News from December 2018
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: Captured after returning to the United States from Mexico.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today published the 2017 Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual Summary. The Summary shows more than 99 percent of the samples tested had pesticide residues well below benchmark levels established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Entrance fees at Colorado National Monument will increase five dollars and campground fees will increase two dollars beginning Jan. 1, 2019. Entrance fees for private vehicles will be $20 for a seven day pass. The Saddlehorn campground fee will be $22 per night.
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: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Jermaine Jackson was sentenced by United States District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein to 365 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by five years’ supervised release, for the murder of Edwin Lopez, an employee of a convenience store in Valley Stream, New York. Jackson pleaded guilty to the charge in December 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH- A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, possession with intent to distribute a quantity of heroin, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Glenn Varrin, 56, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced to 120 months in prison today for attempted enticement of a minor after pleading guilty on August 15. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina----United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Federal Grand Juries have returned Indictments against the following.
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: Columbia, South Carolina----United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Federal Grand Juries have returned Indictments against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that three felons pleaded guilty last week for possession of firearms.
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: 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: 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: FRESNO, Calif. - After a four-day trial, a federal jury found Craig Martin Shults, 48, of New York, guilty on Friday of retaliating against a federal official by threat, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man pled guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Oshae Hamilton, 25, entered a guilty plea to an information charging him with possession with the intent to distribute heroin. The Huntington Police Department conducted the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn.- Dec. 17, 2018 - Christopher B. Warren, 50, of Anthony, Florida pleaded guilty Friday to one count of mail fraud and one count of securities fraud for operating a $28 million Ponzi scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of BRIAN ALAN KAELBLE, 33, to 212 months in federal prison for receipt of child pornography. KAEBLE, who has two prior convictions in the States of Missouri and Kansas for crimes related to child pornography, pleaded guilty on Aug. 14, 2018, to a criminal information. He was sentenced Dec. 12, 2018, by Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Jason Dunn, U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado, today announced that Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. and its Chief Executive Officer have paid a combined $110,000 to settle allegations that the corporation and its CEO made false statements concerning a consultant’s security clearance and failed to disclose an organizational conflict of interest when bidding on a defense procurement contract.
