News from March 2023
District Man Sentenced For Second-Degree Murder For Killing Woman in Her Apartment
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Darnell Sterling, 57, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 27 years in prison on charges stemming from the murder of his girlfriend, whose body has never been recovered, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
Franklin County Man Accused of Child Sex Crime
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2023
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A Franklin County, Missouri man has been accused of a federal criminal sex act with a minor.
FBI Statement Regarding the Bomb Threat at the El Paso Veteran’s Affairs Outpatient Clinic
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2023
News Release: EL PASO, TX-The FBI El Paso Joint Terrorism Task Force responded to an incident at the El Paso Veteran’s Affairs Outpatient Clinic at 5001 Piedras together with members of the Veterans Affairs Police, FBI El Paso Bomb Technicians, El Paso Police Department Bomb Squad, and the Fort Bliss Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team. It has been determined there is no threat to the clinic or the El Paso community at this time.
Drug ring tied to Aryan prison gang indicted with 24 federal arrests
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2023
News Release: Tacoma - Twenty-seven people were indicted by a grand jury for drug trafficking, and many of those in the indictment are tied to the “Aryan Family," a white supremacist prison gang, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Twenty-four of the defendants have been arrested over the last five days in Washington...
“PROTECTING AMERICA'S CHILDREN” published by the Congressional Record in the House section on March 24
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
“PROTECTING AMERICA'S CHILDREN“ was published in the House section on page H1414 on March 24
Depew Man Convicted of Sex Crimes
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: A Depew man who used Snapchat to coerce and entice a minor to commit sexual acts was convicted Thursday in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
Matriarch Sentenced for Role in Violent Multimillion-Dollar Honduran Cocaine Trafficking Organization
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: A Honduran woman was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for a large-scale conspiracy to traffic cocaine for importation into the United States.
West Georgia Man, Under Investigation for Allegations of Drugging Women, Pleads Guilty to Illegally Possessing 26 Firearms
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A Talbot County, Georgia, resident who was under investigation for allegedly drugging women admitted to illegally possessing numerous firearms in federal court today.
Wisconsin Man Charged with Firebombing Building
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: A Wisconsin man was arrested today on a charge related to the May 2022 firebombing of a Madison office building.
Foreign National Sentenced for Victimizing U.S. Persons Through Cyber-Enabled Fraud Schemes
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: A Nigerian national was sentenced today to four years and one month in prison for his role in a cybercriminal group operating out of Nigeria and Malaysia, among other places, that executed complex financial fraud scams using the internet.
Clarion County Man Sentenced to Prison for Drug and Gun Crimes
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Lucinda, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months in prison on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, Acting United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today.
USDOJ-BOP-NIC offers new grant application process starting March 29
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
Responding to Staff Trauma and Organizational Stress in Prisons and Jail Settings grant opened on March 29.
Justice Department Recovers More Than $53 Million in Profits Obtained From Corruption in the Nigerian Oil Industry
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: The Justice Department announced today the final resolution of two civil cases seeking the forfeiture of various luxury assets that were the proceeds of foreign corruption offenses and were laundered in and through the United States.
Man Sentenced to 10 Years After Being Caught with Fentanyl, Methamphetamine
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel on Thursday sentenced a man caught with methamphetamine and fentanyl to 10 years in prison.
Former Oklahoma Jail Officer Pleads Guilty to Civil Rights Violation
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A former detention officer with the McClain County Jail in Purcell, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty to being deliberately indifferent to a substantial risk of serious harm to a pretrial detainee’s physical safety, thereby violating the pretrial detainee’s constitutional civil rights.
Carrabelle Man Sentenced to 84 Months in Federal Prison for Child Pornography
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Franklin Jefferson Mathes, Jr., 59, of Carrabelle, Florida, has been sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for receiving material constituting child pornography. The sentence was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
Teacher accused of child pornography offenses
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: HOUSTON - A 29-year-old College Station resident has been arrested for distribution and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
Grand Jury Indicts Three Local Men for Fentanyl, Firearms Crimes Within 1,000 Feet of Public Elementary Schools
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged area men in two separate cases involving drugs sold near elementary schools in Springfield and Vandalia.
North Providence Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Federal Prison for Sexual Exploitation of Minors, Possession of Child Pornography
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A North Providence man who previously admitted to a federal judge that he coerced and sexually assaulted two minor females, assaults that he recorded and retained on his cell phone, was sentenced today to thirty years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
U.S. Marshals, FBI Offer up to $20K in Rewards for Information Leading to Arrest of Former MD Governor Top Aide Charged with Fraud, Theft
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2023
News Release: Baltimore, MD - U.S. Marshals and the FBI are offering a combined reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest of the Maryland governor’s former chief of staff charged with failure to appear, fraud, theft of funds and falsifying records.