News from June 2023
Owner of Firearm Used in Shooting of Newport News Teacher Pleads Guilty to Unlawful Firearm Possession
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News woman pleaded guilty today to illegally obtaining and possessing a firearm and making a false statement on a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) form to purchase the firearm.
Three People Plead Guilty to Illegally Providing Firearms to Essa Williams, Alleged Shooter of Phoenix Police Department Officer Tyler Moldovan
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Erika LaRae Williams, 51, of Phoenix, Arizona, pleaded guilty on May 22, 2023, to Making a Material False Statement During the Purchase of a Firearm. Williams purchased a Taurus G3 pistol from a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) on Sept. 3, 2020, for her son, Essa Williams, five months ...
Militia Members Indicted for Conspiracy To Murder Border Patrol Officers and Attempted Murder of FBI Agents
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Two members of the self-styled 2nd American Militia who conspired to go “to war with border patrol" have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to a conspiracy to murder Border Patrol officers, which ended in a shootout with FBI agents who arrested them on the eve of their planned trip to the United States - Mexico border.
USDOJ-BOP-NIC offers new grant application process starting June 15
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
NIC/BJS Institutional Corrections Research Network and National Corrections Reporting Program grant opened on June 15.
Muskogee Resident Sentenced for Federal Firearm Crime
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that Nika Daniel Alexander, age 20, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 84 months for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
Convicted Felon Who Illegally Possessed Ghost Guns, Ammunition, and Silencers Sentenced to Federal Prison
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A West Greenwich man who was previously convicted and incarcerated on state felony firearm charges and who was later found by federal agents to be illegally in possession of firearms and parts to make - and stockpile - a collection of un-serialized, privately made firearms, also known as ...
Columbia Man Pleads Guilty to Illegally Exporting Firearms to Ghana
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Eric Nana Kofi Ampong Coker, age 41, of Columbia, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the illegal export of firearms.
Foreign National Pleads Guilty to Role in International Human Smuggling and Cocaine Distribution Scheme
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: Honduran national pleaded guilty yesterday to his role in a scheme to illegally bring Honduran nationals to, and to distribute cocaine in, the United States.
Indictment Charges Connecticut, Kansas, and California Men With Operating Gun Trafficking Ring
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: An investigation into an organization that trafficked numerous firearms into Connecticut has resulted in federal charges against residents of Connecticut, Kansas, and California.
Tampa Armed Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Dempsey Gilmore (32, Tampa) to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana, possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana, carrying a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking ...
Court Sentences Mobile Man to Ten Years’ Imprisonment for Armed Robbery of Dollar Tree Store
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: MOBILE, AL - On June 1, 2023, United States District Court Judge Terry F. Moorer sentenced Carlos Dominick Balams of Mobile to 120 months’ imprisonment for robbery and brandishing a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence.
Four Indicted For St. Petersburg Drug Conspiracy
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: Tampa, Florida -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Eric L. Lemon (44, New Port Richey), Eric Lekent Lemon, Jr. (20, St. Petersburg), Dominic Giannantonio (46, St. Petersburg), and Tryon Metteria Byrd IV (43, St. Petersburg) with conspiring to possess ...
Three Albuquerque Men Charged for Shootings Targeting the Residences of Elected Officials
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, Kenneth A. Polite, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced today that an indictment ...
Firearms Trafficker, Drug Dealer Sentenced to 72 Months in Prison
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: ROANOKE, Va. - A Maryland man who sold seven silencers and 800 counterfeit prescription pills to undercover officers with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), was sentenced yesterday to 72 months in federal prison.
Montana Man Sentenced for Federal Hate and Firearms Crimes for Shooting Intended to Kill and Rid Town of LGBTQI+ Residents
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: A Montana man was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris to 18 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for shooting into a residence and attempting to shoot others with the intent of ridding a town of LGBTQI+ residents.
Marion County Woman Sentenced to More Than 16 Years in Prison for Drug Conspiracy and Firearm Possession
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: Ocala, FL - U.S. District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Nishera Remon Johnson (42, Silver Springs Shores) to 16 years and 8 months years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute narcotics (including methamphetamine and cocaine) and possessing a firearm as an armed career criminal. Johnson had been indicted on Sept. 2, 2020. She was previously found guilty by a federal jury on June 29, 2022.
Red Lodge Man Admits Illegal Possession of Short Barrel, Privately-Made Rifle
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: BILLINGS - A Red Lodge man accused of illegally possessing a short barrel, privately-made AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle after he was suspected of violating a protective order admitted to a firearm crime today, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
Illinois Man Sentenced to 24 Months in Prison
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: HAMMOND- Levar Tyms, 20 years old, of Country Club Hills, Illinois, was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge James T. Moody after pleading guilty to possessing an unregistered machinegun, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.
Wolcott Man Admits Unlawful Manufacture and Dealing of AR-15-Style Assault Rifles
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2023
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, and Colonel Stavros Mellekas of the Connecticut State Police today announced that GREGORY LEARY, 35, of Wolcott, pleaded guilty yesterday before Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to manufacturing and dealing AR-15-style firearms without a license.