News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Andrew Barthalomew Trujillo, 38, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced December 5, 2022, by United States District Judge John C. Hinderaker to 24 months in prison. Trujillo previously pleaded guilty to Assault by Strangulation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court today issued an order prohibiting Qualgen LLC, an Oklahoma company, Shaun P. Riney, Qualgen’s Chief Executive Officer, and Jasen Lavoie, Qualgen’s Director of Quality, from manufacturing and distributing drugs that are not in compliance with the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Diamond Bar man pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for deliberately failing to pay more than $200,000 for one three-month period’s payroll taxes that were owed by a San Gabriel Valley employment staffing company.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Jamon L. Woodson, 39, of Dunbar, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of ammunition in connection with a shooting outside a Charleston business.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Five men were charged in an indictment and a New Jersey woman pleaded guilty in connection with a transnational technical support scam that targeted more than 20,000 victims, many of whom were elderly, in the United States and Canada, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Defendant Accused of Stealing from Labor Union while Serving as its Chairman.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced the launch of the Law Enforcement Language Access Initiative, a nationwide effort to assist law enforcement agencies in meeting their obligations to provide meaningful language assistance to limited English proficient (LEP) individuals. The Initiative will build on the department’s longstanding work to ensure that law enforcement agencies are complying with their language access obligations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: A California man was sentenced yesterday to 42 months in federal prison for his role in accessing, monitoring and conveying confidential and sensitive information that could be used to identify and locate Twitter users of interest to the Saudi Royal Family.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - Antwon Brown, 30, has been sentenced to 138 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of firearms, possession of marijuana and methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking. United States Attorney Kevin Ritz announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today that Dion Williams has been sentenced in federal court to 20 years (240 months) on his conviction of violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws and for assaulting a federal agent with a dangerous weapon, and to an additional five years (60 month) for violating the terms of his supervised release for a previous drug crime conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations - Philadelphia (HSI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Pittsburgh (FBI), and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), is issuing a public safety alert regarding an alarming increase in the online exploitation of children and teens.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Private exporters reported the following sales activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky.- A Nicholasville, Ky., man, Noah James Grimes, 30, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Monday, by U.S. District Judge Karen C. Caldwell, after pleading guilty to enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct outside the United States, with the purpose of producing a visual depiction of that conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Pernell Dewayne Bodiford, Jr. (24, Jacksonville) with illegally purchasing a firearm by providing a false statement to a federal firearms dealer. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. The indictment also notifies Bodiford, Jr. that the United States intends to forfeit the firearms and ammunition traceable to the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A group of felons were indicted Thursday, charged with burglarizing numerous Ford pickup trucks and stealing firearms and other items.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that HENRY RANDLE (“RANDLE"), age 66, of Gibson, Louisiana, was sentenced on Dec. 14, 2022 for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged automobile accidents with tractor-trailers occurring in New Orleans.
By State Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
FY 2023 Julia Taft Refugee Fund - Georgia grant opened on Dec. 27.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Gang member Derrick Slade (aka “D" or “Solja"), 28, has been sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years for murders committed during a series of home invasion robberies in Broward County.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania resident pleaded guilty in federal court to violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Thank you all for being here.
