News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Michael John Collier, 32, of Anchorage, charging him with one count of distribution of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography. Collier is in custody and is currently awaiting to be arraigned before a U.S. Magistrate Judge on these charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: A Tulsa man entered a guilty plea today for defrauding a bank of nearly $5 million and to bankruptcy fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Aliquippa, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Juan Valdez, 51, of Milton, Mass., identified in court as the “boss of bosses" of a large scale international drug trafficking operation that repeatedly imported multiple kilograms of heroin and cocaine from Mexico that was distributed to mid-level and street dealers in Rhode Island, Massachusetts...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS--Billings resident Gregory Adam Kilwein, 50, was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in federal prison and five years of supervised release for conviction in a drug investigation in which agents found four pounds of methamphetamine in his apartment, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on a ruling jeopardizing health care for tens of millions of people across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 41-year-old Mexican national who illegally resided in Houston has been ordered to prison following his conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Agusto Lazo-Aguirre pleaded guilty March 2, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that BRITTANY THEOPHILE, age 30, of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown, to 21 months imprisonment for her role in attempting to introduce controlled substances into the Orleans Justice Center. Upon release from imprisonment, she will serve a one year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas announced today that Berry Roland Bishop, age 67, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, pleaded guilty to the offense of Knowingly Defrauding Financial Institutions. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey accepted the plea in the United States District Court in Hot Springs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Elizabeth, New Jersey, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of 21 years and 10 months, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, on a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of one kilogram or more of heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A father and son are among 18 individuals facing criminal charges as part of a federal investigation into cocaine trafficking in the Chicago area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a five-count indictment against Karen Duhon, 64, of Morgan City, Louisiana, charging her with one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud, and one count of mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Elizabeth, New Jersey, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of 21 years and 10 months, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, on a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of one kilogram or more of heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Indictment Alleges Nineteen Defendants Distributed Heroin and Over 400 Grams of Fentanyl - Enough to Kill 200,000 People.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: James Charles Fentress-Dismuke, 21, was sentenced in federal court Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, in Omaha, Nebraska, for bank robbery and brandishing of a firearm during a crime of violence. The Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Franklin to 8 years, 11 months of imprisonment. There is no parole...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On December 7, 2018, Raymond Wayne Eugene Hall, age 33, was sentenced on federal child pornography charges to 40 years in federal prison and a life term of supervised release in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Second Man Sentenced to Five Years in Prison on Related Charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Anderson Curtel Duke, 33, of Monroe, Louisiana, was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury on two counts of distribution of fentanyl, one of which resulted in a person’s death, three counts of distribution of heroin, two counts...
