News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Three people were indicted in federal court for firearms crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Kelly D. Brady, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, and Hartford Police Chief David Rosado today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment yesterday charging JOHN ANDERSON, 37, of New Britain, with one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By State Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Legislation to protect Africa’s Okavango River Basin - home to the largest remaining elephant population in the world - passed the Senate last night. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), a co-author of the measure, the Defending Economic Livelihoods and Threatened Animals (DELTA) Act (H.R. 4819), issued the following statement ahead of enactment...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Byron White, 38, of Lexington, was sentenced yesterday to 84 months in federal prison, by Chief United States District Judge Karen K. Caldwell, for conspiracy to distribute Fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that RONALD VANTRESS, JR., age 53, of New Orleans, was sentenced on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, after pleading guilty to a three-count indictment charging bank robbery, interstate transportation of stolen property, and interstate transportation of a stolen motor vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Angel Forteza-Concepcion, 19, of Manchester, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Shauntae Cherie Placko, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Max Johnny Wesley (23, Miami) to four years in federal prison for access device (credit card) fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $272,842.88, the proceeds of Wesley’s participation in the fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Two Chinese Hackers Associated With the Ministry of State Security Charged with Global Computer Intrusion Campaigns Targeting Intellectual Property and Confidential Business Information.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
Release: Washington, DC, Dec. 20, 2018 - At the direction of President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today intended to move more able-bodied recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to self-sufficiency through the dignity of work. The rule is meant...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H - Brian D. Boyle Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that 15 individuals were arrested on federal drug trafficking and firearm offenses. The arrests are the culmination of a year-long investigation into drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: FBI Charges Albuquerque Man with Interstate Communications Violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. --A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Douglas Marra, also known as “Dougie," and Joseph McClean, also known as “Max B," with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl in Queens between January 2018 and September...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will implement a temporary closure of public lands in the Johnson Valley Off- Highway Vehicle Recreation Area, San Bernardino County from February 1-9 to enhance public safety during the 2019 King of the Hammers desert races, which is authorized by a BLM Special Recreation Permit.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Shakur Brownstein, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution FCI-Berlin, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for assaulting another inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Defendants Were Members of the APT 10 Hacking Group Who Acted in Association with the Tianjin State Security Bureau and Engaged in Global Computer Intrusions for More Than a Decade, Continuing into 2018, Including Thefts from Managed Service Providers and More Than 45 Technology Companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: A Missouri man who fraudulently sold tens of millions of dollars’ worth of non-organic grain as though it was organic pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that IBRAHIM ISSA, a/k/a “Tony Issa," was found guilty yesterday of bribery of public officials and tax fraud. A unanimous jury convicted ISSA after a two-week trial before Chief United States District Judge Colleen McMahon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham. United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUQMAN GOTTI, formerly known as Timothy Pennington, 37, of Manchester, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to a child pornography offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND- Olanrewajua A. Beyioku, 38, of Gary, Indiana, was charged in an indictment with wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
