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Jury Finds Oklahoma Man Guilty of Smuggling Firearm into Mexico
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: ALPINE, Texas - A federal jury in Pecos convicted an Oklahoma City man last week for illegal smuggling of goods from the United States.
North Sioux City Man Sentenced for Tax Returns Charges
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: SIOUX FALLS - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier has sentenced a North Sioux City, South Dakota, man convicted of one count of False Income Tax Return and three counts of Willful Failure to File Tax Returns. The sentencing took place on March 27, 2023.
Former U.S. Postal Service mail carrier sentenced for scheme to deliver drugs through the mail
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: ATLANTA - Former mail carrier Robert Elliot Sheppard was sentenced to three years of prison for recruiting fellow mail carriers, and teaching them how to deliver packages of cocaine and marijuana while he was on disability leave.
Madison Man Charged with Firebombing Building
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A Madison, Wisconsin man was arrested today on a charge related to the May 2022 firebombing of a Madison office building.
Laredo man admits having over 27,000 child pornography images, including some of minor relatives
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 29-year-old Laredo resident has pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
Hong Kong Company, CEO, Agree to Permanent Injunction, Abandon Funds Fraudulently Obtained from Iowa Company
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: Gold Wings (HK) Limited (“Gold Wings"), a Hong Kong company, and its CEO, Min Zheng, have agreed to enter a consent decree to resolve allegations made by the United States that they participated in and furthered a fraud scheme against an Iowa company. In the consent decree, United States District Court...
Utah Lab Owner Admits $89 Million Health Care Fraud Kickback Scheme Involving Cancer Genetic Screening Tests
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Utah resident today admitted his role in a $89 million health care fraud and kickback scheme involving genetic cancer screening tests (CGX Tests), Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced.
Carrabelle Man Sentenced To 84 Months In Federal Prison For Child Pornography
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 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.
Bank robbery and 45-minute crime spree gets Texas man significant federal prison time
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 43-year-old Corpus Christi man has been ordered to federal prison for robbing American Bank in Corpus Christi and brandishing a firearm during the robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
Five Arrested in San Antonio for Alleged Drug Trafficking Organization Involvement
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - Five San Antonio men were arrested in San Antonio today on criminal charges related to their alleged roles in a drug trafficking organization.
Milpitas Car Exporter Pleads Guilty To Crime In Scheme To Avoid Income Taxes On Multi-Million Dollar Income
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: OAKLAND -Jie Suo, owner of a South Bay luxury car exporting business, pleaded guilty today to interfering with the administration of internal revenue laws stemming from statements she made to IRS investigators to corruptly impede their investigation into her multi-million dollar business she failed to...
Miami-Area Man Sentenced to 57 Months in Connection with Nationwide Gas Station Skimming Scheme
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Yuny Hurtado Rodriguez, age 34, of Cutler Bay, Florida, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for his role in an access device fraud conspiracy.
Indiana Man Sentenced to 10 Years for Meth Trafficking
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson for the Northern District of Indiana announced that Marcel Toussaint, 37, of Fort Wayne, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to distributing more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.
Honduran National Sentenced to Prison for Illegally Reentering the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARLON AMAYA-LOPEZ, also known as Elder Figueroa, 34, a citizen of Honduras last residing in Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arteron in New Haven to 12 months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.
Clay County Man Indicted For Fraud Scheme Using Stolen Identities To Obtain Paycheck Protection Program Loans, Filing A False Tax Return, And Stolen Property
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Christopher Leo Daragjati (33, Middleburg) with seven counts of wire fraud, ten counts of aggravated identity theft, one count of theft of government property over $1,000, and two counts of...
Repeat offender heads back to prison for distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: HOUSTON - A 39-year-old Spring resident has been sent to prison…again, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
Media Advisory – Press Conference
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - United States Attorney Michael Easley, along with representatives from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Rocky Mount Police Department, and the Nash and Edgecombe Sheriffs’ Offices will hold a press conference TOMORROW, Friday, March 31 at 2:00 p.m. to...
Syracuse Man Sentenced to Serve 192 Months for Possessing and Intending to Distribute Cocaine
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Jondell Middlebrooks, age 42, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to serve 192 months in federal prison following his conviction for possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the...
Former construction company president sentenced for attempting to monopolize highway construction, repair contracts
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: BILLINGS - The former president of a paving and asphalt contractor based in Billings was sentenced today to three years of probation, with six months of home detention, and fined $27,000 after he admitted to attempting to monopolize the market for highway crack-sealing services in Montana and Wyoming, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
Sexual Predator Sentenced to 120 Months for Attempting to Engage in Sexual Activity with a Teenager He Met on Facebook
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2023
News Release: Salt Lake City, Utah - A Salt Lake City man was sentenced today to 10 years’ imprisonment for attempting to meet a 13-year-old girl he was communicating with via Facebook Messenger - who was in fact an undercover officer.