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By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging Terren S. Peizer, the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ontrak Inc., a publicly traded health care company, for allegedly engaging in an insider trading scheme in which he fraudulently used Rule 10b5-1 trading plans to trade Ontrak stock.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a seven-count indictment charging 20 men and four women with trafficking cocaine in the District of Puerto Rico, beginning in 2017. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) oversees the investigation, with the collaboration...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - An indictment, unsealed today, charges a Coraopolis, Pennsylvania man with running a counterfeit drug conspiracy that sold fentanyl and methamphetamine disguised as Oxycontin, Xanax and Adderall on a Darknet Marketplace. Jacob Blair, 25, is also charged in a parallel indictment in the Western...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: CLEVELAND, OH-The FBI Northwest Ohio Safe Streets Task Force, together with the Findlay Police Department and the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office announce the February 24th arrest of Gage Daniel Shafer Haws. Haws was arrested without incident by the Findlay Police Department SWAT team at a residence in Findlay, Ohio, in conjunction with five area bank robberies dating back to Dec. 31, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jason Tipton, 36, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to seven years in prison for distribution of child pornography. Tipton pleaded guilty on Oct. 11, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: HOUSTON, TX-The FBI Houston Field Office is now accepting applications for its upcoming Teen Academy. The event will be held on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, from 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the FBI Houston Field Office, located at 1 Justice Park Drive, Houston, Texas 77092.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: COLUMBIA, S.C. - David Ruger, 44, of Long Beach, California, was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A former Missouri state representative was sentenced in federal court today for a nearly $900,000 COVID-19 fraud scheme, as well as a separate $200,000 fraud scheme in which she made false claims about a fake stem cell treatment marketed through her clinics in southern Missouri, and for illegally providing prescription drugs to clients of those clinics.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: A California woman who fled to Montenegro to avoid serving a lengthy prison sentence has been returned to the United States after spending approximately one year as a fugitive.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal jury convicted two Kansas men of kidnapping, drug, and gun charges in connection with the 2019 torture of a victim in Kansas City, Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on March 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lawrence Macken, 45, of Stockton, was sentenced today to four years and nine months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Nicholas Quinton Hanson (32, Lakeland) with possessing ammunition as a convicted felon and Marcus Dewonn Mobley, Jr. (22, Lakeland) with possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Todd Valentine, 53, Holmen, Wisconsin was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 12 years in federal prison for distributing 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. The prison term will be followed by 5 years of supervised release. Valentine pleaded guilty to this charge on Oct. 24, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin and Webb City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for drug trafficking and illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: Jay Smith, 32, of Freeport, New York, pleaded guilty today to a criminal information charging him with a felony violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act in connection with the Oct. 22, 2020, invasion of a reproductive health care clinic in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man was sentenced today to 12 years and three months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, after he admitted to selling methamphetamine to an undercover agent and to trying to obtain a machine gun in exchange for meth, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
The US Justice Department published a one page proposed rule on March 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
The US Justice Department published a one page proposed rule on March 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2023
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has sentenced Luis Flores-Reyes, a/k/a “Maloso," “Lobo,"’ and “Viejo Lovvon," age 42, of Arlington, Virginia and Jairo Jacome, a/k/a “Abuelo," age 40, of Langley Park, Maryland, to life in federal prison, for charges related to a racketeering enterprise...
