News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - Zachery Van Meter, 21, of Brookville, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 156 months in prison for receiving child pornography.
By State Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
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: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Durrell Davenport, age 27, and Amod Phillips, age 28, both of Scranton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on April 9, 2018, before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to federal robbery charges filed in connection with the armed robbery of the EFuel gas station and food mart located on Pittston Avenue in Scranton.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: Representatives of ICE and the government of Nicaragua recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which establishes the Nicaraguan government as a participating partner in ICE/ERO’s electronic Travel Document (eTD) system.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Every April, the Justice Department’s Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) leads communities across the country in observing National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW) to honor crime victims, promote their rights and recognize those who advocate on their behalf. This year’s NCVRW will be held April 8-14, 2018 with the theme of Expand the Circle: Reach All Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Andrew Workman, age 26 of Lone Tree, Colorado was sentenced today by the Hon. R. Brooke Jackson in U.S. District Court to 97 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release. He will also have to register as a sex offender. Workman was indicted by a Grand Jury in October, 2015, for receipt and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, announced that Nico Burrell, a/k/a “Zico Nico," a leader of a violent street gang in the Bronx called the “Big Money Bosses" (“BMB") was sentenced yesterday to 150 months in prison on racketeering charges. Burrell was sentenced by United States District Judge Alison J. Nathan.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal authorities today announced criminal charges against several Chicago-area defendants for a variety of alleged tax schemes. With tax season in full swing, the prosecutions serve as a warning that individual taxpayers are responsible for the contents of their own return.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A local man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of illegal possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Adam Alfredo Flores, 36, of Corpus Christi, pleaded guilty Jan. 4, 2018, to felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Two Columbus brothers were sentenced in U.S. District Court for their roles in leading a narcotics trafficking conspiracy. Marcus L. Pryor, 38, was sentenced to 140 months in prison and Marquis L. Pryor, 26, was sentenced to 93 months in prison.
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: ATLANTA - Melvin Thomas, a former prison guard at the Atlanta United States Penitentiary (“USP") has pleaded guilty to accepting bribe payments in exchange for smuggling contraband into the prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - Zachery Van Meter, 21, of Brookville, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 156 months in prison for receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier sentenced a Volga, South Dakota man convicted of Disturbing Protected Wetlands of the United States. The sentencing took place on April 9, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Wathiq Al-Ibraheemi, 34, of Beaverton, Oregon, was sentenced today to two years of probation for the unauthorized use of an official insignia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN DiMENNA, 75, of Vero Beach, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 85 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating an extensive real estate investment and financing scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Energy Secretary Rick Perry and EM Assistant Secretary Anne Marie White visited the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Site April 5, accompanied by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight Ranking Member John Lewis (D-GA) and Oversight Chairman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) released a package of bills to redesign the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for the first time in over 20 years.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today released a Committee Minority staff report detailing significant failures by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the contracting process for emergency...
