An Ohio woman pleaded guilty today to a felony charge for her actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Her actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - DaMarcus Lionell Williams, 29, of Colfax, Louisiana, was sentenced today in federal court on drug trafficking and firearms charges, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown. Williams was sentenced by United States District Judge David C. Joseph to 192 months in prison, followed by 4 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Glenn County Man Indicted for Being a Felon in Possession of Firearms and Ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Raymond Martin Shamer, III, age 21, of Pasadena, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to possession of child pornography. Shamer admitted that he also distributed child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Esther Rae Tuller, age 41, of Moses Lake, Washington, was sentenced today in federal court in Spokane for tampering with morphine medication while working as a registered nurse. Chief United States District Judge Stanley A. Bastian sentenced Tuller to 18 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A naturalized U.S. citizen who had been living in India was convicted of obstructing the parental rights of his child’s mother by kidnapping the child and failing to return the child to the United States when ordered to do so, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of a superseding indictment charging Clayton Everett Colborn (30, Wesley Chapel), also known as “Jason Rich," “Jason," “Clay," and “Clayay," with two counts of enticement and coercion of a minor to engage in sexual activity...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Oxford, Miss. - An Amory man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Monday for producing and distributing child pornography. United States District Judge Neal B. Biggers sentenced Brett Northington, 60, to 360 months in federal prison for using a minor to produce child sexual abuse material and distribute it on the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - A federal jury in Tallahassee convicted Jason Earl Kirkland, 44, of Cottonwood, Alabama of attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. The guilty verdict, returned yesterday, at the conclusion of a two-day trial, was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican and China Task Force Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) released the following statement on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression towards Taiwan. Over the last week, CCP officials have conducted unprovoked and destabilizing military...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Anthony Sterling, 42, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
