News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A federal grand jury returned an indictment against a Maple Grove man for an armed carjacking at a Blaine grocery store, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - Curtis Boyd, 28, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute marijuana and possession of a firearm. United States Attorney Kevin Ritz announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: * Return to The Civil War.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that CHRISTIAN LUIS VELEZ-RUIZ, 25, of New Britain, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford to federal robbery, carjacking, and firearm offenses.
By State Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good morning, everyone. It’s a real pleasure to have Foreign Minister Tewaney here in Washington. Panama is a highly valued partner of the United States. We’ve been doing a lot of work together these past couple of years, really working to advance the common goals that we have...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Marques Howard (31, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to Hobbs Act robbery, conspiracy to commit that robbery, discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Howard faces up to 20...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JEROME SHAQUILLE WILSON, aka “Rome," age 27, a resident of Bogalusa, Louisiana, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Dec. 15, 2022 for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Federal law prohibits individuals who have been convicted of certain crimes from possessing firearms after being convicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a three-count indictment charging Tristin Pearson, 26, of Erie, PA, with production, distribution, and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum penalty of 30 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Yesterday, GREG ALLEN HENKE, 43, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced to serve 540 months in federal prison for production of child pornography and possession of material containing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Hampton man on charges of conspiracy, drug and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man admitted participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine in New Jersey from locations in Manhattan, 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, today announced that ANTRUM COSTON, 40, of New Haven, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to fraud, money laundering and drug offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The owner of the Rockstar Burgers restaurant in Kansas City, Mo., has pleaded guilty in federal court to allowing his former restaurant building to be used in a drug trafficking conspiracy that is alleged to have distributed more than 150 kilograms of methamphetamine and more than 10 kilograms of heroin, valued at more than $1.7 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Columbus, Ohio, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on charges of violating federal narcotics trafficking and firearms laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld James Wells’ murder convictions which were handed down by a trial jury in October 2019 for the April 2012 murders of two U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) employees, Electrician’s Mate First Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Boatswain’s Mate Richard Belisle at a United States Coast Guard base on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: St. Thomas, VI - United States Attorney Delia L. Smith announced today that Victor Hugo Ruiz, age 32, of California, appeared before Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller for his initial appearing hearing after being charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana arrested on Dec. 11, 2022, at the Cyril E. King Airport.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell to announce a new funding opportunity for a program to help states establish low cost revolving loan...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Patrick Joseph McAloon (67, St. Augustine) to 7 years and 2 months in federal prison for distributing videos and images of children being sexually abused. The court also ordered McAloon serve a 10-year term of supervised release and pay $15,000 to victims of his offenses. McAloon had pleaded guilty on July 28, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Mohammed Ajmal, a Cartersville businessman, has been sentenced for making and subscribing a false tax return. Ajmal failed to report income from over two million dollars in “kickback" payments from the use of coin-operated amusement machines in his service stations and convenience stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - After five days of trial, a federal jury convicted Bisheem Jones, also known as “Bosh," 37, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of leading a scheme to traffic over 140 firearms from the Beckley area to Philadelphia.
