News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Raleigh County teenager who stole twenty-four firearms was sentenced to federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Dillon Jackson, 19, of Beckley, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for stealing firearms from the premises of a person licensed to engage...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to 72 months in prison and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy & Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., today warned the Trump Administration against moving forward on Medicaid waivers submitted by Kentucky and other states that violate the purpose of the Medicaid program by restricting care and creating barriers for Americans who count on the program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Alberto Rodriquez, 65, of Briarwood, New York, was sentenced to prison today after previously pleading guilty today to mail fraud in connection with a scheme to evade federal excise tax on imported cigars.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon from Chicago has pleaded guilty to federal firearm charges for illegally selling more than a dozen handguns and rifles.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Tyrone Greene, age 44, of New York City, was sentenced on Aug. 21, 2018, by United States District Court Senior Judge A. Richard Caputo to serve five years’ imprisonment for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced several arrests, charges and guilty pleas as a result of “Operation Darkness Falls," a joint operation targeting people and organizations that sell fentanyl and other drugs over the dark net.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: ALBANY: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Kirkland P. Coleman, Jr., age 23 of Albany, Georgia, pled guilty to Passing Counterfeit Federal Reserve Notes before District Court Judge W. Louis Sands in Albany, Georgia on Aug. 21, 2018. This plea...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Tony McCoy, a/k/a “Hard Times," age 33, of New Jersey, was indicted on Aug. 21, 2018, by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Mexican national was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for illegally reentering the United States after committing multiple criminal and immigration offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - William Michael Andrews was sentenced today to 12 months in prison, and ordered to pay $26,300 in restitution to the U.S. government after pleading guilty to theft of government property, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge James Wahleithner. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable James Donato, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Eight-Month Violent Crime Spree Included Multiple Shootings, Robberies &Two Dead.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced DUSTIN JACK MALONE, a 34-year-old resident of French Settlement, Louisiana, to 110 months in federal prison following his conviction of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The Court further sentenced Malone to 3 years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment. The Court also ordered that the firearm possessed by Malone be forfeited.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Washington - In a complaint filed on April 10, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) alleged that Goodness Greeness Inc., Chicago, Ill., failed to make full payment promptly in the total amount of $259,993 to 12 sellers for multiple lots of produce in violation of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Aug. 20, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Wesley Mark Smith, age 51, an inmate at United States Penitentiary Allenwood (USP Allenwood), Pennsylvania, was indicted on Aug. 21, 2018, by a federal grand jury on attempt to commit murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and assault causing serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Anna Rose Sullivan, 33, of Metropolis, Illinois, was recently indicted on federal methamphetamine related charges, Steven D. Weinhoeft, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. The eight-count indictment returned on August 7, 2018, charges Sullivan with intentionally...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Defendant allegedly possessed videos of three-to-five-year-old girls engaged in sex acts with adult men.
