News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two associates of the Genovese La Cosa Nostra (LCN) crime family were sentenced today in federal court in Worcester on extortion-related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Donna Marie Wozniak, age 57, of New Freedom, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 71 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, for embezzlement in connection with healthcare and tax evasion.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: (Attend via webcast). APRIL 10, 2018 - The U.S. Census Bureau will hold its quarterly 2020 Census Program Management Review on Friday, April 20, from 1 to 5 p.m. in the auditorium at Census Bureau headquarters. Agenda topics include updates on 2020 Census operations, testing and systems readiness. In...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Cristobal Chavez-Rocha, 31, of Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to two years and two months in prison and ordered to pay $32,712 in restitution to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for the damage to public land and natural resources, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: DETROIT - The ninth and final defendant in an Ecstasy distribution and manufacturing ring was sentenced Tuesday in federal court. The sentencing follows an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Cyberattacks pose an ongoing threat to the security of the nation’s energy critical infrastructure, so it’s now more important than ever to have a strong, agile workforce that is prepared to protect this infrastructure. Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of seeing some of today’s best and brightest minds...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 45-year-old Weslaco man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of human smuggling which resulted in the death of an undocumented alien trapped inside a toolbox, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man will appear in federal court today to face allegations that he assaulted and kidnapped an individual who had a protection order against him, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Calvin Johnson Pleads Guilty At Start of Trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a chip on which laser light interacts with a tiny cloud of atoms to serve as a miniature toolkit for measuring important quantities such as length with quantum precision. The design could be mass-produced with existing technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Joe Harry Pegg (70, Ft. Lauderdale) to six years in federal prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice, and lying to federal law enforcement officers. The court ordered him to serve this sentence consecutive to his current 30-year term of incarceration that is set to expire in 2020. Pegg was found guilty on Aug. 17, 2017, following a jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Lee Wyatt, of Elkridge, Maryland has admitted to a drug distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert James Carville, age 56, of West Palm Beach, Florida, was arrested today on charges that he illegally stored hazardous waste in an abandoned tannery building in Johnstown, New York, where Carville had owned and operated a tannery known as Carville National Leather.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City man pleaded guilty Tuesday to robbing a bank in Bonner Springs, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christopher Cook, 40, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this morning in U.S. District Court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 212 months in prison for being an armed career criminal unlawfully in possession of a firearm and ammunition on Jan. 3, 2015, the day he shot and seriously injured Officer Lou Golson of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD). Cook will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: (FORT BENTON, Mont.) - In North Central Montana, March came in like a lion and went out like a lamb… white as snow. However, the second week of April uncovered the missing warm weather, making conditions right for the Bureau of Land Management to open the James Kipp Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Zeferino Mendoza-Ojeda, age 42, of Pelion, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for Reentry of Removed Aliens, a violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. United States District Judge Joseph F.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: FARGO - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that John Willard Greywind, age 42, was charged by an Indictment returned on March 22, 2018, for Second Degree Murder and Voluntary Manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: The Detroit One collaboration of local, state, and federal law enforcement has led to the twelfth and final guilty plea of a Latin Counts street gang member for racketeering conspiracy involving murder and attempted robbery, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On April 9, 2018, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger, sentenced Taren Coupland, age 32, of Galesburg, Illinois, to 200 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Coupland was ordered to serve five years of supervised release following her term of imprisonment and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
