News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A federal jury in Las Vegas, Nevada convicted a Las Vegas man of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning, a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Dominic C. Garcia, 28, of Las Cruces, with violating the federal firearms laws by being a felon in possession of a firearm. Garcia was remanded into custody pending trial, which has yet to be scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that, ANDREW HARGETT, JR. 46, of Raleigh, NC, was convicted in federal court following a two day jury trial before Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III. The jury found HARGETT...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Philadelphia, PA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Domingo Hernandez, 55, of the Dominican Republic, was arrested pursuant to an indictment charging him with criminal conspiracy to defraud the government and theft of government property. The indictment alleges that the defendant...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings and Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Foreign Affairs, sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressing concern with the recent appointment of Brian Hook to lead the State Department’s...
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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Brighton man was arrested and charged today in federal court in Boston with receipt and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Asmerom “Ace" Keleta was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment on conspiring to defraud the United States through tax fraud and prepared fraudulent tax returns. He was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $662,645.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GERARD BROWN, also known as “Goldie," 38, of Hartford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 100 months of imprisonment, followed by five years supervised release, for his role in a cocaine and crack cocaine distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the unsealing of a 43-count indictment in federal court in Cleveland, which charges two Chinese citizens with operating a conspiracy that manufactured and shipped deadly fentanyl analogues and 250 other drugs to at least 25 countries and 37 states. The indictment also alleges the drugs sold by the group directly led to the fatal overdoses of two people in Akron, Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Canadian Sentenced to 3+ Years in Prison for Conspiracy to Export Restricted Goods and Technology to Iran.
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: Greenbelt, Maryland - Ronald L. Coleman, age 70, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Aug. 21, 2018, to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Coleman has four previous federal convictions-one for mail fraud and three for access device fraud and related crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Keith Bernard Gardner, 24, of Gulfport, entered a guilty plea today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today the conviction of ALVIN WATTS, III, a 37-year-old resident of Addis, Louisiana. Watts was indicted by a federal grand jury on September 7, 2016 and charged in a multicount indictment. Count One charges the defendant with Conspiracy to Possess...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., woman who was arrested with a half-pound of heroin and six pounds of methamphetamine in her possession has pleaded guilty in federal court to her role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Greene County, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A federal grand jury indicted a North Las Vegas man today for illegally purchasing and reselling firearms over a two-year period, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Michael Shawn Mayberry, age 24, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Assault With A Dangerous Weapon In Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 113(a)(3) and 1153, punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
