News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. - Sullivan County was recognized today as the newest county in east Tennessee to become a member of the Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA). U.S. Attorney Nancy Stallard Harr, along with Second Judicial District Attorney Barry Staubus and Appalachia HIDTA Tennessee State Coordinator Joel Reece, made this announcement at a press conference in Blountville.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U. S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dellsean Hamilton, 28, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin and fentanyl and being a felon in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to 100 months in prison and six years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Falls District and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest are lifting Stage One Fire Restrictions effective Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. This affects BLM-managed public lands and Caribou-Targhee NF lands in 16 eastern Idaho counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Defendant Also Admits to Participating in Armed Robbery and Possessing Cocaine and Marijuana for Sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two California men who were arrested in Essex County, New Jersey, with over 140 kilograms of narcotics in their possession made their initial appearances today in Newark federal court, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two Bay Area companies and the two individuals who head them will pay approximately $2 million to resolve federal and state False Claims Act allegations that they knowingly overbilled a program designed to serve Californians with developmental disabilities, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Jarvis Lanard McCants (29, Bradenton) to 12 years and 6 months in federal prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl. He pleaded guilty on May 4, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Joseph Axzavis Stewart, Sr. age 58, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to 11 years in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for assault with a dangerous weapon, and possession of a dangerous weapon with intent to injure.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for dealing pain pills, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Deangelo Cann, 26, originally from Detroit, previously pleaded guilty to distribution of oxymorphone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Gerson Gonzalez Tovar, 25, who was living in Mesquite, Texas, was sentenced this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade after pleading guilty in March 2017 to one count of production of child pornography, announced John Parker, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 32 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JACQUES FLEURIJEUNE, 28, also known as “Magic," a citizen of Haiti last residing in New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to approximately five months of imprisonment, time already served, and three years of supervised release, for his involvement in an insurance fraud scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Due to the impacts associated with Hurricane Harvey, the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy has the deadline for submission of offers to purchase crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) associated with the sale announced last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that UMAIR HAMID was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for his role in an international diploma mill scheme operated through the Pakistani company Axact. HAMID pled guilty on April 6, 2017, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. HAMID entered the guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams, who imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A Petersburg, West Virginia man was sentenced today to 110 months incarceration for a firearm violation, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced that two California men who were arrested in Essex County, New Jersey with more than 140 kilograms of narcotics in their possession made their initial appearances in Newark federal court today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Cody Tyler Layman of Terra Alta, West Virginia, was sentenced today to eight months incarceration for providing an inmate with marijuana, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen and Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General Special Agent-in-Charge Michael P. Tompkins announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announced that on Aug. 15, 2017, United States District Judge William H. Steele sentenced Arturo Hernandez-Esquivel, 38, an illegal alien from Mexico, to 70 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
