News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - LUIS ENRIQUE DAMAZO, also known as Luis Enrique Cassinelli, 54, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for defrauding a Texas company of more than $450,000 through fictitious invoices, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
Release: ARLINGTON, Va. - Two Virginia men were cited by airport police at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) last week after Transportation Security Administration officers spotted loaded handguns in each of the men’s carry-on bags.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Joaquin Luna-Cijeros, age 27, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden, to the crime of unlawful re-entry by an alien after removal, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, and Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Daniel P. Sprowl, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 33 months incarceration for possessing child pornography, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - LUIS ENRIQUE DAMAZO, also known as Luis Enrique Cassinelli, 54, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for defrauding a Texas company of more than $450,000 through fictitious invoices, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man made an initial appearance in federal court today on charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA - Randall Alan Franz, a 59-year-old resident of Sandpoint, Idaho, was sentenced on Thursday to 8 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $205,084.79 in restitution after pleading guilty to concealing assets in bankruptcy. Chief U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen announced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Daniel P. Sprowl, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 33 months incarceration for possessing child pornography, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A French national who previously resided in East Boston was charged today in federal court in Boston in connection with kidnapping his three-year-old child in violation of court orders.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: Maryland MS-13 Member Ordered to Serve Two Consecutive Life Sentences for Federal Racketeering Conspiracy, Murder, and Other Violent Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JEFFREY ROGIERS pled guilty today before United States District Judge Alison J. Nathan to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and fraud in connection with a tender offer for his role in an insider trading...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Byerly Birge announced today that Kahwahnas Nucumbhi Potts, age 39, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 9 years’ imprisonment for his aggravated identity theft and credit card fraud. The court also ordered Potts to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Euclid, Ohio, man pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl that he ordered from China and sold domestically, including to an undercover FBI agent in Pittsburgh, U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman of the Northern District of Ohio and U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady of the Western District of Pennsylvania announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PETER G. JOHNSON was sentenced to 36 months in prison for leading a scheme to defraud a group of lenders (the “Banks") by submitting false “borrowing base" reports designed to secure and maintain a $400...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Cathers, of Sistersville, West Virginia, and Ronald Morgan, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, have admitted to their involvement in methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin distribution that spanned multiple states, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT -. Active interagency firefighting efforts continue on the Howe Ridge Fire, now estimated between 1,500-2,500 acres. A local Type III Flathead County Interagency Team is assisting the park in efforts to check the spread of the fire and continue to protect structures. A Type I team will...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough today ordered Calvin S. Williams, 35, of Springfield, Ill., to serve 20 years in prison followed by a term of 10 years supervised release. Williams, also known as “Cadillac Hustle," “Cadillac," “Caddy," was also ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: Two people from Northwest Ohio were indicted for federal firearms crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two Duquesne, Pa., residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms laws and making false statements to federal law enforcement United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph J. Simons today urging the Commission to intensify its law enforcement efforts against...
