News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The first defendant to go to trial in “Operation Open Market," an investigation of a sophisticated cybercrime organization that operated a world-wide online market place for stolen personal and financial information, was convicted today by a federal jury in Las Vegas, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada and Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Quintavis Deonte Dumas, age 23, and Koya Tiffany Rooke, age 24, both of Snellville, Georgia, were each sentenced today to 10 years in prison for Sex Trafficking of a Child. Dumas and Rooke were also ordered to pay a total of $17,572.47 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: Three Cleveland men sentenced to lengthy prison terms this week for their roles in unrelated bank robberies, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Batesland, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Dec. 2, 2013, by U.S. Chief Judge Jeffery L. Viken.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Colorado man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Distribution of a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Dejon Andrade, 27, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell, Jr. to 15 months in prison for unlawful dealing in firearms and a concurrent sentence of 15 months in prison for illegal transportation of firearms acquired outside of state ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) St. Louis, Acting Special Agent in Charge, James Shroba and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Deborah A. Perkins and her son, Douglas A. Oliver, were sentenced in United States District Court for Distribution of Heroin and Maintaining Drug-Involved Premises.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack appointed seven representatives to serve on the Peanut Standards Board. Six members will serve on the board through June 2016. A seventh member will fill a current vacancy through June 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Patrick Brightwell, 47, of Bogart, Ga., has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he orchestrated the discharge of waste into the Potomac River at Hains Point from 2009 through 2011, during the same period his company was hired by the National Park Service to clean out the storm water sewer system on the National Mall.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced today that as part of the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative, and in conjunction with the Virgin Islands Housing Authority (VIHA), a series of community meetings are presently taking place throughout...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that Jesus Sablan Palacios was found guilty on Wednesday, December 5, 2013, of the following charges: three counts of Felon in Possession of Firearm and/or Ammunition, and three counts of Unlawful User of a Controlled Substance in Possession of Firearm and/or Ammunition, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and (3).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Darrell Mathis has pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: During Past 2 Years, 43 Defendants Linked to Inland Empire’s Old Quest Foundation Have Been Convicted, Including Attorney and 7 Tax Return Preparers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On December 5, 2013, Norman Dudley, age 22, from Iowa City, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 26 months in prison, after pleading guilty to distribution of cocaine base (“crack"), announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Dudley was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release, following the period of imprisonment, and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the November employment numbers, showing the unemployment rate dropped from 7.3 percent to 7.0 percent in November, with more than 200,000 jobs added to the economy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John M. Berry, Jr., 42, of Dunkirk, N.Y., who was convicted of making a false claim against the United States, was sentenced to 41 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $92,462.12 to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: Judge Lodge Reinstates Previous Order. BOISE - Convicted child murderer Joseph Edward Duncan, III, was found competent to waive his appeal in November 2008 after a federal jury sentenced him to death in August 2008 for the kidnapping and murder of a nine-year-old north Idaho boy. United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Bakusa Dukaray, 38, of Gambia, pleaded guilty to misuse of passport and aggravated identity theft before U.S. District Chief Judge William M. Skretny. The misuse of passport charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both. The aggravated identity theft charge carries a mandatory two year consecutive sentence to the misuse of passport charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Mohammed Sharif Alaboudi, age 45, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was found guilty of four counts of sex trafficking, including sex trafficking by force and sex trafficking of a child. The guilty verdicts followed a four-day federal jury trial in Sioux Falls. Each of the four counts carries a maximum prison term of life. Three counts carry mandatory minimum prison terms of 15 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
