News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: Defendant was Extradited From Mexico To Answer for Murder, Gang Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTIAN MEISSENN, also known as “Christian Nigohossian," 44, of Suffield, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to conspiracy and tax evasion charges stemming from his involvement in a securities fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Visitation numbers for October decreased in Yellowstone National Park. The overall decrease for October 2016 totaled nearly 4 percent below October 2015. However, the first 10 months of 2016 are up 3.6 percent compared to the previous year. When comparing visitation for the first 10 months of 2016 with the same period in 2014, the park experienced a 21 percent increase (729,174 more visits) in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: SANTA, ANA, Calif. - The lead defendant in an indictment that outlined a wide-reaching conspiracy to smuggle, manufacture and distribute more than $12 million worth of synthetic drugs has pleaded guilty in federal court. Sean Libbert, 41, of Newport Beach, pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon to a series...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Two people were indicted Tuesday on federal charges they had 117 pounds of cocaine hidden in their car when they were stopped for a traffic violation in Wabaunsee County, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: Elvinn Pawnell, 38, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced on November 8, 2016, in federal district court, in Benton, Illinois, following his recent plea of guilty to one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: A Flint man pleaded guilty on November 8, 2016 to discharging a firearm during a carjacking, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The lead defendant in an indictment that outlined a wide-reaching conspiracy to smuggle, manufacture and distribute more than $12 million worth of synthetic, or analogue, drugs has pleaded guilty in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The founder of a Geneva investment firm has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for using client funds to purchase a yacht and luxury vehicle and to trade his own stocks.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTIAN MEISSENN, also known as “Christian Nigohossian," 44, of Suffield, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to conspiracy and tax evasion charges stemming from his involvement in a securities fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Amir Mohamed Alsaidi, 38, of Baltimore, Maryland, pled guilty in federal court today to unlawful cigarette smuggling, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: A mother and son based in Miami were sentenced today to 120 months and 30 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in spearheading a $9.5 million health care fraud conspiracy that targeted Medicare Part D.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, Mohammed Jubran, 27, of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, pleaded guilty in District Court to trafficking in firearms, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Sentencing is set for March 9, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Damion Kentrell White, 24, of Dallas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 240 months in federal prison on felony convictions stemming from a plan to recruit a developmentally disabled teenage girl to engage in commercial sex acts, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that John Williams, 40, of Stetson was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine and oxycodone. He pled guilty on Jan. 25, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Damion Kentrell White, 24, of Dallas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 240 months in federal prison on felony convictions stemming from a plan to recruit a developmentally disabled teenage girl to engage in commercial sex acts, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: G. F. Peterman, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Steven Maurice McKinley, age 23, of Athens, Georgia, was sentenced today to serve twenty-five years in Federal prison for his attempt to kill an undercover United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: Contact Information: Ken Shetter, OSP - 817-502-7110 or 817-707-7824 (cell). Lt. Kirk Driver, PSN Chair, FWPD - 817-996-0356 (cell). Kathy Colvin, OUSA - 214-659-8600. SSA Scott Ragsdale, ATF - 469-227-4322. Announcing an award of $500,000, one of seven nationally, to One Safe Place for the implementation...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Four individuals, with ties to the Polywood Crips street gang in Fort Worth, Texas, have pleaded guilty to their respective roles in a child sex trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
