News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced Damilare Sonoiki, 27, of Beverly Hills, California, and Marvin Mychal Kendricks, 27, of Fresno, California were charged today by information with insider trading.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced Damilare Sonoiki, 27, of Beverly Hills, California, and Marvin Mychal Kendricks, 27, of Fresno, California were charged today by information with insider trading.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that JOSE ALFONSO RODRIGUEZ-GARCIA, age 54, of El Salvador, was sentenced in Raleigh by Senior United States District Court Judge W. Earl Britt to 115 months imprisonment for illegal reentry of an aggravated felon.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: Juan Ángel Napout, a high-level figure in international soccer, was sentenced today in federal court in Brooklyn by United States District Judge Pamela K. Chen to nine years’ imprisonment following his trial convictions of conspiratorial racketeering and two counts of wire fraud conspiracy. The crimes...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAMIEN PERRY, also known as “Damian Perry" and “Primo" 36, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 92 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: Charges Arise out of DEA Seizure of 4.3 Pounds of Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A New York man pleaded guilty today in district court in Springfield to possession of child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOEL BRANFORD, a/k/a “Joel Bransord," a/k/a “Jose Cabeza," was sentenced on Aug. 27, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods to 168 months in prison for conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. BRANFORD pled guilty before Judge Woods on June 22, 2017.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Joseph Morales, age 27, of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Aug. 28, 2018, before U.S. District Court Senior Judge A. Richard Caputo to the charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin and crack cocaine.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: Today, three individuals, a Vero Beach attorney, a property developer and a condominium buyer were sentenced to prison for participating in a criminal conspiracy and making false statements to a federally insured institution. Two of the three men were ordered to forfeit a total of approximately $290,000.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: Fort Union National Monument invites you to join our annual First Fort and Arsenal Tours on September 8. The First Fort and Arsenal site are open to the public only once a year, so visitors can have an opportunity to discover the origins of Fort Union, and the Arsenal that supplied the army in the Southwest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A homeless man was indicted today on a federal charge of robbing a credit union in Topeka, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.

By USDA Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
Release: Washington, D.C.-Aug. 29, 2018. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a neurologic disease of cattle, in a six year old mixed-breed beef cow in Florida. This animal never entered slaughter channels and at no time presented ...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Atlantic Mobile Imaging Services, Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $321,388.50 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing the government for services while it was unlicensed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Mo., business owner was charged in federal court today with participating in a conspiracy to commit arson against a rival business as well as a residence.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: Criminal Complaint Alleges that CEO Led Multi-Year Scheme Involving Forged and Fraudulent Documents to Get Visas for Specialty-Occupation Employment.

By Homeland Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 364 criminal aliens and immigration violators in six Midwest states during a 30-day enforcement action, which ended Friday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- Richard C. Cole, 36, of Joplin, Missouri, was charged today by way of criminal complaint with possession of an unregistered destructive device discovered at a residence in Afton, Oklahoma, from which he was recently evicted.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney, Assistant Director in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (the “FBI"), David L. Hunt, Inspector General of the Federal Communications Commission (the “FCC-OIG"), and Thomas P. Zugibe, the District...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s announced that Juan Humberto Martinez-Vega, 47, and Giovani Ramirez-Soto, 26, both citizens of Mexico, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy...