News from January 2022
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
A Brooklyn Park man was sentenced to 27 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release and $33,826.64 in restitution for his role in the arson of the Great Health and Nutrition store in St. Paul. Acting U.S. Attorney Charles J. Kovats made the announcement after U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel sentenced the defendant.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
A Salem County man made his initial appearance on a charge of illegally possessing a firearm, U.S.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
Five alleged members and associates of a neighborhood-based Jersey City, New Jersey, gang were charged for their roles in two gang-related shootings, U.S.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced the resolution of three cases involving the trafficking of illegal narcotics in the Western District of Louisiana. Two of these cases were Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) cases.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Patrick Harrison, 39, of Pottstown, PA, was arrested and charged by Indictment with Hobbs Act robbery; carrying, using, and brandishing a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence; and being felon in possession of a firearm in connection with a pharmacy robbery in West Philadelphia last year.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that BLAKE BATISTE, age 19, from New Orleans, pled guilty on January 5, 2022, to various firearm and drug charges. His guilty plea stems from his participation in a December 28, 2020, shootout on the 15th floor of the Jung Hotel on Canal Street.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
Ernest Willis, 25, of East Chicago, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge James T. Moody after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
A federal grand jury has charged two individuals from Cincinnati with crimes related to making straw purchases of firearms.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
A Taunton man was arrested today in connection with illegally possessing and trafficking firearms.Jaylen Rose, 27, was indicted on one count of dealing in firearms without a license and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
Brendan Collicott, 27 years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to multiple counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.
By David Hutton | Jan 16, 2022
Six wind energy lease areas off the coasts of New York and New Jersey will be sold at a wind auction in February.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that two men from the south Louisiana area were sentenced today by Chief United States Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. for their illegal involvement with firearms.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
Jordan Thomas, 24, of Vidalia, Louisiana, pled guilty today to possessing a firearm after having been previously convicted of a felony crime, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Jackson Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
A Helena man admitted to an ammunitions crime today after he was accused of assisting a Helena pawn shop in the sale of 88 pounds of stolen gunpowder, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
A Pittsfield man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield for firearm and drug trafficking offenses.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Samuel Snader, age 39, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and Hector Colon, age 30, of Puerto Rico, were indicted on January 5, 2022, by a federal grand jury and charged with conspiracy to manufacture and deal firearms, and manufacturing and dealing firearms without a license.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
Another defendant who was charged as part of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) “Operation Hustle City” was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge S.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
On January 11, 2022, United States District Judge Greg Guidry sentenced JOHNNY WOODEN, age 21, to forty-eight (48) months in the Bureau of Prisons for possession of a firearm while under indictment, in violation of the Federal Gun Control Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By Press release submission | Jan 16, 2022
A West Palm Beach, Florida man who formerly lived in Georgia was sentenced today to 168 months in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that trafficked the drug from Atlanta into Lee and Wise counties in Virginia.
