News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that RODNEY JAMES, age 47, a resident of Phoenix City, Alabama, was charged Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 in a one-count indictment for interference with a flight crew, in violation of Title 49, United States Code, Section 46504.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Pasadena man who organized and directed a conspiracy to ship multi-kilogram quantities of heroin and cocaine in airplane luggage from Los Angeles to Detroit was sentenced today to 162 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Presiliano Garcia, 33, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to misprision of a felony. The charges carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Deputy Secretary Bernhardt’s conflicts of interest are well known. His years of lobbying on behalf of clients who stand to profit from Interior policy decisions are cause for serious concern. We intend to continue conducting vigorous oversight of how Interior political appointees arrive at major policy...
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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury in Miami indicted Florida Department of Corrections officer, Terrance Reynolds, 28, for conspiring with former sergeant Brendan Butler to physically assault and intimidate youthful offenders for conduct perceived by the officers as disruptive...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Defendant unlawfully received over $300,000 in public funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Kenterius Dyshae Hinton, age 24, of Rock Hill, was sentenced to 36 months (3 years) imprisonment, which will be followed by 3 years of supervised release. This past September, Hinton plead guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
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: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Jason Bolduc, 41, of Parsonsfield, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 150 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute fentanyl. Bolduc pled guilty on May 23, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A former office manager and bookkeeper for a used car dealership in Cranston today admitted the she defrauded her former employer by altering and misrepresenting information entered in financial records.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Dunbar, West Virginia man pled guilty to a federal firearms charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Brian M. Oliver, 22, entered a guilty plea today to being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Mr. Oliver faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced on March 13, 2019. Stuart praised the work of the Dunbar Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Enforcement (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Kentucky man who robbed over $32,000 from a bank in Wayne County was sentenced to 63 months in prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Steve Ray Meeks, 62, of Louisa, Kentucky, previously pled guilty to bank robbery. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the FBI, the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, the Louisa, Kentucky, Police Department, the Kentucky State Police, and the West Virginia State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that five defendants pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford in connection with a cocaine and heroin trafficking ring on the West Side of Buffalo. Entering guilty pleas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Colonia, New Jersey, man was arrested in his home today on charges that he distributed images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Izmir Koch, 33, of Huber Heights, Ohio, was convicted in U.S. District Court today for assaulting a man because he believed the man was Jewish in violation of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, and of lying to the FBI about his role in the religiously motivated assault.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - As we bid aloha to a most eventful 2018, Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park continues its tradition of sharing Hawaiian culture, After Dark in the Park talks, and other programs throughout January 2019 - which is Volcano Awareness Month.
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: 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 14 months in prison, with credit being given for time served, and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
