News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Thirty-four members of a methamphetamine ring that operated in the Dimmitt, Texas area have been sentenced to a combined 364 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: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that Stetson Bruce, age 33, of Antlers, Oklahoma, was found guilty by a Federal jury of two counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - A federal jury in Tallahassee convicted Gretchen Buselli (a/k/a “Gretchen Yarbrough"), 48, of Tallahassee, Florida, of use of an interstate commerce facility in the commission of murder-for-hire and making a false statement to a federal officer. The guilty verdict, returned today, at the conclusion of a five-day trial, was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a transient woman from the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, area was convicted of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and was sentenced on July 21, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MORGAN BURL III, age 42, of Houma, Louisiana, pled guilty on July 13, 2022 to conspiracy to distribute cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Beach Reopens at Assateague Island National Seashore after closure due to Unexploded military ordinance (Maryland)
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - John R. Paeglow III, age 65, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to three years of supervised release, and to perform 100 hours of community service, in connection with a scheme to defraud a commercial finance company that provided receipt factoring services to his former book printing business.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - An indictment was unsealed today in Tampa, Florida, charging a Russian national, working on behalf of the Russian government and in conjunction with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), with allegedly orchestrating a years-long foreign malign influence campaign that used various U.S. political groups to sow discord, spread pro-Russian propaganda, and interfere in elections within the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Phillip M. Coyne, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced that ZAYA POWELL, 25, of Waterbury, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to a false statement offense stemming from her creation of false COVID-19 vaccine records for several individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Columbia, SOUTH CAROLINA - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment against Christopher Cunningham, 33, of Columbia, for conspiracy to steal guns from Walmart, theft of guns from Walmart, possession of stolen guns, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - Albert Morrison, the former President of the Madison District Public Schools Board of Education and local school district contractor, John David, have been charged in a superseding indictment with conspiracy to commit bribery arising out of David’s payments of over $560,000 in bribes to Morrison...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Felon in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on July 25, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Ocala, Florida -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the arrest of Ralph Fontil, Jr. (24, Ocala) on a two-count indictment charging him with making a materially false statement in connection with the purchase of firearms and causing a Federal Firearm Licensee (FFL) to maintain false information in its official records. If convicted of both charges, Fontil faces up to 15 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two Stamford residents who manufactured and distributed counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl analogues were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport. ARBER...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 41-year-old Laredo resident has been sent to prison for his role in a conspiracy to smuggle goods into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Virginia man was sentenced today to three years and 10 months in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for traveling in interstate commerce to engage in illicit sexual activity with a minor. Austin James Quesenberry, 28, of Dublin, Virginia, must also register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Otis Tillman, of Hagerstown, Maryland, has admitted to a cocaine charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States and the American people, I send warm greetings as you celebrate the 213th anniversary of your declaration of independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Brian Thomas Whitworth, 38, of Visalia, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
