News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Leroy Raymund Charleston, of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: The sentence also includes time for a conviction on charges of smuggling contraband into prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAESON BIRNBAUM, a disbarred lawyer, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for defrauding investors in his now bankrupt litigation finance firm, “Cash4Cases." BIRNBAUM previously pled guilty to securities...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 31-year-old Cuban citizen who resided in Houston has been sentenced for his role as leader of an organization that installed hundreds of credit card skimmers in Southeast Texas over the last six years, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A man from St. Louis pleaded guilty Monday to a murder-for-hire charge and a drug conspiracy charge and admitted trying to have a man who owed him more than $100,000 killed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - Yesterday, a federal district judge in West Palm Beach, Florida sentenced the 34-year-old leader of a South Florida drug trafficking ring to 210 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit a Hobbs Act robbery and conspiring to traffic 100 kilograms or more of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: EL PASO - Trevor Dylan Lehew, 28, of Plano, pleaded guilty today to one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and FBI Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey R. Downey, El Paso Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Steven Kyle, of Weirton, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Mario Peia and Alexandra F. Foster (619) 546-9706/6735.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - A 43-year-old Pembroke Pines, Florida man who used the United States postal service to solicit, plan, and pay for the murder of his former girlfriend’s new love interest pled guilty today in federal court to a charge of using the mail to commit murder-for-hire, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1958.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: For Drug and Gun Offenses. FORT WAYNE - Jaime Renteria-Lopez, 28 years old, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Holly A. Brady on his plea of guilty to distributing a controlled substance and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Jaythean Diaz, 19, of Lawrence and Gary Ortiz, 18, of Haverhill, were indicted by a federal grand jury on July 11, 2022, and charged with one count of conspiracy to steal firearms from a New Hampshire Federal Firearm Licensee, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Jackson, TN - Mark Allen Branch, 34, of Union City, Tennessee, has been sentenced to 151 months in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute over 50 grams of actual methamphetamine and for being a felon-in-possession of a firearm. Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., United States Attorney, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield woman pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to her role in a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed heroin and crack cocaine across western Massachusetts and into Vermont.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the recipients for the 69th Annual Attorney General’s Awards, recognizing Department of Justice employees and partners for extraordinary contributions to the enforcement of our nation’s laws. This year, 298 Justice Department employees received awards, while 54 non-department individuals are also being honored for their work.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Dena J. King announced today the launching of Think Again, an informational campaign aimed at educating the public on how to prevent illegal firearms from getting into the wrong hands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: EVANSVILLE - LaDonna Livers, 67, of Evansville, Ind. was sentenced late yesterday afternoon to a year and a day after pleading guilty to the felony offenses of wire fraud and filing false federal income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - An Auburn, Indiana woman, Tiffany Miller, 38, was sentenced yesterday to 240 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Robert Wier, for possession of a stolen firearm and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
“PROTECTING INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS” was published on page H5555 of the Congressional Record on June 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Birmingham man on sex trafficking a minor and sexual exploitation of children, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
