News from January 2022
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
Gerardo Gomez-Lubo, a/k/a Francisco Niño (42, Colombia), has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine knowing and intending it to be imported into the United States. Gomez-Lubo faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Jovante Raschod Thomas, a/k/a “Wood,” a/k/a “Tae” (40, Pinellas Park), Troy Lydell Mctier Jr. (29, St. Petersburg), Adrian Fulton Ashby, (50, St. Petersburg) Marquesha Dequaila Leseon Isaac a/k/a “Auntie,” a/k/a “Angie” (36, St. Peterburg), and Santino Eduardo Jimenez (39, Clearwater), with conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
On January 11, 2022, U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew sentenced Derrick Hutchins (36, Tampa) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine. Hutchins had pleaded guilty on October 13, 2021.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
An East St. Louis, Illinois, man was sentenced to 10 years in prison today for dealing crack cocaine and illegally possessing firearms.Charles Curren, 51, was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment for four counts of distribution of crack cocaine and one count of possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
Robert Bell, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Harris for the Central District of Illinois announced that Dustin R. Test, 39, from Peoria, Illinois, was sentenced on Jan. 6, 2022, to 190 months imprisonment, to be followed by eight years of supervised release, for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
A Caldwell man was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine.According to court records, Dagoberto Leroy Turnbull, 32, of Caldwell, sold another person methamphetamine on two different occasions.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 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 15, 2022
John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and Timothy O'Shea, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that three indictments have been unsealed charging a total of 10 people with participating in a cocaine conspiracy.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 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 Nikita Burt, 38, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with being a felon in possession of firearms.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
A Nixa, Missouri, woman who led law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase at night with no headlights pleaded guilty in federal court today to trafficking methamphetamine.Gina N.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
A Loose Creek, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing methamphetamine and a firearm.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
Bolivar Anibal Cordova, Jr. (42, Windermere) and Luis Manuel Cordero (40, Orlando) were sentenced to 12 years and 7 months and 8 years and 6 months in federal prison, respectively, for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl-laced heroin.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
Oscar Marsiglia Barrios (54, Colombia) pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute cocaine knowing and intending it to be imported into the United States (U.S.). Marsiglia Barrios faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
A Dominican national residing in Boston was indicted by a federal grand jury today on three drug-trafficking charges involving fentanyl.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
A Twin Falls, Idaho, man was sentenced to 150 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.According to court records, in September 2019, Cody J.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
While many Americans celebrated the holidays with their families in the final week of 2021, law enforcement kept working.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
FBI Charlotte and the National Park Service are seeking information from the public to assist in a homicide investigation.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
The FBI Columbia field office launched a new initiative this week to combat an alarming increase in financial fraud that is affecting South Carolina’s senior residents.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
"On January 12, 2022, during the course of a court-authorized law enforcement operation, FBI agents were involved in an agent-involved shooting.
By Press release submission | Jan 15, 2022
While many Americans celebrated the holidays with their families in the final week of 2021, law enforcement kept working. And, tragically, four officers didn’t make it home to their loved ones that week. They were murdered while doing their job keeping others safe.
