News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to possessing fentanyl intended for distribution.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Leading ISIS Media Figure and Foreign Fighter Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Tanya Bui, age 24, of Littleton has been sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison. She pleaded guilty to possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, as well as possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Brian Botsford, age 26, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to attempting to coerce and entice a 13-year-old child to engage in sexual acts with him. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NOEL PEREZ, 25, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 18 months of imprisonment for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A Carrollton man who stole five guns from a storage unit was sentenced Tuesday to more than two years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of a three-count indictment charging Johnny Deangelo White (45, Jacksonville) with possessing with the intent to distribute fentanyl, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possessing a...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Dena J. King announced today that Andres Chacon, 46, of Anderson, South Carolina, was sentenced to 194 months in prison and five years of supervised release for drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New Jersey cardiologist was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for unlawfully prescribing thousands of Oxycodone pills, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it and possessing a firearm with a fifty-round drum magazine in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Two individuals were convicted in connection with making a false statement to a federal officer, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent-in-Charge Jermicha L. Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jackson Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Santana Kendall, 30, of Indianapolis, was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CLEVELAND - Martin Escobar, 58, a former Mahoning County physician, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent after he previously pleaded guilty to 54 counts of illegally prescribing controlled substances-including two counts of distributing controlled substances that caused the deaths of two patients and one count of distributing a controlled substance to a person under the age of 21-and 31 counts of health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Normal, Illinois Man Sentenced to 120 Months in Prison for Child Sex Trafficking
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating various federal robbery and firearms laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Fair Oaks, California, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on July 11, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced Wednesday to almost 12 years in prison for the armed robbery of Call Federal Credit Union in Midlothian.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Kicked and Broke a Window of the Capitol Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky.- A Fairfield, Ohio man, Shakir Aswad Little, 30, was sentenced to 168 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, after pleading guilty to transporting visual depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
