News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Luis Cortez-Garcia, 44, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to five and a half years in prison by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. for unlawful manufacturing and sales of firearms, possession of a machine gun, and possession of a unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - Twelve members of the Conservative Vice Lords/Concrete Cartel Street Gang, a nation-wide street gang with its origin and home base in Chicago, Illinois, were charged in a federal indictment for Racketeering (RICO), business and pharmacy robberies and drug trafficking. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Sherie Britton, a former church administrator, has pleaded guilty to embezzling over $315,000 from a church in Clayton County, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that the former warden for the Avoyelles Correctional Center and his wife were indicted for fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Government Contractor Admits that it Violated Federal Laws Designed to Enhance Contracting Opportunities for Our Nation’s Service-Disabled Veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Prosecution Part of Federal Initiative to Address Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Tombigbee Pioneer Group will demonstrate pioneer era crafts and skills at the Parkway Visitor Center, from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm on Aug. 26, 2017. The demonstrations will show the challenges faced and creative solutions developed by those Americans who lived in the area from the 1700s to around 1840.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Joseph Santore Coleman, Jr., age 36, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Aug. 10, 2017, by a federal grand jury for possession of a loaded 9mm semi-automatic pistol after being convicted for a felony offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: The Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler announces that Collie Bo Young Evans, Jr, a 34 year old, resident of Eight Mile, Alabama was sentenced today to 18 months incarceration followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute 25.66 kilograms of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Adrianna C. Frye-Williamson, 21, Springfield, Illinois, pled guilty today to three bank robberies she committed in Illinois between January 12 and February 9, 2017. The first bank robbery occurred in Springfield...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KERMERIC JOHNSON, age 34, of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to use a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Wayne J. Jones, II, 38, from Waterloo, Iowa, has been charged with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon and unlawful drug user. The charge is contained in an Indictment filed August 9, 2017, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - In Aug. 2016, a multi-agency investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) concluded with the filing of 59 federal indictments and a federal criminal complaint charging 104 Bernalillo County residents with federal firearms and narcotics trafficking offenses. To date, 69 of the 104 defendants charged as the result of this investigation have entered guilty pleas and 33 of them have been sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting U.S. Attorney John J. Farley announced that Michael Giles, 41, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison after committing three bank robberies and attempting to rob a fourth bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, G. F. Peterman, III, announced that an indictment was unsealed today charging.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that 10 defendants have pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to a $1 million conspiracy to distribute at least 30 kilograms of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Charles F. Denno, 67, of East Providence, a former finance director for the Providence Plan, was sentenced today to 33 months in federal prison for devising and executing a scheme in which he fraudulently converted $742,190.69 of Providence Plan funds for his personal use.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Armando Lozano, 42, of Long Beach, California, was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment on Aug. 11, 2017, for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. After release from prison, Lozano will be placed on four years of supervised release. Lozano was also fined $200 and ordered to pay a $200 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted a Chicago Police officer on an obstruction charge for notifying a high school friend that he was the target of a federal drug investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Laura Alicia Cox, 56, of Nampa, Idaho, was indicted by a federal grand jury on August 8, 2017, for two counts of mail theft by a postal employee, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced.
