News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Houtzdale, Pa. pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: 56 year-old Defendant charged with traveling to Maryland to have commercial sex with a 15-year-old girl he contacted on Facebook.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Luray, Virginia: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1.46 million visitors to Shenandoah National Park in 2017 spent $95.8 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,204 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $126 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Albert Angelucci, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Patricia Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for Connecticut, and Anthony Campbell, Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: “The notion that social media companies are filtering out conservative voices is a hoax-a tired narrative of imagined victimhood as the rest of the country grapples with a feckless President and an out-of-control Administration. The Majority designed this hearing to perpetuate that hoax. Conservative ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Rusty Hood, 38, of Sanford, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to five years in prison and ten years of supervised release for transporting child pornography. Hood pleaded guilty on Jan. 29, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Overland Park, Kan., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to ship $3 million worth of marijuana through the mail for distribution in the Kansas City, Mo., area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Ronald Wiley (36, Melbourne) with distributing heroin and cocaine that resulted in the death of another, distributing oxycodone, distributing heroin, possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - TROY ALLEN MARTIN, 46, of Crescent, has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for cyberstalking, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Presentation & Discussion Regarding the National Prescription Drug Epidemic.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Two Cuban men, who traveled across 16 Iowa counties in 2017 and used at least 54 stolen identities and card numbers to make fraudulent purchases, were each sentenced Thursday to more than three years in federal prison. A third co-conspirator is awaiting sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JAMIRON BARNES, a/k/a “Miron," a/k/a “Myron," age 22 and SEAN BRIGGS, a/k/a “Big Sean," a/k/a “Big C," age 33, have both pled guilty today. BARNES and BRIGGS pled guilty to one count of Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Catherine Jarrett, 45 of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to 18 months in prison. The defendant was also ordered to pay approximately $481,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - All four defendants charged in a narcotics conspiracy case after being captured in international waters near the Galapagos Islands have pleaded guilty. The co-conspirators were transported to Columbus in September 2017 for federal prosecution after being apprehended with approximately 720 kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Two Alleged MS-13 Members Charged with Violent Extortion Conspiracy.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), FBI and other partner agencies with the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) renewed their fight today against counterfeiting...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: The House of Representatives today has begun consideration of H.R. 4, the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 - a bipartisan, five-year bill to reauthorize the programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, provide long-term stability for the Nation’s aviation community, invest in U.S. airports, and make...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Former Virginia High School Science Teacher Pleads Guilty to Producing Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio. - All four defendants charged in a narcotics conspiracy case after being captured in international waters near the Galapagos Islands have pleaded guilty. The co-conspirators were transported to Columbus in September 2017 for federal prosecution after being apprehended with approximately 720 kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Wilfredo Reyes, 60, of Portland, pleaded guilty today in federal court to falsely reporting a suspicious package on a TriMet MAX train.
