News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Travis Jones, age 20, of Oberlin, Pennsylvania, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management, Lower Sonoran Field Office, is processing a request from the Pinal County Board of Supervisors to lease approximately 498 acres of public lands for a regional park in Gold Canyon, Ariz. The application has been made under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act, which allows municipalities the ability to lease federally-managed public lands for public purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of Boca Raton, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to commit bank, wire and mail fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Yves Joseph Legault has been sentenced for coercing and enticing the production of child sexual exploitation images over the Internet. The defendant preyed on children in both Mississippi and Georgia simultaneously.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - Kenneth R. Morrison, age 68, of Whiting, Indiana was convicted of interstate transportation of stolen goods after a 4-day jury trial before U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of federal firearms violations, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: An Akron man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the armed robbery of a Dollar General.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Federal officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 63 criminal aliens and immigration violators in Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota during a four-day enforcement action, which ended Dec. 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: MACON- A Dublin, Georgia man was sentenced to 240 months in prison for spearheading an organized interstate pimping ring, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Jesse Lee Hall, Jr., 39 of Dublin, pled guilty in May to one (1) count of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited World Wrecking and Scrap Salvage Services Inc. for failing to provide fall protection after two employees suffered fatal injuries at a demolition site in St. Louis, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: A former South Florida attorney and a stock promoter pled guilty today in connection with a $1 million pump and dump securities fraud scheme involving the shares of Valentine Beauty, Inc. (“VLBI").
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOSE ARTEAGA-CENTENO, age 44, a native of Mexico, was sentenced yesterday after pleading guilty to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Darryl Emanuel Bickham, Jr., age 34, of McAlester, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Felon in Possession of Firearm and Ammunition, in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND -Steven J. Perry, 54, of Elkhart, Indiana, has been charged by indictment with transportation and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Three men, all illegal alien residents of the United States, have been indicted for plotting the murder of a whistleblower who exposed a scheme to fraudulently employ other illegals.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
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: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has settled its federal Fair Housing Act (“FHA") lawsuit against WEBSTER AV MANAGEMENT LLC (“WEBSTER"). Under the settlement, WEBSTER has agreed to make retrofits to the Riverdale...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2018
News Release: President Trump has said he “will take the mantle of shutting down" the federal government to secure $5 billion for his wasteful wall. If Trump and the Republicans follow through on this threat, the resulting government shutdown will harm American families, businesses, and communities.
