News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: FBI and DEA Chasing the Dragon Showing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that the following eight defendants, each of Milwaukee, were arrested and indicted this week by a federal Grand Jury with offenses related to a conspiracy to distribute heroin and distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, sentenced TANYATORN GHANJANASAK, 35, of Texas to serve one year and one day in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, upon conviction for Interstate Threats to Injure. GHANJANASAK previously pleaded guilty to the charge on March 5, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Shawn Edmonds, a 43-year old resident of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today before the Honorable Gerald J. Pappert to five counts of wire fraud and three counts of aggravated identify theft related to a scheme to defraud the Department of Veterans Affairs of over $800,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Durrell Davenport, age 27, of Scranton, was sentenced on August 8, 2018, to ten years’ imprisonment and three year’s supervised release by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for two armed robberies of gas stations in the City of Scranton.
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s imposition of new sanctions against Russia for its use of chemical weapons in the attempted murder of two individuals in the United Kingdom...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Great Falls man was sentenced today for receipt of child pornography. United States District Judge Brian M. Morris sentenced Shale Dean Brandt, 43, to 72 months in prison, 5 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. Brandt was also ordered to pay $33,136.40 in restitution.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 135,000 metric tons of soybean cake and meal for delivery to the Philippines during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A criminal bill of indictment was returned yesterday by a federal grand jury sitting in Asheville, charging Derek Shawn Pendergraft, 20, of Asheville, N.C., with second degree murder for killing a co-worker, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Pendergraft was previously arrested on a federal criminal complaint in connection with the murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Gregory A. Vaughan pleaded guilty today in federal court to multiple counts of bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The plea was accepted by the Honorable William H. Orrick, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: This morning in Tucson, AZ, FBI agents arrested a local attorney and his assistant for allegedly obstructing justice, tampering with a witness and assisting an offender in avoiding apprehension in a criminal case, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash of the Western District of Texas and FBI Special Agent in Charge Michael DeLeon, Phoenix Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Lemarin Bolivard, age 43, and of a citizen of Haiti, was sentenced today to time served (69 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: IRS Employee Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jason Jonas Lee, 34, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court to a misdemeanor assault charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the August 2018 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: ARPA-E today issued a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) of up to $35 million for the High Intensity Thermal Exchange through Materials and Manufacturing Processes (HITEMMP) program, to develop new approaches and technologies for the design and manufacture of high temperature, high pressure, and highly compact heat exchangers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Dallas City Council Member and Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, of Dallas, Texas, and Robert C. Leonard Jr., of New Orleans, Louisiana, appeared in federal court today before Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn and pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges, announced Erin Nealy Cox...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Scott Reaston, 40, a citizen of Australia living in Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to two years in federal prison for aggravated identity theft. Reaston pleaded guilty to this charge on May 11, 2018.
