News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DARREN RUFFIN, age 26, of New Orleans, was charged in a one-count Indictment with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today Joseph Ciffa, 49, of Grand Island, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and filing a false tax return before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Robert Romasiewicz, age 25, of Exeter, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 20 months in prison on February 6, 2018, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, for unlawfully possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh and charged with violations of federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: A former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) Special Agent was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for orchestrating, through multiple misrepresentations to numerous government agencies, the dismissal of a drug trafficking indictment filed against a fugitive narcotics kingpin, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Jermaine Dickerson, 41 of Ankeny, Iowa (formerly of Brighton, TN) pled guilty to one count of use of a telephone to maliciously convey false information concerning an attempt to damage and destroy a building and other real and personal property by means of an explosive and for failure to appear for sentencing. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - In Aug. 2016, a multi-agency investigation led by the ATF concluded with the filing of 59 federal indictments and a federal criminal complaint charging 103 Bernalillo County residents with federal firearms and narcotics trafficking offenses. To date, 84 of these defendants have been convicted, including 83 who have entered guilty pleas, and 60 of them have been sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: A Canton man was sentenced to nearly 10 years in federal prison for drug and firearms crimes, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: On February 9, 2018, Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Shawndell L. Burke, 42, with no permanent address, was sentenced to 14 years (168 months) in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Burke was ordered to serve five years on supervised release following the prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Federal law enforcement authorities today took custody of the last of seven members of a drug trafficking organization that allegedly distributed over a kilogram of heroin and other narcotics in Newark and the surrounding areas, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Cambria County resident has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation, with the condition that the first six months of her probation be served by a term of home confinement, and was ordered to perform 300 hours of community service, as a result of her conviction of theft of mail, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Michael F. Bogdon, age 25, of Kingston, Pennsylvania, was indicted on February 6, 2018, by a federal grand jury for drug distribution resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and New Haven Police Chief Anthony Campbell today announced that a grand jury in New Haven returned a 30-count indictment yesterday charging 19 individuals with federal narcotics offenses related to the distribution of crack cocaine and oxycodone in and around New Haven.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Bedford, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to one year probation on her conviction of conspiracy to distribute, possess with intent to distribute and distribution of quantities of various Schedule IV controlled substances, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Allegheny County residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh and charged with violations of federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Former Jail Sergeant Sentenced to Federal Prison For Abusing Inmate at DeKalb County Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Gregory Hubbard, aka Jibreel, 54, of West Palm Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty on Feb. 8, to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI, Navajo Nation Seek Help Identifying Body Found in Shiprock Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: LUBBOCK - Shonna Lynn Calaway, 48, of Matador, Texas, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 188 months in federal prison for having a sexual relationship with a sixteen year-old student, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Anthony McIntosh, also known as “Lo," and “Polo," of Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced today to 120 months incarceration for selling cocaine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
