News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Richard Harrison Moore, 49, of Marion, was sentenced in federal court for his distribution of marijuana and hydrocodone during 2013. Moore was arrested as part of a three-year investigation into drug distribution...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that TAHIR FARID, 22, and RYAN LOONEY, 19, both of Hamden, have pleaded guilty to federal oxycodone distribution...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Derek McQuiller, 42, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by Lawrence J. Vilardo. The defendant faced, and the Government advocated for, a sentence of 262 to 327 months in prison, a sentence which was recommended under federal sentencing guidelines.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Kenneth Richardson, 33, of Dallas, pleaded guilty Friday afternoon, before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater, to one count of using a facility of interstate commerce in aid of a racketeering enterprise, stemming from his operation of a prostitution “ring," announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Darius Raymond Stewart, age 22, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to malicious destruction of property by fire, arising from the arson of a liquor store on April 27, 2015, during the riots following the death of Freddie Gray. One victim was seriously injured inside the store, and another escaped with minor injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former FBI special agent pleaded guilty today for stealing over $136,000 of drug proceeds seized during the execution of search warrants in 2014 and falsifying reports and tampering with a witness.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Philadelphia man today admitted that he stole more than $1.2 million dollars from the U.S. Government through a food stamp scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Monroe County woman connected to a heroin trafficking ring that operated in Monroe County and elsewhere during 2012 through March 2015, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Suhip E. Ebrahim, 26, of Bridgeport, West Virginia, pled guilty in federal court in Wheeling today to oxycodone trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Anthony Quintana, 31, of Santa Fe, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 43 months in prison for attempting to rob the Wells Fargo Bank branch located at 545 West Cordova Rd. in Santa Fe, in April 2015. Quintana will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A sergeant with the Atlantic City Police Department (ACPD) today admitted structuring financial transactions to avoid currency reporting requirements and lying to federal agents, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that NIKITA KUZMIN, the creator of “Gozi" malware, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to time served (37 months). Gozi, which was used to steal money from bank accounts across the United States and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Garden Grove man was taken into federal custody this morning after being charged with receiving sexual videos from a 13-year-old girl he met on the Internet and traveling to Canada to have sex with the girl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Isaiah Jernigan, Darren Williamson, Jr., a/k/a Chef Boy RD, Marie St. Vil, a/k/a Jasmine, and Brianne Marcelin, a/k/a Bri, have been sentenced for sex trafficking three minor girls in Atlanta during the 2013 Final Four NCAA Playoffs.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Wilmington, DE -Get ready to explore First State National Historical Park like never before! On May 20-21, First State will participate in the National Parks BioBlitz. A BioBlitz is a fun, fast-paced biological survey of a park's creepers and crawlers, plants and pollinators, mammals and more. The National Park Service is celebrating its 100th birthday with more than 100 BioBlitzes across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: On May 2, 2016, Alejandro Amor, the owner of a Florida for-profit college called FastTrain, was sentenced to 97 months in prison by United States District Court Judge Joan A. Lenard, after having been convicted by a federal jury of orchestrating a conspiracy to steal government money and in fact stealing government money. FastTrain admissions representative Anthony Mincey was previously sentenced to 33 months in prison for his participation in the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on April 29, 2016, Richard Hogg, 56, Highland, IL, was sentenced on an Indictment charging him, in Count 1, with Distribution of Child Pornography; in Counts 2 and 3, with Receipt of Child Pornography;...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Colbert Juan Jones, Jr., age 33, of St. Leonard, Maryland today to 10 years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute powder cocaine and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Judge Chasanow also issued an order requiring Jones to forfeit over $20,000 in drug proceeds, two cars, two shotguns, and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - John R. Burrows, 54, of Weston, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for synthetic drug trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Quintin A. Bell, age 51, of Riverdale, Maryland, today to 40 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute heroin and crack cocaine; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. A jury convicted Bell of those charges on Nov. 18, 2015.
