News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine pled guilty Dec. 17, 2018, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A staff member at a facility for children and adults with developmental disabilities pleaded guilty Monday to federal child pornography charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Man Had Been Convicted in Two Previous Sexual Assaults.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Quavis Jamar Rudisell, 29, of Lancaster, South Carolina, pled guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A former resident of Van Buren, Arkansas, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of MICHAEL WAYNE WHITEFEATHER, 18, to murder in the second degree. WHITEFEATHER entered his guilty plea today before Judge Susan Richard Nelson in United States District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against Ricardo González-Rodríguez, charging him for threatening to injure the Secretary of Public Safety Héctor Pesquera via Facebook, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(e), announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. The FBI is in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: On Dec. 13, 2018, a Broward County resident was convicted by a federal jury of one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and four counts of mail fraud, in connection with a scheme to fraudulently raise $2 million from over a dozen elderly victims throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Lakewood, New Jersey, insurance producer was charged today with conspiring to defraud several Blue Cross Blue Shield health care insurance affiliates of more than $10 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Randell William Lane, 30, of Tonalea, Ariz. was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 26 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Lane, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, had previously pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Anders W. York, 53, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for possessing child pornography. Senior United States District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced York to 45 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, York will begin a five-year term of supervised release and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that over the course of the last week in federal court, before Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, multiple defendants have been sentenced in a large-scale heroin and marijuana trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Hurricane man and former West Virginia Cabinet Secretary was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison for embezzling $178,790 from the Teays Valley Volunteer Fire Department, as well as a related tax crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Clifford Keith Gwinn...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued a statement about a Texas judge’s ruling that that Obamacare is unconstitutional...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Hayes woman pleaded guilty today to charges of fraud and identity theft in connection with stealing nearly $100,000 from a Gloucester woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DARIN WEBB was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to two years in prison for defrauding Donadio & Olson, a Manhattan-based literary agency (the “Agency"), and its clients of over $3.3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jason Novoa, age 38, of Ballston Spa, New York, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for receipt and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Devone Johnson, 32, of Fresno, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to three years in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Co-defendant Anthony Thomas, 26, also of Fresno, was sentenced last week to two years and nine months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months in prison and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Two Metro Denver women charged with heroin distribution resulting in death made court appearances in U.S. District Court in Colorado last week, U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn, FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips and the Denver Police Department announced. Kayla Pagano, age 24...
