News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: St. Croix, VI - United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced today that Eliecer Pineda Torres, 52, of Ecuador, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Judge Emile Henderson, III, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine while on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Sentencing for Torres has been scheduled for April 14, 2023.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - A South Georgia resident with a violent criminal history found in possession of numerous stolen firearms and who released his dog to attack deputies before he fled arrest was sentenced to the maximum prison term allowed under law.
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: Defendant Committed Several Assaults During a 15 Minute Period.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: * Return to The Civil War.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, outgoing Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) was elected to continue his tenure as top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee in the position of ranking member in the 118th Congress. Prior to becoming chair when Democrats won the House majority in 2018, Chair Grijalva had served as ranking member since 2014 and had been a member of the Committee since coming to Congress in 2003.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A St. Paul woman has pleaded guilty to her role in a sex trafficking conspiracy after recruiting six minor victims to engage in commercial sex acts, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By State Newswire Report | Dec 27, 2022
Updates to the U.S. sanctions programs to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid while maintaining injunctions against intended targets went into effect Dec. 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - After deliberating for approximately an hour and 15 minutes yesterday, a federal jury of four men and eight women found Deamonte Law guilty of one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A known drug dealer from Umatilla County, Oregon was sentenced to federal prison today after he was convicted at trial on multiple felony drug and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Dallas Robinson, Jr. (29, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Robinson faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Robinson has also agreed to forfeit a.45 caliber pistol and ammunition, which are traceable to the offense.
By State Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today sent a letter to President Biden to congratulate the Administration on hosting a successful U.S. Africa Leaders Summit and to urge swift mobilization of resources necessary to support implementation of Summit commitments.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Maryland man was found guilty in the District of Columbia today of felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Devin Crayton, 33, Madison, Wisconsin pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge James Peterson to six years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - U.S. Attorney Peter D. Leary announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia collected $6,814,729.05 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2022. Of this amount, $3,382,503.60 was collected in criminal actions and $3,432,225.45 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Delvin Thomas, 44, of West Palm Beach, Fla., has pled guilty to one count of extortion after using his chairman position to receive a kickback from a real-estate transaction. Thomas will be sentenced March 3, 2023, before Judge Kenneth Marra.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: A federal grand jury in the District of Maryland returned an indictment that was unsealed today charging two men for their roles in schemes to defraud investors in CytoDyn Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company (OTCQB: CYDY) based in Vancouver, Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - Hassan Chokr, the man who threatened preschoolers, parents, and other individuals outside a Jewish synagogue in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with lying on a federal firearms form when he sought to buy a shotgun, a rifle, and a semi-automatic pistol, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced today.
By State Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
Release: The United States condemns in the strongest terms the Taliban’s indefensible decision to ban women from universities, keep secondary schools closed to girls, and continue to impose other restrictions on the ability of women and girls in Afghanistan to exercise their human rights and fundamental freedoms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas resident was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Andrew P. Gordon to 18 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for committing six armed robberies of gas station convenience stores.
