Department of Justice Press Releases

A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced in federal court in Sioux City, Iowa, on September 8, 2021, to a total of twenty years in prison. Hugo Arechiga …

Miami, Florida – A federal district judge in West Palm Beach sentenced 42-year-old Clarence G. Kelley, III, a/k/a “Kemp,” of Lake Worth, Florida, to a mandatory term of 5 years …

Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that AMBER FOLEY, 33, formerly of Meriden, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. …

Memphis, TN – Kelvin Seymour, 36, has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr., announced the guilty plea today. According …

KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A federal grand jury in Kansas City, Kansas, returned an indictment charging a man from Kansas City, Missouri, with one count of bank robbery. According to …

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A federal grand jury has charged five Columbus men with crimes related to three murders. An alleged narcotics conspiracy in 2018 to rob a local marijuana dealer …

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Lexington man, Marquis Antonio Tompkins, 42, was sentenced on Friday, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves, to 336 months (28 years) in prison, followed …

Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Cedric Tonesy Mount (48, St. Petersburg) to 33 months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute …

BROOKLYN, NY – An indictment was unsealed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn charging three former operators of financial services firm Biscayne Capital with conspiring to defraud investors and financial …

Greenbelt, Maryland – A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging former Fairmount Heights Police officer, Martique Cabral Vanderpool, age 32, of Fairmount Heights, Maryland, for deprivation of civil …

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The final of 19 defendants to be convicted in a Columbus gang-related racketeering conspiracy pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for his part in furthering the violence …

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina — Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett Dehart announced today that a joint team of dozens of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers, led by …

ST. PAUL, Minn. – A St. Paul man pleaded guilty today to one count of interstate communication of a threat against a U.S. Representative, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders …

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Roger Lee Stevens, of Middlebourne, West Virginia, is facing tax fraud charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced. Stevens, 63, pleaded guilty to one count …

KANSAS CITY, KAN. – A federal grand jury in Kansas City, Kansas, returned an indictment charging a Missouri man with one count of Arson, one count of felon in possession …

Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Nancy Salzman, also known as “Prefect,” the former president and co-founder of Nxivm, was sentenced to 42 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay …

BOSTON – A Boston gang associate pleaded guilty yesterday to his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy. Renardo Williams, 44, of South Boston, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy …

Fort Myers, Florida – Leslie Samuel Spencer (49, Port Charlotte) has pleaded guilty to attempted distribution of methamphetamine and MDMA (commonly referred to as “Molly”). He faces a maximum penalty …

Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Christopher A. Defilippis (43, Brandon) to life imprisonment for distributing fentanyl resulting in death and possessing with the intent …

A woman who distributed crack cocaine with her father was sentenced September 3, 2021, to eight months in federal prison. Lekeya Shantay Gillenwater, age 29, from Dubuque, Iowa, received the …

A man who distributed heroin that resulted in an overdose was sentenced September 3, 2021 to more than three years in federal prison. Diondray Louis Wilson, age 34, from Cedar …

OAKLAND – Adalberto Borja Guardado pleaded guilty yesterday in Oakland federal court to enticement and coercion of a minor, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Homeland Security …

Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that HERODE CHANCY, who at the time of the offense was employed as a manager …

            Montgomery, Ala. –    On Tuesday, September 7, 2021, Jamie Josuhnta Ryans, 27, from Montgomery, Alabama, pleaded guilty to robbing four banks during a two-month period in 2019, announced …

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Brittney Nicole Schmidt, 28, entered a guilty plea to Involuntary Manslaughter in Indian Country, …