News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that William Looney, 55, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for fentanyl trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: An Akron man was indicted for using a fraudulent Social Security number and falsely overstating his income to obtain a mortgage of more than $300,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Jamshid Muhtorov, age 42, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., originally from Uzbekistan, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to 132 months in federal prison for providing material support to a terrorist organization, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Calvin Shivers announced together with the Assistant Attorney General for National Security Division, John C. Demers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A Florida resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl and a quantity of carfentanil, as well as distribution of quantities of methamphetamine, carfentanil, and ecstasy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Aug. 23, 2018, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 20 defendants charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances in the municipality of Guaynabo, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Carlos Alberto Andrade, age 34, a citizen of El Salvador, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Aug. 30, 2018, Edgar Arroyo-Amezquita pleaded guilty before Magistrate Judge Silvia Carreño-Coll to bribery and conspiracy to obtain property by fraud from a program receiving federal funds, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
Release: LOS ANGELES - Representatives from Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) showcased emerging technologies currently in use at the security checkpoint in Terminal 1 at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Aug. 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment in Manhattan federal court charging...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Rodney Williams, age 34, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Aug. 28, 2018, by a federal grand jury on multiple drug trafficking charges, including drug distribution resulting in death, and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: The FBI and Local Officials Are Working Together to Coordinate a Statewide Same Day Viewing of 'Chasing the Dragon' for Students at Participating High Schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced today that the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) has agreed to pay the United States $4.3 million as part of a settlement resolving allegations that UMHS violated certain provisions of the Controlled Substances...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Special Agent in Charge Timothy Plancon of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Detroit Field Division, Special Agent in Charge Timothy Slater of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Detroit Field Division and U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that eighteen individuals...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that FRANCISCO ARENIVAR-CASTILLO, age 37, a citizen of El Salvador, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count bill of information with transporting aliens, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1324(a)(1)(A)(ii).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: MACON: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Jatavious Griswald, age 27, of Milledgeville, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 87 months in prison for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Marc T. Treadwell on Aug. 27, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A California man was arrested today and charged with making violent threats against Boston Globe employees in retaliation for the newspaper’s editorial response to political attacks on the media.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: A Detroit man was sentenced to 7 years (84 months) in federal prison on the charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: The World Food Prize Foundation announced today that Matthew Rouse, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ) scientist, is the winner of the 2018 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, at the Sustainable Development Goals Conference in the Netherlands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced today that Dion Cheatham, 44, of Lockport, N.Y, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder to conspiracy to possess with...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - With support from U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the Senate unanimously passed a McCaskill-backed bipartisan bill that would require lobbyists to disclose if they have ever been convicted of bribery, extortion, embezzlement, illegal kickbacks, tax evasion, or money laundering in their lobbying disclosure and registration forms.
