News from August 2022
By David Beasley | Aug 12, 2022
A California man has been sentenced to six months in home confinement for threatening a U.S. congressman, a news release said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Jeronimo Quiahua-Garcia (21, Veracruz, Mexico) has pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States as a deported alien. Quiahua-Garcia faces a maximum penalty of two years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas A. C. Penrose, who is handling the case, stated that between June and August 2020, shortly after being released on supervised release from federal prison following a prior fraud conviction, Kornaker fraudulently applied for an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) through...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Every week since Roe was overturned, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and her Democratic colleagues in the Senate have fought to protect Americans’ reproductive rights-pushing to advance commonsense...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and James Casey, Regional Chief, Division of Refuge Law Enforcement, announced that DAVID FOSTER, 51, of Westbrook, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Broden Burgess, 37, of Indianapolis was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Charity Lee, 40, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and a violation of supervised release, was sentenced to serve 39 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Archivist Kate Hanson Plass Named Winner of the NPS Appleman-Judd-Lewis Award for Cultural Resource Specialist
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Tuesday, Saif Ali Al Najafi, 25, of Glendale, Arizona, was charged by criminal complaint with Transporting Illegal Aliens while Placing in Jeopardy the Life of Another.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man today admitted traveling from Pennsylvania to New Jersey in order to engage in illicit sex acts with a minor, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A man who was found with a Taurus 709 slim 9x19mm caliber pistol and marijuana in his car was sentenced July 26, 2022, to more than three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Jackson man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jackson Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: FLORENCE, SOUTH CAROLINA - Quinae Shamyra Stephens, 41, of Douglasville, Georgia, was sentenced to more than 18 years in federal prison after she was convicted by a jury for multiple charges relating to a multi-state identity theft and fraud ring she was running with her son. Specifically, Stephens was...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk on Wednesday sentenced a Missouri man to 16 years and eight months in prison for using Snapchat to trick a boy into sending him child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant Came Into Landscaping Business, Held Employee for Over an Hour.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Leslie Hood, 59, of Fresno, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to 12 years in prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Donald Benson, age 42, of Nottingham, Maryland to 18 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for production of child pornography. Judge Blake also ordered that, upon his release from prison, Benson must...
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
NPS Director visits Acadia National Park, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A three-year investigation into an Oklahoma prison-based drug trafficking organization has resulted in 21 defendants being convicted across multiple federal cases. The wrap-up of this investigation and prosecution is jointly announced by Robert J. Troester, United States Attorney, Edward...
