News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - William Richter, 39, of Shasta County, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison, plus 20 years of supervised release, for knowing possession of visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 23-year-old resident of Missouri City is set to appear in court on allegations he used his hoodless Buick to steal postal mail and keys, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Methuen man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Defendant allegedly embezzled over $96,000. BOSTON - A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee has been indicted in connection with allegedly embezzling over $96,000 and for fraudulently obtaining unemployment benefits. Jamesa Rankins, 26, of Brockton, was indicted on one count of theft of government money...
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
Release: On behalf of the United States and the American people, I congratulate the people of Peru as you celebrate the 201st anniversary of your independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: Four key defendants in a Washington, Ga., area drug trafficking conspiracy have been sentenced to federal prison, with just two of the 21 indicted defendants awaiting trail while others are serving prison terms or awaiting sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Jonathan Lee Sturkey, 37, of Huntington, was sentenced today to one year and six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
New Jersey Man Federally Charged with Enticement of a Minor and Interstate Transportation of a Minor to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Wilfredo Sanchez, 25, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute 10 grams or more of a fentanyl analogue and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, was sentenced to serve 168 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Chatham County man faces a possible sentence of up to life in prison after admitting to a day-long spree of convenience store robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Oluwaseyi Akinyemi, a/k/a “Paddy Linkin", a/k/a “Joseph Kadin", age 35, of Hyattsville, Maryland, yesterday to eight years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for two counts of mail fraud relating to a social media advanced fee fraud scheme that targeted elderly victims. Judge Chuang also ordered Akinyemi to pay $486,119.07 in restitution to his victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On August 8, 2022, Charles Elsea, Jr., 44, a longtime inmate of the Tennessee Department of Corrections, was sentenced to life in prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe to purchase and distribute locally grown, produced, and processed food from underserved producers under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA).
By Press release submission | Aug 12, 2022
Superseding Indictment Charges Two Additional Defendants for Their Roles in a Violent Carjacking Conspiracy Targeting Uber and Lyft Drivers
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: A man who robbed the Country Store in Denison, Iowa, was sentenced August 4, 2022, to 17 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Wednesday sentenced a man who stole $141,000 worth of beauty supplies from six Missouri stores to a year in prison and ordered him to pay $141,611 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: MISSOULA - A Missoula woman who admitted to distributing large amounts of methamphetamine in the community was sentenced today to 30 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court entered a consent decree enjoining an Asheboro, North Carolina pharmacy and its two pharmacists from dispensing controlled substances, including opioids, without taking specific steps to help ensure the drugs will not be abused or diverted and ordering them to pay $300,000 in civil penalties, the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Sapulpa Man Receives 180 Months and Broken Arrow Man Receives 135 Months.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2022
News Release: Justice Department Launches Investigation of Maryland Department of State Police Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
