News from February 2023
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced the sentencing of three men this week for the illegal possession of drugs. United States District Judge Dee D. Drell sentenced Archie Louis Carter, Jr., 40, of Alexandria, Louisiana, and Isaiah Charles Jones, 34, of Houston, Texas.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
Paid bribes to Amazon employees for inside info and improper benefits, directed false complaints about competitors, and cheated on taxes
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
Two Kansas City, Mo., men have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a nearly $10 million conspiracy that distributed almost 1,000 kilograms of methamphetamine.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that a grand jury returned a Superseding Indictment charging Tyler Keith Andrews, age 37, of Bentonville, Arkansas, and Yuriy P. Anischenko, age 34, formerly of Spokane, with eleven counts of fraud in connection with a conspiracy to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in COVID-19 relief funds intended for struggling businesses.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
A federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, returned a ten-count indictment on February 7, 2023, charging four men with conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
Seven defendants are among those facing federal charges including illegal possession of firearms after separate indictments by a grand jury in the
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on February 9, 2023 a federal jury has returned a verdict of guilty on all forty-six (46) counts against former First NBC Bank President and CEO Ashton J. Ryan, Jr. and not guilty on all seven (7) counts against former First NBC Bank senior vice president Fred V. Beebe.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
Brian Jesus Hernandez, 24, of Tucson, Arizona, was arrested and charged Monday, with Dealing Firearms Without a License and Possessing Firearms Not Identified by a Serial Number.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
This Valentine’s Day, the FBI’s Albany Field Office is sharing information to help educate the public about romance scams, so you can protect your heart—and your wallet—from scammers.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
A federal indictment was unsealed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, charging a former private prisoner transport officer with sexually assaulting a female pretrial detainee during a prisoner transport and using a firearm in furtherance of his sexual assault.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the February 2023 Federal Grand Jury A.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
The former mayor of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Javier García-Pérez, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy for his involvement in a bribery scheme in which he received cash payments in exchange for the awarding of municipal contracts and the payment of invoices related on those contracts.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
Two brothers with ties to a notorious Mexican cartel have been sentenced to a combined 70 years in federal prison for methamphetamine and money laundering offenses, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
A grand jury returned an indictment on February 7, 2023, against a Champaign, Illinois, woman, Jasmine L. Morris, 29, of the 1700 block of Union Street, charging her with wire fraud related to Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
Three men pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to committing sex crimes against children, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
Abel Nazario-Quiñones, former Puerto Rico senator and former mayor of the municipality of Yauco, Puerto Rico, was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge Francisco A. Besosa to serve 18 months in prison, announced United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
Reyes John Sanchez-Borrero, 37, of Cleveland, Ohio, was charged today in a five-count superseding indictment with distributing fentanyl that led to the death of three people in Northern Ohio.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
On February 10, 2023, Robert Z. Whipple, III, 50, currently of Crossville, Tennessee, was sentenced to 70 months in prison by the Honorable Katherine A. Crytzer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
A federal grand jury has returned a one-count indictment charging Paul Lebo, 40, of North Royalton, Ohio, with wire fraud related to an alleged investment fraud scheme.
By Press release submission | Feb 18, 2023
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on February 9, 2023, United States District Judge Robert D. Mariani sentenced Malik Adoyi, age 25, of Stroudsburg, PA, to 80 months of imprisonment and a 4-year term of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute over 100 grams of heroin and over 40 grams of fentanyl.
