News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A former schoolteacher with the Southside Independent School District was sentenced yesterday to 240 months in prison on child pornography charges.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: PORT ANGELES, WA: On August 23 at 11:30 a.m., Olympic National Park dispatch was notified of a possible drowning at Lake Crescent. Forty-three-year-old Tou Yang, visiting from Robbinsdale, Minnesota, jumped from a 40-foot cliff at the popular swimming area known as “Devil's Punchbowl," resurfaced but...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - This week a federal judge sentenced a convicted felon charged with drug trafficking while armed announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Explosives, and Firearms (“ATF") Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky.- Two Cincinnati men, Taravon Geer, 28, and Keith Upshaw, 26, were sentenced to federal prison Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, after previously pleading guilty to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. Geer was sentenced to 216 months in prison and Upshaw was sentenced to 60 months in prison. A third member of the conspiracy, Radaja Ford, was sentenced to 228 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to34 months in prison for violating federal drug trafficking and firearms laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey on Wednesday sentenced a St. Louis man who carjacked a woman and stole her phone in 2020 to 11 years and two months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced today that Rick Benavidez, 47, of Albuquerque, was sentenced in federal court to five years and three months in prison for leading and organizing two auto loan fraud schemes involving a total intended loss of more than $1.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 25.
By State Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
Digital Creators Exchange Program grant opened on Aug. 24.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A Rocky Mount man was sentenced today to 335 months in prison for leading a conspiracy to sell cocaine, crack, and other controlled substances. Terrence Brandon Mabry, 32, pled guilty on Jan. 23, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Louisville, KY - A federal grand jury in Louisville returned four indictments last week separately charging firearms and drug offenses. According to the indictments.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
The US Interior Department published a six page notice on Aug. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Hector Fabio Garcia Vengohechea (59, Cartagena, Colombia) to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine on a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Garcia Vengohechea had pleaded guilty on Jan. 19, 2022.
By State Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on Aug. 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man today admitted leading a drug trafficking organization that operated out of a drug mill located in the Bronx, New York, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Aug. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A Detroit resident pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud, in connection with schemes to defraud multiple state workforce agencies and the Small Business Administration out of more than $2.2 million in Covid-19 pandemic assistance and also to defraud the U.S. Postal Service of another $200,000, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, VA - The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to prohibit a federal contractor and its owners from retaliating against former and current employees who cooperate with an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: Venezuelan Businessman Charged in Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A federal jury returned a guilty verdict yesterday against Todd Sheffler, a lieutenant at the Western Illinois Correctional Center in Mt. Sterling, Ill., for civil rights deprivation resulting in bodily injury and death and obstruction of justice in connection with the death of Larry Earvin, an inmate at the facility, following a three-week trial and three hours of deliberations.
