News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Daniel M. Schiffmiller, 24, of Santa Fe, N.M., was sentenced last week in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., for his conviction on firearms-related charges. Schiffmiller was sentenced on Dec. 6, 2017, to 19 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: John H, Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JANZAYB KHAN, 29, of Waterbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of making a false oath in a bankruptcy proceeding in connection with a credit card “bust-out" scheme that defrauded more than a dozen financial institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - Joon H. Kim, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Charles Gardner, Yonkers Police Department (the “YPD"); and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), announced today the arrest of Ansley R. Estrella, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: A federal indictment was unsealed last Friday afternoon charging Patricia Cleary with wire fraud, mail fraud, social security fraud, aggravated identity theft and false statements to government agents, announced United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen, FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Michael T. Harpster, USPIS Inspector-In-Charge Daniel B. Brubaker, SSA OIG Special Agent-in-Charge Michael J. McGill, and City of Philadelphia Inspector General Amy Kurland.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EFRAIN ROLON-DONES, 29, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 15 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An individual found by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been sentenced in federal court to four months incarceration and two years of supervised release on his conviction of Illegal Reentry After Deportation, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man caught with heroin and a firearm in July 2017 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Antonio Newson, 42, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: BOISE - David Lon Rose, 43, of Boise, was sentenced last week in federal court to two years in prison followed by four years of supervised release for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Rose pleaded guilty to that charge on Sept. 18, 2017. He was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kevin Marquette Bellinger, a federal inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, was sentenced today to life in prison for murdering another inmate, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Mingo County felon pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Robert Lee Brewer, 57, of Kermit, entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways hosted its 5th annual Exceptional Warrior Mobility Impaired Managed Hunt on November 4th and 5th. In its fifth year, the Exceptional Warrior hunt has grown to include over 15 sponsors and many volunteers whose primary goal is to honor veterans by providing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Taylor Michelle Syslo, of Lost Creek, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 180 months incarceration for distributing fentanyl, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: FBI Prepares Guam & CNMI First Responders for Incidents Involving WMD.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man who sold heroin in June 2016 was sentenced today to four years and three months in federal prison for a drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. George Holloway, 45, previously pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - Eric Zyn Ho, 25, and Bryan Mathew Otero, 27, both of Cincinnati, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of conspiracy to sex traffic a child. Ho also pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Garden Grove man who worked for the United States Postal Service for more than two decades was sentenced today to 75 months in federal prison for stealing thousands of credit cards from the U.S. Mail and selling the credit cards on the black market.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Attorney’s Office through Project Safe Neighborhoods will provide training Wednesday on federal and state firearms prosecution to Birmingham Police officers who work with Birmingham’s housing authority or patrol in its communities, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A Liberian national pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony Dec. 7, following an extensive investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and ICE’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: ANCHORAGE - On Oct. 27, 2017, the Alaska Air Carriers Association (AACA) recognized and bestowed the esteemed title of Alaska Aviation Legend to National Park Service pilot, Darry “Lynn" Ellis. A lifelong Alaskan, Ellis grew up in the remote community of Nabesna located in the Wrangell Mountains northeast...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington felon who possessed a firearm in January 2017 was sentenced today to four years and three months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jermaine D. Cathey, 36, previously pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
