News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Ronald L. Wheeler, III, a/k/a Trappy, has been arraigned on federal charges of conspiracy to commit access device fraud. During the hearing, Wheeler waived indictment and opted to proceed by criminal information.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Father and Son Used Their Export Business to Illegally Transmit over $100 Million Into and Through the United States Financial System.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Fourteen defendants have been charged in a federal indictment, unsealed yesterday, with felony offenses stemming from their role in a Dallas-based criminal street gang known as “YNB Stretch Gang" and a drug distribution group known as “2600 Money Block," announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Efrain Cordoba Carrera (30, Plant City) to two years in federal prison for being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm. He pleaded guilty on Aug. 17, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Butane explosion results in serious injuries to children and defendant.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Robbery team terrorized stores around the Midwest.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: A Toronto resident was arrested in Orlando, Florida, this morning based on federal charges filed in the Northern District of Ohio for coercion and enticement, and transfer of obscene material to minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former Durham, North Carolina, tax return preparer was sentenced to 24 months in prison today for aiding and assisting in the preparation of fraudulent income tax returns, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Hairston for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: EMINENCE, MO: Ornaments by a local Missouri artist will dazzle President’s Park (White House) in Washington, D.C. as part of the 95th annual National Christmas Tree Lighting display. Jennifer Dodson, from Eminence, designed ornaments that showcase historic structures from national parks and historic...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 37-year-old man has been ordered to federal prison for 480 months following his convictions of production and possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. James Kelly Hilton, of Spring, pleaded guilty Aug. 14, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
Release: ATLANTA - Transportation Security Administration officers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) have discovered 211 firearms at security checkpoints in 2017 as of Nov. 16, surpassing the total of 198 firearms found last year and setting a record for the most guns discovered at an airport checkpoint in a single year. The airport has led the nation in this category for five of the last seven years.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: The FBI Seeks Public's Assistance in Armed Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Personal identity information of thousands of taxpayers used in filing false income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney G. F. Peterman, III, announced that a Federal Grand Jury returned indictments in the Columbus Division of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia today charging twenty defendants with Attempted Online Enticement of a Minor, in violation of Title 18...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: For Armed Robbery. SOUTH BEND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Timothy Bennitt, age 27, of Rolling Prairie, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for robbery and brandishing a firearm during a...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division announced that Luis Diaz Jr. and Luis Javier Diaz were found guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court of operating...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jose Velazquez, age 27, was sentenced to 17 ½ years in prison yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that stretched from Stroudsburg to New York to the state of Maine, and forcing or coercing women into engage in prostitution in northeastern Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Ronald L. Wheeler, III, a/k/a Trappy, has been arraigned on federal charges of conspiracy to commit access device fraud. During the hearing, Wheeler waived indictment and opted to proceed by criminal information.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey attorney and another man were charged with running a large-scale mortgage fraud scheme that involved dozens of properties in Jersey City, Clifton, Union, and elsewhere in New Jersey and caused losses of more than $30 million, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Joe L. Russell, II, 50, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., the former Rutherford County Sheriff Chief Administrative Deputy, was sentenced today on federal corruption charges to 15 months for his role in operating a private electronic cigarette company in the county jail for personal gain, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
