News from March 2023
USDOJ-OJP-OVC offers new grant application process starting March 16
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
OVC FY 2023 Human Trafficking Fellowship Program grant opened on March 16.
Detroit-area Software Developer Sentenced to Prison for Employment Tax Crimes
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: A Michigan business owner was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for failing to collect and pay over to the IRS employment taxes withheld from his employees’ wages.
Two Men Arrested by U.S. Marshals for Akron Homicide From July of 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: Akron, OH- This morning, members of the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force (NOVFTF) located and arrested Desean Williamson, 23, and Teion Thompson, 21. Both were wanted by the Akron Police Department. Williamson was wanted for murder and Thompson was wanted for complicity to commit murder and obstructing justice.
U.S. Marshals Task Force Apprehends Homicide Suspect
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: Milwaukee, WI -Members of the U.S. Marshals Service’s Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force (GLRFTF) captured on March 9 a fugitive wanted on a homicide charge.
U.S. Marshals Arrest 2 Murder Fugitives in King of Prussia, PA
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: Philadelphia, PA - Today, members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, along with Montgomery County SWAT and Upper Merion Police, arrested Halim Evans, 20, and Jamel King, 29, in the 500 block of Dekalb Pike in King of Prussia, PA. Both men were wanted for murder in relation to a September 2022...
Woman Wanted in Connection With Akron Homicide Arrested in Mexico
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: Akron, OH - This morning, the United States Marshals Service in collaboration with Mexican authorities arrested Leslie Lopez, 26. Lopez was wanted by Summit County Sheriff’s Office for failure to appear for aggravated murder.
USDOJ-OJP-BJA grant application closes on May 8
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
BJA FY 23 National Training and Technical Assistance: Capital Case Litigation Initiative grant opened on March 16.
U.S. Marshals Arrest Garfield Heights Homicide Suspect
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: Cleveland, OH - This morning, members of the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force (NOVFTF) located and arrested Travis Hicks, 32. Hicks was wanted by the Garfield Heights Police Department for murder.
Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta Issues Statement on the FBI’s Supplemental 2021 Hate Crime Statistics
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: The Justice Department issued following statement from Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta on the FBI’s announcement of the 2021 hate crime statistics supplement
Justice Department discusses Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act on March 15
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on March 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
Former Kentucky Federal Prison Lieutenant Convicted of Covering Up the Assaults of Two Federal Inmates by Corrections Officers
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: After a six-day trial, a federal jury convicted former Bureau of Prisons Lieutenant Kevin Pearce, 38, on two counts of obstruction for writing false reports about the assaults of two federal inmates by corrections officers under Pearce’s command. The defendant is a former supervisor at U.S. Penitentiary ...
U.S. Marshals Participate in 7th Annual Fallen Heroes Run
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: Mobile, AL - This morning, approximately 100 members of federal, state and local enforcement agencies, as well as members of U.S. Probation, U.S. Federal Courts and Mobile County Fire/Rescue gathered on the front steps of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Mobile to participate in the 7th Annual Fallen Heroes Honor Run.
USDOJ-OJP-OVC grant application closes on May 8
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
OVC FY 2023 Human Trafficking Training and Technical Assistance Program grant opened on March 16.
Justice Department Investigation Leads to Takedown of Darknet Cryptocurrency Mixer that Processed Over $3 Billion of Unlawful Transactions
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: The Justice Department announced today a coordinated international takedown of ChipMixer, a darknet cryptocurrency “mixing" service responsible for laundering more than $3 billion worth of cryptocurrency, between 2017 and the present, in furtherance of, among other activities, ransomware, darknet market, ...
Former New Orleans Police Officer Sentenced for Sexually Assaulting a 15-Year-Old Girl
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: A former police officer with the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) was sentenced in federal court to 14 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old crime victim in violation of her constitutional rights.
Knife-Wielding Manchester Fugitive Arrested in New York
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: Concord, NH - The U.S. Marshals Service - NH Joint Fugitive Task Force is pleased to announce the capture of “NH Most Wanted" fugitive, Desmel Cooper, who was taken into custody by New York’s Nassau County Police Department. Having both local and federal warrants, this arrest signals the end of media campaigns promoted by the Manchester Police Department and U.S. Marshals Service.
Anonymous Tip Leads U.S. Marshals to Pittsburgh Aggravated Arson Suspect in Denver
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: Denver, CO - After nearly 18 months on the run, a Pittsburgh fugitive wanted for aggravated arson is now in custody thanks to an anonymous tip called in to the U.S. Marshals Service Colorado Violent Offender Task Force.
San Antonio Capital Murder Suspect Arrested by U.S. Marshals
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: Del Rio, TX - Members of the U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force and officials with Customs and Border Protection, arrested a Bexar County capital murder suspect in Eagle Pass on March 4th. Isaac Estrada, 26, is accused of brutally stabbing Courtney Phillipson on April 5, 2015. Phillipson, a single mother, was survived by her young child.
Florida Man Charged with Federal Hate Crimes for Racially Motivated Attack Against Group of Black Men
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2023
News Release: A federal grand jury in Gainesville, Florida, returned a six-count indictment charging David Emanuel, 61, with committing hate crimes for his racially motivated attack on a group of Black men who were surveying land along a public road in Cedar Key, Florida.
Guilford Man Pleads Guilty to Producing Child Pornography
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2023
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Matthew B. Millhollin, Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Boston Field Office, announced that CHRISTOPHER MICHAELSON, 38, of Guilford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to production of child pornography.