News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On July 19, 2017, Cynthia Ann Mitteness, age 49, of Minnesota, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 27 years imprisonment for conspiring to transport a minor child with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former contractor of the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation (NWCDC) was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme involving an employee and consultant of the NWCDC, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged sixteen individuals with charges related to distribution of fentanyl, maintaining drug-involved premises, firearms offenses and money laundering in a 45-count indictment filed here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker sentenced 24-year-old Demetrius Viney, Jr. of Holland, Michigan to 100 months’ imprisonment for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Byerly Birge announced today. Judge Jonker also ordered Viney to serve three years of supervised release, forfeit the firearm, and pay a $1,200 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Gerald Kent, 51, of Groton, CT, owner and operator of Kent Jewelry in Johnston, RI., made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Providence today and was ordered detained in federal custody, charged by way of a criminal complaint with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee today unanimously advanced the nomination of David J. Kautter to serve as the United States Treasury Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy. Following the vote, Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Sandro Martinez, 41, of Providence, today was ordered detained in federal custody on drug trafficking and firearm charges. Martinez was arrested on Wednesday by members of the Rhode Island Drug Enforcement Agency Task Force following the seizure of more than 650 grams of suspected fentanyl, more than 6 kilograms of a powdery substance suspected to be cocaine, heroin and/or fentanyl, and a loaded firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: One Defendant Still at Large. CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged seven defendants in armed bank robbery cases in two separate indictments returned in Cincinnati. Malcolm Lorenzo Jones, 20, of Cincinnati, remains at large. Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - David Daniel Hunter, age 53, of Enfield, Connecticut, was arraigned today on charges of robbery and transporting a stolen motor vehicle in interstate commerce.
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: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national was charged today in federal court in Boston with a federal immigration crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: FBI Media Alert: 2015 Rio Rancho Bank Robber Still Sought.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Nineteen Western Pennsylvania residents have been charged with violations of the federal narcotics laws in three separate, but related, indictments returned on July 11, 2017 and unsealed today, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Idaho Falls, ID - The allure of a solar eclipse will attract many visitors to Idaho during the driest time of the year. This influx of visitors into fire-prone public lands within the eclipse’s path of totality could result in an increase of human-caused fire starts, while making it harder for fire personnel to suppress these wildfires. The Bureau of Land Management is taking preventive steps to educate residents and eclipse chasers about this concern.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM BRACY, a/k/a “Rel," was sentenced yesterday to a prison term of 396 months for his crimes as a member of the “Young Gunnaz" or “YGz" gang, including the April 16, 2012, murder of Moises Lora...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Xavior Akina, 20, of Albuquerque, N.M., entered a guilty plea today in federal court to violating the Hobbs Act by robbing a pizza delivery person on March 7, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Six individuals have been charged in a second superseding indictment for their role in a multi-million dollar securities fraud “pump-and-dump" conspiracy, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted today in federal court in Boston on a federal firearms charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Xavior Akina, 20, of Albuquerque, N.M., entered a guilty plea today in federal court to violating the Hobbs Act by robbing a pizza delivery person on March 7, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monsey, New York, man was sentenced today to 13 months in prison for assaulting a woman on a flight from Israel to Newark Liberty International Airport, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
