News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Gun Used Four Days Later by Relative in Southeast D.C. Homicide.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced Thomas Patrick Connally, Jr., age 56, most recently of Snowshoe, West Virginia to 37 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for making threats against a federal official, specifically for sending emails...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former resident of Indiana, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to a total of 97 months in prison followed by 4 years of supervised release on his convictions of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine base, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Denver- The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Jared Lincoln Fitzgerald, age 46, of Colorado Springs, was sentenced to 262 months in federal prison for four counts of bank robbery, including one with force.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Darrion Elliott, 28, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to fifty-seven months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Romario Mark Anthony Murray, 27, of Montego Bay, Jamaica was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud, four counts of wire fraud, and three counts of mail fraud. The convictions stemmed from activities...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: An Akron man was arrested today and charged in a 26-count indictment with using proceeds obtained from the sale of controlled substances and a wire fraud scheme to purchase a residence in Akron and a Tesla vehicle on seperate ocassions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted a man on carjacking and firearm charges for allegedly carjacking a rideshare driver’s vehicle at gunpoint in downtown Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Re'Shaun Lamonte Wilborne, 36, of Charleston, was sentenced today to three years and one month in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A Mogadore man was found guilty on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, of obstructing justice by retaliating against a witness. Andrew F. Dodson, 33, was convicted by a federal jury following a three-day trial before Judge Donald C. Nugent in Cleveland.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Kermit Ceasar, 45, of Manchester, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of cocaine distribution and six counts of crack cocaine distribution, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Massachusetts victim targeted in online scam.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man was sentenced today to 47 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl from a drug mill in the Bronx to locations in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Jorge Oliverio Moran-Can, 42, of Guatemala, charging him with Assault on a Federal Officer Resulting in Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Shipments of parts from China allegedly used to make potentially deadly fentanyl pills that appear to be oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Gildardo Perez Avilez, 38, of Stockton, charging him with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Rhiannon Peacock (39, Eustis) to three years and five months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Peacock had pleaded guilty on Nov. 16, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Southern California man who posed online as a teenage boy and enticed a 15-year-old girl to have a sexual relationship before bringing her to Mexico is scheduled to make his first court appearance tomorrow to face federal charges of transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A 30-year-old Tulsa woman pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to tampering with evidence related, in part, to an investigation into her possession, use and distribution of controlled substances, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Minneapolis man was sentenced to 84 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for possessing a stolen firearm, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
