News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Feb.14, 2017, Braun Tarone Evans Dabbs, 33, of Greeneville, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 210 months in federal prison following a conviction for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of cocaine consecutive...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Homayoon Daneshvar, 63, a resident of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for charges related to a $1.9 million investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Grzegorz Baczewski, age 31, of Ridgewood, New York, was sentenced today to time served (20 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - China’s National Narcotics Control Commission announced this week that scheduling controls against four fentanyl-class substances - carfentanil, furanyl fentanyl, valeryl fentanyl, and acryl fentanyl - will begin on March 1, 2017. This announcement is the culmination of ongoing collaboration between the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Government of China, and reaffirms the shared commitment to countering illicit fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Haris Qamar, 26, of Burke, was sentenced today to 8 1/2 years in prison for attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Qamar was also sentenced to 20 years of supervised release to be completed after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Dave Montonio Sturgis, Jr., has been sentenced to 32 years in federal prison for robbing three drug stores in Cobb County, Georgia, in June 2015. Sturgis’ co-defendant and robbery partner Lloyd Nathaniel Joyner, a/k/a Zulu, a/k/a Zu, was sentenced on Jan. 12, 2017, to 40 years in prison for the three robberies he committed with Sturgis and three other robberies he committed in May and early June 2015 in Atlanta and Cobb County.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - On Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, Darin Lewis, 46, of Crestview, Florida, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud, announced United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. Lewis’s conviction stemmed from his involvement in a scheme to falsify water samples during the testing of new water lines installed in Dale County, Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Chicago woman is facing a federal drug trafficking charge for allegedly trying to smuggle at least a kilogram of heroin and four kilograms of marijuana on a plane leaving Los Angeles International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, FBI agents arrested 66-year-old San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) Trustee Olga Hernandez for her alleged role in a bribery scheme depriving taxpayers of honest services announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Davenport, IA - On Feb. 17, 2017, DeAries Napoleon Jonesheather Jean Reekr, age 28, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 33 months in prison for two counts of felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Jones was ordered to serve a three-year term of supervised release following his release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: A nine-count indictment was filed charging a Brunswick couple with failing to make payments to support the pension and benefits fund of its employees and then obstructing the subsequent investigation, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Brent M. Gorshe, 27, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, was convicted of distributing oxycodone, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Berea pharmacist, Lonnie Hubbard, age 41, has been convicted by a federal jury of 71 counts, including fifty-six drug counts, involving the illegal dispensing of controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose and dispensing pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine; maintaining a drug involved premises; twelve counts of money laundering; and two conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston man was sentenced to more than 18 years in prison today for sex trafficking of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Houghton, MI - Isle Royale National Park is considering a proposal by Isle Royale Seaplanes (IRS) to offer seaplance service from Grand Marais, Minnesota, to Isle Royale. IRS has an existing contract with the Park to provide air taxi service from Houghton to Isle Royale through 2025. IRS would continue...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Richard Ramsey, age 48, of Saratoga Springs, New York, pled guilty today to two counts of providing false testimony to a federal grand jury investigating a fire that killed four people in Schenectady and seriously injured another.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Robert Ellis Waddey, 22, of Nashville, Tenn., was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury and charged with communicating a threat by interstate commerce and with being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of firearms, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the administration of this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Adam Nauveed Hayat, age 35, Denver, Colorado, was arrested without incident yesterday in a Los Angeles, California hotel, after being charged in U.S. District Court in Denver for possession of pipe bombs not registered with the ATF, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer, FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Calvin Shivers, ATF Denver Field Division Special Agent in Charge Debora Livingston and Denver Police Department Chief Robert White announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Jonesboro man was sentenced Monday to 24 months in prison for obtaining FEMA grants for a fire department so that he could then sell his company’s products to it.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: CONTACT: Barbara Burns. PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Secchiaroli, 31, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with distribution and possession of child pornography. The charges...
