News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi. - Ricardo Arcanjo Ramos, 37, an illegal alien from Brazil, was sentenced today in United States District Court to serve 37 months in federal prison for committing access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans. Ramos was also ordered to pay $25,087.50 in restitution to the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES DICKERSON, also known as “Jim Jim," 35, of Hamden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 21 months of imprisonment for violating the conditions of his supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Cherry Hill, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 40 months in prison his role in conspiring to sell at least 100 handguns without a federal firearms license, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Tristan Nelson, 39, of Madawaska, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 1½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for illegally importing methylphenidate, which is commonly sold under the trade name Ritalin, and alprazolam, which is commonly sold under the trade name Xanax. The defendant pled guilty on March 7, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was convicted today in federal court in Boston of firearm and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: Robert Carville Stored Hundreds of Drums of Hazardous Material in the Abandoned Building Without a Permit.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that Judge Pamela Pepper, sentenced Jonathan Tilman Lane, from Kiel, Wisconsin, to 54 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised released for tampering with a consumer product in violation of Title 18, United States Code 1365. Lane was also ordered to pay $42,035 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: Clint Edwards Enticed a 14-Year-Old Girl to Engage in Illegal Sexual Activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Ozeias Teixeira-De Souza, age 33, and a citizen of Brazil, was sentenced on Friday to time served (151 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A former manager for the suburban bus agency Pace has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for pocketing nearly $300,000 in gratuities and kickbacks from contractors.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced Kenneth W. Slater, 32, of the 1000 block of S. Washington St., Paxton, Ill., to 10 years in federal prison for receiving and possessing child pornography. In addition, Slater was ordered to pay restitution to two separate victims of the offense for a total amount of $6,000.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: PORT ANGELES, WA: Preliminary alternatives for the Olympic Hot Springs Road Long-Term Access Environmental Assessment (EA) are now available through January 6, 2019 for a public review and comment period. The upcoming EA will analyze various options including a no action (current management) alternative, modifying the current roadway, or relocating it outside the floodplain-one of which will be implemented in 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A St. Joseph, Mo., man was convicted by a federal trial jury today of illegally possessing a firearm following an 11-hour standoff with law enforcement officers.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The next phase of the Lewiston Orchards Water Exchange and Title Transfer project, construction of a second well, is underway with the purchase of land and city permitting complete. In July, the Lewiston Orchards Irrigation District procured land located just east of the first well site...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Minnesota man was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison for driving a load of 471 pounds of marijuana to Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. In addition, he will serve three years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: San Francisco - Jorge Jasso, 26, a Norteño street gang member, was arrested in Fresno, California on Nov. 29, 2018 following his disappearance on Oct. 22, 2018, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. A federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Sherri Chen, 55, of Hampden, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 1½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for maintaining a drug-involved premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man today admitted assaulting and kidnapping an individual with whom he had a romantic relationship, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Mohamed Hoseain, age 70, and Richard La Cruz, age 51, both of Guyana, pleaded guilty on Nov. 28, 2018 in federal court to possession of cocaine on board a vessel. Attorney Shappert further announced that Neville Jeffrey, age 66, and Mark Anthony Williams, age 32, also of Guyana, pleaded guilty on Nov. 29, 2018 and Dec. 3, 2018 respectively, in federal court to the same offense.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Hassayampa Field Office has approved an updated Mining and Reclamation Plan of Operations and Final Environmental Assessment (EA) for a pozzolan mine on approximately 88 acres of public lands near Skull Valley, proposed by the Kirkland Mining Company LLC...
