News from February 2023
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in partnership with the FBI and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), issued a national public safety alert today highlighting an incremental rise in incidents of children and teens being coerced into sending explicit images online and extorted for money – a crime known as financial sextortion.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
On Dec. 14, deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations New York field office, commonly called ERO New York, apprehended a Salvadoran national who is wanted for homicide and criminal participation in MS-13 in El Salvador.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
Special agents from the Homeland Security Investigations Baltimore field office, commonly called HSI Baltimore, spearheaded a coordinated crime suppression operation in and around Baltimore to combat a recent rise in crime
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
On Dec. 23, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility final rule will go into effect
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is providing information for nonimmigrant workers whose employment has terminated, either voluntarily or involuntarily.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a kidnapping conspiracy that resulted in the victim’s murder.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Elliott Estevan Peralta of Albuquerque, who is wanted on federal firearms and drug-trafficking charges.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Giovanni Francois (23, Naples) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon, possessing with the intent to distribute fentanyl and MDMA, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
JAMAR TRAYLOR, also known as “J-Hop,” 23, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 168 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for offenses related to his participation in a violent Bridgeport street gang.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Kenneth Lawrence Baca, age 44, of Pueblo, was sentenced to 190 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and felon in possession of a firearm.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
A Belgrade man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for bank robbery.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
Malachai Serrano, 31 of San Antonio, Texas, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana and using a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
Brian Stoffel, 38, of Fresno, was sentenced today to five years and four months in prison for bank fraud and identity theft for stealing money from an elderly victim’s bank accounts and getting fraudulent loans in the victim’s name, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
On February 1, 2023 Senior United States District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle sentenced JOSHUA REED, age 24, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, to five years in prison for illegally possessing a gun after having been convicted of a felony offense, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
Angel Montano, 22, of Indianapolis, Indiana, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison for armed robbery.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced DASHONTAE YOUNG (“YOUNG”), age 28, of Houma, Louisiana, was sentenced today for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of a staged automobile accident with a tractor-trailer occurring in New Orleans.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
Joseph Alan Hoadley, 42, of Caldwell, was sentenced to three months in federal prison for falsifying a record or document in a federal investigation, witness tampering by harassment, and destroying a record to impair its use in an official proceeding, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
Brandon Kyle Meredith Adcox, 39, of Evansville, Indiana, was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison for distribution of child sexual abuse material.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
RONNIE DAVIS, a resident of New Orleans, pleaded guilty on January 31, 2023 to being a felon in possession of a firearm before United States District Judge Susie Morgan.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023
While many people find authentic rewarding relationships online, far too many fall prey to romance scams. In romance scams, a criminal adopts a fake online identity to gain a victim’s affection and trust with the illusion of a romantic or close relationship in order to steal the victim’s money.
