News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A father and son are among 18 individuals facing criminal charges as part of a federal investigation into cocaine trafficking in the Chicago area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Michael Douglas McNeil (31, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to using the internet to attempt to entice a child to engage in sexual activity. McNeil faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. McNeil is a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy; he has been detained since his arrest on Aug. 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Darren Clay Robinson, aka “Mountain," age 54, of Teaneck, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 135 months in prison, to be followed by 8 years of supervised release, for conspiring with more than 10 people to distribute heroin, crack cocaine and cocaine throughout the Capital Region.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that on Dec. 11, 2018, Wali Bey, a/k/a James Goodwyn,[1] age 58, of the Wilmington, Delaware, was sentenced to 90 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin. At sentencing...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Salt Lake Field Office signed a Decision Record today authorizing population control measures for wild horses in the Onaqui Mountain Herd Management Area (HMA). Population control measures will include enhanced use of fertility control vaccines and the gather and removal of excess wild horses from the HMA.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: DETROIT - A former University of Michigan doctor was sentenced today to 10 years in prison on child exploitation charges, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the announcement that the Department of Education would begin implementing the Obama-Administration era “borrower defense" rule, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- A Detroit, Michigan man pled guilty yesterday to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Octavius Ellis, 23, entered a guilty plea today to knowingly and intentionally distributing fentanyl. Stuart praised the work of the Huntington Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Jason Ryan Fain (37, Jacksonville) has been arrested and charged in a criminal complaint with possessing videos and images depicting the sexual abuse of children. Fain faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervised release. He is detained pending a detention hearing scheduled for Dec. 17, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a prostitution operation that involved sex trafficking a minor victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Heath Hobbs, age 43, of Pringle, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo on firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that U.S. Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced ADAM C. METEVIA, a 22 year-old resident of Baton Rouge, to 27 months in federal prison following his conviction of possessing a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. The Court further sentenced METEVIA to 3 years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment and also ordered that the firearm and ammunition possessed by METEVIA be forfeited.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Fishing and seafood consumption in the United States increased in 2017, with landings and value of U.S. fisheries continuing a strong, positive trend. Across the nation, American fishermen landed 9.9 billion pounds of fish and shellfish in 2017, while the U.S. imported 5.9 billion pounds of seafood, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Westfield man was charged in federal court in Springfield today in connection with a scheme to obtain bank loans and money for projects in Saudi Arabia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Louisiana Couple Indicted for Conspiracy to Defraud the IRS and Filing False Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke has charged a Salem man with stealing multiple firearms from a federal firearms licensee in Dublin, Virginia. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and Thomas L. Chittum III, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Washington Field Division made the announcement.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2018 – Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is offering up to $600 million in loans and grants to help build broadband infrastructure in rural America. Telecommunications companies, rural electric cooperatives ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Shreveport, Louisiana, returned an indictment yesterday charging a Shreveport husband and wife with conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and multiple counts of filing false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana David C. Joseph.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Five defendants were convicted yesterday by a federal jury for their roles in operating a massive international sex trafficking organization that was responsible for coercing hundreds of Thai women to engage in commercial sex acts across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine charging Shou Chao Li, 37, and Derong Miao, 37, both of Concord, New Hampshire, with one count of conspiracy to engage in interstate transportation and travel for prostitution, two counts of sex trafficking by fraud ...
