News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Valerie A. Nickerson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced a Bergen County, New Jersey, man who was arrested with three kilograms of heroin, a loaded, stolen Glock 22 pistol with a high-capacity magazine, and tens of thousands of dollars in cash in his possession made his initial court appearance today in Newark federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Dec. 18, 2018, Roger Duane Goodwin, age 60, was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for Mail Fraud charges in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. United States District Court Judge Rebecca...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to charges of bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to charges of bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Kenneth Brian Hanger (46, St. Augustine) has pleaded guilty to attempted online enticement of a child to produce child pornography. In 1994, Hanger was convicted of aggravated indecent assault in Bradford County, Pennsylvania...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A City of Paterson, New Jersey, police officer was arrested today and charged with violating the civil rights of a driver and passenger during a motor vehicle stop, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Two Brazilian citizens residing in Florida have pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges in connection with a scheme to use counterfeit debit and credit cards to purchase merchandise at various retail stores in Maryland and other states. Lucas Pimenta Diogo Das Gracas, age 23...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Andrew Madison Straley III, 50, of Dillingham, Alaska, was named in the indictment charging him with possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance. Straley is currently awaiting a court appearance before a U.S. Magistrate Judge on the federal charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced today that ABDULRAHMAN EL BAHNASAWY was sentenced to 40 years in prison for plotting to carry out terrorist attacks in New York City...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Jury Finds Nicholas Slatten Guilty of Killing Aspiring Doctor.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $21 million in funding for 7 projects in the next two cohorts of the agency’s OPEN+ program. These project teams will pursue methods to create high-value carbon and hydrogen from methane, or to produce super strong, durable concrete with lower cost and environmental impact.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kelly D. Brady, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, announced that DAVID McKEMMIE, JR., 30, of Windsor, was arrested today and charged by federal criminal complaint with possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: El Bahnasawy, a Canadian Citizen, Planned to Detonate Explosive Devices in Times Square and the New York City Subway System and Shoot Civilians at Concerts in the Name of ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a Federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned a five-count indictment charging CHARLES ANTHONY WALKER, JR., age 53, of High Point, North Carolina, CHRISTOPHER WELLINGTON BROWN, age 48...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the Former McConnellsburg High School Basketball Coach, Dane Robert Pollock, age 35, of McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Dec. 18, 2018, to 86 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was indicted today on charges of striking a Kansas Highway Patrol aircraft with a beam from a laser pointer, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: For Possessing Methamphetamine for Distribution and Possessing a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - An operator of a durable medical equipment (DME) company was ordered to federal prison following his admission of defrauding Medicaid, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. George Louis Moreno, 59, of McAllen, pleaded guilty Jan. 24, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, woman and man were sentenced today to federal prison terms for their respective roles in conspiring to distribute thousands of pills containing heroin in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Thomas Earl Armstrong, 42, of Moss Point, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 109 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, announced U.S. Attorney...
