News from August 2018
By DOE Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Energy Secretary Rick Perry recently toured the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) and addressed federal and contractor staff in an all-hands meeting, including staffers from EM's Nevada Program. During the meeting, Perry answered questions from employees and highlighted the progress and future of the NNSS missions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that former Pennsylvania State Treasurer Robert M. McCord, age 59, currently residing in Long Branch, New Jersey, was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, for two counts of attempted extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 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 that MARCOS ELIAS, a Brazilian citizen and resident, was extradited...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Defendant Admits Stabbing Man in Attempted Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - The United States Attorney’s Office and its law enforcement partners are postponing tonight’s scheduled town hall meeting at Medgar Evers Library in Jackson to discuss Project EJECT, as the local councilman for the Ward recently noted that he has a conflict with the timing of tonight’s Jackson City Council meeting and several law enforcement partners are now unavailable to attend, announced United States Attorney Mike Hurst.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A New York City man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - Two men have been ordered to prison after DNA found in seminal fluid identifies them in connection to the armed robbery of a Houston area massage parlor, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Javian Chapman, 20, and Joseph Berzat, 21, both of Houston, pleaded guilty in March 2018 to two counts of aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery and one count of aiding and abetting the discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that former Pennsylvania State Treasurer Robert M. McCord, age 59, currently residing in Long Branch, New Jersey, was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, for two counts of attempted extortion.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A south Texas man was sentenced in federal court Tuesday following his conviction for other people to make straw purchases of firearms on his behalf.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation, the first 180 days of which are to be served under home detention, and 75 hours of community service on her conviction of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces a $4 million settlement with Dermatology Healthcare, LLC; Robert A. Norman, D.O, P.A.; Robert A. Norman, D.O.; and Carol Norman (collectively, Dermatology Healthcare).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE- Vilasini Ganesh was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for making false statements related to a health care benefits program, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Richard Plummer (37, Tampa) to 10 years in federal prison for attempted enticement of a minor. Plummer was also ordered to serve 25 years of supervised release and must register as a sex offender. He pleaded guilty on May 25, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Cleveland, Miss. - The FBI has arrested 18 individuals on federal drug trafficking and weapons charges in the Mississippi Delta. The announcement was made at a press conference today in Cleveland by Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Mississippi Christopher Freeze, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi Chad Lamar and Cleveland Police Chief Charles Bingham.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Juan Humberto Martinez-Vega, 47, and Giovani Ramirez-Soto, 26, both citizens of Mexico, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, methamphetamine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams today sentenced Maurice Sanders (27, Jacksonville) to six years and one day in federal prison for possessing with the intent to sell crack cocaine and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Sanders had pleaded guilty on May 18, 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM crews have demolished more than 200 facilities in the Hanford Site ’s 300 Area that once used water utility services.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jonathan Middlebrooks, 22, Nasir Perez, 20, and Deborah Siegel-Edelman, 22, all of Rochester, NY, who were convicted of aiding and abetting Hobbs Act Robbery, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. Defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A superseding indictment against Quinshawn Haynie and Dara Haynie has been returned by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for conspiring to distribute and distributing heroin, butyryl fentanyl, and fentanyl in, on, or within 1,000 feet of a playground and a public housing facility, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Canadian Man Sentenced to Prison for Promoting Tax Fraud Scheme.
