News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Clarence Brenson, a 25 year old resident of Selma, Alabama was sentenced to 27 months incarceration for possession of a rifle after being convicted of Rape Second Degree.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Red Rock Canyon and Sloan Canyon National Conservation Areas will have limited hours on Christmas Day, December 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Joshua Paul Smith (28, Jacksonville) and Otis Thomas (26, Jacksonville) to 30 years, and 6 years and 8 months, respectively, in federal prison, for their actions leading to the overdose death a 22-year-old Jacksonville woman. The court also ordered Smith to pay $24,187.83 in restitution to the victim’s family. Smith and Thomas had previously pleaded guilty for their roles in the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Federal inmate Michael Griesinger, 24, has been sentenced to serve 46 additional months in prison for assaulting and seriously injuring another inmate, United States Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft announced today. The assault occurred in November 2017, when both Griesinger and the victim, identified only as J.B. in court records, were incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Greenville, Illinois. Griesinger pleaded guilty to the charge earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS-Stephen Michael Miller, the former postmaster of the U.S. Postal Service Office in Miles City, was sentenced to five years of probation and fined $2,500 today in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine that came through the mail, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The owner of an antiques and specialty shop in Middleburg pleaded guilty today to violating the Lacey Act by illegally selling and transporting between $250,000 and $500,000 worth of items made from endangered species, migratory birds, and other wildlife.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Dec. 18, 2018, Seth Nichols was sentenced by United States District Judge Cindy Jorgensen to 60 months in prison. Nichols had previously pleaded guilty to bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Hezekiah Morton, age 47, of Schenectady, N.Y., pled guilty today to distributing heroin and fentanyl in May 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), and Raymond P. Donovan, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA")...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Bronx, New York man was convicted in U.S. District Court in Providence today of passing counterfeit money in September 2017 in stores at a Cranston shopping center.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that George Armstead, a 28 year old resident of Selma, Alabama was sentenced to 46 months incarceration for possession of a pistol after being convicted of Robbery First Degree.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: The Gettysburg Foundation and the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association (GBPA) have provided donations to match federal funds to preserve monuments at Gettysburg National Military Park. Thanks to partner support and federal funding from the Helium Act, a total of $188,129 is available to do repairs and preservation maintenance for more than 350 civil war monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for unlawfully possessing a firearm and illegal reentry the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Roger Dale Godwin, 40, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Raner Collins to 48 months in the Bureau of Prisons followed by three years of supervised release. Godwin had previously pleaded guilty to making threats against the President and mailing threatening communications.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Dec. 18, 2018, Seth Nichols was sentenced by United States District Judge Cindy Jorgensen to 60 months in prison. Nichols had previously pleaded guilty to bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Justice Department Alleges Conditions at Hampton Roads Regional Jail Violate the Constitution and Federal Law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Revere man was charged today in federal court in Boston with distributing 40 grams or more of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Anthony Mickens (a.k.a. “K"), 26, of Hartford, Connecticut, was sentenced yesterday to 60 months imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Christina Reiss, in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Vermont. Judge Reiss...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - Jese Carillo Casillas, age 33, based out of Kennewick, Wash., was sentenced on Dec. 13, 2018, to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine, as well as conspiracy to launder money. Senior United States District Judge Edward F. Shea sentenced Casillas to a...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - DeAndre Spencer, age 27, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to an armed carjacking.
