News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Today, U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater sentenced three defendants for their roles in a conspiracy involving fraudulent purchases in North Texas using counterfeit bank cards, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the establishment of six new enforcement teams focused on combatting the flow of heroin and illicit fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Rosemary Ofume and Donatus Iriele have each been ordered to pay $2.5 million in community restitution. The community restitution funds are to be paid to the Georgia state agencies responsible for substance abuse treatment and victims assistance. The defendants, who are husband and wife, formerly...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Hanstaad announced that Devon Brantley (age: 18) of Milwaukee was recently sentenced in federal court for charges stemming from an attempted robbery of a Subway Restaurant in Milwaukee on Sept. 24, 2016. United States District Judge Lynn Adelman sentenced Brantley, to seven years and one day in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: BOISE - United States Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today that his office’s Financial Litigation Unit collected more than $4.95 million in criminal restitution, fines, and assessments and in civil debts for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2017. Of the total collected, $1,038,424 were criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: Uzbek Citizen Sentenced to 15 Years for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Oct. 23, 2017, Dontaurus Ricks (age: 42), of Milwaukee, was found guilty by a jury of his peers of possessing a firearm despite previously being convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that David Owen (39) and Andrew Corrigan (24), both of New Port Richey, have pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering and extortion. Owen also pleaded guilty to a separate telemarketing mail fraud and money laundering...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - In Aug. 2016, a multi-agency investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) concluded with the filing of 59 federal indictments and a federal criminal complaint charging 103 Bernalillo County residents with federal firearms and narcotics trafficking offenses. To date, 80 of the 103 defendants charged as the result of this investigation have entered guilty pleas and 47 of them have been sentenced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service is pleased to announce that Obed Wild & Scenic River has been designated an International Dark Sky Association (IDA) International Dark Sky Park. Obed WSR is now the second National Park Service unit east of Colorado to earn this designation and the 17th national park in the United States to do so.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-The FBI Bank Robbery Task Force is seeking the public’s assistance to help identify three men suspected of robbing First Bank at 1849 W Glendale Avenue around 11:24, Oct. 27, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the conviction of IAN SCOT LAURIE, 49, for distribution of child pornography. Following a four-day trial before Senior Judge David S. Doty in Minneapolis, Minn., the jury found LAURIE guilty on all counts. A sentencing hearing is yet to be scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., tax preparer pleaded guilty in federal court today to filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: John McCormick Was Known to Contractors as “10 Percent McCormick," Referring to Illicit Payments Required to Do Business at the Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Donte Lee, 44, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted by a federal jury of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of marijuana, was sentenced to 54 months in
By DOL Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senate HELP Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) today continued to urge Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to reverse course on any action to undermine rights for students of color and students with disabilities by rolling back protections issued by the Obama Administration to address disparities in special education and disciplinary practices.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Lieutenant Gregory McLeod, a senior correctional officer at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, has been arraigned following an investigation of an allegation that McLeod used excessive force against an inmate in 2016. McLeod was indicted by a federal grand jury on Oct. 24, 2017, and has been charged with unnecessarily assaulting the inmate, writing two false official accounts about the encounter, and lying to federal investigators about his conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that MICHAEL LEON JOHNSON, age 64, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM & AMMUNITION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2), and 924(e)(1), which carries a potential punishment of not less than 15 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Amanda Huckins, 32, of Kuna, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to making false statements, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Huckins was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise in March 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
