News from August 2018
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 Homeland Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - A 32-year-old Salvadoran fugitive, wanted in his home country for homicide, was removed from the U.S. Friday, Aug. 10, by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - Federal Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 45 illegal aliens in the Houston area for violating U.S. immigration laws during a five-day enforcement action, which ended Friday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Sandra Haar, 57, of Merced, pleaded guilty today to health care fraud and conspiracy to receive kickbacks, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By EPA 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...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - An illegal alien from Honduras was sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison Monday for shooting the son of an off-duty law enforcement officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - Two technicians at a Chicago pharmacy stole more than 56,000 pills of Hydrocodone and sold them for a profit, according to an indictment returned in federal court in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Andre Dudley, 22, Marcus King, 22, and Christopher Proctor, 28, all of Washington, D.C., were sentenced today to prison terms on charges stemming from the August 2015 slaying of Matthew Shlonsky, an innocent bystander who was shot three years ago on a crowded street in Northwest Washington. Dudley was sentenced to an 18 ½-year prison term for the murder, King was sentenced to 17 ½ years, and Proctor was sentenced to 14 years.
By DOE 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Tabitha A. Hammond, age 37, of Seneca, pled guilty to possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, a violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841. United States District Judge Donald C. Coggins, of Spartanburg, accepted the guilty plea and will sentence Hammond after he has a chance to review the Presentence Report prepared by the United States Probation Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) Seattle District and Field Offices and Mount Rainier National Park will host a naturalization ceremony on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018 for fifteen soldiers who will become United States citizens. USCIS Seattle District Director Anne Corsano will swear...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney Western District Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: Defendants are the latest to be sentenced out of nearly two dozen defendants after long-term narcotics investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: Washington State Man Sentenced to Prison for Role in Connection with Reveton Ransomware.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A man who was already serving a 25-year sentence for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization was sentenced today to serve an additional 20-year prison term for trying to kill the warden of the federal prison where he was housed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On August 9, 2018, following a four-day trial, a jury found Roger Duane Goodwin, age 59, of Windsor Heights, guilty of seven counts of mail fraud announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. The jury also determined Goodwin’s residence in Windsor Heights and two Harley Davidson motorcycles are subject to forfeiture.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Travis Knight, of Mingo Junction, Ohio, was sentenced today to 37 months incarceration for counterfeit currency charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Ryan E. Curtis, 45, of Nampa, was sentenced to federal prison on Aug. 9, 2018, for distribution of methamphetamine and fentanyl resulting in death. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Curtis to 240 months in prison. Lodge also imposed three years of supervised release to be served after Curtis is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Colin Lee Juan, 33, of Laveen, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Juan had previously pleaded guilty to assault by strangulation of an intimate partner.