News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: The Detroit One collaboration of local, state, and federal law enforcement has led to charges against six members of the Latin Counts street gang for committing murder conspiracy and two non-fatal shootings that occurred in southwest Detroit on October 7, 2017, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that LURLYN A. WINCHESTER, a former Justice for the Town Court of Monroe, pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy, in federal court in White Plains, on charges that she made...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a 2014 shooting in Chelsea and a 2015 conspiracy to kill a suspected cooperating witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Defendant Was on Probation for Gun Offense at Time of Attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Albert Angelucci, John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for Connecticut, and Anthony Campbell, Chief of the New Haven Police Department, today announced the unsealing of an indictment charging 19 individuals with federal narcotics offenses related to the trafficking of heroin and cocaine in Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has been found guilty of four federal offenses related to assistance he provided to a Mexican national with a criminal record to re-enter the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ZACHARY PROVOST, 33, of Waterbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of armed bank robbery and admitted that he committed a series of robberies in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire in late 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a hearing of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, questioned witnesses on how the violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang exploits legal immigration loopholes to enter the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD - United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Dakota hosted a roundtable discussion regarding Sexual Harassment in Housing. Today’s event, held in conjunction with National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, was the first of its kind in South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Cheryl McGrath, 50, of Guysville, Ohio, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison for committing health care fraud and willful failure to pay over tax.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A Michigan man has been sentenced to 45 years in federal prison for violently forcing two children and a young woman to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford, Ill. man was arrested yesterday by federal law enforcement officers on drug-trafficking and firearm charges. ANTWON D. TATE, 29, was indicted on April 10, 2018, by a federal grand jury in Rockford and charged with five counts of distributing heroin in Rockford between January and February 2018, two counts of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, namely two 9mm Hi-Point rifles, and one count of possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Raleigh - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announces that RANDON AUSTIN JENKINS, A/K/A “JERZ," was indicted yesterday on additional charges, including distribution of a quantity of heroin resulting in serious bodily injury and death.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Johnnie Earl Ross (24, Tampa) to six years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft. He pleaded guilty on February 8, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina-------United States Attorney Beth Drake announced the indictment and arrest of fourteen former employees of the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) on federal charges related to accepting bribes and bringing contraband into South Carolina prisons.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen released the following statement on the arrival of the Central American ‘Caravan’ at the U.S.-Mexico border: “DHS is currently monitoring the travel of the so-called ‘caravan’ towards our Southern border and is doing everything within our authorities to secure our borders and enforce the law.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, April 25, 2018 – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today unveiled a new interactive webpage to identify best practices for building rural prosperity.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., April 25, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue commemorated his first year at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today by releasing a new interactive website and USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue: Year One video. In his first year, Secretary Perdue and the USDA team ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Today Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued the following statement about the travel order arguments being heard today by the U.S. Supreme Court: “President Trump has been steadfast in his commitment to the safety and security of all Americans. The Constitution and Acts of Congress confer on the President ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division today announced an initiative to terminate outdated antitrust judgments. “Today, we are taking a first step toward freeing American businesses, taxpayers, and consumers from the burden of judgments that no longer protect competition,” said Makan Delrahim, ...
