News from January 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Five men were sentenced today for their roles in a conspiracy to transport over $1.3 million worth of stolen perfume products out of New Jersey to Florida, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 72 months in prison for possessing quantities of heroin and cocaine he intended to distribute, and possessing several firearms, including an AM-15 rifle, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man who was involved in a shoot-out at a local gas station was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Virgil Montell-Denzel Watkins, 30, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to 10 years and eight months in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing 5 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Rep. Kay Granger (TX), released the following statement after the Republican Conference officially named her chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee for the 118th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 42-year-old Raymondville man has been ordered to federal prison for drug trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Daniel Gibbs, 37, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, was sentenced on Friday, January 6, by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 121 months in federal prison for distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Gibbs pleaded guilty to this charge on Sept. 14, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces the indictments of Leonard Singleton, age 44; Jaime Sanchez, age 39; Gabriel Sanchez, age 36; Jose Baeza, age 39; Stephanie Barker, age 38; Leanne Wilson, age 25; and Augustine Gallegos, age 36, after a 10-month federal investigation into drug trafficking in Colorado Springs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Brendan Iber, Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), announced that a federal grand jury on Dec. 20 indicted Viorel Pricop on nine counts of arson.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) grant opened on Jan. 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced today the results of the United States Attorney’s Office’s ongoing efforts to fight violent crime through its partnership with the Tampa Police Department (TPD). During 2022, federal prosecutors and TPD worked together to charge and prosecute...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: MANITOWOC, WI - A Wisconsin company that supplies malt barley to major craft breweries, home breweries, and other spirit and food production in the Midwest has again been found exposing employees to dangerous workplace hazards by federal safety inspectors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Dec. 15, 2022, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned four-separate indictments charging four individuals with engaging in fraud to obtain Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) benefits totaling $210,228...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: Conservation Diaries: Subria Spencer, Promoting National Parks as Public Health Resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Woodbridge man pleaded guilty yesterday to distributing a Schedule II controlled substance to a person under age twenty-one.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Mark Totten announced that Jason Duenas, 27, of Holland, pleaded guilty to possession of more than 5 kilograms of cocaine with intent to distribute. At sentencing, Duenas will face a mandatory minimum sentence of at least 10 years in prison. The date of sentencing has not yet been scheduled.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) and co-chair of the Senate Environmental Justice Caucus, today applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement of $100 million in funding for environmental justice grants.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: An Oklahoma inmate who used contraband cell phones to lead a methamphetamine distribution operation pleaded guilty this week in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2023
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Cynthia McKnight, 24, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to two counts of simple assault in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, which each carry a maximum penalty of six months in prison and a $5,000 fine.
