News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned this week before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced yesterday that JERRY R. NEWTON, age 54 of Slidell, Louisiana was sentenced after pleading guilty to a one count Bill of Information charging Theft of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 22-year-old Chinese national who resided in La Marque has admitted to possessing a firearm while being an illegal alien and to aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Mark Dawson and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Fred Milanowski.
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: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYMON PETERSON, 29, of Stratford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury late yesterday returned a second superseding indictment charging 19 Baltimore men for a federal drug conspiracy and related firearms charges. Charged in the indictment are.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that. Raymel Weeden, 25, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of discharge of a firearm causing death, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The sentence will be served consecutive to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: A Lima man was indicted on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Gabino Peralta-Saucedo, a/k/a “Pony," (43, Michoacán, Mexico) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and a quantity of heroin. Peralta-Saucedo faces a minimum mandatory term of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. Peralta-Saucedo was arrested in Mexico in September 2016, and was extradited to the United States in September 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - Robert Gary Toltzis was sentenced to 18 months in prison for mailing hateful threats to victims because of their sexual orientation, race, and religion, announced U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Edward J. Davila, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Dumfries man was sentenced today to over 21 years in prison for distribution of fentanyl causing serious bodily harm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS-Billings resident Nathan Thomas Trujillo, 41, admitted on Dec. 11 in federal court to drug trafficking and firearms charges in a conspiracy that brought methamphetamine from Denver, Colo., to the community, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement after a Texas court ruled on the constitutionality of Obamacare.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS-Browning resident Denise L. Sharp, 60, who worked for the Blackfeet Tribe’s Head Start Program, admitted in federal court on Tuesday to stealing money through an overall scheme involving others in which an estimated $232,000 was fraudulently claimed as overtime pay, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI -A Providence man arrested for possessing hundreds of videos and images of child pornography pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to a charge of possession of child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A man from Saudi Arabia who is a former resident of Weatherford, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty Friday to visa fraud and making a false statement to the FBI by, among other things, concealing his application to and attendance at an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in late 2000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Washington man who admitted distributing pound quantities of methamphetamine primarily in the Great Falls area was sentenced on Dec. 12 to 90 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Oliver Rocher (33, Fort Myers) to 15 years and 10 months in federal prison for firearms and drug-related offenses. The court also ordered Rocher to forfeit $4,002 in drug proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A North Kansas City, Mo., woman has been indicted for embezzling $116,367 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Woodburn Police Lieutenant Graduates from the FBI National Academy.
