News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Michael Lee Westbrook, age 41, of Greenville, South Carolina, was sentenced Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Greenville, for felon in possession of a firearm, a violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g). Due to his significant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Osvaldo Santos-Escarenio, 25, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on July 20, 2017, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Santos-Escarenio was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - The last of twenty defendants have been sentenced for their involvement in a large-scale, methamphetamine trafficking organization operating primarily within Taylor County. During the fall of 2014, an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force began investigating the distribution...
By State Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today had the following question-and-answer session with at the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee hearing on implementation of his law, the U.S.-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act (H.R. 4939 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Gregory Brown (28, Tampa) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The Court also ordered him to forfeit a Smith & Wesson model SW40VE.40-caliber pistol and 14 rounds of ammunition traceable to the offense. Brown pleaded guilty on March 21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Took Part in Daylight Attacks at Metro Station.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal jury has convicted Robert Swinton, 38, of Rochester, NY, of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, maintaining a drug involved premises, possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes, and possession of firearms and ammunition as a previously convicted felon. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $2,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A California man who participated in a large-scale cocaine trafficking conspiracy was sentenced today to 10 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA- Evgeny Tarasovich Levitskyy, a/k/a Vinchenco, a/k/a Vinch, a/k/a M.U.R.D.E.R.E.R, has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud for his role as a “casher" (one who withdraws cash using stolen bank account information) in the 2008 hack of RBS WorldPay.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Cruz Eduardo Tinoco-Salvador, of Norristown, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about June 20, 2017, Tinoco-Salvador, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about April 16, 2012, Jan. 22, 2015, and Feb. 26, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 34-year-old Houston woman has been taken into custody for her alleged involvement in a virtual kidnapping for ransom scheme that stretched to three states, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez of the Southern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly discussed his top priorities for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at the Aspen Security Forum. In a discussion with NBC News’ Pete Williams, Secretary Kelly highlighted DHS efforts to confront transnational criminal organizations by reducing drug demand, raise global aviation security standards, and bolster cybersecurity.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS S&T Press Office, John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded Salt Lake City-based startup Evernym a $749,000 Small Business Innovation Program (SBIR) award to develop an easy-to-use, decentralized mechanism for managing public and private keys needed for the secure and scalable deployment of blockchain technologies.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON, July 20, 2017) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research generated 244 new inventions and 109 patent applications in the 2016 fiscal year. These innovations included an anti-cancer drug derived from Omega-3 fatty acids, ...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Action to Provide Help for Producers Dealing with Persistent Drought in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota WASHINGTON, July 20, 2017 – Today, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is authorizing the use of additional Conservation Reserve Program ...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON, July 20, 2017) – Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reached agreement with Chinese officials on final details of a protocol to allow the United States to begin exporting rice to China for the first time ever.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: A Beverly Hills, California resident was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Central District of California for corruptly endeavoring to impede the internal revenue laws, filing false tax returns, filing false reports regarding his offshore bank accounts and making false statements to a federal agent, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) task force officer pleaded guilty today to unlawfully possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and later conspiring to misappropriate money seized by the DEA during the execution of a search. Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department today announced the seizure of the largest criminal marketplace on the Internet, AlphaBay, which operated for over two years on the dark web and was used to sell deadly illegal drugs, stolen and fraudulent identification documents and access devices, counterfeit goods, malware ...
By Commerce News Now | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Today, the International Trade Administration’s U.S. Commercial Service and the Northern Ohio District Export Council announced a national conference aimed at helping American companies in the advanced manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace industries compete more effectively in global markets.
