News published on Federal Newswire in December 2022

News from December 2022


Sexual Predator Pleads Guilty To Receipt Of  Child Sex Abuse Images

News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Dennis William Sheffield, Jr. (52, Keystone Heights) has pleaded guilty to receipt of child sex abuse images. Sheffield faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to 40 years, in federal prison. He has agreed to pay...


New life for interpretive signage

News Release: About this article: This article was originally published in the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail 2022 Annual Report.


Release: On Dec. 20, 2022, FSIS announced that Jan. 1, 2026, will be the uniform compliance date for new meat and poultry product labeling regulations published between Jan. 1, 2023, and Dec. 31, 2024.


News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Wednesday, a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Viorel Pricop, 64, of Allen Park, Michigan, for Arson of Property in Interstate Commerce.


Adair Chief of Police Charged with Getting Machine Guns Through False Statements to the ATF

News Release: DES MOINES, IA - A federal grand jury in Des Moines returned an indictment on Dec. 14, 2022, charging Adair Chief of Police Bradley Wendt with unlawfully obtaining and possessing machine guns.


News Release: Quick Facts. Significance: Hendrick Wendell was an officer in the British Provincial forces during the French & Indian War. He served in many of the actions that took place throughout the New York frontier. Place of Birth: Schoharie Valley, British Colony of New York. Date of Birth: March 12, 1729. Place...


News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Scott Matthew Yotka (48, Jacksonville) to 60 years in federal prison for producing and distributing photos and a video depicting himself as he sexually abused two young children. Yotka was also ordered to serve a...


Michigan Man Sentenced to Prison for Federal Gun Crime

News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Kymoni Davis, also known as “Money," 33, of Redford, Michigan, was sentenced today to eight years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Davis admitted to shooting into a Huntington club after his ejection during a New Year’s Eve party.


News Release: Defendants Had Ties to Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).


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.


Truck Driver Sentenced to 37 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking a Minor Victim and Producing Videos of the Abuse

News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Hammond, Indiana, has been sentenced in federal court to 444 months in prison followed by lifetime supervision on his conviction of sex trafficking a minor and production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.



BLM prepared to burn piles near Genoa and Virginia City Highlands

News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The thinning of trees in the Genoa, NV and Virginia City Highlands areas has produced piles of branches which will be burned sometime within the remainder of December and could continue into January 2023, with an estimate of two to five ignition days. The burning will happen on days...


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTHONY SMALL, also known as “Whompy," 31, of Shelton, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking narcotics in Bridgeport.


News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Keo Ibua Mike (29, Ocala) to eight years in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. Mike had pleaded guilty plea on Aug. 23, 2022.


Texas Man Found Guilty of Felony and Misdemeanor Charges Related to Capitol Breach

News Release: Defendant Watched Members of Congress Evacuate, then Participated in Breaking the Windows of the Speaker’s Lobby Door.


News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A pharmacy employee today admitted conspiring to offer and pay bribes and kickbacks in exchange for having prescriptions steered to the Morris County, New Jersey, pharmacy where he worked, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.


News Release: WASHINGTON -Following a nine-week long trial, a D.C. Superior Court jury returned verdicts finding Derek B. Turner, 31, Ronnika M. Jennings, 44, and Duan M. Hill, 33, guilty of multiple felony offenses arising out of a violent gang feud between two neighborhoods in Southeast Washington, D.C. in 2016-2017.


News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Bonnie Jennifer Sherrard a/k/a May Bonnie Jennifer Sherrard, 46, of Ruston, Louisiana, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Shreveport for illegally dispensing and distributing controlled substances, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown.


Nathan Bishop Middle School Students Complete First Rhode Island “Discovering Justice” Program

News Release: PROVIDENCE - In record time, a jury sitting in federal court in Providence returned a verdict for the plaintiff, finding that a school principal violated her 4th Amendment rights. The student, suspended for damaging school property, was punished based on information the principal discovered while searching her electronic devices during an unrelated investigation. The student claimed that the search was unreasonable, and unconstitutional.