News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Parveg Ahmed was sentenced by United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly to 153 months’ imprisonment and 15 years supervised release for one count of attempting to provide material support or resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization. The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge in June 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Craig Corriveau, 51, of East Rochester, pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced yesterday to 6 years in prison for receiving images of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: East St. Louis, Ill. - A Cahokia, Illinois man was sentenced to 126 months by the Honorable Judge Stephen P. McGlynn for Enticement of a Minor, Travel with Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct and Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct in a Foreign Place.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Darrell Desiderio was sentenced on Dec. 16 to 25 years in prison. Desiderio, 45, of Gallup, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty on July 26, 2021, to second degree murder in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jeovanny Shultz, age 28, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Mercer, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 11 months in prison for conspiring to steal pandemic funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: St. Thomas, VI - United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced today that a Christophe Alain Foisy, age 27, of California, appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller for his initial appearing hearing after being charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new report examining the laws governing synthetic opioid interdiction, the synthetic opioid precursor supply chain from China to Mexico, and the finished-product...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men - one from Wisconsin, the other from North Carolina - have been charged with participating in a “swatting" spree that, over a one-week span, gained access to a dozen Ring home security door cameras nationwide, placed bogus emergency phone calls designed to elicit an armed police response, then livestreamed the events on social media, sometimes while taunting responding police officers, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Saint Paul man was found guilty by a federal jury of conspiracy to distribute marijuana and possession with the intent to distribute marijuana, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Dec. 12, 2022, Jeffrey D. McHatton, 68, of Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Rosemary Márquez to 33 months in prison. McHatton was previously found guilty by a jury on 10 counts of Securities Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 20-year-old Houston man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of one count of carjacking and one count of discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ULADZIMIR DANSKOI, the CEO of an immigration services firm, and JULIA GREENBERG, an immigration attorney, were found guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court of conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to commit immigration fraud following a two-week trial before United States District Judge J. Paul Oetken.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Jonathan Nyce, 73, of Collegeville, PA, was convicted by a federal jury of wire fraud and the interstate shipment of misbranded animal drugs. The charges arise from a years-long scheme to defraud pet owners of money by falsely claiming to sell canine cancer-curing drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI - The final member of a of a Corpus Christi drug trafficking organization has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute meth, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Machias man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Bangor today for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado, the ATF and the Denver Police Department, are joining forces to raise awareness about gun violence that is taking innocent lives. Illegally owned, privately made firearms or “ghost guns" are part of the problem. “Ghost guns" are...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Defendant Was Arrested With Paint Brush In-Hand.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Defendant Shot the Victim as the Victim Ran Away.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: About this article: This article was originally published in the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail 2022 Annual Report.
