News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Betel Paulino, 18, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced Thursday for his role in the armed robbery of the McDonald’s restaurant in Lockhart Shopping Center, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Candelaria Vazquez was sentenced in absentia today to over 12 years in prison for her role in a conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex Tse and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Susan Illston, U.S. District Judge.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal indictment was unsealed Wednesday charging 36 individuals for their alleged roles in the Infraud Organization, an Internet-based cybercriminal enterprise engaged in the large-scale acquisition, sale, and dissemination of stolen identities, compromised debit and credit cards, personally identifiable information, financial and banking information, computer malware, and other contraband.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Minneapolis, MN, man convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft was sentenced on February 8, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Defendant Fatally Stabbed Victim On Board a Metrorail Train.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Minneapolis, MN, man convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft was sentenced on February 8, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Naples, FL - Today, the U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for the Jacksonville District, submitted to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida a proposed consent decree that would resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act by condominium developers Lodge/Abbott Investments Associates LLC and Lodge/Abbott Associates LLC.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - 1,294,827 visitors came to Death Valley National Park in 2017, only 1,456 fewer than the park record set in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to eight years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, on his conviction of violating the federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service today will open the Denali Park Road as far as the Mountain Vista Rest Area (mile 12) for travel by private vehicles and commercial vehicles with permits. Visitors should expect to encounter snow and ice on shaded sections of the park road.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Stormy Sea Lane, age 28, of Fayetteville, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $1,900.00 fine on...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Medford man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for distributing oxycodone throughout the North Shore.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Christian Blunt, of Baltimore, Maryland was sentenced today to 151 months incarceration for heroin distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Defendants among the 103 Individuals Federally Charged as the Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Dwight Hamilton has been sentenced to one year in prison for abusing a female inmate by tasing her without any legitimate justification. Leonard Dreyer, Hamilton's former supervisor at the jail, was sentenced on Tuesday February 6, 2018, to 21 days of confinement in a halfway house for attempting to obstruct the federal investigation into Hamilton's use of excessive force by making false statements to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Todd Beckman was sentenced to 240 months in prison for his role in kidnapping a Maplewood man.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota man convicted of transportation for illegal sexual activity and related crimes was sentenced on February 8, 2018 by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Liberty, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for attempting to distribute child pornography over the internet.
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: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, has been sentenced in federal court to 74 months, followed by three years supervised release and ordered to pay $3,533.62 on his conviction of a health care fraud conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
