News from August 2022
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
“Senate Committee Meetings” was published on pages D651-D652 of the Congressional Record on June 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Isaiah Garcia, 20, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A federal grand jury sitting in Laredo has charged a U.S. citizen who resides in Mexico under the Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act for trafficking handguns into Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former governor of Puerto Rico was arrested today on bribery charges related to the financing of her 2020 campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Civil Fraud Complaint Alleges Unnecessary Procedures Performed on Patients with End Stage Renal Disease Were Potentially Harmful.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Dewayne Simmons, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 24 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Judge Terry F. Moorer sentenced defendant Kelcey Turner, 36, to thirty-seven months in prison for possessing a firearm while he was a drug-addicted person. Turner entered a guilty plea to those offenses on April 1, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A federal jury in McAllen has convicted a 27-year-old Mexican citizen for conspiracy and harboring and transporting aliens within the country, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On July 13, 2022, Iván Santell-Velázquez pled guilty to cyberstalking before United States District Court Judge Silvia Carreño-Coll, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(2), announced W. Stephen Muldrow, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Sentences. United States District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal sentenced BRETT SCHEELER, age 53, of Gillette, Wyoming, on August 4, 2022, for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. He received a sentence of 97 months’ imprisonment, five years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that three Manderson, South Dakota, men, a Rockyford, South Dakota, woman, and a Martin, South Dakota, woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Second Degree Murder, Discharge of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence, and Accessory After the Fact to Second Degree Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Jordan Moreno, a/k/a “Joker", age 23, a Honduran national recently of Washington, DC, pleaded guilty yesterday to federal kidnapping charges related to the death of Victim 1, a 19-year old woman. Moreno had previously pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County to First Degree Murder in Victim 1’s death.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced that the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance has awarded $2,986,000 collectively to Louisiana State Police and East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Johnnie Lee Harris, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Vancouver, Washington man was sentenced to federal prison today for transporting two teen girls across state lines, drugging and sexually abusing them, and selling them to other men for sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Pedro Luis Millan, aka Peter Millan, 36, of Montebello, was arrested today after a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment last Thursday, charging him with conspiracy to sexually exploit a child and receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A Tulsa man who possessed a revolver and shotgun to protect himself and the illicit drugs he was distributing was sentenced in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas woman pleaded guilty today to her role in a conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection to the illegal possession of unemployment benefit debit cards issued by the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR) and Arizona’s Department of Economic Security (DES) - the agencies administer Nevada’s and Arizona’s unemployment insurance program, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Jason Joey Berry, 39, of Montreal, Canada, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and import it into the United States, resulting in serious bodily injury and death. The criminal conspiracy involved distributing fentanyl and other similar substances from Canada and China into the United States, resulting in 15 overdoses, four of which were fatal.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: EL PASO - An El Paso man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for coercion and enticement of a minor.
