Grand Jury indicts local business owner for tax evasion
ST. LOUIS – A federal grand jury indicted Jeffrey M. Bauza on November 17, 2021 with numerous counts of willful failure to collect or pay taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. …
Federal Inmate Sentenced To 12 Months’ Imprisonment For Smuggling Suboxone Into Prison
WILLIAMSPORT – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Tyrone Wayne Meachem, age 40, was sentenced on November 17, 2021, to 12 months’ imprisonment by United…
Florida Counseling Center Owner And Provider Sentenced To Federal Prison For Medicaid Fraud, Conspiracy, False Statements, And Identity Theft
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida announced the sentencings of Stephanie Lynn Fleming, 43, and Helen Elizabeth Storey, 39, both of Waldorf,…
Loretto Woman Indicted In Embezzlement Scheme From Nashville Business
NASHVILLE – A federal indictment unsealed yesterday charges a Loretto, Tennessee woman with three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, related to an embezzlement scheme which exceeded…
New Hampshire Man Sentenced To 12 Months And One Day Imprisonment For Conspiring To Defraud The IRS
WILLIAMSPORT – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Eric Judkins, age 46, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in…
Reptile Dealer Pleads Guilty to Illegally Trafficking Vipers, Gun Charges
VALDOSTA, Ga. – A Florida reptile dealer pleaded guilty to shipping venomous snakes and turtles from his residence in Valdosta as part of “Operation Middleman,” a multi-agency investigation focusing on the trafficking of…
Federal Inmate Sentenced To 51 Months’ Imprisonment For Assault With A Dangerous Weapon
WILLIAMSPORT – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that David Brian Olson, age 42, originally from Saint Paul, Minnesota, was sentenced on November 5, 2021, to…
Justice Department Announces $139 Million for Law Enforcement Hiring to Advance Community Policing
BOISE – The Department of Justice today announced more than $139 million in grant funding through the department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The awards…
Justice Department Announces $139 Million for Law Enforcement Hiring to Advance Community Policing
PHOENIX, Ariz. – The Department of Justice today announced more than $139 million in grant funding through the department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The…
Justice Department Announces $139 Million for Law Enforcement Hiring to Advance Community Policing
LITTLE ROCK—The Department of Justice today announced more than $139 million in grant funding through the department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP).…
Officials Celebrate Five-Year Anniversary of Program that Gives Veterans a Second Chance
NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – November 18, 2021 SAN DIEGO – Federal judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, court personnel and veterans’ advocates gathered in U.S. District Court today to celebrate the five-year anniversary of…
Man from Albuquerque sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for armed robbery of medical supplies
ALBUQERQUE, N.M. – Joseph Matney, 41, of Albuquerque, was sentenced in federal court on Nov. 16 to 18 years in prison for armed robbery of a pharmacy, theft of medical products and…
Chisago County Felon Sentenced to 175 Months in Prison for Illegal Possession of a Firearm, Methamphetamine Trafficking
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Chisago County man was sentenced today to 175 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon and…
Texas Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion
ST. PAUL, Minn. – A Texas doctor was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay $857,127.24 in restitution for failing to pay income taxes for 10 years. According to…
Convicted Felon Sentenced for Illegally Possessing a Firearm
LAFAYETTE, La. – Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Austin Hack, 24, of Lafayette, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Michael J. Juneau to 26 months…
Breaux Bridge Woman Sentenced for Defrauding Her Employer Out of Over $300,000
LAFAYETTE, La. – Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Tracie Sonnier, 51, of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Michael J. Juneau to…
Nashotah man sentenced for attacking U.S. Service Member
Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on November 18, 2021, Ian Alan Olson of Nashotah, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 14 months in prison,…
U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca Announces a $500,000 Grant Awarded to the City of Jackson Police Department for Additional Police Officers
Jackson, Miss. – U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca announced today that the City of Jackson Police Department (JPD) received an award totaling $504,310 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented…
Man Sentenced for Methamphetamine and Fentanyl Distribution in Magic Valley
BOISE – Luis Leyva Verduzco was sentenced to 82 months in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. According to court records, beginning in early 2020, law enforcement…
Human Smugglers Plead Guilty to Transporting and Harboring Over 100 Illegal Aliens
TUCSON, Ariz. – Amalia Gonzalez-Lara, 43, of Phoenix, pleaded guilty in federal court today in connection with her role as the coordinator of a human smuggling operation in Avondale, Arizona. During a…
