News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man with a significant history of sexual offenses involving minors was sentenced today to 235 months in prison for attempted receipt of obscene images depicting the sexual abuse of children, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and penalties for a registered sex offender.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: After pleading guilty to two counts of providing false information to law enforcement, Victoria Marie Eck, age 28, has been sentenced to serve time in federal prison. The charges arose from an incident in Grand Canyon National Park when Eck lied to investigators to conceal the identity of her traveling companion, who was wanted for murder in Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JAMIE PAUL EARLY, age 36, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged in a one-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for a bank robbery committed on July 27, 2018 at the Capital One Bank at 3001 Tulane Avenue in New Orleans.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: WESTERN ARCTIC, Alaska - Due to administrative delays in the Federal Rule Making Process, the Federal Subsistence Board (Board) has approved temporary delegated authority to the Superintendent of Noatak National Preserve and the Federal land manager for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to issue special...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced William Harvey Gulkis (30, Jacksonville) to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison for producing child pornography. The court also ordered Gulkis to pay $8,000 in restitution to the victims of his offenses, register as a sex offender, and serve a life term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: FBI Reminds Students, Parents to #ThinkBeforeYouPost.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Continuing her longstanding fight to curb wasteful government contracts, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today demanded answers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on its use of noncompetitive...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that STEPHEN GUILBAULT, age 44, of Gonzales, Louisiana, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty for his role in controlled substances violations and health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Plymouth man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to anonymously stalking three women by text message and social media, including one woman he stalked throughout the 14-months that they dated.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Eleven Arrested During Early Morning Round-Up.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: WESTERN ARCTIC, Alaska - Due to administrative delays in the Federal Rule Making Process, the Federal Subsistence Board (Board) has approved temporary delegated authority to the Superintendent of Noatak National Preserve and the Federal land manager for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to issue special...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Sold Methamphetamine That Had Been Shipped to Iowa Hidden in Car Part Boxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Los Angeles man was arrested yesterday and charged in connection with a conspiracy to launder funds derived from Business Email Compromise (BEC) fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - CHRISTOPHER CHAD POOL, aka Christopher C. Poole, aka Cityboy, 39, and CHRISTINA LORAL POOL, aka Christina Loral McNees, aka Citygirl, 25, of Oklahoma City, were indicted this week for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute and multiple firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: OCDETF Investigation Results in Six Drug Distribution Indictments and Ten Others Separately Charged in Multi-Million Dollar Counterfeit Cellphone Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: In a marriage of quantum science and solid-state physics, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used magnetic fields to confine groups of electrons to a series of concentric rings within graphene, a single layer of tightly packed carbon atoms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA - Reality Winner, 26, of Augusta, Georgia, was sentenced today to five years and three months in prison for removing classified national defense material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet. Winner was arrested by the FBI at her home in Augusta, on June 3, 2017. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Florida Man Arrested and Charged with Extensive Cyberstalking and Threats Campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND-Samantha Marie Elhassani, aka Samantha Sally, 32, formerly of Elkhart, Indiana, was charged on Aug. 22, in a two count indictment with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated terrorist organization, and aiding and abetting individuals in providing material support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Joseph Owusu, 63, of Tampa, Abbisina Hepburn, 39, and Damian Hepburn, 41, both of Miami Gardens, pleaded guilty on August 17 and Aug. 10, respectively, to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute hydromorphone (Dilaudid) and oxycodone. Additionally, the Hepburns...
