News from January 2023
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
A Winsted, Connecticut, man pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl over the darknet.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty today to a felony charge for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 Presidential election.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
The FBI is seeking information regarding a bank robbery that took place today, January 13, 2023, at approximately 4:15 p.m. at a Wells Fargo Bank, 5991 Ravenswood Road, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Kameron I. Ziegler, 23, of Huntington, pleaded guilty today to aiding and abetting the distribution of 5 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Kumar Arun Neppalli, 56, was arrested today upon the unsealing of a 23-count indictment in connection with an investment fraud scam. Neppalli faces up to twenty years in prison per count and potential fines.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Director Christopher Wray has named Kevin Vorndran as the special agent in charge of the Mission Services Division of the Washington Field Office. Mr. Vorndran most recently served as a deputy assistant director in the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
United States District Court Judge Thomas O. Rice sentenced ChanceThe Wind Smith, age 32, of Omak, Washington, to 96 months in federal prison for a violentshooting that took place on the Colville Indian Reservation in September 2021. Judge Rice alsoimposed three years of federal supervision upon Smith’s release from custody.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
A Texas military contractor pleaded guilty on Jan. 12 to rigging bids on public military contracts in the state of Texas.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Erik Herrera, 35, of El Cajon, California, was sentenced, on January 13, 2023, to 48 months in prison for felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Erik Herrera, 35, of El Cajon, California, was sentenced, on January 13, 2023, to 48 months in prison for felony and misdemeanor charges for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Nimrod Shalom, 41, a dual citizen of Israel and the United States, was sentenced, on January 13, 2023, to seven years in prison for transmission of a sexual performance by a minor.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Fola Alabi, aka Folayemi Alabi, 52, of Richmond, Texas, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence to charges of conspiracy and money laundering, admitting to a federal judge that he created companies and opened bank accounts that were used to launder more than $1.6 million in proceeds bilke
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Johnnie Leeanozg Davis, 36, from Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 315 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
John Huckabey, age 40, of Potsdam, New York, was arrested yesterday for distribution of child pornography.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
A Minnesota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for allegedly engaging in abusive sexual contact while a passenger aboard a cruise ship from Iceland to Boston in August 2022.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
The former mayor of Adelanto has agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge for accepting more than $57,000 in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for approving ordinances authorizing commercial marijuana activity within the city, and ensuring his co-schemers obtained city licenses or permits for their commercial marijuana activities, the Justice Department announced today.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Steven Michael Wehr, 33, from Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 184 months in federal prison for carjacking and using a firearm during a federal crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart. In addition to imposing a sentence of more than 15 years, the judge ordered Wehr to serve five years on supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
The former owner of a wastewater treatment facility in Orange County and his company each pleaded guilty today to a federal environmental criminal charge for discharging untreated industrial wastewater into the county’s sewer system.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Scott Radtke, 60, of Clovis, was sentenced on Thursday to four and a half years in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Press release submission | Jan 23, 2023
Rodrigo Santos pleaded guilty today in federal court to bank fraud, honest services fraud, evading taxes on more than $1.6 million of unreported income, and falsifying records in a federal investigation, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp, and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Darren Lian.
