News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal jury convicted three men late yesterday for their respective roles in a 2009 murder in Newport News.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a $718,000 tax fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Beginning April 20 campfire and smoking restrictions will be implemented on state lands and federally managed public lands in central and western Arizona which includes Yavapai, Maricopa, La Paz Yuma, Mohave and Gila counties, as well as portions of Pinal county. Restrictions will be in effect...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On April 17, 2018, David Byron Jones, 61, of Chatsworth, Georgia, was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, Senior U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 180 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine (meth) in the Eastern District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Patrick Hynes, age 21, of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on April 17, 2018, before U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo to conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On April 17, 2018, David Byron Jones, 61, of Chatsworth, Georgia, was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, Senior U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 180 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine (meth) in the Eastern District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - United States Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today that a Matthews, N.C. man was sentenced to 198 months in prison and five years of supervised release for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy. Nestor Javier Martin Fernandez, 37, previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Hassayampa Field Office will hold two public meetings in early-May to gather public input on the draft Black Canyon Corridor Travel Management Plan and Environmental Assessment. The documents have been released for public view and input.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Former Deputy Chief of Police for the Detroit Police Department, Celia Washington, 57, of Detroit, was sentenced to twelve months in prison today based on her conviction for conspiring with Gasper Fiore to commit bribery in connection with the corruption of towing permits in Detroit, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gregory Jerome Brown, 28, of Bountiful, Utah, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to five years and three months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for robbing three banks, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is calling for answers after learning that the federal government operates both Vets.gov and Veterans.gov, which can cause confusion for veterans trying to access services offered by the two sites. Vets.gov-run by the Department of Veterans Affairs-is meant...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Marlon P. Bush, 47, formerly the Director of the East St. Louis Public Library, was charged in a six-count Indictment with three counts of Wire Fraud and three counts of Embezzlement from the City of East St. Louis Public Library, A Unit of Government That Received Federal Funds, Don Boyce, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Marty Humphrey, age 65, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - Robert Krietzman was sentenced today to five years in prison and ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution for possession of child pornography following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Beth L. Freeman, U.S. District Court Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Yount, 46, of Lancaster, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to making a materially false statement. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: A Guatemalan man who illegally returned to the United States was sentenced April 17, 2018, to almost three months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court today, RASHAD DAVONTE YOUNG, 27, and JERAMIE ROSS VAUGHN, 30, of Whiteville, North Carolina pled guilty in Raleigh before United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle to one count of Bank Robbery and one count of Discharging a Firearm in Furtherance of a Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Russel Lee Orr (42, Trinity) to 15 years in federal prison for attempted online enticement of a child to engage in sexual activity, attempted production of child pornography, and for soliciting for child pornography online. A federal jury found Orr found guilty on July 1, 2016. Prior to his arrest, Orr had worked as an aircraft mechanic in the Tampa area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on April 18, 2018, Richard Monroe, age 25, pleaded guilty in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont, to possessing firearms in furtherance of his cocaine trafficking and to discharging a handgun and killing Kevin ...
