News from August 2022
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking will travel to the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Saudi Arabia starting Aug. 11, while members of his team travel to Jordan, as part of our vigorous diplomatic efforts to help secure an expansion of the UN-mediated truce and bolster peace efforts. The Special ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant, a Queens Resident, Enticed Victims by Pretending to be a Modeling Scout.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Denver - United States Attorney Cole Finegan announced that Defendant Patricia Gilroy, 58, of Naples, Florida, was sentenced to 19 months in prison for a wire fraud scheme in which she received $865,351 as a result of fraudulent EIDL and PPP applications that she submitted. Gilroy was also ordered to pay $916,656.03 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky.- A Morrow, Ohio man, Steven Richard Stiles, Jr., 34, was sentenced to 364 months in federal prison on Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, after pleading guilty to using a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A pharmacist and a pharmacy owner have been sentenced to close out the prosecution of a white-coat operation that illegally distributed more than half a million opioid pills and other drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Marvin Javier Godoy-Mendoza, age 46, a citizen of Honduras, was charged by a federal grand jury on July 12, 2022, with illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Ralph Mariani (a.k.a. “D"), 28, of West Hartford, Connecticut was sentenced on July 20, 2022 in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont by Chief Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford to 70 months of imprisonment. Mariani had...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio man was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Blakely H. Jenkins, Sr., 61, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, was sentenced today to one year and one day of imprisonment for evading taxes and committing identity theft while running his St. Johnsbury-based painting business, Blake Jenkins Painting, Inc. United States District Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered Jenkins to serve a two-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A jury has convicted two suburban Chicago men on drug conspiracy charges as part of a federal investigation that disrupted a Mexico-to-Chicago drug pipeline.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Jose Efren Beltran, 32, of Mecca, charging him with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 45-year-old Pharr resident has pleaded guilty to illegally transporting undocumented aliens within the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: The imprisoned leader of a criminal conspiracy in which violent criminal street gang members distributed methamphetamine and other drugs throughout south Georgia has been sentenced to nearly 40 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Quincy man was arrested yesterday in connection with his role in expansive online fraud schemes targeting individuals in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former sales representative was convicted by a federal jury for his role in a scheme to defraud public health benefits programs by billing for medically unnecessary compound prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Lazaro Adrian Quintana Martinez (27, Tampa) to four years and three months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. Quintana Martinez had pleaded guilty on Jan. 13, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man has been arrested on federal firearm charges for allegedly trafficking more than 35 guns, including “ghost guns," machine guns, and rifles.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 24-year-old Mexican national has admitted to having child pornography on his phone, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS - David D. Sova, D.O., of Grand Rapids entered into a settlement with the United States in which he agreed to a court order to never prescribe controlled substances. According to the terms of the consent decree entered by U.S. District Court Judge Jane M. Beckering, Dr. Sova is also ordered to pay $170,000 in civil penalties to resolve the United States’ allegations that he forged opioid prescriptions for his own use.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Jason Lary, the former Mayor of the City of Stonecrest, has been sentenced for using his elected office to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds allocated to the city.
