News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Two Akron men were indicted for trafficking crystal methamphetamine, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced DAVID SUIAUNOA, a/k/a “DAVE," age 46, from Torrence, California, pled guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and conspiracy to use interstate commerce facilities on the commission of a murder for hire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Oscar Collado-Rivera, 32, of New Albany, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 200 months in prison for conspiring with others to distribute more than 150 kilograms of cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Meeting the vital needs of American families, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) conducted its fourth annual auction of Federal crude helium at the Amarillo Field Office, under the terms of the Helium Stewardship Act (Act) of 2013. The BLM offered a total of 500 million cubic feet (MMcf) from the Federal Helium Reserve near Amarillo, representing 55 percent of the total volume the BLM will make available from the Reserve in Fiscal Year 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted today in federal court in Boston for failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Three men were indicted for illegally reentering the United States, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced today to four years in federal prison for a gun crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Shon Wayne Cobbs, 45, previously pleaded guilty to a single-count indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The former Postmaster of the U.S. Postal Service Post Offices in Blackstone and Jefferson, Mass., was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for stealing approximately $31,000 from the U.S. Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Heather Wagoner, age 31, of Buchanan, Virginia was sentenced to eight years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander. Wagoner pleaded guilty to a sex trafficking conspiracy involving a 16 year old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Justin Laurence McKinley (49, Jacksonville) to 30 years in federal prison for communicating over the Internet with foreign nationals and soliciting the live molestation of children for online viewing. He was also ordered to serve a life term of supervision upon his release and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: John Gillespie, age 18, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Jeremy Reynolds, age 18, from Hiawatha, Iowa, have been charged with one count each of theft of firearms from a licensed firearms dealer in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids. Reynolds is charged in an Indictment filed on July 18, 2017. Gillespie is charged in an Information filed on July 14, 2017. Both Reynolds and Gillespie were previously charged in complaints and were previously detained by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch, of the Little Rock Field Office for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced today that Lacy Brooks, 31, of Searcy, was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for producing live pornographic videos of a 15-month-old baby.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: “Dark Net" Site Was Major Source of Fentanyl and Heroin, Linked to Overdose Deaths, and Used by Hundreds of Thousands of People to Buy and Sell Illegal Goods and Services Anonymously over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: A grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Kenneth Ray Evans, 51, of Mentor, with receiving visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CRAIG A. TAFFARO, age 70, of Harvey and a former Chief Deputy for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, was charged today in a two-count Indictment with tax evasion and filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida- Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Wayne St. Aubyn Smith (50, Parrish), a/k/a Wayne Smith El-Bey, guilty of attempting to file a false lien against a federal judge. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A 30-year employee of a McHenry County manufacturing firm stole proprietary information from the company while planning to move to China to begin work for a rival firm, according to an indictment returned in federal court in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SCOTT TAYLOR, 47, formerly of Shelton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 188 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for robbing four branches of Chase Bank last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: 23-year-old Attacked Flight Attendants and Passenger who tried to Stop Him from Opening Aircraft Door in Flight.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Williamsburg lawyer guilty of her role in a conspiracy to fraudulently transfer of hundreds of timeshare units was sentenced today to 50 months in prison.
