News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael C. Mikulka, Special Agent-in-Charge, New York Region, U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General (“DOL-OIG"), and Thomas Licetti, Acting New York Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Labor-Employee...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Darius Taurean Caldwell has been sentenced for committing two armed bank robberies, brandishing a firearm in connection with those robberies, and possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony offense.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and the highest ranking woman in the U.S. Senate, launched a platform for people across the country to share their stories about how Roe v. Wade has impacted...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Jorge Eliecer Cifuentes-Cuero (54, Colombia, South America) was sentenced today to 21 years in federal prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while aboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 26-year-old former Navy sailor has been ordered to federal prison for distributing a video depicting the drowning of puppies, announced U.S. Ryan K. Patrick. Former Petty Officer Third Class Daniel James O’Sullivan pleaded guilty March 28, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Amod Phillips, age 28, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on July 31, 2018, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to serve seven years’ imprisonment for the armed robbery of the EFuel gas station located on Pittston Avenue in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Doran Skanes, 25, East Chicago, Indiana, and William Thomas, 18, West Bend, Indiana were sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James Peterson for their roles in the armed robbery of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Travis Jonathon Card, 38, of Westbrook, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to interfering and attempting to interfere with commerce by robbery. The charges arose from an investigation into eleven armed and attempted armed robberies in the greater Portland area in March and April, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for starting the Martin Fire. Anyone with information about this fire or individuals who may be responsible, please contact BLM law enforcement at 775-857-3511.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Stantisha D. Kemp, an accounting manager who embezzled over $1.2 million dollars from her employer over a six-year period has been sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Heath Street gang member who was previously convicted of a felony pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to drug trafficking and illegal possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: OCALA, Fla. - A federal indictment has been unsealed charging Charlie Wayne Harrison, Jr. (32, Leesburg); Trini Thomas, Jr. (34, Wildwood); Allison Nicole Valdez (32, St. Petersburg); James Edward Moss (34, LaGrange, Georgia); Dwayne Edward Moss (32, LaGrange, Georgia); Jasmine Janay Patterson (24, Wildwood); ...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services on their failure to comply with a bipartisan request from Cummings and Rep. Mark Meadows for basic information about immigrant children separated from their families by the Trump Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: A Fort Lauderdale federal jury convicted Mohammed Al-Ghool, 50, of Broward County, yesterday of possessing a firearm and ammunition while being an alien illegally and unlawfully in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. -The Bureau of Land Management’s Carlsbad Field Office invites the public to provide comments on a draft, comprehensive framework for future public land management actions in southeastern New Mexico. The planning area under the proposed framework consists of about 6.2 million acres of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - Today United States District Judge Carmen Consuelo Cerezo sentenced MORA Development to pay a fine of $3 million, serve a five-year term of probation and make restitution to a family whose children were affected by the criminal conduct. Judge Cerezo ordered that Mr. Cleofe Rubi-Gonzalez personally guarantee payment of all financial obligations imposed on the company.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon provided the below statement on the release of the Oregon-Idaho High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) 2018 Marijuana Insight Report.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against Domingo Ene, 27, of Roseville; Joshua Hopoi, 22, of Sacramento; and Raymond Su, 29, of Sacramento, charging them with a conspiracy to steal U.S. mail and possession of stolen U.S. mail, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - James Flannel, 37, of St. Louis, MO, was indicted for the carjacking and killing of Boris Iouioukine, a Laclede Cab Company driver killed on June 25, 2018. Specifically, the three-count indictment returned this morning charges Flannel with one count of carjacking, one count of possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A jury today voted to convict Emmanuel Philippe, age 23, of Brooklyn, New York, and Leominster, Massachusetts, of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon, and possessing and intending to distribute crack cocaine.
