News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that KEITH ANTHONY RAMIREZ (RAMIREZ), age 33, was charged Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 in a one-count Indictment for bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
Release: PITTSBURGH - 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 Pittsburgh will have plenty of company when passing through the airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned a 15-count indictment charging FRANK MOSS, 31, of Prospect, with offenses related to the illegal purchase and possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Johnathan Lewis, 27, of Jackson, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour, Jr. to 64-months in prison, followed by 3 years of 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 18, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Steven Moore, 36, and Samantha Merrifield, 35, both of Plymouth, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced SHARON DARMINA RESPUS, 31, of Burgaw to 100 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Court Chief Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Octavius Tyrone Peace on Dec. 14, 2018 to serve a term of imprisonment of 24 months followed by 3 years of supervised release for the for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Laderrick Deanrey Hopson, 24, of Bay Minette, was sentenced in federal court today on the charge of felon in possession of ammunition. Hopson pled guilty to the charge in July of 2018. The evidence presented at ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced the unsealing of an indictment charging twelve people with crimes related to the distribution of cocaine. The indictment was returned on November 28 by a federal grand jury sitting in Madison and was unsealed yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that a federal jury found Christopher Clough, 44, of Dover, N.H., guilty of participating in a scheme in which he received kickbacks in exchange for prescribing a powerful fentanyl spray to patients in violation of federal law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa, age 54, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to three counts of failing to file individual federal tax returns.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: NOAA Fisheries announced today the certification of a new survey design used to estimate Gulf red snapper caught by anglers fishing from private boats in Florida, building on an agency priority of collecting accurate and timely recreational fishing data.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Effective for the 2019 summer season, the cost of obtaining a permit for backcountry camping in Rocky Mountain National Park will increase from $26 to $30 per trip. This administrative permit fee, established in 1995, was last increased to $26 in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Steven Silva-Lugo, age 32, of Henryville, Monroe County, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Senior Judge A. Richard Caputo to the charge of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and powder cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Carlos Sanchez, 33 years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Theresa L. Springmann, after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Maintaining a Place for Distributing and Using Cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 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 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two men were sentenced for the November 2017 armed robbery of the Phillips 66 Speedy Mart in Spearfish, South Dakota, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Frank Lee McCall, III, 29, of Silverhill, Alabama, was sentenced today for stealing a firearm and for being a felon in possession of firearms. McCall pled guilty to the two charges in August of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Roane County man was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for a child pornography crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Devin Wolfe, 26, of Spencer, previously entered his guilty plea in July 2018 to one count of receipt of child pornography. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the West Virginia State Police and the Parkersburg Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that KEITH ANTHONY RAMIREZ (RAMIREZ), age 33, was charged Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 in a one-count Indictment for bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
