News from December 2018
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: TRUCKEE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $19.7 million construction contract to NW Construction Inc. of Bozeman, Montana, for Boca Dam safety modifications. Boca Dam, 6 miles northeast of Truckee, will be modified to better resist seismic forces during an earthquake.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 22-year-old Corpus Christi man has entered a guilty plea to robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine - DEA’s New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and U.S. 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: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Donnie Dean Burke, age 35, of Westville, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 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 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: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that two men were sentenced for weapon offenses committed while they were inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution at McDowell.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: A Broward County resident was arrested and charged with distributing information pertaining to explosives over the internet.
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: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute a quantity of crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that BENITO ORBE-SANTANA, age 43, a native of Mexico, was charged Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a second superseding indictment charging six additional defendants with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine. Daniel Sterling, a/k/a...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Demarko D. Richmond, 21, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 40 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Richmond pleaded guilty to this charge on September 7, 2018. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that over the last two weeks, the United States Attorney’s Office provided training to South Carolina’s Tri-County Human Trafficking Task Force on methods of investigating and prosecuting federal human trafficking cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Stephen-Dean Dollard Schmidt, age 27, of Roff, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1)...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Visitors to the historic mountain villages in central Japan marvel at the elegance of the steep thatched-roof farmhouses found there. Known as “gassho-zukuri," Japanese for “constructed like hands in prayer," the architectural style emerged more than 250 years ago to ruggedly withstand the area’s heavy...
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: HAMMOND - Lawrence W. LaFlower, 43 years old, of Valparaiso, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon on his plea of guilty to wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - The downfall of Wilmington Trust is a tragedy. It’s a tragedy to the over 700 employees who lost their jobs as a result of the Bank’s fire-sale acquisition by M&T. It’s a tragedy to those former employees who built the Bank into something to be proud of over the last century. It’s a tragedy to this Community, which lost what was thought to be a stable employer and a gold-standard financial institution. And it didn’t have to be.
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: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Holly Denise Sturkey, 42, of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, pled guilty in federal court to Conspiracy to Manufacture and Pass Forged Securities.
