News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 25-year-old resident of Brownsville has been ordered to prison for 300 months for his role in recruiting a female to carry almost four kilograms of “ice" to Louisiana, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Emmanuel Ravell pleaded guilty Oct. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco police officer Rain Olson Daugherty was arrested yesterday and charged this morning with robbing a San Francisco bank, announced United States Attorney Alex. G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A jury convicted a Hilliard couple of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and health care fraud yesterday evening following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man pleaded guilty today to his role in two bank robberies.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
Release: Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2018 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today commends the United Nations’ decision to designate 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health. The United States, along with 90 other countries, co-sponsored this resolution to raise awareness of plant health issues ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that Amber Rae Kirk, age 37, of Lincoln, Arkansas, entered a guilty plea to Drug Conspiracy in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(D), 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 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: HOUSTON - An ex-employee at a local credit union has been charged with embezzlement and making false entries into the credit union’s books and records, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Another ex-employee was also charged with embezzlement related to the scam.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Zachary M. Baker, 32, was sentenced to serve 33 months in federal prison in connection with theft of over $800,000 from his former employer. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant admits unlawfully taking information while employed as a clerk in a San Francisco motel.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-Tyler Wayne Fuller, 29, of Madras, Oregon, pleaded guilty today, in separate criminal cases, to one count each of bank robbery and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
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: McALLEN, Texas ‐ A former Pharr City Commissioner has been ordered to prison in connection with a scheme to defraud Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Oscar Elizondo, 48, of Pharr, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud Nov. 29, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
Release: NEW YORK - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) expects to screen a record number of travelers during the 2018 Christmas and New Year holiday travel season, so travelers flying out of the New York region will have plenty of company when passing through the airport.
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: Two Birmingham Men Plead Guilty to Using a Firearm During a Carjacking in Homewood, Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: OMAHA, Neb., - Jovan Marquis Harris of Milwaukee was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison on each of four counts related to distributing heroin resulting in death or serious bodily injury and 20 years on two final counts as determined by U.S. District Judge Mark W. Bennett, Northern District of Iowa, ...
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: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. De Palma, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Brian Swain, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, and William Hernandez, Chief, North...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Cave explorers recently mapped the 200th mile in Jewel Cave National Monument. A team of six volunteer cavers entered the cave on Saturday, December 15 and surveyed 3,338.75 feet of passages. They reached the milestone moment on Sunday, briefly posing for a photo of the accomplishment. Upon exiting the cave on Monday night, the cavers were greeted by park staff, family, and friends for an evening celebration and potluck, and to share their experiences.
