News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Update on Investigation into Unauthorized Flight.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KALIQUE HARDIN, age 22, of Dallas Texas, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman to three counts of an indictment charging him with, respectively, conspiracy to distribute heroin; possession of heroin with intent to distribute;...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 30-year-old resident of Houston had pleaded guilty to cconspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Manhattan man today admitted robbing banks in Jackson Township, Fort Lee, and Hasbrouck Heights, as well as attempting to burglarize a fourth bank in Englewood between December 2013 and February 2017, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - The final six defendants in a Jefferson County drug trafficking conspiracy have pleaded guilty to violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of aiding or assisting in the preparation or filing of false federal income tax returns, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: The 2-year old stallion (N2BHS-AO, Adriana’s Yankee Prince) involved in a motor vehicle accident last week on Assateague Island had to be humanely euthanized on Aug. 15, 2018. The horse was reported down in the saltmarsh and unable to stand early Wednesday morning. This loss brings the total population...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: VALDOSTA: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on Aug. 15, 2018, Tony Cherenfant, age 34, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Hugh Lawson in Valdosta to 60 months in federal prison and ordered to make restitution to the United States Treasury in the amount of $582,751 for his involvement in a conspiracy to steal government funds through a fraudulent tax refund scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Ryan R. Crosswell (619) 546-9661.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Three Miami-based wildlife traffickers were recently sentenced to prison for trapping and selling migratory birds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities have arrested 12 defendants on federal narcotics and fraud charges stemming from an investigation into the Puente 13 street gang. Those arrested last night and this morning are among 17 defendants named in a series of indictments returned by a federal grand jury that allege various offenses, including narcotics, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. The other five charged defendants were already in federal and state custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with his role in a conspiracy that defrauded victims by pretending to be employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: A Stark County man was indicted for receiving and possessing images of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Toms River man today admitted distributing images of child sexual abuse over a social media application, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Evelyn Katrina Taylor-Parks has pleaded guilty to conspiring to accept bribe payments while serving as the City of Atlanta’s Deputy Chief of Staff to the Mayor for approximately eight years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMEL GODDARD, a/k/a “Payroll," was sentenced today by United States District Judge Loretta A. Preska to 292 months in prison for his role as the leader of a sex trafficking conspiracy. GODDARD pled guilty on Feb. 26, 2018, to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A former special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was arrested this morning on federal civil rights charges that allege he sexually assaulted one woman and twice raped another woman after abusing his official position to convince them not to report his violent conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: James Latron Sumter, a/k/a “T", age 35, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has been charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin, the use of which resulted in serious bodily injury or death, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846 and 841(b)(1)(C).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that, BONDURANT AKEEM RUFFIN, 34, of Wilson, NC, was convicted in federal court following a three day jury trial before United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan. The jury found RUFFIN guilty of possession with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and 28 grams or more of cocaine base (crack).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Pornography of female teen found on his cell phone.
