News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Jason E. Mininger, 50, of Folsom, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and money laundering, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eric Marshall, 42, of Grand Island, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and money laundering, was sentenced to 65 months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Defendant Tried to Fraudulently Obtain $5 Million for Stolen Artwork That He Did Not Possess.
By State Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today introduced bipartisan legislation to modernize U.S. export control regulations of dual-use items. Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) is an original co-sponsor.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Ceremonial Start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will once again finish at the Campbell Tract Facility on Saturday, March 3. The world’s most famous sled dog race officially begins the following day and this event is a spectator-friendly ceremony where dogs and mushers interact with fans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 48-year-old Mexican national illegally residing in Carthage, Texas, has been found guilty of drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney Alan R. Jackson today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County man pled guilty today to federal gun and drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Fashawn Cannon, 27, of Hernshaw, entered his guilty plea to distribution of oxycodone and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the U.S. Route 119 Drug and Violent Crime Task Force and the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Ocala, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Timothy Whittington, Jr. (37, Kansas) to eight years in federal prison for assault with a dangerous weapon with the intent to cause bodily harm. The Court ordered the sentence to run consecutively to Whittington’s existing sentence for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, which he was serving at the time he committed the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - An Owensboro, Kentucky man was charged in a superseding indictment this week, by a grand jury meeting in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with possessing unregistered machine guns announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: With Possession of a Destructive Device.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Jesus Roberto Munguia Apprehended.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury indicted three Bay Area men for their respective roles in an alleged conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: A Mansfield man was charged with stalking, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a legislative hearing on H.R. 520, the “National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act" (Rep. Mark Amodei) (R-NV).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: FEB. 15, 2018 - This table package showing household characteristics of opposite-sex and same-sex couples has been updated with statistics from the 2016 American Community Survey. The tables show age of householder and partner, race of householder, interracial couples, labor force participation, educational...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA - Bryan Tate Dollar, 37 of Haslet, Texas, was sentenced today to 84 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge Dana L. Christensen handed down the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Ashburn woman was arrested today on charges of orchestrating a multi-year loan fraud scheme causing approximately $5 million in losses to dozens of victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - On Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, former State Representative Micky Ray Hammon, 60, of Decatur, Alabama, received a sentence of three months’ imprisonment for committing mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Hammon served in the Alabama House of Representatives...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Police Commissioner of the City of New York, (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VICTOR MANUEL AGUILAR CAMACHO, 39, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to approximately five months of imprisonment, time already served, for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
