News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: George Piro Named Assistant Director of the International Operations Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Today, Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office statewide Anti-Violent Crime Strategy, which brings together municipal, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to combat the tide of rising crime in Alaska. Earlier this month, Attorney General Jefferson...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Marquist Fulcher, aka “Keezie," 28, of Fort Worth, Texas, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renee Harris Toliver, to one count of conspiracy to commit child sex trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Carlos Pena-Prado, 32, currently an inmate at Federal Correctional Institution at Oxford, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 30 months in prison for possessing a weapon in the prison. Pena-Prado pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 17, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two defendants appeared in federal court today for heroin crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Gerald Tyrone King, 38, of White Sulphur Springs, previously pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin and was sentenced in federal court in Beckley to a year and nine months in prison. In a separate prosecution, Dana Stevenson, 26, of Charleston, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jose Alberto Abundiz, a.k.a. “Scarface", of Yakima, Washington, was sentenced today after previously having pled guilty on June 28, 2017, to distribution of a controlled substance - methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Defendants Prosecuted as Part of The Guardians Project, a Federal Law Enforcement Initiative to Combat Corruption, Fraud, and Abuse in South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -Quantaz Lamar Shields, age 30, of Leonardtown, Maryland, was sentenced today by the United States District Judge Paul W. Grimm to 23 years of imprisonment for committing four armed robberies in St. Mary’s County, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to those robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Honolulu Police Officer Arrested in Continued Probe of Public Corruption.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: GREAT FALLS-- A Great Falls, Montana man was sentenced today for possession of child pornography. United States District Judge Brian M. Morris sentenced Manuel David Orozco, 42, to 120 months in prison, 10 years of supervised release, and a $5,100 special assessment. When he was arrested, Orozco was a Tier I sex offender, because he had been convicted of sex offenses against children in the state of Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Jocquinn Lamont Harris, a former resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 144 months imprisonment, followed by six years supervised release, on charges of distribution and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. Harris was also ordered to pay $11,396.76 in restitution, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Id. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho is announcing opportunities for the public to comment and share issues on the agency’s consideration of potential amendments to its Idaho land use plans, specifically elements of land use plans that address greater sage-grouse conservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Tyrone Greene, age 43, formerly of New York City, was convicted on Oct. 17, 2017, of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition after a two-day jury trial held before U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Drugs Seized from Hidden Compartment in Mini-van.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Liberian national was found guilty Wednesday of two counts of fraud in immigration documents and two counts of perjury, following an extensive investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOSE MANUEL MAZON-DE DIOS, age 32, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Carlos Pena-Prado, 32, currently an inmate at Federal Correctional Institution at Oxford, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 30 months in prison for possessing a weapon in the prison. Pena-Prado pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 17, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Cavya Chandra Obtained Admission to Multiple Universities by Forging Transcripts and Letters of Recommendation.
