News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Nakia Phillips, 39, of Farmington, Missouri, was sentenced today to 22 years in prison for sex trafficking crimes. He appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. District Court Judge Ronnie White.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On Dec. 17, 2018, David John Dziedzic, 55, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 30 months’ imprisonment for his lead role in criminal activity related to the short sale of distressed mortgages, some of which were federally-insured. Dziedzic had previously...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a new report on the scourge of workplace harassment, entitled, “‘…So I Tolerated It:’ How Workplaces Are Responding to Harassment and the Clear Need for...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 18, 2018, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Che L. Simons a/k/a “Che L. Simmons" (age: 28), Sequoia D. Southerland (age: 21), Mackel H. W. Gaither (age: 28), Henry L. Wilder (age:...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Department of Justice, Bureau of Indian Affairs Repatriate Items of Cultural Patrimony to Acoma Pueblo.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ALBERT LEE ROBINSON, 57, of Stamford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances. Robinson also admitted that he violated the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - On Dec. 18, 2018, a federal grand jury in the Western District of Michigan returned an indictment against Matteo Adan Marroquin, 22, and his girlfriend, Lacy Lynn Zimmerman, 22, of Ottawa County, Michigan. According to the indictment, the defendants stole 22 firearms from ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX -This week, Kelton Treyvon Prentiss, 23, of Camp Verde, Ariz., was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge David G. Campbell to 12 months and one day in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Prentiss had previously pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Stole Nearly $200,000, Including an Inheritance the Navy SEAL Received After He Reportedly Drowned in Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Jerome Ruzicka, 62, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Minneapolis by Chief Judge John R. Tunheim to 84 months of federal prison. Ruzicka and co-defendant W. Jeffery Taylor, 57, were convicted on March 3, 2018, of charges related to stealing more than $15 million from the Eden Prairie-based...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Kenvil, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for conspiring with a former Middlesex Borough fire inspector to use threats of violence to extort cash payments from the owner of a real estate development company, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 18, 2018, a jury in Milwaukee returned guilty verdicts on two charges of impersonating a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent against Jeremy C. Wade, (age: 29) of Racine. Wade had been charged with violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 912.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Tuesday for trafficking children for commercial sex.
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: PHOENIX - On Dec. 17, 2018, David John Dziedzic, 55, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 30 months’ imprisonment for his lead role in criminal activity related to the short sale of distressed mortgages, some of which were federally-insured. Dziedzic had previously...
By State Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Five defendants, including four from the Kansas City, Mo., metropolitan area, have been indicted for their roles in a $770,000 drug-trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant admits having defrauded an investor out of $1,500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Dec. 18, 2018, a federal jury in Hartford found ANDREW DAVIS, 38, a citizen of Jamaica last residing in Hamden, guilty of marijuana trafficking, firearm possession and money laundering offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Manuel De Jesus Pulido-Rodas, 33, of Vera Cruz, Mexico, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden 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 Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
