News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Big-D Construction Corp. and Creative Times Day School, Inc., have agreed to pay the federal government a combined amount of $1,062,900 and $150,000 respectively to resolve allegations that they violated the terms of a Small Business Administration (SBA) program for small and disadvantaged...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: District Judge Claire V. Eagan sentenced Emmanuel Peter Britto, 44, of Tulsa, Oklahoma to 63 months in prison for the crimes of Bank Robbery and Conspiracy to Commit Bank Robbery. Britto must also pay a special monetary assessment totaling $200. After release from prison, Britto must serve five years on supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management has begun implementing an experimental targeted grazing project aimed at reducing fuels and associated fire risk and protecting rehabilitation efforts within the Soda Fire zone. Participating local ranchers will be grazing livestock along 36 miles of Owyhee Front roadways from approximately Marsing to Murphy from now through June.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Charles Blackman, a/k/a Ralph Jones, Stephanie Price, a/k/a Rhonda Johnson, Joseph Payne, and Quinton Williams have been arraigned on federal charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Blackman, Price, Payne and Williams were indicted by a federal grand jury on March 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Defendant admits responsibility for the murder of a 15-year-old in East Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: For Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Former Alabama Kindergarten Teacher Sentenced to Prison for Producing Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Antonio Marquez Irwin, 28, of Picayune, was sentenced on Friday, March 30, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden, to 128 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing methamphetamine in Picayune, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Thomas M. Annello, Acting Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Twin brothers Kecole Dukes and Kemeca Dukes have been convicted of conspiracy to distribute and distribution of crack cocaine. Both Dukes’ were on parole having recently served a sentence for selling crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Allen, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Accessory after the Fact and False Statement or Representation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On April 2, 2018, Larry Steven Covington, Jr., 39, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge, to serve 46 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Brazilian couple was arrested on Friday, March 30, 2018, and charged in federal court in Boston in connection with an ATM skimming operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Gordon Bigelow, age 39, of York, South Carolina, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia, to distributing child pornography images that had traveled in interstate/foreign commerce by computer, a violation of 18 U.S.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Bashir Masaoud, 31, an inmate at FCI-Berlin pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting staff at the prison while the staff were performing their official duties.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 30 months in prison on his conviction of violating federal drug and firearms laws in two separate cases, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - The DEA announces the conviction of Thomas Mario Costanzo, a.k.a. Morpheus Titania, of Mesa, Arizona, by a federal jury on March 28, 2018, on five counts of money laundering in Phoenix. This long term investigation resulted in one of the first convictions of a money launderer in Arizona who utilized bitcoin in his criminal activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to two years probation and ordered to make $23,051 in restitution on his conviction of conspiracy to defraud the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee D. Michael Dunavant attended the 2018 United States Attorneys’ National Conference at the Robert F. Kennedy Main Justice Headquarters Building in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Spencer E. Steckman, 34, of Silver Spring, Maryland for the production, transportation, and possession of child pornography. The indictment was returned on March 26, 2018, and unsealed upon the arrest of the Steckman.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2018
News Release: The Santa Cruz Island fire is now estimated to be 70 percent contained as firefighters continue to make steady progress.
