News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Unlawfully worked under alias claiming to be a United States Citizen.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Steven Gwiazda, 38, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 11 years in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Gwiazda pleaded guilty to this charge on Sept. 28, 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 Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and committee member Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) today introduced S. 3787 the Developing an Innovative Strategy for Antimicrobial Resistant Microorganisms (DISARM) Act of 2018, bipartisan legislation to address the lack of research and development for advanced antibiotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Karl Kleber, 64, of Lisbon, Portugal, who was convicted of smuggling goods into the United States, in connection with the importation into the United States of Chinese-manufactured, 75 round capacity, AK-47 rifle drum magazines, was sentenced to time served by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The defendant will also forfeit $345,600.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Previously Convicted Felon Also Bought, Sold Firearms to Simon City Royals Gang Members.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison for Plotting to Carry out Terrorist Attacks in New York City for ISIS in Summer of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Morgan County Sheriff ANA WOODARD FRANKLIN has been charged in a one-count information charging failure to file a tax return announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -A federal grand jury returned a seventh superseding indictment on Dec. 17, 2018, charging nine men in connection with a conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. The seventh superseding indictment adds two new defendants charged with racketeering conspiracy related to their membership in MS-13, and adds four murders as overt acts allegedly committed by the defendants charged in this indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A local man has been sentenced to 188 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon illegally possessing firearms in the furtherance of drug trafficking crimes. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Five Kansas City, Mo., area residents were charged in federal court today for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy after law enforcement officers seized approximately 25 pounds of methamphetamine during an undercover operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two members of the Canta Ranas Organization, a Santa Fe Springs-based criminal enterprise linked to the Mexican Mafia, have been found guilty by a jury of multiple federal offenses, including racketeering, narcotics and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man has been ordered detained in federal custody following his arrest on a grand jury indictment charging him with the illegal sale of a firearm to an out-of-state resident and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
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 also sentenced Mickens to a three-year period of supervised release by the U.S. Probation Office, which begins when Mickens is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, CT - Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Terrence Omar Gates, 32, of Jackson, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour, Jr. to 78 months in prison, to run consecutive to his previously imposed 24 month revocation sentence, followed by three years supervised release, for illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Jerome Sells, age 40, of Mishawaka, Indiana, was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. for possession of over 500 grams of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: FORT WAYNE -Valentina Marinkovic, 18, of Romania, had a six count indictment returned against her, one count for executing a scheme to defraud a financial institution and 5 counts for possessing access device making equipment, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management today announced the appointment of Tim Spisak, a 34-year career BLM employee, as State Director for New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. Spisak, who has been serving as acting New Mexico State Director since October, previously served as the BLM’s Deputy Assistant Director for Energy, Minerals, and Realty Management.
