News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON, TX-The FBI Violent Crime Task Force needs the public’s help identifying a man who robbed the Smart Financial Credit Union located at 4411 S. Wayside in southeast Houston on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. Crime Stoppers of Houston is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to the identification and arrest of the bank robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that three previously deported aliens were indicted separately by a federal grand jury for illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura A. Higgins, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, between Oct. 27, 2016, and Oct. 12, 2017, the defendant sold cocaine to a confidential source working with law enforcement officers on four separate occasions. On Oct. 23, 2017, officers executed a search warrant at Rojas’s residence on Military Road in Tonawanda and seized a quantity of marijuana.
By State Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks on the House floor in support of the Iran Ballistic Missiles and International Sanctions Enforcement Act (H.R. 1698 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Virginia Man Indicted for Production and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City man was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of robbing a bank in Overland Park, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Thank you to our witnesses for being here today, and thank you to my friend Chairman Reichert for calling this hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MARIA SPEARS, a/k/a MARIA BAQUEDANO, 52, of Kenner, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to defrauding Gulf Coast Bank and Trust in connection with writing fraudulent checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor practicing in Staten Island, New York, was convicted at trial today for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Defendants Attempted to Cover Up the Dec. 14, 2012 Assault of Handcuffed Suspect by Former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JONAS JOSEPH, also known as “James," 34, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to eight months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a scheme to stage car accidents for the purpose of defrauding automobile insurance companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of El Salvador has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal immigration laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors this week charged a Mississippi man with stealing government property by defrauding an Alabama bank that received money through the Troubled Asset Relief Program following the 2008 financial crisis, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, TARP Special Inspector General Christy Goldsmith Romero, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that WAYNE SONIAT, age 61, of New Orleans, was charged in a two-count Bill of Information with wire fraud and making false statements on federal income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that the leader of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York was sentenced to life in prison for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Wisconsin man has been indicted on federal sex trafficking charges for allegedly transporting an underage girl to Chicago from West Virginia to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Davie J. Martinez, Jr., 41, and Lorenzo Ornelas, 31, both of Burley, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that in federal court on Oct. 20, 2017, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced JOSEPH KELVIN ABERANT, 60, of Clayton, NC to 200 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former Air Force staff sergeant was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for receiving and possessing child pornography depicting prepubescent girls engaged in sex acts with men.
