Department of Justice Press Releases

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – John Palmer, of Lore City, Ohio, has admitted to drug and firearms charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced. Palmer, 57, pleaded guilty today to …

Miami, Florida — Today, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Juan Antonio Gonzalez joins leaders from South Florida’s federal law enforcement community in observing the 16th Annual …

SAN ANTONIO – Keith Alan Seguin, a 55-year-old former civilian employee at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, admitted this morning to receiving millions of dollars in bribes in …

            ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Erich Deolax Riker, 44, of Portales, New Mexico, was sentenced today in federal court to seven years and three months in prison for failing to update …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Charleston couple pleaded guilty this week to federal gun and drug charges. Larry James Williams, 66, and Mary Ann Coon, 44, were indicted on the charges …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Kanawha County woman was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine.    According to …

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Muhammad Z. Aabdin, age 30, of the Bronx, New York, has been indicted for offering bribes to a public official and using facilities of interstate commerce …

VALDOSTA, Ga. – A federal jury convicted a Valdosta resident with a lengthy violent criminal history today on a federal firearms charge. Aaron Lewis Green, Jr., 39, of Valdosta, was …

ST. THOMAS – U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that a Dominican Republican national was arrested Friday, June 11, 2021, on St. Thomas on criminal charges related to allegedly …

CONTACT: Barbara Burns PHONE: (716) 843-5817 FAX #: (716) 551-3051 BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Lisa Mesler, 55, of Niagara Falls, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. …

Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte today sentenced Tiba Sakuri Conley, age 31, of Ellicott City, Maryland, to 157 months in federal prison, followed by five years …

Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VINCENT DECARO, 31, of Stamford, to a charge related to his manufacturing and distributing counterfeit oxycodone …

Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett today sentenced Alex Smith, a/k/a Skeet, age 34, of Halethorpe, Maryland, to 20 years in federal prison, followed by three years …

McALLEN, Texas – A 73-year-old has been charged for selling illegally manufactured and unregistered firearms suppressors destined for a Mexican drug cartel, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer Lowery. A federal …

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Fredericksburg man pleaded guilty today in connection with a conspiracy to illegally straw purchase 62 firearms from federal firearms licensees (FFLs) in Virginia. “The straw purchasing …

Acting United States Attorney Ellison C. Travis announced today that U.S. Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced Michael J. Kaiser, age 43, of Krotz Springs, Louisiana, to 77 months in …

BILLINGS – A Hardin man who admitted to raping a woman on the Crow Indian Reservation after meeting her in a Hardin casino was sentenced today to seven years in …

PORTLAND, Maine—A Naples man was sentenced today in federal court in Portland for drug trafficking and firearm offenses, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced. Chief U.S. District Judge John …

BUFFALO, N.Y. – U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Paul Krieger, 46, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to breaking …

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Columbus man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 12 months and one day in prison for his role in a conspiracy to steal at least …

CAMDEN, N.J. – A Camden man was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for his role today in a scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in government …

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Andre Cornell Diggs, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was sentenced today to 41 months of incarceration for a drug charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced. …

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Michael Anthony Toler, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced today to 46 months of incarceration for a drug charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced. Toler, …

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on June 14, 2021, CAESAR RAYMON WILLIAMS, 42, from Terrebonne Parish, pled guilty as charged to a five- count …

Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Ronell Watson was sentenced to 382 months years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge William F. Kuntz, II, for the attempted murder …