DOJ Newswire News
Spokane Resident Sentenced to 6 Months for COVID-19 Relief Fraud
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Natasha Ann Opsal, 41, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced to 6 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $50,000 in COVID-19 relief funds. United States District Judge Thomas Rice announced the sentence, the most recent obtained by the COVID-19 Relief Fraud Strike Force.
Former Greenfield Township Sewer Authority Plant Operator Sentenced To Prison For Clean Water Act Violations
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Bruce Evans, Jr., age 41, of Greenfield Township, Pennsylvania to one year and one day in prison for violating the Clean Water Act, and for submitting a false statement to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP). Evans, Jr. was convicted after trial in December of 2021.
South Bend Man Convicted of Unlawful Possession of a Firearm
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: SOUTH BEND -Late yesterday, Leontis Cornelius, 43 years old, of South Bend, Indiana, was found guilty after a 2-day jury trial presided over by United States District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.
Two Kentucky Men Charged With Scheming To Obtain Millions of Dollars From Victims in Illinois and Throughout the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: ROCKFORD - A federal grand jury in Rockford has charged two Kentucky men with fraudulently obtaining millions of dollars from investors and customers throughout the United States, including a business in Boone County, Ill.
New Bedford Man Sentenced for Evading More Than $400,000 in Federal Income Taxes
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for evading more than $431,000 in federal income taxes over the course of seven years.
Construction Company Principal Sentenced To Three Months In Prison In Connection With Worker Death On Construction Site In Poughkeepsie
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ONEKEY, LLC, a New Jersey construction company, was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay a $218,417 fine and its principal, FINBAR O’NEILL, was sentenced to three months in prison...
Mason City Man Returned to Federal Prison for Violating His Supervised Release
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: A man who violated his supervised release by selling methamphetamine has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison.
Former West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office Employee Charged with Theft of Over $150,000 in Official Funds
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr., announced that a Bill of Information was filed charging Mandy Nicole Miller, age 44, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with Federal Program Theft.
Methuen Man Sentenced for Conspiracy to Steal Firearms from New Hampshire Gun Stores
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: CONCORD - A Methuen man was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to steal firearms from three different New Hampshire gun stores, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces.
Two admit to burglarizing British Consul General’s residence
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston man and woman have pleaded guilty to damaging property occupied by a foreign government, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
Lawton Woman and Former Army Training Manager at Fort Sill Indicted on Public Corruption Charges
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Earlier this week, a federal grand jury returned an Indictment charging CANDY HANZA, 50, of Lawton, and ALFRED PALMA, 64, of Duncan, with bribery, announced Robert J. Troester, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Hanza is also charged with wire fraud and money laundering.
Man Sentenced to Nearly 5 Years in Prison for Illegally Possessing Loaded Gun in Rockford
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: ROCKFORD - A federal judge has sentenced a man to nearly five years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded firearm in Rockford.
A Mexican Citizen Previously Convicted of Criminal Sexual Conduct Arrested for Being in the United States Unlawfully
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: DETROIT - A citizen of Mexico, who had been convicted of Criminal Sexual Conduct and was previously removed from the United States, was recently arrested on a criminal complaint by U.S. Border Patrol Agents for unlawfully being in the United States, announced United State Attorney Dawn N. Ison. This...
St. Petersburg Man Sentenced To 25 Years In Federal Prison For Dry Cleaner Armed Robbery And Murder Relating To Exotic Nightclub Drug Conspiracy
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber today sentenced Corey Small (44, St. Petersburg) to 25 years in federal prison for to interfering with commerce by robbery, using and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, conspiring to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, possessing...
Valdosta Resident Sentenced to Prison for Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Valdosta, Georgia, resident was sentenced to federal prison this week for possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) of extremely young minors after an initial investigation into the defendant taking suspicious photos of a young woman at her workplace.
St. Louis County Felon Indicted for Store Robbery
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A convicted felon from St. Louis County, Missouri was indicted by a federal grand jury here Wednesday and accused of robbing a convenience store at gunpoint.
Informational: Federal Court arraignments
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
U.S. Attorney's Office Commemorates Missing Or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office joined the Department of Justice, partners across the.
Huntington Man Sentenced to 54 Months in Prison
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: FORT WAYNE -Adam Meekin, 26 years old, of Huntington, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after his plea of guilty to engaging in the business of dealing and manufacturing firearms and the unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.
Newark, New Jersey Man Imprisoned for Possessing Firearm as a Convicted Felon
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Christian Torruellas, 30, of Newark, New Jersey, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to 41 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge that he possessed a firearm as a convicted felon.