News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Bo D. Beckner, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A former special agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was found guilty by a jury today of federal civil rights violations for sexually assaulting two women and abusing his official position to prevent them from reporting his violent conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Massachusetts man was found guilty today of felony and misdemeanor charges for assaulting law enforcement during the January 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: PORTLAND, Ore.-On Dec. 14, 2022, a resident of the Umatilla Indian Reservation pleaded guilty after he repeatedly struck a fellow resident of the reservation with his fists, causing the person’s death.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Jane E. Young, announced that a federal jury convicted Ian Freeman, 42, of Keene, on all counts of money laundering, conspiracy to launder money, operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business, and tax evasion (four counts).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, Michael Joseph Wilson, age 34 of Des Moines, was sentenced to a total of 240 months in prison for four crimes: conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and MDMA; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; attempt to possess contraband in prison; and violation of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Defendant Committed Several Assaults During a 15 Minute Period.
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: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TREIZY LOPEZ, 25, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 108 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in the attempted robbery of a New Haven restaurant, during which he shot an employee, in April 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A former youth minister in Joplin, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for exchanging pornographic images and videos with a child victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Jose Domingo Ordonez-Zometa, a/k/a “Felon," age 33, of Landover Hills, Maryland; Jose Rafael Ortega-Ayala, a/k/a Impaciente," age 30, of Greenbelt, Maryland; and Jose Henry Hernandez-Garcia, a/k/a “Paciente," age 29, of Annandale, Virginia, for racketeering...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Private exporters reported the following sales activity.
By State Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
Release: General Michael E. Kurilla, Commander, U.S. Central Command discusses innovative efforts to maximize operations across Central Command through the employment of new technology and concepts, including AI, machine learning, and unmanned systems. He then takes questions from participating journalists.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
Release: Private exporters reported the following sales activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Two individuals were charged with submitting fraudulent COVID-19 testing claims to multiple insurance agencies, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment charging TAJ EVERLY, a former correction...
By State Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul joined Kate Bolduan on CNN to discuss Ukrainian President Zelensky’s address to Congress last night, the importance of Congressional oversight of U.S. weapons and funds going into the country, the significant return on America’s investment in Ukraine’s fight for freedom, and why designating Russia an “aggressor state" is nothing more than a toothless symbol.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Dartwon Brooks, 29, and Jaemer Smith a/k/a Glizz a/k/a Jack Glizz, 20, both of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. as jury selection was set to begin in their federal trial. Brooks pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has indicted two men who allegedly used the darknet and encrypted messaging applications to sell over 120,000 fentanyl-laced pills and other drugs to thousands of customers across the country.
