News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Eric T. Banks, age 38, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted on April 18, 2018, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury issued an indictment today charging Bay Area resident Ronald Joseph LaFaye with eight counts of making threats to federal officials, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General, Criminal Investigations Division (VA OIG CID), James K. Wahleithner.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Randell Lonjose, 35, an enrolled member of the Zuni Pueblo who resides in Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to kidnapping and sexual assault charges under a plea agreement that recommends a 22-year term of imprisonment. Lonjose also will be required to register as a sex offender after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: THOMAS ALLEN MARTINEZ, 56, of Torrington, Wyoming was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on April 17, 2018 for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug traffic crime. Martinez was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Steven Davis, 40, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to robbing a bank in the Dupont Circle area of Northwest Washington last fall, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Delaware man was sentenced to 5 years for a federal firearm violation, announced United States Attorney Michael B. Stuart. Jeffrey M. Burris, 41, of Wilmington, Delaware, formerly of Nettie, West Virginia, pled guilty in September 2017 to a single count of possessing firearms which ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly announced that on April 19, 2018, Rodney P. Mazzulla, 57, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was convicted by a federal jury of three charges involving the distribution of pure methamphetamine. Mazzulla was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: San Diego Laboratory Agrees to Pay $2 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Related to Unnecessary Breast Cancer Testing.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today, GERALD KENNETH McCALOP, 24, of Butner was sentenced in United States District Court today. The charges stem from the July 20, 2017 robbery of the Jewel Shoppe in Plymouth.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Tony Cong Van, 31, of Sacramento, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Shane Browne, 27, formerly of Beverly Hills, Calif., has been found guilty by a jury of federal kidnapping and narcotics charges stemming from an incident last December in which he ordered a Lyft driver at gunpoint to drive him more than 70 miles from Maryland to an apartment building in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Mohammed Jabbateh, a violent and ruthless Liberian war lord also known as “Jungle Jabbah," who had been living in East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania was sentenced today to 30 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond. Jabbateh, 51, was found guilty in October of two counts of fraud in immigration documents and two counts of perjury.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: THOMAS ALLEN MARTINEZ, 56, of Torrington, Wyoming was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on April 17, 2018 for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug traffic crime. Martinez was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Regina Lynn Trent, age 46, of Calera, Oklahoma was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment, 6 months home detention, and 3 years supervised release for three counts of Wire Fraud, in violation of Title...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Previously convicted of lascivious acts with a child, defendant faces a minimum of 15 years’ imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on April 18, 2018, Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner sentenced Jeff Smith, age 30, of York, Pennsylvania, to 168 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base (“crack cocaine").
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Antoine Edwards, 42, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to 66 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: Authorities in Austin today arrested 58-year-old Steve Kim on federal counterfeiting charges, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on April 19, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
