News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal indictment unsealed this week charges nine alleged members of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang with participating in a criminal organization that murdered six people and violently protected drug-dealing territories on the West and Southwest Sides of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that CAROL LYNN BEEN, age 59, of Henryetta, Oklahoma, pled guilty to CREDIT UNION THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT AND MISAPPLICATION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 657, punishable by not more than 30 years imprisonment, and up to a $1,000,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler announces that Jamesin Rich, a 33 year old, resident of Thomasville, Alabama was sentenced today to 30 months incarceration followed by three years of supervised release for possession of approximately 21.3 grams of cocaine base, common known as “crack" cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO - Bart M. Davis has taken the oath of office to become the United States Attorney for the District of Idaho. Davis was nominated by President Donald J. Trump on July 20, 2017, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Sept. 14, 2017. He took the oath of office from Ninth Circuit Judge N. Randy Smith.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
Release: DULLES, Va. - Transportation Security Administration officers detected two handguns inside carry-on bags at checkpoints at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) yesterday (Sept. 20). The incidents were not related.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - James Hileman, age 29, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Johnnie William Bateman, III, of Culpepper, Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration for traveling across state lines to meet a minor for sex, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women and Project Safe Childhood.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: EMINENCE, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways is pleased to announce a school reunion at the historic Button Rock School on September 30 from 11a.m. - 2 p.m. The school will be open for viewing and a park ranger will be on hand to share a history of one-room schools in Shannon County. Former students...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal grand jury has returned a seven-count indictment against two men allegedly responsible for the killing of a man as he sat in his car outside a Houston parole office, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Bailegh Noelle Coleman, 20, of Starke, Florida, was arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Gainesville after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging her and co-defendant Rajheem Kwamaine Roddey, 23, with conspiracy, sex trafficking of a minor, and benefiting financially from sex trafficking of a minor. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Sept. 19, 2017, a federal grand jury indicted a Washington, D.C., woman for providing contraband to an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan (USP Canaan), Waymart, Pennsylvania, and that the inmate has been charged with possession of contraband in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that a Charlotte area jeweler has been indicted on fraud charges in connection with a $3.5 million investment scheme involving jewelry, precious metals and gemstones. A federal grand jury returned the 18-count indictment against Benjamin...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 21, 2017, Justin Redmon, 33, of Harriman, Tennessee, was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Court Judge, for his role in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy. Upon his release from prison, he will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Kyle Braga, 28, of Standish, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 63 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." He pleaded guilty on April 4, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - On Sept. 19, 2017, Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Ivan Antonio Cervantes, age 31, of Denison, Iowa, to 70 months in prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Cervantes will also serve four years of supervised release following his imprisonment, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - A Rock Island, Ill., man has been sentenced to serve a total of 100 months (8 years, 4 months) in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ROLANDO PINO-MARTINEZ, 29, of Springfield, Mass., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Vance Lawrence Burns, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced to 48 months incarceration for robbing an Ohio County bank, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 20, 2017, United States District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy sentenced LeShawn Burgman, age 35, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, to five years’ imprisonment for possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
