News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A supervisor within a Boston-area drug trafficking organization (DTO) has been sentenced in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The Justice Department today announced that two Virginia landlords have agreed to pay $225,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by obtaining unlawful court judgments against military tenants at the Hideaway at Greenbrier Luxury Apartment Homes in Chesapeake and the Chase Arbor Apartments in Virginia Beach.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Anthony Erik Hebron, a/k/a “Pain", age 29, of Washington, D.C., to 14 years in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Justice Department Seizes and Forfeits Approximately $500,000 from North Korean Ransomware Actors and their Conspirators.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man admitted possessing and distributing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - JoAnne Natalie, age 64, of Saratoga Springs, New York, was indicted earlier this month for misappropriating the funds of a veteran declared legally incompetent, as well as stealing from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Christopher F. Algieri, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Field Office for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Brookings, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TERRE HAUTE - Cameron Aue, 38, of Terre Haute, Indiana, was sentenced today to 17 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky.- A Louisville man, Antwan Lovelace, 27, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison last Wednesday, by U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove, following his conviction for possession of stolen mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - Brian Leroy Watson, a/k/a “Lil B," a/k/a “B," 50, of Blythewood, has pleaded guilty to attempted sex trafficking of a minor and possession with intent to distribute and distribution of a quantity of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Lansing, Michigan, was sentenced yesterday in federal court to a charge of wire fraud, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant robbed three convenience stores on Christmas Eve.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 47-year-old Bay City woman has been ordered to federal prison after admitting defrauding a company of nearly half a million dollars, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced that U.S. Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced Jason L. Istre, age 45, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 78 months in federal prison following his conviction for receipt of child pornography. The Court further sentenced Istre to serve 5 years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Talsma is last of four defendants sentenced for participating in the mail fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A North Pekin, Illinois man, Larry Daniel Saal, 54, of the 100 block of Lincoln Boulevard, was sentenced on Aug. 3, 2022, to 6 years in the Bureau of Prisons for soliciting an obscene visual depiction of a minor and for distribution of child pornography. The sentence is to be followed by a 6-year term of supervised release. Saal must also register as a sex offender and pay $13,000 in restitution to the victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge John A. Ross accepted a plea of guilty from Terica Taneisha Ellis and Waiel Rebhi Yaghnam on today’s date. A grand jury in the Eastern District of Missouri previously indicted Yaghnam and Ellis in August of 2020. Additional charges were filed in November...
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
CBP Officers Seize $113K Worth of Cocaine at Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Orlando, FL -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg the return by a grand jury of an indictment charging Maria Del Carmen Montes (46, Kissimmee) with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, four counts of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. If convicted, Montes faces a maximum...
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Crew Member Visa Overstay Caught in New Orleans
