News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Larry Edward Foxworth has pleaded guilty in federal court to shooting into multiple Clayton County convenience stores to kill those inside based upon their race and ethnicity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, NY--Christopher A. Parris, 42, formerly of Rochester, NY, and currently of Lawrenceville, Georgia, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud related to a Ponzi scheme, as well as to wire fraud involving the fraudulent sale of purported N95 masks during the pandemic, was sentenced to serve 244 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Parris was also ordered to pay approximately $106-million dollars in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: The FBI, in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, is issuing a national public safety alert regarding an explosion in incidents of children and teens being coerced into sending explicit images online and extorted for money-a crime known as financial sextortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Mariluz Arias De Gonzalez (“Arias"), age 49, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, to 12 months and 1 day of imprisonment and a 3-year term of supervised release, for distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - Travis Lester, 42, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison as a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. A federal jury convicted Lester of this offense after a four-day trial earlier this year. United States Attorney Kevin Ritz announced the sentence today.
By State Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
FY 2022 Julia Taft Refugee Fund grant opened on Dec. 27.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Oscar Williams Jr., 30, of Opa-Locka, Fla., has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for extorting four girls into producing child sexual abuse material. He previously had been convicted on four counts of production of child sexual abuse material and one count of extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: St. Croix, VI - United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced today that Vicent Mata Anyelo a/k/a Vicent Mata, age 33, the captain and last to be sentenced of eleven Venezuelan nationals apprehended at sea off the coast of St. Croix, was sentenced on Dec. 13, 2022 to 65 months imprisonment followed...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management West Desert District Fire and Fuels program will conduct prescribed fire operations along U.S. Highway 50 near Scipio, Utah, in Millard County between Jan. 4, 2023, and Jan. 31, 2023. Residents of Scipio and the public may experience smoky conditions in the vicinity of the project area and are reminded to exercise caution as they travel-for their safety and for the safety of on the ground personnel.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: SEATTLE - A 50-year-old Washington State man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to seven years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl pills, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Preston Joseph Smith was arrested in December 2021 in Port Angeles, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Mexican nationals have been convicted in federal court of kidnapping and murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: U.S. Virgin Islands - United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced today that the District of the Virgin Islands collected $246,498.00 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2022. Of that amount, $244,898.00 was collected in criminal actions and $1,600.00 was collected in civil actions. Additionally...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - UOP LLC, dba as Honeywell UOP, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., has agreed to pay more than $160 million to resolve parallel bribery investigations by criminal and civil authorities in the United States and Brazil stemming from bribe payments offered to a high-ranking official at Brazil’s state-owned oil company.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department announced today it has secured a settlement agreement with the San Bernardino City Unified School District to resolve the department’s investigation into the district’s educational program for English learners.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Gerald D. Harris, a former supervisor in DeKalb County’s Tax Commissioner’s Office, has been charged with wire fraud for falsely claiming that he could register a stolen vehicle by bribing an employee in the tax office.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
Release: Private exporters reported the following sales activity.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Consistent with the direction in the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bureau of Land Management Wyoming today released an environmental assessment analyzing 209 oil and gas parcels totaling approximately 250,950 acres for a proposed lease sale that would be held in June 2023. The release of this environmental assessment starts a 30-day public comment period, which will end Jan. 23, 2023.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
Release: Private exporters reported the following sales activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A fire department administrator and former 911 dispatcher has been charged federally with crimes related to at least 24 arson fires since spring 2022 in Wayne National Forest.
