News from January 2022
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
United States Attorney Dennis R.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
A solider stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography in a Project Safe Childhoods investigation involving a 13-year-old victim.Aaron D.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 8 years in prison and ordered to pay $6,000 in restitution on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Emily Bevard | Jan 18, 2022
Del Rio, Texas Border Patrol agents recently recovered the body of a deceased male from a water-filled gravel pit after responding to a call for assistance from Texas National Guard (TNG).
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the arrest of Santonio Malone, 36, for a Murder of the First Degree warrant out of Schuykill County, Pennsylvania.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
A Rochester man was sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for the arson of a Minneapolis pawn shop that resulted in the death of a man. Acting U.S. Attorney Charles J. Kovats made the announcement after U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright sentenced the defendant.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
United States Attorney Dennis R.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
Richard Gordon, 40 years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and admitting to violating the terms of his supervised release on a prior felon in possession of a firearm conviction, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
Three indictments have been unsealed charging a total of 10 people with participating in a cocaine conspiracy, announced Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
By Emily Bevard | Jan 18, 2022
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents assigned to Del Rio Sector’s Carrizo Springs Station in Texas recently arrested three U.S. citizens attempting to smuggle four undocumented individuals into the country, one of which was allegedly in possession of narcotics and a stolen handgun.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
A Bristol, Virginia man, who conspired with several others to import and distribute methamphetamine, was sentenced today to more than 24 years in federal prison.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
Robert Bell, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration Chicago Division, and U.S.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
Timothy Foley, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S.
By Art Benavidez | Jan 18, 2022
The United States Department of Justice recently reported that a onetime Aiken County, South Carolina educator was sentenced to over 11 years in prison for sexually exploiting a minor.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross and Timothy Foley, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, announced that Takeya Rainey, 45, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and amphetamine, was sentenced to time served and five years’ supervised release by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross and Timothy Foley, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, announced that Shermart D. Merriwether, 26, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of distribution of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 180 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
Over the past two years, many people have had crash courses in how to use video communications systems. Personal apps such as FaceTime and Skype have made it easier to keep in touch with friends and family during COVID times.
By Emily Bevard | Jan 18, 2022
Six individuals were recently rescued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in the Jacumba Wilderness region near Ocotillo, California, including a Mexican citizen requesting help after attempting to enter the United States alone.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
The FBI Pittsburgh Field Office wants to alert the community to a hoax kidnapping scam targeting people in our area.
By Press release submission | Jan 18, 2022
Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno of the FBI Dallas Field Office confirmed today, January 16, 2022, the identity of the Colleyville, Texas hostage-taker as British Citizen, Malik Faisal Akram, 44.The FBI’s Evidence Response Team (ERT) will continue processing evidence at the synagogue.
