News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Ridgeview, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Dec. 17, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging BRAYAN ALEXANDER FUNEZ-ESPINOZA, age 28, of Mexico, ROMERO FLORES-AGUILAR, age 30, of Mexico, JESUS GARCIA-HERNANDEZ, age 43, of Mexico, RODOLFO ROA-SAUCEDO, age 35, of Mexico, and JUAN ZARAGOZA-ZARAGOZA, age 36, of Mexico, with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Carlos Arturo Cuerro Borja (51), a Colombian national, to 18 years in federal prison, for his role in an international maritime cocaine trafficking conspiracy. In August 2018, a federal jury found him guilty of one count of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Cammron Robinson, 23, of New Paltz, New York, pled guilty to four counts of sexual exploitation of a child, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Three residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that William A. Smith, age 31, of Winnebago, Nebraska, was sentenced for Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender. United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Smith to a 30-month term of imprisonment. After his release from prison, Smith with begin a 3-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Ronald Pineda-Carias, age 41, and a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced yesterday to 16 months in prison for illegally re-entering the United States as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Chinese National Charged with Committing Theft of Trade Secrets.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Conspiracy Involved Theft of Government Property, Aggravated Identity Theft, and Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Daniel J. Gould, 36, of Crestview, pleaded guilty yesterday to two drug trafficking conspiracy counts involving 5 kilograms or more of cocaine. The guilty plea was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Alfonso Fonty Jaimes, 37, and his wife, Maria Teresa Duarte Godinez, 29, both of Bastrop, Texas, were each sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 262 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A New Mexico business partnered with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on Friday by joining “IMAGE," or ICE Mutual Agreement between Government Employers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Professional Ambulance, LLC, a local provider of ambulance and medical transportation services based in Providence, will pay $300,000 to resolve allegations that it improperly billed the Medicare and Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary ambulance runs, according to a Civil Settlement Agreement signed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ROBERT LYONS, age 33, of Covington, has pleaded guilty yesterday to federal firearms violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on Dec. 17, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Waylon Lee Williams, age 37, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Drug Conspiracy in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), punishable by not less than 10 years and not more than life imprisonment, up to a $10,000,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that William Thomas Gangemi, age 26, of Freehold, New Jersey, pled guilty in federal court to Conspiracy to Smuggle Wildlife. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., accepted the plea and will sentence him at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM GAUVIN, 43, of Andover, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for paying a minor to engage in sexual activity over Skype.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6227 , the National Quantum Initiative Act, a bipartisan bill to accelerate research in the field of quantum science.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Defendant allegedly offered services and instead transferred currency without victims’ knowledge or authority.
