News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - This afternoon, U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater sentenced Noel Cuellar, 37, of Amarillo, Texas, for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in the Amarillo area, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Sean Demetrius West and Curry Anthony Love, Jr. were sentenced for their roles in a scheme to claim fraudulent tax refunds using bogus Form 1099s. Darrel Asquith Palmes and Emory Leon Harris, Jr. were previously sentenced for their roles in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - A federal jury has found identical twin brothers Noel Graveran-Palacios (37, Tampa) and Yoel Graveran-Palacios (37, Tampa) guilty of conspiracy, credit card fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Each faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison for the conspiracy count, 10 years’...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced Gary Andres as the new Majority Staff Director of the Ways and Means Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christian Begay, 29, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 78 months in prison for his assault conviction. Begay will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former corrections officer at the Jackson County Detention Center pleaded guilty in federal court today to smuggling contraband cell phones and other items to inmates at the Jackson County Detention Center.
By State Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron’s Joint Address to Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that one of the leaders of the violent Bronx gang known as “18 Park," MARQUIS WRIGHT was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer to 35 years in prison for firearms offenses in connection ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia-area political consultant today admitted evading taxes on $393,359 in income from his consulting business, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), ranking members of the Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, sent a letter today to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Columbia, SC - A federal jury convicted Michael Young Jr. and Vance Volious Jr. of dealing drugs and plotting to kill Young’s ex-wife with a mail bomb they bought with bitcoin from the Dark Web’s Alpha Bay Market. United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Young, 32, and Volious, 36, both of Columbia...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: SAN ANGELO, Texas - Lorenzo Hale, 52, of Coleman, Texas, appeared in federal court this afternoon and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Scott Frost to one count of convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Adam Robert Hassell, 26, of Kalamazoo, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced. In addition, U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney imposed a twenty-year term of supervised release that will commence once Hassell is released from prison. Hassell will also have to pay $5,100 in special assessments and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - This afternoon, U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater sentenced Noel Cuellar, 37, of Amarillo, Texas, for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in the Amarillo area, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Christian Dejesus Rodriguez, 19, Seminole County, Florida, pleaded guilty today to robbing three businesses in Madison, Wisconsin, and brandishing a firearm during one of the robberies.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Enjoy a children’s art walk, learn about local recreational opportunities on BLM lands, and much more at the California Trail Interpretive Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Jerry Oliver, age 52, of Lexington County, South Carolina, who plead guilty in January of this year to Murder for Hire was sentenced today in federal court in Columbia. United States District Judge Terry L. Wooten sentenced Oliver to the statutory maximum of 10 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Omar Dixon, 37, of Tuba City, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee to 84 months’ imprisonment. Dixon had previously pleaded guilty to robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two high-ranking members of the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ (ICGJC) were arrested today for allegedly evading taxes on millions of dollars in ICGJC funds that they fraudulently diverted to their sham entertainment company and to one of the defendants for his personal use, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
