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First- illegal entry into the United States is a crime—as it should be. Persons who violate the law of our nation are subject to prosecution.

We have an historic opportunity to—finally—fix an immigration system that has been broken for decades.

the elites and Washington insiders have prioritized the interests of certain corporate interests and activist groups over what is best for the American people.

de facto open borders

As a result, tens of thousands of vulnerable children made the dangerous journey North—with terrible humanitarian consequences.

The open borders, pro-amnesty crowd encouraged that—and they have the gall to attack those of us who want to end this lawlessness and the dangers these children face.

It didn’t even have to be their child—it could be anyone. You can imagine the horrible abuses that resulted.

efforts to end illegal immigration have been blocked at every turn.

Any law enforcement policies are attacked by open borders radicals and well-paid lobbyists.

Every time something is proposed that would end illegal immigration, it gets blocked.

If it works, it gets blocked.

The question is whether cities and states have the right under the Constitution to actively undermine the supreme law of the land

a question that has been settled repeatedly in the negative since 1819.

Our elites—who seem to think that they are also our betters—don’t like our immigration system

we are pursuing a “zero tolerance” prosecution policy at the border.

Having children does not give you immunity from arrest and prosecution.

It should be noted the perils to which these parents subject their children.

Hundreds of aliens die every year trying to make it to the border to illegally enter this country.

In many cases, children are trafficked, abused, or recruited by criminal gangs.

No one should subject their child to this treacherous journey—and yet the open borders lobby encourages it every day.

Stop crossing the border illegally with your children.

We either have open borders or we have laws.

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Oswego Man Pleads Guilty to Distribution and Possession of Child Pornography

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Richard Alvarado, age 27, of Oswego, New York, pled guilty today to one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.

The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and New York State Police (NYSP) Superintendent Kevin P. Bruen.

Alvarado, who remains detained pending his sentencing scheduled for January 19, 2021 before United States District Judge David N. Hurd in Utica, New York, faces at least 5 years and up to 40 years in prison. The Court will also impose a term of supervised release of between 5 years and life. A defendant’s sentence is imposed by a judge based on the statute the defendant is charged with violating, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, and other factors. Alvarado will also be required to register as a sex offender.

As part of his guilty plea, Alvarado admitted that he actively traded child pornography images and videos using a social media messaging application on his phone, and that on February 29, 2020 he distributed videos of child pornography through the application, including video files depicting sexual conduct with children between 5 and 9 years old. Alvarado further admitted that on June 22, 2020, he knowingly possessed numerous image and video files depicting child pornography on his phone.

This case was investigated by the FBI Syracuse Mid-State Child Exploitation Task Force, comprised of FBI Special Agents and Investigators of the New York State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) and Computer Crimes Unit (CCU). The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Geoffrey J. L. Brown as a part of Project Safe Childhood.

Launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice, Project Safe Childhood is led by United States Attorney’s offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS). Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/oswego-man-pleads-guilty-distribution-and-possession-child-pornography

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he “neutralization and disruption of criminal groups and their operations cannot depend on limits created by borders or national identities.”

our commitment to rescuing missing children does not stop at the border

The United States immensely values the cooperation and collaboration from both Mexico and Canada in this critical area.

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U.S. Attorney’s Office

Western District of Pennsylvania

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Clearfield County Man Indicted on Child Sexual Exploitation Charges

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – A resident of West Decatur, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of production and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.

The 4-count Indictment, returned on Sept. 14 and unsealed today, named Jon Osewalt, 28, as the sole defendant.

According to the Indictment presented to the court, from on or about Feb. 24, 2020 to on or about Mar. 4, 2020, and from on or about Apr. 14, 2020 to on or about June 26, 2020, Osewalt produced images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct using materials that were shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce. Further on or about June 27, 2020, and on or about December 1, 2020, Osewalt possessed images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, which were produced using prepubescent minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The images were produced using materials that were shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.

The law provides for a maximum sentence of 80 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed would be based upon the seriousness of the offenses and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant.

Assistant United States Attorney Maureen Sheehan-Balchon is prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.

The Department of Homeland Security Investigations and Pennsylvania State Police conducted the investigation leading to the Indictment in this case. This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

An indictment is an accusation. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/clearfield-county-man-indicted-child-sexual-exploitation-charges

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of Texas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Monday, September 20, 2021

Lubbock Dentist Pleads Guilty to Production of Child Pornography

A Lubbock dentist pleaded guilty in federal court today to one count of production of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.

Jason Paul White, 42, was charged via criminal complaint in January and indicted the following month. In August, prosecutors filed a superseding indictment against him alleging additional child pornography and enticement crimes involving seven victims over the course of 15 years. Mr. White pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant, Jr.

According to plea papers, Mr. White admitted that in December 2009, he coerced a 17-year-old boy into engaging in sexually-explicit conduct in order to produce a video of that conduct. Over the next 11 months, Mr. White produced seven more sexually-explicit videos of the same child, which he uploaded to a Dropbox internet storage account.

Law enforcement discovered the Dropbox account in January 2021, during a search of Mr. White's business and residence. The child later identified himself in the videos. Other victims came forward as well.

Mr. White eventually admitted to producing sexually-explicit videos and enticing into sexual activity seven additional teenage boys, including one child not accounted for in the superseding indictment.

The children, who were as young as 13 at the time of the crime, told investigators that Mr. White used the ruse of running a pornography film business to lure them into sexual activity.

As a result of his plea, White faces a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum of 30 years in federal prison. He will also be required to forfeit his interest in his home in Lubbock and a 966-acre ranch in Garza County, where he committed his crimes. White will remain in custody pending his sentencing, which has not yet been set.

The Lubbock Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the High Technology Investigative Unit within the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) investigated the case. Assistant United States Attorney Callie Woolam and CEOS Trial Attorney Austin Berry are prosecuting the case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/lubbock-dentist-pleads-guilty-production-child-pornography

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of New Mexico

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Albuquerque man sentenced to five years in prison for assault in Indian Country

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Patrick Duran, 32, of Albuquerque and formerly of Dulce, New Mexico, was sentenced on Sept. 20 in federal court to five years in prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country.

Duran, a non-Indian, pleaded guilty on Aug. 26, 2020. In his plea agreement, Duran admitted that on Sept. 28, 2014, he assaulted John Doe, an Indian child, by acting roughly with him and caused Doe to suffer serious bodily injury including internal head injuries, seizures and hospitalization. The incident took place on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.

Upon his release from prison, Duran will be subject to three years of supervised release.

The Farmington Resident Agency of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office and the Jicarilla Apache Police Department investigated this case. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kyle Nayback and Nicholas Marshall prosecuted the case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/albuquerque-man-sentenced-five-years-prison-assault-indian-country

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of Arizona

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Chinle Man Sentenced to Sixteen Years for Sexual Abuse of a Minor

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Elbert Leonard Cly, 45, of Chinle, Ariz., was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 16 years in prison for sexual abuse of a minor. The sentence was ordered to be served consecutive to a 15-year sentence that Cly is currently serving in the Texas Department of Corrections for sexually abusing another minor. Cly previously pleaded guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child.

Between 2008 and 2010, Cly sexually abused the victim while living with the victim’s family on the Navajo Nation. Cly is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. Years later, the victim came forward after Cly was convicted for sexually abusing another child in Texas. Federal authorities commenced an investigation into the allegations, took Cly into federal custody, and transported him to Arizona to face these charges. After Cly finishes serving his state and federal prison terms, he will be placed on supervised release for the rest of his life.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted the investigation in this case. William G. Voit, Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Arizona, Phoenix, handled the prosecution.

CASE NUMBER: CR 18-08314-GMS

RELEASE NUMBER: 2021-062_Cly

https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/chinle-man-sentenced-sixteen-years-sexual-abuse-minor

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Western District of Washington

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Repeat offender pleads guilty to drug, gun, and child pornography crimes

Disclosure from 13-year-old victim leads to arrest

Seattle – A 29-year-old Seattle-area resident pleaded guilty today to four federal felonies that carry a mandatory minimum 10-year prison term, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. Steve Godina Ochoa was arrested in February 2020, after a 13-year-old runaway disclosed to counselors that Godina Ochoa repeatedly sexually assaulted her. When sentenced by U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour on January 11, 2022. Godina Ochoa faces a mandatory minimum term of ten years in prison and up to life in prison.

According to the plea agreement, in November 2019, the Bellevue Police Department Sexual Assault Unit began investigating Godina Ochoa after disclosures from a young victim. When Godina Ochoa and his vehicles were located, law enforcement seized quantities of methamphetamine and heroin and three firearms. Two of the firearms had been reported stolen – one from Federal Way and the other from Snohomish County. Godina Ochoa had more than $4,500 cash in the car – the proceeds from his drug dealing. Godina Ochoa was prohibited from possessing firearms due to prior convictions for arson and unlawful possession of a firearm.

When law enforcement seized and analyzed Godina Ochoa’s electronic devices they found images of the sexual assault on the young victim. The images constitute child pornography.

Godina Ochoa faces up to 20 years in prison for possession of child pornography. Possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute is punishable by a mandatory minimum 5 years in prison and up to 40 years in prison. Possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime is punishable by a mandatory 5-year prison term consecutive to any other sentence imposed in the case. Unlawful possession of a firearm is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Under the terms of the plea agreement, both prosecutors and defense attorneys will recommend the mandatory minimum 10-year prison term. Judge Coughenour will determine the appropriate sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

The case was investigated by the Bellevue Police Department.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Cecelia Gregson.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/repeat-offender-pleads-guilty-drug-gun-and-child-pornography-crimes

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Southern District of West Virginia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Fayette County Man Pleads Guilty to Sex Offense Against a Minor

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Fayette County man pleaded guilty today to attempted enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. Christopher Lee Foster, 36, of Oak Hill, was charged via indictment in June 2021.

According to the plea agreement, Foster admitted that in early March 2021 he initiated contact with a person via a messaging application. Believing this person to be a 13-year-old girl from New Jersey, Foster engaged in conversations over the next two months wherein he told the minor he wanted to meet her to engage in sexual activity. After learning that the girl was sexually inexperienced, Foster sent her pictures of his penis as well as numerous images and videos of pornography to teach her about sex. He also repeatedly pressured the minor to send him sexually explicit photographs of herself, even offering to pay her for such images.

Foster further admitted that in approximately 2015 and 2016 he produced (or caused the production of) sexually explicit images of a different minor.

If the plea agreement is accepted by the Court, Foster will be sentenced to between 235 months (19 years, 7 months) and 292 months (24 years, 4 months) in prison when he is sentenced on January 5, 2022. He will also be required to register as a sex offender.

Acting United States Attorney Lisa G. Johnston made the announcement and commended the investigative work of the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber presided over the hearing. Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Rada Herrald is handling the prosecution.

This case was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative of the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute those who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

A copy of this press release is located on the website of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia. Related court documents and information can be found on PACER by searching for Case No. 2:21-cr-00095.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdwv/pr/fayette-county-man-pleads-guilty-sex-offense-against-minor

Clearfield County Man Indicted on Child Sexual Exploitation Charges

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/clearfield-county-man-indicted-child-sexual-exploitation-charges

Lubbock Dentist Pleads Guilty to Production of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/lubbock-dentist-pleads-guilty-production-child-pornography

Chinle Man Sentenced to Sixteen Years for Sexual Abuse of a Minor

https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/chinle-man-sentenced-sixteen-years-sexual-abuse-minor

Repeat offender pleads guilty to drug, gun, and child pornography crimes

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/repeat-offender-pleads-guilty-drug-gun-and-child-pornography-crimes

Fayette County Man Pleads Guilty to Sex Offense Against a Minor

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdwv/pr/fayette-county-man-pleads-guilty-sex-offense-against-minor

Oswego Man Pleads Guilty to Distribution and Possession of Child Pornography

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U.S. Attorney’s Office

Central District of California

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Deportation Officer Found Guilty of ‘Structuring’ for Hiding Assets

LOS ANGELES – A deportation officer with the Department of Homeland Security was found guilty today by a jury of “structuring” charges for making cash withdrawals and deposits totaling nearly $100,000, which were designed to circumvent federal reporting requirements and to conceal assets from his then-wife and the state court during divorce proceedings.

Vardan Keshishyan, 49, of Glendale, was found guilty of two counts of structuring of currency transactions to evade reporting requirements.

According to evidence presented at his three-day trial, shortly after his then-wife filed for divorce, Keshishyan began structuring nearly $100,000 out of his bank accounts to deceive the court into believing he only had $1,000 in assets that could be distributed during the divorce.

In January 2015, Keshishyan deposited approximately $96,000 from the sale of the home he shared with his then-wife into a bank account he solely owned and controlled. He then withdrew $99,400 from his bank accounts by making 11 cash withdrawals of approximately $9,000 – each withdrawal just shy of the bank’s mandatory reporting requirements for cash transactions above $10,000.

During one attempted withdrawal, a bank manager warned Keshishyan that it was a crime to break up a cash transaction greater than $10,000 into smaller amounts to evade the bank’s reporting requirements mandated by federal law. After the manager informed Keshishyan that the bank planned to file a report to comply with federal law, he cancelled the transaction. He then continued his pattern of structured transactions elsewhere to avoid the filing of any report required under federal law.

Once he had drained his bank accounts, according to evidence at trial, Keshishyan lied under oath to the court at a June 2015 hearing in his divorce case, falsely telling the court he had lost $95,000 of the family home sale proceeds, in part, through a bad investment. Upon learning that Keshishyan had withdrawn the funds in cash progressively over time, the court warned him that his pattern of cash withdrawals was “not permitted.”

Despite these admonishments from the court and the bank manager’s warning about the illegality of structuring, Keshishyan continued to structure to sneak the money back into his accounts. Once he and his then-wife settled on the terms of the divorce and the judgment issued, he structured $99,000 back into his bank accounts. In 2016 and 2017, he visited multiple banks, sometimes just minutes apart, to make 11 cash deposits of $9,000 each.

To conceal his pattern of cash transactions just shy of the $10,000 reporting requirement, he traveled to 11 bank branches throughout Los Angeles County to make the cash transactions and tried to further conceal his conduct through the use of multiple accounts at multiple banks.

United States District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez has scheduled a January 7, 2022 sentencing hearing, at which time Keshishyan will face a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.

The United States Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General investigated this matter.

Assistant United States Attorneys Lindsey Greer Dotson and Thomas F. Rybarczyk of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section are prosecuting this case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/deportation-officer-found-guilty-structuring-hiding-assets

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of Massachusetts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Former Fall River Mayor Sentenced to Six Years in Federal Prison

BOSTON – Jasiel F. Correia II, the former Mayor of Fall River, Mass., was sentenced today in connection with a scheme to defraud investors and extorting and conspiring to extort marijuana vendors for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Correia, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Senior Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to six years in prison and three years of supervised release. The government recommended 11 years in prison. The judge reserved judgement on restitution and forfeiture for a later date.

On May 14, 2021, Correia was convicted by a federal jury of nine counts of wire fraud, four counts of filing false tax returns, four counts of extortion conspiracy and four counts of extortion. Judge Woodlock dismissed six counts of wire fraud and two counts of filing false tax returns, for which the jury convicted Correia.

In October 2018, Correia was indicted on charges of wire fraud and filing false tax returns. He was subsequently charged in a superseding indictment in September 2019 with, among other crimes, extortion conspiracy and extortion.

“Jasiel Correia’s conscious decision to fleece investors, extort hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, and cheat on his taxes has now cost him his freedom. He has proven to be a pervasive liar who has shown absolutely no remorse or empathy for his victims, and today he has been held accountable. Sadly, his actions have further eroded the public’s trust in government, and deeply hurt the citizens of Fall River,” said Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division. “Let his sentence serve as a stark reminder that if you commit crimes, your status as an elected official will not protect you. The FBI is committed to rooting out public corruption and holding officials like him accountable.”

“As the Mayor of Fall River, Jasiel Correia held the public’s trust in his hands and was positioned to serve those individuals that elected him. Instead, he squandered that opportunity and was exposed as a corrupt politician,” said Joleen D. Simpson, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Division, Boston Field Office. “It is a shame that an individual with such a bright future decided to misuse his elected office for personal gain. Today’s sentencing sends a clear message that corrupt public officials will pay dearly for the choices they make.”

In 2012, Correia founded SnoOwl, an app designed to connect local businesses with their target consumer market. Seven individuals invested a total of approximately $360,000 in SnoOwl. Correia used approximately $230,000 – 64% of the money invested – to fund his own lavish lifestyle, burgeoning political career and other business ventures. Specifically, Correia used the investment funds to purchase tens of thousands of dollars of luxury items, including a Mercedes, jewelry and designer clothing; to pay for personal travel and entertainment, including tens of thousands of dollars on airfare, hotels, restaurants, casinos and adult entertainment; to pay down personal student loan debt; to fund his political campaign; and to make charitable donations in his own name.

To conceal his theft of funds from investors, Correia refused to provide the company’s financial records and gave false positive updates on SnoOwl’s status. Additionally, in May 2017, Correia instructed an accountant to file amended 2013 and 2014 personal tax returns in an effort to conceal his fraudulent activity from the IRS.

After taking office as Fall River Mayor in January 2016, Correia agreed to issue non-opposition letters to marijuana vendors in return for cash bribes and other payments. Under Massachusetts law, non-opposition letters from the head of local government are required in order to obtain a license to operate a marijuana business. Correia, as Mayor, was solely responsible for approving all non-opposition letters in Fall River. In addition, applicants seeking marijuana licenses are required to enter into host community agreements, between the marijuana company and the local government, stating that the company will give up to 3% of its gross sales to the local government.

Four marijuana vendors agreed to pay bribes ranging from over $75,000 up to $250,000 in cash, campaign contributions and mortgage discharges to Correia and his co-conspirators in return for non-opposition letters and host community agreements.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/former-fall-river-mayor-sentenced-six-years-federal-prison

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Southern District of Georgia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Former federal probation officer pleads guilty to false statements regarding performance of supervisory duties

AUGUSTA, GA: A former U.S. Probation Officer for the Southern District of Georgia admitted he lied about performing his supervisory duties.

Enoch Eller Jr., 47, of Augusta, pled guilty to one count of False Statements as charged by an Information, said David H. Estes, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. The charge carries a statutory maximum sentence of five years in prison, along with substantial financial penalties and a period of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.

“The effectiveness of court-ordered services depends on rock-solid integrity from all employees,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Estes. “While the dishonesty of one officer is troubling, it should not negatively reflect on the exceptional service of the Southern District’s probation officers.”

As charged in the information, from about March 2020 to June 2021, Eller falsely claimed that he performed drug testing and conducted home visits for certain individuals under his supervision when he had not done so.

The case was investigated by the FBI, and prosecuted for the United States by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdga/pr/former-federal-probation-officer-pleads-guilty-false-statements-regarding-performance

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Southern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Leader Of Latin Kings Set Sentenced To 19 Years In Prison

Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CARMELO VELEZ, a/k/a “Jugg,” was sentenced today to 19 years in prison in connection with his participation in the Black Mob set of the Latin Kings and their distribution of narcotics, including heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine. VELEZ pled guilty on May 25, 2021, before U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni, who imposed today’s sentence.

U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said: “Carmelo Velez was the leader of a violent gang who himself participated in acts of extreme violence. His wanton disregard for his victims has now earned him a lengthy prison term.”

According to public filings and statements made in court:

The Black Mob is a New York-based set, or “tribe,” of the nationwide Latin Kings gang. In order to enrich the enterprise, protect and expand its criminal operations, enforce discipline among its members, and retaliate against members of rival gangs, members and associates of the Black Mob committed, conspired, attempted, and threatened to commit acts of violence; distributed and possessed with intent to distribute narcotics, including heroin, fentanyl, and crack; committed robberies; and obtained, possessed, and used firearms.

The Black Mob’s leadership structure resembles the traditional leadership structure of other Latin King tribes. Leaders in the Black Mob are referred to as “Crowns,” with the respective Crowns ranked as “First Crown,” “Second Crown,” etc. VELEZ served as the First Crown of the Black Mob since in or around 2012 and, in that capacity, oversaw the Black Mob’s day-to-day operations and also ordered and participated in acts of violence and narcotics trafficking.

In December 2019 and April 2021, VELEZ was charged along with several other members and associates of the Black Mob, including Angel Lopez, a/k/a “SB,” and Christopher Rodriguez, a/k/a “Taz,” with racketeering offenses, narcotics conspiracy, and firearms offenses. Lopez and Rodriguez, both of whom also held leadership roles within the Black Mob, previously pled guilty and were sentenced to 240 months in prison and 210 months in prison, respectively.

VELEZ pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute narcotics. In connection with his guilty plea, VELEZ further stipulated to his involvement in multiple acts of violence: a June 2017 slashing of a rival gang member, an October 2018 home invasion that resulted in the slashing and assault of two rival gang members, and a gunpoint robbery of a drug dealer in or around September 2019.

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In addition to the prison term, VELEZ, 32, of Newburgh, New York, was sentenced to five years of supervised release.

Ms. Strauss praised the outstanding investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York City Police Department.

This effort is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) operation. OCDETF identifies, disrupts, and dismantles the highest-level criminal organizations that threaten the United States using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach. Additional information about the OCDETF Program can be found at https://www.justice.gov/OCDETF.

This case is being handled by the Office’s Narcotics Unit. Assistant United States Attorneys Adam Hobson, Elinor Tarlow, and David Robles are in charge of the prosecution.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/leader-latin-kings-set-sentenced-19-years-prison

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of Alabama

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Former Chick-fil-A Employee Pleads Guilty for Scheme to Steal Funds

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A former Chick-fil-A employee pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to defraud his former employer and committing bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Patrick M. Davis.

Larry James Black, Jr., 37, of Center Point, the former Director of Hospitality at Chick-fil-A Five Points, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud before U.S. District Judge Madeline H. Haikala. Black’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for January 20, 2022. Black’s co-defendant, Joshua Daniel Powell, 40, of Moody, a former manager at the same location, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in June. Powell’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for October 20, 2021.

According to the plea agreement, between April 2018 and January 2018, Black and Powell devised and implemented a scheme to divert $492,000 in customer payments to bank accounts under their control. Black and Powell used these accounts to receive customer credit card payments intended for Chick-fil-A Five Points. Many of these payments were for catering orders from large customers. To effectuate the scheme, Black and Powell used fraudulent email and digital payment accounts that imitated the look of official Chick-fil-A accounts. In addition to these fraudulent “Chick-fil-A” accounts, Black and Powell also utilized a personal email account belonging to Powell to intercept virtual credit card payments that were made on behalf of an additional customer. Black used the fraud proceeds to support his lifestyle, including the purchase of high-end luxury vehicles and vacations.

In addition to conspiring to defraud Chick-Fil-A Five Points, Black acknowledged in the plea agreement that he provided a false social security number to various financial institutions and executed a scheme to defraud his mortgage lender. In January 2020, Black applied for a mortgage loan. In connection with his loan application, Black forged payroll records and made misrepresentations regarding his income from the Chick-fil-A franchise. As a result of these material misrepresentations, Black was able to secure a mortgage in the amount of $159,948.00 to finance the purchase of a home in Center Point, Alabama.

Black and Powell face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Black also faces a maximum of 30 years in prison for bank fraud.

The U.S. Secret Service Cyber Fraud Task Force investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward J. Canter prosecuted the case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/former-chick-fil-employee-pleads-guilty-scheme-steal-funds

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Former State Employee Pleads Guilty to Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Defendant Abused Access to State Systems and Obtained Over $300,000

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Tramaine Pope, age 33, of the Bronx, New York, pled guilty today to federal program theft, and admitted to abusing her position as a New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) employee to obtain $314,168 by submitting and approving 20 false unemployment insurance applications. The funds stolen by Pope included benefits from federal programs intended to help out-of-work New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon; Jonathan Mellone, Special Agent in Charge, New York Region, U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General (USDOL-OIG); Joshua McCallister, Acting Inspector in Charge of the Boston Division of the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS); Matthew Scarpino, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); and NYSDOL Commissioner Roberta Reardon.

Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon stated: “Tramaine Pope violated the trust of her fellow New Yorkers during a global public health crisis that left so many without work. She was tasked with helping others at a time of substantial need, but instead exploited her position for personal gain. With our law enforcement partners, we will continue to investigate and prosecute those who abuse the public trust, and steal public funds, during this unprecedented pandemic.”

USDOL-OIG Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Mellone stated: “Tramaine Pope abused her position as a Senior Employment Security Clerk with the New York State Department of Labor to create and approve fraudulent unemployment insurance claims. Pope obtained over $300,000 from these fraudulent claims, a portion of which was earmarked for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to protect the integrity of unemployment insurance benefit programs.”

In pleading guilty, Pope admitted to receiving lists of names and personal identifying information from another individual. Pope then used her access to NYSDOL systems to submit and approve fraudulent unemployment insurance claims using the names and other information she received.

Pope agreed to pay restitution in the amount of $314,168 to the State of New York.

Pope faces up to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and a term of supervised release of up to 3 years when she is sentenced on January 21, 2022 by United States District Judge Mae A. D’Agostino. A defendant’s sentence is imposed by a judge based on the particular statute the defendant is charged with violating, the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other factors.

USPIS Acting Inspector in Charge Joshua McCallister stated: “The actions of Ms. Pope to use the trust given to her by the people of New York and her employer to abuse the system and steal from those who were most in need during the pandemic are unconscionable. This case is a great example of the collaborative effort of law enforcement to bring those to justice who commit criminal acts against the people of New York.”

HSI Acting Special Agent in Charge Matthew Scarpino stated: “HSI remains committed to working closely with our law enforcement partners to identify and prosecute those, like Pope, who have used the COVID pandemic to defraud not only the taxpayer but also those eligible recipients in need of legitimate COVID benefits.”

NYSDOL Commissioner Roberta Reardon stated: “There is no excuse for stealing from others, especially when a person in place of trust abuses their position to knowingly commit fraud. Let this serve as a reminder that if you break the law, you will be held accountable. I thank our partners in the U.S. Attorney’s Office and all levels of law enforcement for their commitment to working with us to fight Unemployment Insurance fraud.”

This case was investigated by USDOL-OIG, USPIS, HSI, and the NYSDOL Office of Special Investigations. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joshua R. Rosenthal and John T. Chisholm.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/former-state-employee-pleads-guilty-unemployment-insurance-fraud

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Eastern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Long Island MS-13 Gang Member Pleads Guilty to 2016 Murder in Brentwood

Defendant and Co-Conspirator Also Opened Fire at a Group Gathered Outside a House

Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Nelson Argueta-Quintanilla, a member of the Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside (Sailors) clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges relating to his participation in the murder of Oscar Acosta, the attempted murder of suspected rival gang members and a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana. The guilty plea was entered before United States Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco.

Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and Stuart Cameron, Acting Commissioner, Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD), announced the guilty plea.

“With today’s guilty plea, the defendant, a member of the notorious MS-13, admits to being an active participant in a brutal murder in which the victim was viciously stabbed with a machete after being beaten, bound and thrown in the trunk of a car. In addition, compounding his wanton disregard for human life, the defendant also admits to attempting to murder rival gang members

As set forth in prior court filings and the defendant’s statements during his guilty plea, Argueta-Quintanilla and other MS-13 members decided to kill Acosta in 2016 because they suspected that he was associating with the rival 18th Street gang. The Sailors clique leader assigned roles as to which members would take the lead in planning and carrying out the murder. On April 29, 2016, Argueta-Quintanilla and other MS-13 members encountered Acosta in a wooded area near an elementary school in Brentwood where he was lured under the guise of smoking marijuana. Argueta-Quintanilla and the other MS-13 members brutally beat Acosta with tree limbs, knocking him unconscious. Then they tied Acosta’s hands and feet, wrapped an article of clothing around his mouth, to prevent him from making noise and summoned other MS-13 members. The MS-13 members loaded Acosta into the trunk of a car and drove to a more secluded area in Brentwood near an abandoned psychiatric hospital. They took Acosta, who was still alive, out of the car and carried him into the woods where they stabbed and slashed him to death with a machete. The MS-13 members buried Acosta’s body in a shallow grave, which was discovered in September 2016.

In addition, on August 10, 2016, Argueta-Quintanilla and other MS-13 members attempted to kill suspected rival gang members in Brentwood. Argueta-Quintanilla and another MS-13 member, both of whom were armed with handguns, approached a house on Lukens Avenue where the suspected rival gang members were standing outside and fired numerous shots in their direction. No one was struck, but a stray bullet entered a neighbor’s house and struck the headboard of a bed in which the neighbor was sleeping. Argueta-Quintanilla also pleaded guilty to participating in a drug conspiracy, admitting that between April 2016 and October 2017, he and other members of the Sailors clique conspired to distribute cocaine and marijuana to raise money for the MS-13.

Today’s conviction is the latest in a series of federal prosecutions by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York targeting members of the MS-13, a violent, transnational criminal organization. The MS-13’s leadership is based in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, but the gang has thousands of members across the United States, comprised primarily of immigrants from Central America. With numerous branches, or “cliques,” the MS-13 is the most violent criminal organization on Long Island. Since 2003, hundreds of MS-13 members, including dozens of clique leaders, have been convicted on federal felony charges in the Eastern District of New York. A majority of those MS-13 members have been convicted on federal racketeering charges for participating in murders, attempted murders and assaults. Since 2010, this Office has obtained indictments charging MS-13 members with carrying out more than 60 murders in the Eastern District of New York and has convicted dozens of MS-13 leaders and members in connection with those murders.

The Defendant:

NELSON ARGUETA-QUINTANILLA (also known as “Mendigo”)

Age: 24

Brentwood, New York

E.D.N.Y. Docket No. 16-CR-403 (S-7)(JFB)

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/long-island-ms-13-gang-member-pleads-guilty-2016-murder-brentwood

Office of Public Affairs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Peruvian National Sentenced to Over 9 Years in Prison for Defrauding Thousands of Spanish-Speaking U.S. Immigrants

A Peruvian national was sentenced to serve 110 months in prison for operating a series of call centers in Peru that defrauded Spanish-speaking U.S. residents by falsely threatening them with arrest, deportation and other legal consequences.

Henrry Adrian Milla Campuzano, 37, from Lima, Peru, pleaded guilty for his role in conspiring to commit mail fraud and wire fraud through two Peruvian call centers that he owned and operated. The defendant, along with his co-conspirators, used false statements and threats to obtain money from Spanish-speaking individuals across the United States by falsely telling victims that they were required to accept and pay for English-language courses and other educational products and that failure to do so placed them in legal jeopardy. The defendant and his co-conspirators falsely threatened to have their victims arrested and deported in order to collect millions of dollars from victims in South Florida and across the United States. With today’s sentencing in Miami, five defendants have been sentenced to serve substantial terms of incarceration in this matter.

“The Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch will pursue and prosecute transnational criminals who defraud vulnerable U.S. consumers,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton of the Justice Department's Civil Division. “The defendants in this case defrauded immigrants by falsely promising free products to improve their English. In reality, the defendants were luring their victims into a trap of intimidation and fear, leaving them far worse off – with substantial financial losses and, often, emotional scars from these crimes. With today’s sentence, five defendants in this case have been brought to justice, demonstrating that those who prey upon U.S. consumers from abroad cannot do so with impunity.”

In pleading guilty, Milla admitted that he and his employees falsely claimed to be lawyers, court officials, federal agents and representatives of a so-called “minor crimes court,” which does not exist. The callers falsely threatened victims with court proceedings, negative marks on their credit reports, imprisonment and immigration consequences if they did not immediately pay for the purportedly delivered products and settlement fees.

Milla was the co-owner of the Latinos en Accion and Accion Latino call centers in Lima, Peru. From April 2011 until his arrest in July 2019, he and his co-conspirators called victims, as well as victims’ family members and friends, and fraudulently threatened them with legal consequences if they did not make payments for the purportedly delivered products and settlement fees for English language classes.

Milla was arrested in January 2020 by Peruvian authorities based on a U.S. extradition request. He and four co-defendants were extradited to the Southern District of Florida in October 2020. Those five defendants have now all pleaded guilty and received significant prison sentences from U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola Jr. In addition to Milla, Jerson Renteria was sentenced to 100 months in prison, and Fernan Huerta, Omar Cuzcano and Evelyng Milla were each sentenced to serve 90 months in prison.

Two additional defendants in the case – Carlos Espinoza Huerta and Josmell Espinoza Huerta – evaded arrest at the time of their co-defendants’ arrests. They were subsequently located in Peru and extradited to the United States on June 25, and are being detained at the Federal Detention Center in Miami. Their trial is scheduled to begin on Feb. 14, 2022, before Judge Scola.

The Consumer Protection Branch coordinates the Department’s Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force, working with United States Attorney’s Offices and law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute scams run by transnational criminal organizations, including mass mailing, telemarketing and tech support scams. For more information about the Consumer Protection Branch, visit its website at http://www.justice.gov/civil/consumer-protection-branch.

An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Note: A Spanish version of this press release is available here.

https://www.justice.gov/espanol/pr/ciudadano-peruano-sentenciado-m-s-de-9-os-en-prisi-n-por-defraudar-miles-de-inmigrantes

Department of Justice

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Southern District of Ohio

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Former Air Force contractor sentenced to prison for illegally taking 2,500 pages of classified information

DAYTON – A former contractor with the United States Air Force was sentenced in U.S. District Court to one year and one day in prison for illegally taking approximately 2,500 pages of classified documents.

Izaak Vincent Kemp, 36, of Fairborn, was charged on Jan. 25 by a Bill of Information. He pleaded guilty in federal court on Feb. 25.

According to court documents, Kemp was employed as a contractor at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) from July 2016 to May 2019, and later as a contractor at the U.S. Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). While working at AFRL and NASIC – both located on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Fairborn – Kemp had Top Secret security clearance.

Despite having training on various occasions on how to safeguard classified material, Kemp took 112 classified documents and retained them at his home.

Law enforcement discovered the more than 100 documents, which contained approximately 2,500 pages of material classified at the SECRET level, while executing a search warrant at Kemp’s home on May 25, 2019.

Vipal J. Patel, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; Mark J. Lesko, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division of the Department of Justice; J. William Rivers, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cincinnati Division; the Air Force Office of Special Investigations; and Fairborn Police Chief Terry Bennington announced the sentence imposed yesterday evening by Senior U.S. District Judge Walter H. Rice. Assistant United States Attorney Dominick S. Gerace and Trial Attorney Matthew J. McKenzie with the Department of Justice’s National Security Division are representing the United States in this case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/former-air-force-contractor-sentenced-prison-illegally-taking-2500-pages-classified

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of Idaho

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Pocatello Man Sentenced to 25 Years for Sexual Exploitation of a Child

POCATELLO – Andrew John Jemmett, 21, of Pocatello, was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for producing child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today. Senior U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Jemmett to serve the remainder of his life on supervised release, following his prison sentence. Jemmett pleaded guilty to the charge on November 4, 2020.

According to court records, in January 2020, law enforcement in Las Vegas, Nevada, arrested Jemmett for possession of child pornography. The arrest stemmed from Jemmett’s significant other finding child pornography on Jemmett’s phone.

A later investigation found that Jemmett produced that child pornography with an eight-year-old minor child. Jemmett sold the videos he created online on at least one occasion. Jemmett produced the videos in a public restroom in Pocatello. Jemmett admitted to producing the videos and sending them to another individual for money.

As a result of his conviction, Jemmett will be required to register as a sex offender.

Acting U.S. Attorney Gonzalez credited the cooperative efforts of Homeland Security Investigations in Idaho Falls, the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, and Pocatello Police Department, which led to charges.

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https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/three-men-indicted-federal-grand-jury-conspiracy-distribute-over-10-pounds-heroin

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ne/pr/california-man-sentenced-conspiracy-distribute-methamphetamine

https://www.justice.gov/usao-id/pr/felon-and-illegal-alien-sentenced-possessing-firearm

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdms/pr/california-man-sentenced-prison-money-laundering

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/man-now-facing-new-child-sex-trafficking-charges-pimping-minors-turned-over-federal Authorities And Is Due In Court Tomorrow

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/federal-and-state-authorities-charge-11-men-trading-child-pornography-through-use-peer

Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Programs

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U.S. Attorney’s Office

Middle District of Florida

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Melbourne Woman Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Producing Child Sex Abuse Videos And Distributing Them Over The Internet

Orlando, Florida – U.S. District Judge Wendy W. Berger has sentenced Lisa Vaughn (23, Melbourne) to 15 years in federal prison for producing and distributing videos depicting the sexual abuse of a child. Vaughn was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release and register as a sex offender.

Vaughn had pleaded guilty on June 21, 2021.

According to court documents, on or about May 29, 2016, Person One contacted Vaughn through an online social media application. At the time, Vaughn was 18 years old and resided in Melbourne, Florida. Person One portrayed himself as a 19-year-old male living in Florida named “David Brown.” The two began, what Vaughn believed to be, an online romance that continued through 2017. Person One, in reality, was approximately 41 years old and lived in Oregon. Throughout the conversations between Person One and Vaughn, Person One requested that Vaughn engage in sexual acts with a particular minor child (the “Child”) and Vaughn agreed. In total, Vaughn produced and distributed to Person One approximately 8 videos and 5 images of child sexual abuse material depicting Vaughn as she sexually abused the pre-teen Child.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer M. Harrington.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/melbourne-woman-sentenced-15-years-federal-prison-producing-child-sex-abuse-videos-and

Some may view drug crimes as victimless.

Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost a brother, sister, parent or child to fentanyl.

Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost a brother, sister, parent or child to fentanyl.

Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost a brother, sister, parent or child to fentanyl.

Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost a brother, sister, parent or child to fentanyl.

Opioid overdose deaths, fueled by synthetic fentanyl, hit record levels in 2020

Today marks the beginning of the 30 days until the critical and life-saving authority placing fentanyl-related substances in Schedule I expires– October 22nd

H.R.2630 - Extending Temporary Emergency Scheduling of Fentanyl Analogues Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2630

we’re only 30 days away from losing this essential authority and the Administration still hasn’t indicated how it intends to solve this problem.

it doesn’t include measures to protect vulnerable communities, prevent more drug overdose victims, and proactively deter and punish drug traffickers, it is not up to snuff.

it is not up to snuff

We simply can’t afford to let these deadly substances go unscheduled.

according to Customs and Border Patrol, so far this year, enough fentanyl and its analogues have been seized to kill the entire population of the United States 10 times over.

Nobody wants more overdose deaths in their home states.

Congress can ensure that we put people over profits and communities over cartels by permanently scheduling fentanyl related substances.

we’ve lost too many people to overdose deaths

we’ve lost too many people to addiction

we’ve lost too many people to drug-related crime

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of Oklahoma

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Defendant Convicted of the First Degree Murder of a Man on a Bicycle

A federal jury convicted a Tulsa man Tuesday of first-degree murder. Prosecutors contended that the defendant shot and killed the victim, who was riding a bicycle, in order to impress members of the Savage Boys street gang, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

Devon Blevins, 28, of Tulsa, was found guilty of first-degree murder in Indian Country and causing death by using and discharging a firearm during the commission of first degree murder. Count 3 of the indictment was dismissed.

Blevin’s codefendant, Jacob Bruce Banks, 21, was the driver of the car, and on Sept. 17, 2021, he pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to first degree murder in Indian Country. The two defendants are members of the Savage Boys street gang and did not know the victim.

On April 12, 2021, just after 8 pm, officers were notified of a shooting that occurred in the parking lot of the Waterstone Apartments near South Peoria Avenue. Officers discovered the victim, Maurice Burgess, on the ground near a bicycle with apparent gunshot wounds. No weapon was found on or near the victim.

Several witnesses stated that shortly after the shooting, they observed a red 4-door Nissan Altima depart from the parking lot and head toward 61st Street and South Peoria Avenue. Detectives reviewed surveillance footage from the area and observed a red Nissan Altima with distinct damage on the front passenger-side bumper. Surveillance video also showed the car trailing the victim, the victim falling from his bicycle, and a figure positioned in the car’s window.

Later, on April 17, 2021, a Tulsa police officer received information regarding the discharge of a firearm in public. During his investigation, the officer conducted a traffic stop on a red Nissan Altima after it failed to stop at a stop sign. As the officer approached the vehicle, he observed a rifle in the passenger seat of the vehicle and codefendant Jacob Banks in the driver’s seat. The officer then arrested Banks for possessing a deadly weapon and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Detectives requested the officer examine the damage to the car, and it was determined to be consistent with the damage observed on the car seen in video surveillance from April 12, 2021, when Mr. Burgess was killed.

Codefendant Banks testified in court that on the day of the crime, both men were armed. Blevins told him there was a silver vehicle following people and directed Banks to drive in the area to look for the silver vehicle. Instead, the defendants saw an African American male on a bicycle ahead of them closest to the driver’s side of the car. Banks stated that Blevins propped himself up, sitting on the ledge of an open front passenger window, and fired multiple times across the hood of the vehicle hitting the man. Banks quickly drove away from the scene.

In an April 20, 2021, interview with police, Blevins admitted he was responsible for the shooting but stated that the man on the bicycle had reached for his waist area, and Blevins thought he may have been reaching for a handgun. Blevins stated that he positioned himself on the car’s open window ledge then shot the victim twice. During the interview, he also told detectives that he recently joined the Savage Boys and that during the shooting he “didn’t want these guys thinking my loyalty wasn’t with them.” He said he wanted the shooting to “look good” so that Banks would give him the “okay” to be “admissioned in” to the gang. Blevins chose not to testify at trial.

During closing arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Heatherman, lead prosecutor in the case, called it a senseless murder caught on surveillance tape. He and Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Harder recounted the evidence offered at trial and contended that Blevins committed a murder to show his loyalty to the Savage Boys.

The prosecutors argued that Blevins was looking for trouble that day. They explained that as the victim rode his bicycle in the parking lot ahead of the Nissan, the defendant pulled himself halfway out of the window- taking a tactical position, switched off the American Heritage six shooter’s safety, pulled the hammer back, laid his elbows across the car to steady his aim, and shot the victim, striking him in the throat. He pulled the hammer back again and shot the victim a second time. He pulled the trigger a third time, but the revolver misfired. He then fled the scene with Banks and disposed of the weapon. They reminded the jury that these are not the actions of an individual who acted in self defense.

The jury returned guilty verdicts two hours later.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndok/pr/defendant-convicted-first-degree-murder-man-bicycle

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of New Mexico

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Syndicato de Nuevo Mexico gang member found guilty in cold case federal murder trial

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – On Sept. 16, a federal jury in Las Cruces, New Mexico, found Angel DeLeon, 43, of Mexico, guilty of murder. DeLeon will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.

According to court records, DeLeon, along with Joe Lawrence Gallegos, 52, and Edward Troup, 50, killed another inmate, identified as “FC,” in the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility (“SNMCF”) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico on March 26, 2001, by using a cord from a laundry bag to strangle him. Another inmate, identified in court records as “RG,” was also killed by strangulation at SNMCF on that same date. The killings were carried out on the orders of Billy “Wild Bill” Garcia, 66, of Albuquerque, acting in his capacity as a leader of the Syndicato de Nuevo Mexico (SNM) prison gang.

Garcia, Troup and Gallegos were found guilty on May 25, 2018. Garcia was sentenced to life in prison on June 11, 2019. Troup was sentenced to life in prison on Nov. 6, 2018. Gallegos was sentenced to life in prison on April 21, 2020.

DeLeon, a Mexican national, was arrested on October 4, 2019, after being extradited from Mexico to the United States for trial. DeLeon faces life in prison.

The SNM is an ultra-violent criminal organization whose members, prospects and associates engage in acts of violence and other criminal activities, including murder, attempted murder, kidnapping and conspiracy to manufacture and distribute narcotics. Members have admitted in court that the organization engages in racketeering activity.

The FBI, the New Mexico State Police, and the New Mexico Corrections Department investigated this case. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs provided substantial assistance in securing DeLeon’s arrest and extradition from Mexico. Assistant United States Attorneys from the Las Cruces branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico prosecuted the case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/syndicato-de-nuevo-mexico-gang-member-found-guilty-cold-case-federal-murder-trial

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/jicarilla-apache-man-sentenced-33-years-prison-murder-indian-country

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/sheep-springs-man-sentenced-15-years-federal-prison-murder-indian-country

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U.S. Attorney’s Office

Southern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Two Members Of The Mount Vernon Goonies Street Gang Sentenced To Federal Prison For The Murder Of 13-Year-Old Innocent Bystander

Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DAVID HARDY, a/k/a “Mooka,” was sentenced to 372 months in prison for the 2016 murder of Shamoya McKenzie and his participation in a 2012 shooting. In July 2021, codefendant MARQUIS COLLIER was sentenced to 324 months in prison for his participation in the McKenzie murder and the affairs of the Goonies gang. COLLIER and HARDY previously pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Nelson S. Román, who imposed COLLIER’s and HARDY’s sentences.

U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said: “Nothing can undo the senseless killing of Shamoya McKenzie, an innocent young woman, or the trauma experienced by her mother, who witnessed it. Justice requires that those responsible be held accountable, as Marquis Collier and now David Hardy have been. Rightly, both will spend decades in federal prison for their crimes.”

According to allegations in the Indictment and other documents filed in federal court, as well as statements made in public court proceedings:

Between 2007 and 2017, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, HARDY, COLLIER, JERMAINE HUGHLEY, and SINCERE SAVOY were members of a racketeering enterprise known as the “Goonies.” In order to fund the enterprise, protect and expand its interests, and promote its standing, members and associates of the Goonies committed, conspired, attempted, and threatened to commit acts of violence, including murder, attempted murder and robbery; they conspired to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute narcotics; and they obtained, possessed, and used firearms, including by brandishing and firing them.

The Goonies have been engaged in a long-standing and violent feud with several rival Mount Vernon street gangs, including, among others, the “Boss Playa Family,” the “Get Money Gangstas,” the “Gunnas,” and the “Much Better Gang,” among others. On December 31, 2016, HARDY, COLLIER, HUGHLEY, and SAVOY attempted to murder a rival gang member in broad daylight by firing multiple shots at him in the vicinity of Tecumseh Avenue and Third Street in Mount Vernon, New York. HARDY fired the shots, with COLLIER at his side. The rival gang member suffered gunshot wounds but survived. One of the bullets, however, missed the intended target and struck the head of 13-year-old Shamoya McKenzie, who was in the front passenger seat of a passing car, which was being driven by her mother. Shamoya McKenzie died as a result.

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HARDY, 26, pled guilty to one count of using a firearm in connection with the murder of Shamoya McKenzie in aid of racketeering and one count of using a firearm in connection with an assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering for committing a separate shooting in 2012 in furtherance of the Goonies. In addition to the prison term, Hardy was also sentenced to five years of supervised release.

COLLIER, 29, pled guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of discharging a firearm in connection with the murder of Shamoya McKenzie in aid of racketeering. In addition to the prison term, Collier was also sentenced to five years of supervised release.

HUGHLEY and SAVOY are awaiting sentencing.

HUGHLEY, 28, pled guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of discharging a firearm in connection with the murder of Shamoya McKenzie in aid of racketeering. Together, the crimes carry a maximum penalty of life in prison, and a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years in prison.

SAVOY, 24, pled guilty to one count of using a firearm in connection with the murder of Shamoya McKenzie in aid of racketeering, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, and a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison.

Ms. Strauss thanked the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office for their extraordinary cooperation and assistance with this case, and praised the outstanding investigative work of the Mount Vernon Police Department and the FBI’s Westchester County Safe Streets Task Force, which comprises agents and detectives from the FBI, Yonkers Police Department, Westchester County District Attorney’s Office, Westchester County Police Department, Peekskill Police Department, Mount Vernon Police Department, New York City Police Department, and U.S. Probation.

The case is being handled by the Office’s White Plains Division. Assistant United States Attorneys Sarah Krissoff and Anden Chow are in charge of the prosecution.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/two-members-mount-vernon-goonies-street-gang-sentenced-federal-prison-murder-13-year

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/central-coast-man-sentenced-15-years-federal-prison-receiving-and-sending-child Pornography, Some Involving Toddlers

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/woman-found-guilty-second-degree-murder-and-intentional-child-abuse-death-two-month-old infant

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/discord-user-pleads-guilty-distributing-child-pornography-involving-infants-and toddlers

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/duval-man-sentenced-80-years-producing-photographs-his-sexual-assault-infant-and Eighteen-Month-Old Child

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/fort-worth-man-sentenced-30-years-sexual-exploitation-infant

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/former-hatboro-pastor-sentenced-200-years-sexually-abusing-and-recording-abuse-infant and Young Girl

https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/bandon-educational-assistant-and-coach-sentenced-30-years-federal-prison-sexually-abusing an Infant

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/henderson-man-sentenced-nine-years-prison-receipt-and-possession-over-47000-images-and Videos Of Child Pornography Including Infants And Toddlers

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/reno-man-sentenced-40-years-prison-sexually-exploiting-infant

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwi/pr/marshfield-man-sentenced-50-years-producing-child-pornography-involving-infant-and Toddler

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/peter-john-zayas-sentenced-15-years-conviction-child-abuse-resulting-great-bodily-harm Charge that Resulted in the Death of his Two-Month Infant

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/sophia-monique-zayas-sentenced-15-years-conviction-child-abuse-resulting-great-bodily harm Charge that Resulted in the Death of her Two-Month Infant

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/shelby-county-man-sentenced-life-plus-ten-years-prison-sexually-abusing-and-exploiting Infant, Toddler and Teens

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/pinellas-park-babysitter-sentenced-producing-child-pornography-infant

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/las-vegas-man-sentenced-over-five-years-prison-possession-over-15500-images-and-videos Of Child Pornography Including Infants And Toddlers

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/local-man-sent-prison-distributing-sexual-explicit-images-infants

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/reno-man-pleads-guilty-sexual-exploitation-infant-daughter

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/florida-man-sentenced-60-years-prison-using-infant-and-toddler-produce-child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/franklin-county-man-sentenced-40-years-imprisonment-production-child-pornography Involving An Infant And Toddler

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/middleburg-man-pleads-guilty-using-infant-and-toddler-produce-child-pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/anna-man-pleads-guilty-creating-pornography-rape-infant-child-10-teens

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdar/pr/fort-smith-woman-sentenced-60-years-federal-prison-sexual-exploitation-two-infants

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdar/pr/fort-smith-man-sentenced-60-years-federal-prison-sexual-exploitation-two-infants

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/reno-man-indicted-sexual-exploitation-infant-and-distribution-child-pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/colorado-man-sentenced-production-child-pornography-including-sexual-exploitation-infant

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/ohio-seminary-student-pleads-guilty-admits-seeking-sex-infants-tijuana

https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/colorado-woman-and-man-arrested-and-charged-production-and-transportation-child Pornography Involving an Infant

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/philadelphia-woman-sentenced-25-years-exploiting-six-year-old-and-infant

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/former-maryland-licensed-counselor-sentenced-35-years-prison-conspiring-sexually-exploit An Infant

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/clearwater-man-sentenced-receipt-and-distribution-infant-and-toddler-child-pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdla/pr/lafayette-man-pleads-guilty-possession-child-pornography-containing-images-infants

Child predators are using more cunning and persuasive techniques and technologies to lure and exploit innocent children

As a community, we must educate ourselves and others to raise awareness on how to best protect our children against these threats

The goal of Project Safe Childhood is to reduce the sexual exploitation of children.

The goal of Project Safe Childhood is to reduce the sexual exploitation of children.

Children of all ages are victimized through child pornography, from as young as infants and toddlers, to adolescents.

About half of the victims are younger than 12 years old.

The goal of Project Safe Childhood is to reduce the sexual exploitation of children.

The goal of Project Safe Childhood is to reduce the sexual exploitation of children.

The goal of Project Safe Childhood is to reduce the sexual exploitation of children.

The goal of Project Safe Childhood is to reduce the sexual exploitation of children.

The goal of Project Safe Childhood is to reduce the sexual exploitation of children.

The goal of Project Safe Childhood is to reduce the sexual exploitation of children.

The goal of Project Safe Childhood is to reduce the sexual exploitation of children.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-new-york-dea-investigator-convicted-enticing-minor-have-sex-and-child Pornography Charges

https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/2776774/christopher-p-maier/

Christopher P. Maier is the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict. Among his responsibilities are all special operations, irregular warfare, counterterrorism, and information operations policy issues and the oversight of special operations peculiar administrative matters, on behalf of the Secretary.

He previously led the Department of Defense's Defeat-ISIS Task Force from its inception until disestablishment, charged with policy and strategy development, international negotiations, oversight, authorities review, and national-level interagency implementation of the Department's role in the U.S. Government's campaign to achieve an enduring defeat of ISIS. In this role, he also directed the Secretary of Defense's leadership of the Defense Ministry components of the 80+ international members of the Defeat-ISIS Coalition.

From July 2015 to September 2017, Mr. Maier served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism. In this role, Mr. Maier led the Department's policies, plans, authorities and resources related to special operations and irregular warfare, with special emphasis on counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, unconventional warfare, information operations and sensitive special operations.

Before moving to the Department of Defense, Mr. Maier held a number of positions at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), including Senior Advisor to the Director, Chief of Strategic Assessments and Regional Planning, and Chief of Staff in the Directorate of Strategic Operational Planning.

From 2009 to 2013, Mr. Maier served on the National Security Council Staff as a director for counterterrorism. In addition to his government experience, Mr. Maier worked for over five years as a strategy and management consultant to a variety of commercial, government, and nonprofit organizations.

Originally from California, Mr. Maier earned degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is an officer in the Air National Guard.

The DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that victims and their guardians are generally

notified when they are first victimized in a case involving sexual abuse material.

However, we found

that when those images were found in subsequent investigations, the FBI did not consistently notify

these child victims and their guardians or advise them of their rights if their images were in more

than one investigation.

Instead, victims were only notified again when their images were considered

“actively traded” by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which was

originally understood by the FBI to mean when the abusive images have been seen in five or more

different cases.

We believe federal law and the Attorney General Guidelines dictate that victims are

to be notified in every case in which they are victimized.

By failing to notify victims or their

guardians of subsequent victimizations under this actively traded threshold,

an unknown number of

victims were potentially denied certain victim rights such as the preparation of a victim impact

statement,

, possible restitution,

and the opportunity to reconsider their notification preferences.

We also found that the FBI maintained an inefficient and incomplete tracking system that kept some

victims from being properly notified.

Further, the FBI did not accurately portray its victim

notification process on its website.

Accurate public information is essential, especially as it pertains

to victims of crimes involving child sexual abuse material.

six recommendations intended to improve victim notification processes and

ensure the accuracy of publicly available information from the FBI.

The FBI concurred with all of the

recommendations.

https://oig.justice.gov/reports/audit-federal-bureau-investigations-efforts-notify-victims-child-sexual-abuse-material

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https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=FDE5A60A-5AED-4B33-B89C-AFF90832074C

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Southern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Monroe Prior Sex Felon Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison

Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that EDUARDO TALENTINO was sentenced to 10 years in prison by United States District Judge Vincent Briccetti for possessing, and accessing with intent to view, images of child pornography, possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony, and failing to register as a sex offender. The sentencing today followed TALENTINO’s guilty plea on May 27, 2021.

U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said: “This case underscores the urgent need for law enforcement to continue to use every available tool to prosecute and punish those who sexually exploit children.”

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in related court proceedings:

On May 27, 2021, TALENTINO pled guilty to a three-count Information. Count One charged him with possessing, and accessing with intent to view, images of child pornography, including images of prepubescent children and minors who had not attained the age of 12, on a phone in Orange County, New York, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A(a)(5)(b) and (b)(2). Count Two charged that TALENTINO, after having been convicted of a felony, possessed a Colt Pocket Positive .32 caliber revolver. Count Three charged that TALENTINO, while required to register as a sex offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA”), failed to register as a sex offender.

In August 1997, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Suffolk Superior Court, TALENTINO was convicted of two counts of Rape of a Child, one count of Assault with Intent to Commit Rape, two counts of Indecent Assault and Battery on a Child Under 14, one count on Indecent Assault and Battery on a Person 14 and Over, and two counts of Disseminate Matter Harmful to Minors. For these offenses, TALENTINO was sentenced to a term of four years and a day in prison.

On November 7, 2019, TALENTINO pled guilty in Orange County Court to Unauthorized Practice of Profession, and on February 13, 2020, he was sentenced to one to three years in prison.

In or about December 2017, TALENTINO became the guardian of a 16-year-old minor (“Victim-1”). While acting as Victim-1’s guardian, TALENTINO sexually abused Victim-1.

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In addition to the prison term, TALENTINO, 56, of Monroe, New York, was sentenced to lifetime supervised release.

Ms. Strauss praised the efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, the New York State Police, the Orange County Child Sexual Abuse Task Force, Orange County Child Protective Services, and the Orange County Sherriff’s Office in connection with this investigation.

The prosecution is being handled by the Office’s White Plains Division. Assistant United States Attorney Marcia S. Cohen is in charge of the prosecution.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/monroe-prior-sex-felon-sentenced-10-years-prison

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of Idaho

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Federal Jury Convicts Rigby Man of Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Child and Possession of Child Pornography

POCATELLO – After a five-day jury trial, a federal jury sitting in Pocatello found Tel James Boam, 39, of Rigby, guilty of sixteen counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a child and one count of possession of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today. Senior U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill presided over the trial, which began on September 7, and concluded with guilty verdicts on the afternoon of September 20, 2021.

According to court records and evidence presented at trial, the investigation began in September 2019, after an individual reported finding videos of a nude minor on Boam’s iPhone. A detective with the Jefferson County Sherriff’s Office obtained a search warrant for Boam’s iCloud account. An agent with Homeland Security Investigations in Idaho Falls searched Boam’s iCloud account and found that Boam had attempted to produce, by surreptitious recording, 36 sexually explicit videos of a fourteen-year-old child, and that Boam had possessed those videos. Testimony provided that the videos were produced with a spy camera that Boam purchased using his credit card.

Each of the sixteen counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor is punishable by 15 to 30 years in federal prison. The charge of possession of child pornography is punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison. Each charge is also punishable by a fine of up to $250,000, and five years to a lifetime of supervised release.

Sentencing is set for December 14, 2021, before Judge Winmill at the federal courthouse in Pocatello. The federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Acting U.S. Attorney Gonzalez praised the initial reporting party for promptly reporting the crime and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office for quickly following up. “Their timely response, and that of Homeland Security Investigations in Idaho Falls, made this case.” Mr. Gonzalez said. “I commend these investigators and our Assistant U.S. Attorneys and staff for aggressively pursuing this defendant, and I thank the jury for holding him accountable. As a community, we need to be watchful and report our suspicions to law enforcement,” he concluded.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-id/pr/federal-jury-convicts-rigby-man-attempted-sexual-exploitation-child-and-possession-child

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of Connecticut

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Repeat Offender Pleads Guilty to Possessing Images Depicting Sexual Abuse of Children

Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT J. MOSLEY, 54, formerly of Bridgeport, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to possession of child pornography.

According to court documents and statements made in court, in 2016, Mosley was convicted in Connecticut Superior Court of possession of child pornography in the second degree. He was sentenced for that offense to 10 years in jail, execution suspended after six years, and 20 years of probation. Mosley was released on parole in November 2018.

On January 28, 2020, Connecticut parole officers and Connecticut state troopers conducted a home visit at Mosley’s residence. During the visit, Mosley was found in possession of an unapproved smart phone, and an approved mobile phone that contained suspected child pornography. Investigators seized both phones and Mosley was remanded to custody. Subsequent analysis of the seized phones and a cloud storage account maintained by Mosley revealed thousands of images and hundreds of video depicting the sexual abuse of children, primarily boys between the ages of 2 and 14. In addition, analysis of Mosley’s e-mail account revealed that he sent numerous e-mails soliciting child pornography, sent images of child pornography to others, and sent links to his cloud storage account.

Judge Dooley scheduled sentencing for December 22, 2021, at which time Mosley faces a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 10 years and a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years. The penalties in this case are enhanced based on Mosley’s criminal history.

Mosley has been detained since January 28, 2020.

This matter has been investigated by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Connecticut State Police, with the assistance of the Connecticut Department of Correction Division of Parole and Community Services. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathaniel J. Gentile.

This prosecution is part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood Initiative, which is aimed at protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

To report cases of child exploitation, please visit www.cybertipline.com.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/repeat-offender-pleads-guilty-possessing-images-depicting-sexual-abuse-children

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Western District of Pennsylvania

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Nevada Man Gets 6½ Years in Prison for Travelling to PA to Engage in Sex with a Minor

PITTSBURGH - A former resident of North Las Vegas, Nevada, has been sentenced in federal court to 78 months’ imprisonment and 10 years’ supervised release on his conviction of Travel With Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.

United States District Judge Joy Flowers Conti imposed the sentence on Renad Bautista, age 32.

According to information presented to the court, on or about December 5, 2019, until December 9, 2019, Bautista travelled from Las Vegas to Pittsburgh with a motivating purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor whom he had been messaging on social media.

Assistant United States Attorney Heidi M. Grogan prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.

Acting U.S. Attorney Kaufman commended the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the West Mifflin Police Department for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Bautista.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/nevada-man-gets-6-years-prison-travelling-pa-engage-sex-minor

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of Hawaii

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Registered sex offender sentenced to 11 years in prison for attempted sexual enticement of 13 year-old and possession of child pornography

HONOLULU – Senior District Judge Susan Oki Mollway sentenced Neal Both-Magnisi, 39, of Honolulu, Hawaii, to 11 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for attempting to entice a 13 year-old minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity, and for possessing child pornography today in United States District Court. He will also pay $6,000 in restitution to two identified victims and a $10,000 special assessment pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.

Acting U.S. Attorney Judith A. Philips stated that, according to court documents and information presented in court, Both-Magnisi, a registered sex offender, created a profile on a mobile device application designed for dating. On March 19, 2019, Both-Magnisi used the application to communicate with a user whose profile featured a photograph of a 13 year-old boy, which stated that he was “Younger than you think.” Between March 19 and March 24, 2019, Both-Magnisi engaged in numerous text message and online chat communications with the other user, who represented to Both-Magnisi that he was 13 years old, but who was actually an undercover law enforcement agent. On March 24, 2019, Both-Magnisi arranged to meet the boy in person at a shopping center in Kapolei, Hawaii to engage in sexual activity. Both-Magnisi then traveled to the agreed-upon location and was arrested.

Information provided to the court also reflected that law enforcement agents conducted a search of Both-Magnisi’s home. There, the agents discovered and seized a laptop computer, on which they discovered 93 video files and 224 images of child pornography, some of which appeared to feature children as young as eight years old.

“This prosecution is the successful result of a coordinated effort by several federal and state agencies to fight the threat of child predators using mobile device applications and social media to prey upon children in Hawaii,” stated Acting U.S. Attorney Philips. “We are making concerted efforts to protect children, among the most vulnerable members of our community, from predators employing various forms of electronic media.”

“Protecting our keiki is one of our top priorities at Homeland Security Investigations in Honolulu,” said Special Agent in Charge John F. Tobon. “I hope this sentence sends a very clear message to everyone in the community that we will track down predators to keep our children safe.”

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Hawaii Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregg Paris Yates.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-hi/pr/registered-sex-offender-sentenced-11-years-prison-attempted-sexual-enticement-13-year-old

epartment of Justice

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Middle District of Florida

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Local High School Janitor Sentenced To 60 Years In Federal Prison For Secretly Filming Students In Girls’ Bathroom

Orlando, Florida – United States District Judge Wendy W. Berger has sentenced Derremy Jerrell Walker (31, Sanford) to 60 years in federal prison for two counts of using, or attempting to use, children to produce sexually explicit videos. A federal jury had found Walker guilty of the offenses on June 29, 2021. Walker was also ordered to serve a lifetime term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.

According to evidence admitted during the trial and at sentencing, Walker was a contracted janitor at Oviedo High School in November 2019 when two 15-year-old female students discovered an actively recording cellphone hidden under the sink in a student bathroom stall. The girls took the phone to school administrators, who contacted the Oviedo Police Department.

Forensic analysis of the cellphone revealed that Walker had placed the phone in the same location on two prior dates in November 2019, each time creating a one-hour video of students in that stall. On the date the girls found the phone, it had been recording for approximately 15 minutes before they discovered it. In each of the three instances, Walker had angled the cellphone’s camera in an effort to capture images of the genitalia of those in the stall. School administrators and law enforcement officials were able to identify 8 of the 12 students unknowingly captured in the videos that Walker recorded.

Further analysis revealed that Walker had also set up a surreptitious cellphone camera to record in the school’s faculty bathroom earlier that month.

“Mr. Walker did more than just produce horror; he stole the innocence and trust of these young victims. We are pleased with the sentence handed down in this case and will continue efforts to protect the children in our communities from sexual exploitation and abuse,” said FBI Tampa Division Special Agent in Charge Michael McPherson.

This case was investigated by the Oviedo Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Shawn P. Napier.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/local-high-school-janitor-sentenced-60-years-federal-prison-secretly-filming-students

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Endicott Sex Offender Sentenced for Failing to Register Email Accounts

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Thomas J. Redeker, age 73, of Endicott, New York was sentenced today to 10 months in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for failing to update his sex offender registration by maintaining unregistered email accounts.

The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and United States Marshal David L. McNulty.

Redeker was also ordered to pay a $2,000 fine. In addition to the term of imprisonment for failing to update his sex offender registration, Redeker was sentenced to an 8-month consecutive term of imprisonment for violating the conditions of his supervised release by committing new criminal conduct, failing to answer truthfully questions from his probation officer, and possessing an undisclosed internet capable device.

As part of his previously entered plea agreement, Redeker admitted that in 2004 he was convicted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York of production of child pornography and crossing a state line to engage in a sexual act with a person under the age of 12. Those convictions required Redeker to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, and to keep that registration current with personal identifying information, including email accounts. Redeker admitted that although he maintained registration as a sex offender in the State of New York, he did not register three email accounts that he created despite knowing he has an obligation under the law to do so.

This case was investigated by the United States Marshals Service Sex Offender Investigation Branch with assistance from the United States Probation Office for the Northern District of New York, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael D. Gadarian.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/endicott-sex-offender-sentenced-failing-register-email-accounts

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwi/pr/grand-jury-returns-indictments-charging-afghan-evacuees-crimes-while-fort-mccoy

Two Afghan Evacuees Charged with Crimes

In unrelated cases, two individuals have been charged with crimes while at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Bahrullah Noori, 20, is charged with attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force against that person, and with three counts of engaging in a sexual act with a minor, with one count alleging the use of force. The indictment alleges that that the victims had not attained the age of 16 years and were at least four years younger than the defendant.

Mohammad Haroon Imaad, 32, is charged with assaulting his spouse by strangling and suffocating her. The indictment alleges that the assault occurred on September 7, 2021.

Noori and Imaad were charged previously in complaints filed in U.S. District Court. They made initial appearances in Madison on September 16 and are being detained at the Dane County Jail. Noori and Imaad are scheduled for arraignment tomorrow, September 23, at 9:30 a.m. and 10:15 a.m., respectively, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen L. Crocker.

If convicted, Noori faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 30 years and a maximum of life in federal prison on the charges alleging use of force, and a maximum penalty of 15 years on the other two charges. Imaad faces a maximum penalty of 10 years. The charges against them are the result of investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Fort McCoy Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Taylor Kraus is handling the Noori prosecution and Assistant U.S. Attorney Zachary Corey is handling the Imaad prosecution.

District of Maine

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Soliciting Child Pornography

PORTLAND, Maine: A Florida man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to soliciting child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.

According to court records, on May 9, 2020, while in Florida, Cameron Eagle, 35, used Cash App, a direct peer-to-peer payment system for mobile devices, to pay a female child in Maine to engage in sexually explicit conduct while he watched via livestream over the chat website Omegle. The child, who resided in Cumberland County, was 14 years old at the time. Financial records reflected that Eagle made several payments to the child on that date, and that he made other similar payments in small denominations to other Cash App accounts on the same day, as well as on other dates in May and June 2020.

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, the Martin County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office and Homeland Security Investigations investigated the case, with assistance from the Fort Pierce office of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-me/pr/florida-man-pleads-guilty-soliciting-child-pornography

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of Oklahoma

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Tulsa “Peeping Tom” Pleads Guilty to Numerous Sex Crimes, Including Those Targeting Minor Victims

A Tulsa man who broke into three homes, attempted to sexually assault two victims, and later solicited a 16-year old for child pornography, pleaded guilty today in federal court.

”Jesse Moore roamed Tulsa’s neighborhoods and terrorized his victims. He peered inside windows, broke into homes, and targeted at least two victims for sexual assault. Then while awaiting trial, he coerced a minor into sending him sexually explicit photographs and videos,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson. “This dangerous criminal no longer poses a threat to our community thanks to dedicated work of Tulsa Police Detectives and federal prosecutor Joel-lyn McCormick.”

In a blind plea, Jesse Thomas Moore, 19, admitted to the following charges: lewd acts with a child under 16 in Indian Country; three counts of burglary in the first degree in Indian Country; attempted sexual abuse by threat in Indian Country; Coercion and Enticement of a Minor; Attempted Production of Child Pornography; and Attempted Receipt of Child Pornography. Moore is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 27, 2021.

On May 5, 2020, Moore broke into a home on South Florence Avenue where a child was sleeping. Once inside, Moore entered the victim’s room and started to masturbate. He then tried to get the minor to go to the bathroom with him. When the victim resisted, he slung ejaculate toward the victim then left the residence.

On Nov. 8, 2020, he broke into a home on South Urbana Place with intent to commit a lewd act with a child. Shortly after 7:30 p.m., he entered the backyard of the residence and entered the home through the back door. When the child saw Moore, he screamed. Moore then fled the home. The mother of the child told investigators Moore had been in her back yard and looked into her windows at other times starting in October 2020.

On Dec. 13, 2020, Moore also broke into a home on South Evanston Avenue. Once inside, he discovered the victim and a male sleeping in a bedroom. He began touching the victim, causing her to awaken. He then threatened the victim by stating, “Get the f* up and don’t say anything or I’ll f*ing kill you.” Moore forced the woman to the living room where he attempted to rape her. As Moore covered her mouth, the victim bit his right hand, causing him to let go and flee the scene.

Video obtained by officers showed Moore stepping onto the front porch, unscrewing the porch light then entering the South Evanston residence at 6:36 a.m. Then video showed Moore exiting the residence at 7:18 a.m., after the attempted rape. The crime occurred after multiple Peeping Tom incidents earlier in the week at the same residence by Moore.

The defendant was eventually arrested and charged for the crimes.

While in custody awaiting trial for charges related to the “Peeping Tom” incidents, Moore began accessing the program JailATM by means of a stationary kiosk or portable smart pad in order to video chat or message with a 16-year-old female whom he referred to as his girlfriend.

During conversations that occurred from Aug. 1, 2021, to Aug. 19, 2021, Moore repeatedly pressured the minor for sexually explicit video and images of herself and to engage in sexually explicit behavior while the two video chatted. The minor attempted to send some pre-recorded videos. Moore received at least one video while others were auto rejected by the system. Moore repeatedly told the minor to figure out how to send the videos differently, like she did before, so they would not be rejected. During one video chat, Moore was able to convince the minor to engage in sexually explicit behavior.

Moore is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

The Tulsa Police Department conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel-lyn A. McCormick is prosecuting the case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndok/pr/tulsa-peeping-tom-pleads-guilty-numerous-sex-crimes-including-those-targeting-minor

Tulsa “Peeping Tom” Pleads Guilty to Numerous Sex Crimes, Including Those Targeting Minor Victims

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndok/pr/tulsa-peeping-tom-pleads-guilty-numerous-sex-crimes-including-those-targeting-minor

Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Soliciting Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-me/pr/florida-man-pleads-guilty-soliciting-child-pornography

Endicott Sex Offender Sentenced for Failing to Register Email Accounts

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/endicott-sex-offender-sentenced-failing-register-email-accounts

Local High School Janitor Sentenced To 60 Years In Federal Prison For Secretly Filming Students In Girls’ Bathroom

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/local-high-school-janitor-sentenced-60-years-federal-prison-secretly-filming-students

Registered sex offender sentenced to 11 years in prison for attempted sexual enticement of 13 year-old and possession of child pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-hi/pr/registered-sex-offender-sentenced-11-years-prison-attempted-sexual-enticement-13-year-old

Nevada Man Gets 6½ Years in Prison for Travelling to PA to Engage in Sex with a Minor

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/nevada-man-gets-6-years-prison-travelling-pa-engage-sex-minor

Repeat Offender Pleads Guilty to Possessing Images Depicting Sexual Abuse of Children

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/repeat-offender-pleads-guilty-possessing-images-depicting-sexual-abuse-children

Federal Jury Convicts Rigby Man of Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Child and Possession of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-id/pr/federal-jury-convicts-rigby-man-attempted-sexual-exploitation-child-and-possession-child

Monroe Prior Sex Felon Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/monroe-prior-sex-felon-sentenced-10-years-prison

Melbourne Woman Sentenced To 15 Years In Federal Prison For Producing Child Sex Abuse Videos And Distributing Them Over The Internet

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/melbourne-woman-sentenced-15-years-federal-prison-producing-child-sex-abuse-videos-and

Pocatello Man Sentenced to 25 Years for Sexual Exploitation of a Child

https://www.justice.gov/usao-id/pr/pocatello-man-sentenced-25-years-sexual-exploitation-child

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of Oregon

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Federal Employee Who Accessed Child Pornography Aboard Government Research Vessel Sentenced to Federal Prison

EUGENE, Ore.—A federal government employee who accessed and possessed child pornography while working aboard a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientific research vessel was sentenced to federal prison today.

Johnny Dale Hale, 44, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and five years’ supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $4,000 in restitution to his victims.

According to court documents, in late 2016, Hale, a decorated veteran, was working as a crew member aboard the Bell M. Shimada, a NOAA scientific research vessel. On or about November 15, 2016, the vessel was experiencing technical connectivity issues and the information technology team began running diagnostics. While troubleshooting, an electronics technician discovered two new folders on the ship’s server containing what he believed to be child pornography.

Diagnostics showed that Hale’s unique employee access card was associated with the time and date the folders were initially accessed. Additionally, Hale used two different vessel workstations to access the server at the exact time the folders were created. The vessel’s senior security engineer alerted the U.S. Department of Commerce to the discovery.

Special agents and a forensic analyst reviewed the suspect folders and discovered 109 pornographic web links and confirmed the presence of child pornography. Approximately 33 images of child pornography were in one of the suspect folders, with images from at least four series of photographs of previously-identified child pornography victims.

On June 21, 2017, a federal grand jury in Eugene returned an indictment charging Hale with possession of child pornography. On April 23, 2021, he pleaded guilty to that charge.

Acting U.S. Attorney Scott Erik Asphaug of the District of Oregon made the announcement.

This case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General, NOAA Office of Law Enforcement, and the FBI. Assistant U.S. Attorney William M. McLaren prosecuted the case.

Anyone who has information about the physical or online exploitation of children are encouraged to call the FBI at (503) 224-4181 or submit a tip online at tips.fbi.gov.

Federal law defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor. It is important to remember child sexual abuse material depicts actual crimes being committed against children. Not only do these images and videos document victims’ exploitation and abuse, but when shared across the internet, child victims suffer re-victimization each time the image of their abuse is viewed. To learn more, please visit the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s website at www.missingkids.org.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/federal-employee-who-accessed-child-pornography-aboard-government-research-vessel

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Southern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Bronx Gang Member Convicted Of Shooting 12-Year-Old In Playground

Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a jury returned a guilty verdict today against NICHOLAS JOSEPH, a/k/a “Gotti,” a/k/a “Finesse,” on five counts in a Superseding Indictment, including charges of racketeering conspiracy, violent crimes in aid of racketeering, and firearms offenses. JOSEPH is scheduled to be sentenced on January 5, 2022, by U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel, who presided over the seven-day trial.

U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said: “Nicholas Joseph participated in a violent gang for years and carried out a shooting in a playground next to an elementary school, seriously injuring a 12-year-old child. Now convicted of his crimes, Joseph will no longer be able to inflict harm on the people of this city. We continue our daily work with our law enforcement partners to keep our communities safe by vigorously investigating and prosecuting acts of gang violence.”

According to the Superseding Indictment and the evidence at trial:

Between in or about 2014 and in or about December 2020, JOSEPH was a member and associate of the Castle Hill Crew, a racketeering enterprise that operated principally in the Castle Hill Houses in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx. In order to enrich the enterprise, preserve and protect the power of the enterprise, and enhance its criminal operations, Castle Hill Crew members and associates committed, conspired, attempted, and threatened to commit acts of violence, including murder; distributed and possessed with intent to distribute narcotics; engaged in fraud; and obtained, possessed, and used firearms.

On or about November 19, 2015, JOSEPH and others stabbed a rival gang member in the head and back.

On or about April 28, 2017, JOSEPH shot at rival gang members in the vicinity of the Story Playground in the Bronx, New York, during which a 12-year-old child playing basketball in the park was injured.

In addition, on or about July 10, 2020, and in or around November 2020 and December 2020, JOSEPH illegally possessed firearms and ammunition.

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JOSEPH, 23, was convicted on five counts: (1) racketeering conspiracy, which carries a maximum prison term of 20 years; (2) attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon in aid of racketeering, which carries a maximum prison term of 20 years; (3) using and carrying a firearm during, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of, a crime of violence, which carries a mandatory consecutive prison term of 10 years and a maximum prison term of life; and (4) two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, each of which carries a maximum prison term of 10 years.

The statutory maximum penalties are prescribed by Congress and are provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendant would be determined by the judge.

Ms. Strauss praised the outstanding investigative work of the New York City Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations, and the New York City Department of Investigation.

The case is being handled by the Office’s Violent and Organized Crime Unit. Assistant United States Attorneys Andrew K. Chan, Celia V. Cohen, Emily A. Johnson, and Justin V. Rodriguez, and paralegal specialist Victoria Bosah, are in charge of the prosecution.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bronx-gang-member-convicted-shooting-12-year-old-playground >>14636633

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Hearings to examine fraud, scams, and COVID-19, focusing on how older Americans have been targeted during the pandemic.

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Hearings to examine the nomination of Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost, USAF for reappointment to the grade of general and to be Commander, United States Transportation Command, Department of Defense.

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Business meeting to consider S.1787, to amend title 28 of the United States Code to prevent the transfer of actions arising under the antitrust laws in which a State is a complainant, S.2502, to provide first-time, low-level, nonviolent simple possession offenders an opportunity to expunge that conviction after successful completion of court-imposed probation, and the nominations of Toby J. Heytens, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Patricia Tolliver Giles, and Michael S. Nachmanoff, both to be a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, Sarala Vidya Nagala, and Omar Antonio Williams, both to be a United States District Judge for the District of Connecticut, and Hampton Y. Dellinger, of North Carolina, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Erek L. Barron, to be United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, Nicholas W. Brown, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington, Matthew M. Graves, to be United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Clifford D. Johnson, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Zachary A. Myers, of Maryland, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, Rachael S. Rollins, to be United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Trini E. Ross, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of New York, and Vanessa Waldref, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, all of the Department of Justice.

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PN765, Hampton Y. Dellinger — Department of Justice

PN803, Michael S. Nachmanoff — The Judiciary

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PN808, Patricia Tolliver Giles — The Judiciary

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S.2502, Kenneth P. Thompson Begin Again Act

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PN926, Erek L. Barron — Department of Justice

PN927, Nicholas W. Brown — Department of Justice

PN928, Clifford D. Johnson — Department of Justice

PN929, Zachary A. Myers — Department of Justice

PN930, Rachael S. Rollins — Department of Justice

PN931, Trini E. Ross — Department of Justice

PN932, Vanessa Waldref — Department of Justice

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Department of Justice

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Eastern District of Oklahoma

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Individual Pleads Guilty To Sexual Abuse Of A Minor In Indian Country

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jeffrey Denton Sumka, 27, entered a guilty plea to one count of Sexual Abuse of a Minor in Indian Country, in violation of 18 United States Code Sections 2243(a)(1), 2246(2)(A), 1151, and 1153, punishable by a term of imprisonment of up to 15 years, a fine of $250,000.00, a term of supervised release of not more than 5 years, and a special assessment in the amount of $100.00.

The Indictment alleged that on or about May of 2017 a twelve-year-old female met the defendant, who supplied the female with illegal drugs, and she then had sex with the defendant at least ten times. The relationship continued until the female was fifteen years old, and in 2020, at the age of 15, the female became pregnant and had the defendant’s child, which was confirmed with DNA testing.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Muscogee Creek Nation Lighthorse Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Honorable Kimberley West, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in Muskogee, accepted the plea and ordered the completion of a presentence investigation report.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Morgan Muzljakovich represented the United States.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edok/pr/individual-pleads-guilty-sexual-abuse-minor-indian-country

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Middle District of Florida

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Putnam County Registered Sex Offender Sentenced To 10 Years In Federal Prison For Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Images

Jacksonville, Florida – United States District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Jasen Michael Anderson (30, Crescent City) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing images depicting the sexual abuse of children on his cell phone and ordered him to serve a lifetime term of supervised release. He was also sentenced to a 2-year prison term, to be served concurrently, for violating the terms of his supervised release from a prior conviction and incarceration.

According to court documents, in 2011, while living in Port Orange, Anderson possessed and distributed images and videos of children being sexually abused; in May 2012, he was convicted on federal charges for those offenses. After serving a 7-year prison sentence, Anderson was released and placed under the supervision of the United States Probation Office.

On March 16, 2020, Anderson admitted to his probation officer that he had used his cellphone to access the internet and search a particular Russian website for sexually explicit images of children. The probation officer then confiscated Anderson’s cellphone.

Later, Anderson met with his probation officer and admitted that he had accessed child sex abuse images over the internet using a second cellphone. The probation officer also seized the second phone. Subsequently the United States Marshals Service arrested Anderson for violating the terms of his supervised release. Forensic examination of his cellphones revealed that one of these devices contained 110 images depicting children, including some as young as six years old, being sexually abused.

“Unfortunately, this previously convicted child predator did not learn his lesson the first time,” said HSI Jacksonville Assistant Special Agent in Charge K. Jim Phillips. “HSI special agents, working with our partners at the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Marshals Service, have made sure he will have another opportunity to re-evaluate his actions from behind bars.”

This case was investigated by the United States Probation Office in Ocala and Tampa, the United States Marshals Service, and Homeland Security Investigations. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney D. Rodney Brown.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/putnam-county-registered-sex-offender-sentenced-10-years-federal-prison-possessing

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U.S. Attorney’s Office

Middle District of Florida

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Former Nassau County Fire Rescue Employee Sentenced To More Than 7 Years In Federal Prison For Receiving Child Sexual Abuse Images And Videos Over The Internet

Jacksonville, Florida –Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Robert Arthur Ginder (35, Callahan) to seven years and six months in federal prison for receipt of child sex abuse images. The Court also ordered Ginder to serve a 10-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.

Ginder had pleaded guilty on April 22, 2021.

According to court documents, an investigation was initiated by law enforcement agents after they had gained access to an online cloud platform and a group chat in which users actively distributed images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children. The agents observed that, when any user joined the group chat, various members of the group would share numerous image and video files depicting child exploitation .

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) identified Ginder’s residence as the source of the internet protocol (IP) addresses used by this particular account on the cloud platform and, further, determined that Ginder worked for Nassau County Fire Rescue as a logistics officer.

On October 20, 2020, HSI agents executed a federal search warrant at Ginder’s residence and authorities arrested Ginder later that day. Ginder admitted to receiving a link to the cloud platform and joining the group chat of the online cloud platform that contained child exploitation material. He also admitted to viewing and sharing child exploitation materials using the cloud platform. Ginder acknowledged that he had received an image depicting the sexual abuse of a child from this cloud platform over the internet.

A subsequent search and forensic review of Ginder’s electronic devices revealed that Ginder’s cellphone contained thousands of images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of young children.

“The sexual exploitation of children has no place in our communities,” said HSI Jacksonville Assistant Special Agent in Charge K. Jim Phillips. “HSI special agents and our partners at the Clay County Sheriff’s Office will continue to pursue anyone involved in the production, distribution or possession of child pornography, or who target children in our communities in any way.”

This case was investigated by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and Homeland Security Investigations. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ashley Washington.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/former-nassau-county-fire-rescue-employee-sentenced-more-7-years-federal-prison

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https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/alleged-drug-cartel-leader-charged-0

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/federal-correctional-officer-charged-making-false-statements-about-engaging-unlawful

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/three-california-residents-charged-conspiring-defraud-unemployment-insurance-program

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/four-defendants-arrested-charged-fentanyl-distribution-conspiracy

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-analyst-charged-8-million-insider-trading-scheme-front-running-employer-s

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/three-men-charged-federal-drug-trafficking-crimes

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/three-brothers-charged-multi-district-scheme-defraud-united-states-postal-service-ups

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/defendants-charged-connection-multi-state-racketeering-conspiracy-involving-forced

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of Texas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, September 23, 2021

U.S. Attorney Seeking Victims Advertised on CityXGuide.com

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas is seeking individuals who were trafficked on CityXGuide, a commercial sex website shut down by the federal government in June 2020, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah.

Prosecutors are requesting that victims — who are afforded rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CRVA) and may be eligible for restitution — visit https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/united-states-v-wilhan-martono-cityxguide to submit their information.

The U.S. Attorney’s questionnaire will allow victims to outline any physical or mental health injuries they sustained as a result of human trafficking (information that is critically important to request court-ordered victim compensation at sentencing) and to share their thoughts on the sentence the judge should impose CityXGuide owner Wilhan Martono.

Mr. Martono, 47, was arrested on June 19, 2020, the same day his websites were seized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He pleaded guilty on Aug. 24, 2021 to one count of promotion of prostitution and reckless disregard of sex trafficking and one count of conspiracy to engage in interstate transportation in aid of racketeering enterprises - facilitating prostitution. His plea is the first ever entered under the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), a 2018 law that allows the federal government to prosecute websites that facilitate sex trafficking.

In plea papers, Mr. Martono admitted that he created, owned, and operated CityXGuide and a suite of related websites. He registered the domain names for several of the sites on April 8, 2018 — just one day after the feds shut down Backpage.com, then the internet’s leading source of commercial sex advertisements. Like Backpage, Mr. Martono’s sites allowed users, including traffickers, to post hundreds of thousands of commercial sex advertisements worldwide.

Mr. Martono admitted that he turned a blind eye to the illegal sex trafficking occurring on CityXGuide. Despite receiving numerous emails from federal, state, and local law enforcement informing him that CityXGuide and its companion websites were being used to facilitate sex trafficking and child exploitation, he continued to operate those sites in the United States and around the world. In court documents, prosecutors estimated that Mr. Martono netted more than $21 million off his websites, which users described as “taking over from where Backpage left off.”

Law enforcement has already identified numerous trafficking victims in CityXGuide advertisements, including a 13-year-old Jane Doe identified in North Texas in November 2019 and a 16-year-old Jane Doe identified in North Texas in March 2020. Prosecutors are now seeking to notify all survivors of sex trafficking who were advertised on CityXGuide.

Potential victims include minors who were advertised on Cityxguide.com or a related website (including Cityxguide.net, Cityxguide.co, Cityxguide.be, Bodyrubshop.com, CAPleasures.com, or Backpage.co), as well as adults subjected to force, threats of force, fraud, and/or coercion at the time they were advertised on CityXGuide or a related website.

Under the CVRA, victims are entitled to timely notice of public court proceedings, the right to be treated with respect for their dignity and privacy, and the right to be reasonably heard at any sentencing proceeding.

The North Texas Trafficking Task Force conducted the investigation, led by Homeland Security Investigations’ Dallas Field Office, the United States Secret Service, and the Colleyville Police Department, with assistance from HSI’s El Paso and San Jose Field Offices as well as the Texas Department of Public Safety. Assistant United States Attorneys Sid Mody, Rebekah Ricketts, and John de la Garza are prosecuting the case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/us-attorney-seeking-victims-advertised-cityxguidecom

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of New Mexico

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Navajo man sentenced to 12 years in prison for abusive sexual contact of a minor in Indian Country

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Nathan Thomas, 45, of Pueblo Pintado, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced on Sept. 22 in federal court to 12 years in prison for abusive sexual contact of a minor in Indian Country.

Thomas pleaded guilty on Nov. 4, 2020. In his plea, Thomas admitted that on Aug. 1, 2007, and July 21, 2010, he knowingly engaged in and caused sexual contact with Jane Doe, who at the time of both incidents was under the age of 12. Thomas committed the offense at his family home in San Juan County, New Mexico, on the Navajo Nation.

Upon his release from prison, Thomas will be subject to three years of supervised release and must register as a sex offender.

The Gallup Resident Agency of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office investigated this case with assistance from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Navajo Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kyle Nayback prosecuted the case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/navajo-man-sentenced-12-years-prison-abusive-sexual-contact-minor-indian-country

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of West Virginia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Virginia man sentenced for sex offender charge

ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA – Eddie Reese Cason, of Buckingham, Virginia, was sentenced today to 21 months of incarceration for a sex offender charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.

Cason, 37, pled guilty in May 2021 to one count of “Failure to Update Sex Offender Registration.” Cason, a person required to register as a sex offender, admitted to failing to update his sex offender registration from October 2020 to January 2021 in Randolph County after traveling from Virginia to West Virginia.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah E. Wagner prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The U.S. Marshal Service and the West Virginia State Police investigated.

U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Kleeh presided.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndwv/pr/virginia-man-sentenced-sex-offender-charge

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Western District of Pennsylvania

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Altoona, PA Man Pleads Guilty to Possessing Pictures and Videos Depicting Child Sexual Exploitation

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – A former resident of Altoona, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of minors, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.

Matthew Michael Walter., 34, formerly of Altoona, PA, pleaded guilty to Count Two of the Indictment before United States District Judge Kim R. Gibson.

In connection with the guilty plea, on or August 21, 2019 and August 22, 2019, Walter received images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Further, on another occasion,

Walter knowingly possessed pictures and videos in individual computer graphic files which were produced using prepubescent minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. All computer graphic files were shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.

Judge Gibson scheduled sentencing for January 20, 2022. The law provides for a sentence of at least 10 years and a maximum of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed would be based upon the seriousness of the offenses and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant.

Assistant United States Maureen Sheehan-Balchon is prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.

Homeland Security Investigations conducted the investigation that led to the prosecution of Walter.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/altoona-pa-man-pleads-guilty-possessing-pictures-and-videos-depicting-child-sexual

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https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndok/pr/federal-grand-jury-b-indictments-announced-september

Dakota Wayne Martin. Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Minor Under 12 in Indian Country. Martin, 27, of Claremore, is charged with the aggravated sexual abuse of a child younger than 12 years of age. The FBI and Claremore Police Department are the investigative agencies. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sandra M. Urban is prosecuting the case. 21-CR-408

Michael David Bradley Vanderburg; Emily Krick. Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Minor Under 12 in Indian Country; Abusive Sexual Contact with a Minor in Indian Country; Lewd Acts with a Child Under 16 in Indian Country; Sexual Exploitation of a Child by a Parent or Guardian; Distribution of Child Pornography; Receipt of Child Pornography. In Count 1, Vanderburg, 33, and Krick, 19, both of Tulsa, are charged with sexually abusing a child younger than 12 years of age from May 1, 2021, to Aug. 20, 2021. They are charged with engaging in sexual contact with the victim during the same timeframe. The defendants are further charged in Count 3 with exposing the minor victim and a second minor victim to look upon a sexual act performed in the minors’ presence, from May 1, 2021, to Aug. 20, 2021. In Count 4, Vanderburg is also charged with having a child engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual images from March 31, 2021, to Aug. 20, 2021. Finally, Vandenburg is charged in Count 5 with distribution of child pornography and in Count 6 with receipt of child pornography. The Tulsa Police Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations are the investigative agencies. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Nathan E. Michel and Christopher J. Nassar are prosecuting the case. 21-CR-410

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U.S. Attorney’s Office

Eastern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Long Island MS-13 Gang Member Pleads Guilty to Murdering a 15-Year-Old Boy in Freeport

Defendant Was Arrested in El Salvador and Extradited to the United States to Face Charges

Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Eduardo Portillo, also known as “Firuli” and “Tito” (Portillo), a member of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the “MS-13,” pleaded guilty to racketeering charges relating to his participation in the murder of 15-year-old Javier Castillo, and to conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana. The guilty plea was entered before United States Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco.

Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and Stuart Cameron, Acting Commissioner, Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD), announced the guilty plea.

As set forth in prior court filings and the defendant’s statements during his guilty plea, Portillo and his fellow MS-13 members targeted Castillo because he was believed to be a member of the 18th Street gang, one of MS-13’s principal rivals. On October 10, 2016, Portillo and other Brentwood-based members of the Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside (Sailors) clique of the MS-13 convinced Castillo, who lived in Central Islip, to go with them to Freeport – approximately 30 miles away – to smoke marijuana. They lured Castillo to an isolated marsh area in Cow Meadow Park in Freeport, where they attacked him, taking turns hacking the victim with a machete. Afterwards, the MS-13 members dug a hole and buried Castillo’s body, which was not recovered until one year later, in October 2017.

Portillo also pleaded guilty to participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy, admitting that between April 2016 and March 2017, he and other members of the Sailors clique conspired to distribute cocaine and marijuana in the Brentwood area to raise money for the MS-13 and fund its operations.

Portillo was arrested in Morazán, El Salvador on February 23, 2019 and extradited to the United States on November 6, 2020.

Today’s conviction is the latest in a series of federal prosecutions by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York targeting members of the MS-13, a violent, transnational criminal organization. The MS-13’s leadership is based in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, but the gang has thousands of members across the United States, comprised primarily of immigrants from Central America. With numerous branches, or “cliques,” the MS-13 is the most violent criminal organization on Long Island. Since 2003, hundreds of MS-13 members, including dozens of clique leaders, have been convicted on federal felony charges in the Eastern District of New York. A majority of those MS-13 members have been convicted on federal racketeering charges for participating in murders, attempted murders and assaults. Since 2010, this Office has obtained indictments charging MS-13 members with carrying out more than 60 murders in the Eastern District of New York and has convicted dozens of MS-13 leaders and members in connection with those murders. These prosecutions are the product of investigations led by the FBI’s Long Island Gang Task Force, which is comprised of agents and officers of the FBI, SCPD, Nassau County Police Department, Nassau County Sheriff’s Department, Suffolk County Probation Office, Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, the New York State Police, the Hempstead Police Department, the Rockville Centre Police Department, and the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

The government’s case is being handled by the Office’s Long Island Criminal Division. Assistant United States Attorneys Paul G. Scotti, Justina L. Geraci, Megan E. Farrell, and John J. Durham are in charge of the prosecution.

The Defendant:

EDUARDO PORTILLO (“Firuli” and “Tito”)

Age: 24

Residence: San Francisco Gotera, Morazán, El Salvador; formerly of Central Islip and Brentwood, New York

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/long-island-ms-13-gang-member-pleads-guilty-murdering-15-year-old-boy-freeport

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of Texas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Man Sentenced to 35+ Years for Pornographic Images of Six-Year-Olds

A Grand Prairie man who sexually exploited two six-year-old girls has been sentenced to 430 months in federal prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.

Juan Navarro, Jr., 38, pleaded guilty in January to sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography. He was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman.

In plea papers, Mr. Navarro admitted that in 2019, he enticed a female child into engaging in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing images of such conduct. He also admitted that he stored multiple sexually explicit images of children on his cell phone.

According to court documents, the investigation began when Yahoo reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that one of their email clients had uploaded child pornography. Law enforcement traced the email account in question to Mr. Navarro.

During a search of his residence, agents found a Samsung Galaxy phone containing multiple images of child pornography, including several images of little girls that appeared to have been created on the phone. In interviews with law enforcement, Mr. Navarro admitted that he sometimes emailed himself child porn, but initially denied knowing the girls.

However, the children’s mother confirmed that her daughters knew Mr. Navarro, and recognized the seat of his car in the images of her daughters, who have since received appropriate psychological and medical care.

“My girls are not physically here, but I am. I’m hear so my voice can be their voice and the voice of all of those other innocent victims,” their mother testified at sentencing. “We need our voices to be heard.”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas Field Office and the Grand Prairie Police Department conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandie Wade prosecuted the case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/man-sentenced-35-years-pornographic-images-six-year-olds

rarely if ever do we agree with

barack obama that he was right when he

said

never underestimate joe's ability to

screw things up

and if there's one thing we've learned

from the bike administration is that

things can and will get worse

the border crisis is no exception

border officials have estimated roughly

12 000 haitians are camped out under the

bridge in del rio texas

while even more crossing the rio grande

to enter our country

there has been a severe influx in

haitian migrants in the country due to

biden's failed border policies

and when buying paused flight

deportations

they took that as an open invitation

these aren't haitians necessarily

escaping their country's recent

earthquake and political instability in

fact when interviewed

many said they've been living in brazil

or chile for years

now the biden administration says they

are resuming the deportation of haitians

and while they have flown some migrants

back to haiti they are bussing and

flying others to cities in the united

states

including right here in tucson arizona

more than half of our nation's governors

have written buying the letter pleading

for a meeting about the border crisis

so far their cries have fallen upon deaf

ears

joe biden put kamela harris in charge of

the border months ago and if it worked

for the press release announcing it you

never know it she refuses to visit the

border to face the humanitarian disaster

she's created and instead deflects blame

onto border patrol agents

her actions or lack thereof have only

exacerbated the situation

the biden border crisis is a national

security crisis

with intelligence officials warning of

al qaeda and isis regrouping in

afghanistan

another biden failure

we have no idea who is entering our

country

cartels have become emboldened

fearlessly ushering in a new flow of

drugs weapons and human trafficking the

harm this will cause to our communities

cannot be understated

not only is this a security crisis but

it's a health care crisis as well

biden has mandated companies with over

100 employees required they be

vaccinated he's also mandated that legal

tourists entering the united states show

proof of vaccination and a negative

covet test

yet more than 1.2 million illegal aliens

have poured over our border without

vaccine or testing requirements how is

that right how is that going to slow the

spread

the squalor of the tent city under the

bridge in texas and the abuse of the

women and children attempting to cross

our border

all lay at the feet of joe biden and his

policies

joe biden needs to meet with the

governors i mentioned earlier right away

and reinstate the border policies that

have been working so well the last few

years

thanks for tuning in and remember here

at the republican party of arizona it's

always america first

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Binghamton Sex Offender Sentenced for Failing to Register his Change of Address

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Timmy Rifenburg, age 45, of Binghamton, New York, was sentenced today to serve a total of 40 months in prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for violating the terms of his supervised release and failing to register as a sex offender after he moved from Binghamton to Johnson City, New York, without updating his sex offender registration.

The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and United States Marshal David L. McNulty.

On May 19, 2021, Rifenburg pled guilty to one count of failure to register as a sex offender. As part of his guilty plea, Rifenburg admitted that due to his 2008 federal conviction for possession of child pornography, he was required to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA”) and keep that registration current. Rifenburg admitted that after he moved, he failed to register his change of address with New York State within 3 business days after his move.

Rifenburg also admitted to three violations of his supervised release conditions. Senior United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy sentenced Rifenburg to 24 months in prison for those violations, to run consecutive to a 16-month sentence for the SORNA offense.

This case was investigated by the United States Marshals Service and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tamara Thomson.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/binghamton-sex-offender-sentenced-failing-register-his-change-address

The wisest thing Stephen K. Bannon ever said was "Did you think they were going to let you have the country back without a fight?"

11 months have passed since 3 November. That is how long the evil RINO machine in Arizona has had to cover tracks and they still left loose ends all over the place as revealed by the independent canvass and what has been leaked thus far (incomplete reveal).

They have had many months to unify a front for this day, the day the audit report is brought to light. Did we truly expect them to just sit back and take it off the chin without deploying all assets?

This is a war. The sooner you recognize that, the sooner you'll find you have no time for hand wringing and basking in fear.

Focus:

1) Canvass shows hundreds of thousands of impacted votes.

2) Leak shows tens of thousands of illegitimate ballots in a county/state with critical races decided by next to nothing, including POTUS, along with many other highly fraudulent activities documented in full view.

3) Realize that even if they had to peel a couple thousand votes off certified totals, it would forever destroy the narrative that elections are clean and decided by the people.

4) PIMA COUNTY.

5) Whatever else is going to be revealed today. The gloves are off thanks to the leak. This is a falls count anywhere, no-holds barred information fight and every panicked word not focused on these five points is aiding the information war for the corrupt team. It is not the fault of those unveiling truth if you believed clickbait showing x amount of ballots missing or y amount of gremlins parachuting from the sky to plant votes from Timor Leste.

General Taylor captured Monterrey on this date in 1846. Today we capture Phoenix (peacefully).

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U.S. Attorney’s Office

Middle District of Georgia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Macon Man Pleads Guilty to Child Sexual Exploitation in Social Media Child Pornography Investigation

MACON, Ga. – A Macon resident has pleaded guilty to child sexual exploitation after investigators discovered multiple juvenile victims across the country ranging in age from 10-years-old to 16-years-old who he contacted on social media, coercing them to send him sexually explicit and pornographic images and videos.

Deon M. Moore, 37, of Macon, pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child before U.S. District Judge Marc Treadwell. Moore is facing a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison with a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison to be followed by not less than five years of supervised release and a maximum fine of $250,000. In addition, Moore will have to pay restitution ordered by the Court to any victim listed in the indictment and to a list of 14 additional victims to be filed under seal with the court. Moore will also register as a sex offender for life upon his release from federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.

“Deon Moore aggressively sought young victims online, intent on manipulating and deceiving them to fulfill his sick desires,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Peter D. Leary. “A dangerous child predator is no longer able to harm the children he was targeting on social media thanks to the investigators who unraveled his web of lies. Our office will pursue the full measure of justice against adults who seek to harm the most vulnerable people in our society.”

“Predators like Moore are another example for parents to keep a close eye on their children’s activity on-line and on their phones,” said Chris Hacker, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta. “Thanks to one mother who called police, a vast web of child exploitation was uncovered and now Moore will be held accountable for his abhorrent behavior.”

According to court documents, the investigation was begun by the Fairborn, Ohio, Police Department (FOPD) on May 21, 2017, after the agency was contacted by the mother of a 12-year-old female victim, who had been communicating with Moore on Facebook and by text messages. Moore sent nude photos and requested to meet with the victim. Investigators discovered that Moore had changed his Facebook name to “Nathaniel Ellis,” and that he had numerous Facebook friends who appeared to be teenage females. The FBI and FOPD detectives determined that Moore used Facebook to find victims, using the false identities of Sharod King, Nathaniel Ellis, Jazmine Ellis and Sharde Carter. He sometimes represented himself to be a female and between the ages of teens to 30s, depending on the targeted victim. Moore was seeking young, black female girls, and Facebook transcripts indicate that he would ask them their ages. His victims ranged in age from 10 to 16, and he knew they were minors. Moore’s victims were from multiple states, and he would discuss sex in explicit terms with his victims and would request that they send him nude pictures of their breasts and genitalia. To coerce and induce victims to send sexually explicit pictures and videos of themselves, Moore would send them explicit pictures and videos.

Investigators discovered that a 10-year-old girl in the fourth grade began communicating with Moore on Facebook in May 2018. Moore represented himself to be a 14-year-old female living in Atlanta, and sent fictitious photos of himself, posing as female. He asked the 10-year-old victim to send pictures, which she did. Moore then asked the child victim for an explicit video, and he sent her a video to demonstrate what he was looking for her to send. The 10-year-old victim then sent him three explicit videos of herself.

During the time and scope of this investigation, Moore began conversation threads with a total of 1,306 individuals on Facebook, engaging 80 people in sustained conversations, 30 of which were juveniles. Four of these juveniles sent child pornography to Moore, and others sent explicit photographs of themselves, such as pictures of their breasts. Almost all of these victim received explicit sexual material from Moore, which he sent to induce, coerce and “educate” them.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdga/pr/macon-man-pleads-guilty-child-sexual-exploitation-social-media-child-pornography

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of Massachusetts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, September 24, 2021

Taunton Man Indicted for Child Pornography Offense

Defendant has prior federal conviction for possession of child pornography

BOSTON – A Taunton man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Boston for allegedly possessing hundreds of images depicting child pornography.

Rudy Frabizio, 59, was indicted on one count of possession of child pornography. An arraignment date has not yet been scheduled by the court. Frabizio was arrested and charged by criminal complaint in May 2021 and has been in custody since.

According to the charging documents, during a search of Frabizio’s residence on May 19, 2021, agents found at least 465 images and videos depicting child pornography. It is also alleged that Frabizio uploaded images depicting child pornography via his Google account. Frabizio is a registered Level 2 sex offender due to an April 2009 conviction for possession of child pornography.

The charge of possession of child pornography provides for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. Due to his prior conviction, Frabizio faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 10 years in prison. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Acting United States Attorney Nathaniel R. Mendell and Matthew B. Millhollin, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, made the announcement. The Taunton Police Department provided valuable assistance with the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Deitch of Mendell’s Major Crimes Unit is prosecuting the case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/taunton-man-indicted-child-pornography-offense

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of Massachusetts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, September 24, 2021

Foxborough Teacher Indicted on Child Exploitation Charges

BOSTON – A teacher at Foxborough High School was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday in connection with possession of child pornography and receiving child pornography over the internet.

Thomas Davis, 41, of Mansfield, was indicted on one count of possession and receipt of child pornography. Davis was arrested and charged by criminal complaint on Aug. 26, 2021 and has remained in custody since that time.

According to the charging documents, on Aug. 26, 2021, law enforcement executed a search warrant at Davis’ residence and seized a laptop belonging to Davis. An on-site examination revealed approximately 40 images of child pornography on the laptop, including images involving prepubescent minors under the age of 12-years-old. A forensic analysis of Davis’ laptop revealed additional amounts of child pornography.

Members of the public who have questions, concerns or information regarding this case should call 617-748-3274.

The charge of receipt of child pornography provides for a sentence of at least five years and up to 20 years in prison, at least five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000. The charge of possession of child pornography provides for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, at least five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Acting United States Attorney Nathaniel R. Mendell and Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division made the announcement. Valuable assistance was provided by the Mansfield Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney David G. Tobin of Mendell’s Major Crimes Unit is prosecuting the case

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/foxborough-teacher-indicted-child-exploitation-charges

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of Indiana

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, September 24, 2021

West Virginia Man Convicted After Two Day Jury Trial

FORT WAYNE- Kevin Hartleroad, 64, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, was convicted on the sole count of an Indictment charging him with attempted production of child pornography following a two day jury trial announced Acting United States Attorney Tina L. Nommay.

According to documents in this case, in February 2020, Hartleroad attempted to coerce a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct.

Sentencing is scheduled for January 5, 2022.

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Lesley J. Miller Lowery.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndin/pr/west-virginia-man-convicted-after-two-day-jury-trial

U.S. Attorney’s Office

District of Alaska

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, September 24, 2021

Eagle River Man Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

ANCHORAGE – An Eagle River man was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Crimes Against Children and Human Trafficking Task Force on a federal complaint for child pornography offenses.

According to court documents, Daniel Brooks, 51, is charged by information with violations related to the alleged possession of and access with intent to view child pornography. As detailed in the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint, the case first came to the attention of the FBI when the chief security officer where Brooks worked reported the discovery of numerous jpeg images of suspected child pornography. The FBI executed a federal search warrant at Brooks’ home for computer related devices. During an interview with FBI agents, Brooks admitted to having over 1,000 images of child pornography on a drive connected to his work computer.

If the public has any further information regarding Brook’s activities, please contact the FBI Anchorage Field Office at

(907) 276-4441.

The FBI’s Crimes Against Children and Human Trafficking Task Force, conducted the investigation leading to Brook’s arrest.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Alexander is prosecuting the case.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/eagle-river-man-arrested-child-pornography-charges

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Central District of Illinois

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, September 24, 2021

Three Pike County Men Charged with Sexual Exploitation of a Child

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A federal grand jury indicted three men – Anthony M. Westemeyer, Bobby J. Warner, and Michael Wallace – all of Nebo, Illinois – on September 9, 2021 for sexual exploitation of a child. The indictment was unsealed today when the last of the three men, Westemeyer, was arraigned in federal court.

The indictment alleges that in May 2021 the three men caused a minor victim to engage in sexually explicit conduct, which was recorded and stored on a computer.

If convicted, the men face a maximum statutory penalty of 30 years’ imprisonment, followed by a life term of supervised release. Each charge also carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment.

Wallace was arrested in Nebo on September 10, 2021. Warner was arrested in Pittsfield, Illinois, on September 13, 2021. United States Magistrate Judge Tom Schanzle-Haskins ordered that both men be detained pending trial at a related hearing on September 16, 2021. The U.S. Marshals Service lodged a detainer for Westemeyer, who is presently in the custody of the Pike County, Illinois, Sheriff. Judge Schanzle-Haskins also ordered that Westermeyer be detained pending trial at today’s hearing.

Agencies participating in the investigation include U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations; the Illinois Attorney General’s Office; the Pike County Sheriff’s Office; and the Pike County State’s Attorney’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sarah E. Seberger and Tanner K. Jacobs are representing the government in the prosecution.

Anyone with information connected with this investigation is urged to call the Department of Homeland Security Investigations at (217) 547-2100.

Members of the public are reminded that an indictment is merely an accusation; the defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdil/pr/three-pike-county-men-charged-sexual-exploitation-child

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of Florida

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, September 24, 2021

Tallahassee Man Sentenced To Twenty Years On Charges Of Production And Distribution Of Child Pornography

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – Gregory Carroll Johnson, 40, of Tallahassee, Florida, was sentenced to twenty years in federal prison on charges of conspiracy to produce, distribute, possess, and receive child pornography. The sentence, which followed his guilty plea earlier this year, was announced by Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.

Court documents reflect, in July 2019, representatives of local, state, and federal law enforcement executed a search warrant at Johnson’s residence in Tallahassee. The evidence showed that Johnson had been receiving child pornography from an individual in Atlanta. While conducting the search, however, authorities found messages on Johnson’s phone that demonstrated Johnson and co-defendant Madison King had also conspired to produce child pornography. The recovered evidence included short video clips and pictures that King had taken and transmitted to Johnson depicting the sexual abuse of a toddler. Florida investigators quickly obtained emergency legal process to locate King and contacted their Georgia counterparts. That same day, agents with Homeland Security Investigations, in concert with the Berrien County (Georgia) Sheriff’s Office, executed a search of King’s Nashville, Georgia residence, whereupon the child was rescued.

“There is no greater charge than the protection of our children,” stated Acting U.S. Attorney Coody. “This sentence is yet another example of the unwavering commitment to the protection of our most vulnerable and should serve as a significant deterrent to those who would attempt to harm them. Our law enforcement partners are to be commended for the swift, multi-state investigation, which resulted in the immediate rescue of this child, preventing further abuse.”

“During the course of this investigation, a child was saved from this predator thanks to HSI partnerships in our offices in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and here in Tallahassee,” said HSI Tampa Assistant Special Agent in Charge Micah McCombs.

“There is no crime worse than the crimes against our children,” said Berrien County Sheriff Ray Paulk. “I would like to thank our investigators and our District Attorney’s Office for acting swiftly and efficiently in this case to ensure the safety of this child. I also want to thank all of the local, state, and federal law enforcement that worked together in making a case like this priority.” “We couldn’t be more thankful for Acting U.S. Attorney Jason Coody and his staff for securing another conviction in this case, making the world a safer place for our children to live.”

Johnson's prison sentence will be followed by ten years of supervised release. He will also be required to register as a sex offender and will be subject to all sex offender conditions.

This conviction was the result of an investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations, the Leon County Sheriff’s Office, the Berrien County Sheriff’s Office, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Assistant United States Attorneys Meredith L. Steer and Michelle Spaven prosecuted the case.

The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Florida is one of 94 offices that serve as the nation’s principal litigators under the direction of the Attorney General. To access public court documents online, please visit the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida website. For more information about the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Florida, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/fln/index.html.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndfl/pr/tallahassee-man-sentenced-twenty-years-charges-production-and-distribution-child-0

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Western District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, September 24, 2021

Hamburg Man Going To Prison For 30 Years For Production Of Child Pornography

CONTACT: Barbara Burns

PHONE: (716) 843-5817

FAX #: (716) 551-3051

BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Robert Chapline, 61, of Hamburg, NY, who was convicted of production of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 30 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Aaron J. Mango and Caitlin Higgins, who handled the case, stated that between February 13, 2016, and October 2, 2017, the defendant coerced a minor (Victim) to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing visual depictions. In February 2016, Chapline took photographs of the Victim getting out of a shower and then posing in a bedroom. The defendant engaged in sexual contact with the Victim on several occasions between 2012 and 2017.

The sentencing is the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent-in-Charge Stephen Belongia; the Hamburg Police Department, under the direction of Chief Kevin Trask; and the Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdny/pr/hamburg-man-going-prison-30-years-production-child-pornography

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of Indiana

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, September 24, 2021

Elkhart Man Sentenced To 40 Years in Prison

For Sex Trafficking and Child Pornography Conviction

SOUTH BEND – Khalil Jackson, age 25, of Elkhart, Indiana was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty after being convicted following a four-day trial in June 2021, announced Acting United States Attorney Tina L. Nommay.

Jackson was sentenced to 480 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release.

According to documents in this case, a jury found Jackson guilty of various federal charges arising out of conduct involving human trafficking of a minor victim: specifically, Count 1 – sex trafficking of a minor, Count 2 – production of child pornography, Count 3 – transportation of child pornography, Count 4 – possession of child pornography, and Count 5 – cyberstalking.

“This conviction holds Jackson responsible for his reprehensible conduct targeting vulnerable youth whom he abused, exploited and groomed for sex trafficking for his own benefit,” said Acting US Attorney Tina Nommay. “Today’s 40 year sentence imposed by the District Court reflects the seriousness of Jackson’s offense. This case exemplifies the dedication by law enforcement and prosecutors in protecting the rights of the victims of human trafficking activity, and I commend them for their hard work and successful resolution of this case.”

"It's imperative children are able to grow up without being offered for sale by adults who place a price tag on them and attempt to profit from their innocence,” said FBI Indianapolis Acting Special Agent in Charge Paul Holdeman. “We will continue to work closely with our law enforcement partners to ensure we hold those who prey on our children accountable for their heinous actions.”

This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the assistance of the St. Joseph County Police Department and Elkhart Police Department. This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys John Maciejczyk, Kim Schultz, and Joel Gabrielse.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndin/pr/elkhart-man-sentenced-40-years-prison

Hamburg Man Going To Prison For 30 Years For Production Of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdny/pr/hamburg-man-going-prison-30-years-production-child-pornography

Elkhart Man Sentenced To 40 Years in Prison

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndin/pr/elkhart-man-sentenced-40-years-prison

Tallahassee Man Sentenced To Twenty Years On Charges Of Production And Distribution Of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndfl/pr/tallahassee-man-sentenced-twenty-years-charges-production-and-distribution-child-0

Three Pike County Men Charged with Sexual Exploitation of a Child

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdil/pr/three-pike-county-men-charged-sexual-exploitation-child

Eagle River Man Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/eagle-river-man-arrested-child-pornography-charges

West Virginia Man Convicted After Two Day Jury Trial

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndin/pr/west-virginia-man-convicted-after-two-day-jury-trial

Foxborough Teacher Indicted on Child Exploitation Charges

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/foxborough-teacher-indicted-child-exploitation-charges

Taunton Man Indicted for Child Pornography Offense

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/taunton-man-indicted-child-pornography-offense

Macon Man Pleads Guilty to Child Sexual Exploitation in Social Media Child Pornography Investigation

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdga/pr/macon-man-pleads-guilty-child-sexual-exploitation-social-media-child-pornography

Binghamton Sex Offender Sentenced for Failing to Register his Change of Address

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/binghamton-sex-offender-sentenced-failing-register-his-change-address

Man Sentenced to 35+ Years for Pornographic Images of Six-Year-Olds

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/man-sentenced-35-years-pornographic-images-six-year-olds

Altoona, PA Man Pleads Guilty to Possessing Pictures and Videos Depicting Child Sexual Exploitation

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/altoona-pa-man-pleads-guilty-possessing-pictures-and-videos-depicting-child-sexual

Virginia man sentenced for sex offender charge

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndwv/pr/virginia-man-sentenced-sex-offender-charge

Navajo man sentenced to 12 years in prison for abusive sexual contact of a minor in Indian Country

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nm/pr/navajo-man-sentenced-12-years-prison-abusive-sexual-contact-minor-indian-country

U.S. Attorney Seeking Victims Advertised on CityXGuide.com

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/us-attorney-seeking-victims-advertised-cityxguidecom

Former Nassau County Fire Rescue Employee Sentenced To More Than 7 Years In Federal Prison For Receiving Child Sexual Abuse Images And Videos Over The Internet

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/former-nassau-county-fire-rescue-employee-sentenced-more-7-years-federal-prison

Putnam County Registered Sex Offender Sentenced To 10 Years In Federal Prison For Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Images

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/putnam-county-registered-sex-offender-sentenced-10-years-federal-prison-possessing

Individual Pleads Guilty To Sexual Abuse Of A Minor In Indian Country

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edok/pr/individual-pleads-guilty-sexual-abuse-minor-indian-country

Federal Employee Who Accessed Child Pornography Aboard Government Research Vessel Sentenced to Federal Prison

https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/federal-employee-who-accessed-child-pornography-aboard-government-research-vessel

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U.S. Attorney’s Office

Northern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Ulster County Man Sentenced to 35 Months for Failing to Register as a Sex Offender

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Delbert Tibbs, age 28, was sentenced today to 35 months in prison, to be followed by a 5-year term of supervised release, for failing to register in New York as a sex offender after he fled Tennessee and relocated to Ellenville, New York.

The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and United States Marshal David L. McNulty.

On April 9, 2021, Tibbs pled guilty to one count of failure to register as a sex offender. During his plea hearing, Tibbs acknowledged that, due to two sexual assault convictions in 2015 in Tennessee, he is required to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act and to keep that registration current. Tibbs also acknowledged that, following his departure from Tennessee, which he accomplished by removing a court-required GPS tracking device, he did not timely register his change of address with authorities in either Tennessee or New York.

This case was investigated the United States Marshals Service and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Emily C. Powers.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/ulster-county-man-sentenced-35-months-failing-register-sex-offender

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