News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gregory Everett Mosby, of Inwood, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 27 months incarceration for heroin distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Harvey Shaner, age 51, an inmate housed at the United States Federal Prison Camp, FCI Schuylkill, in Minersville, Pennsylvania, was indicted on February 6, 2018, by a federal grand jury with escape.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Boston and the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts announced the sentencing in federal court Thursday of a Brazilian national on charges in a $20 million dollar money-laundering international pyramid scheme based in the Boston area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Tampa resident convicted in federal court in the Southern District of Florida for his involvement in Tricare health care fraud scheme, kickbacks and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Walter Cody Tribble was sentenced to a prison term of 12 months and one day for escaping from federal custody following a prior federal felony conviction, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - United States Attorney Nicola T. Hanna announced today that his office collected $219,179,887 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2017. Of this amount, nearly $56 million was collected in criminal cases, and more than $163 million was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that an Opelousas man was sentenced Thursday to more than four years in prison for possessing a pistol even though he was previously convicted of a felony and prohibited from possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: A Toledo man was charged in federal court in relation to the production of false identification documents, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Five men have pleaded guilty to their involvement in a transnational drug trafficking and money laundering ring that moved substantial quantities of drugs and money through Upstate New York and Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - Charges were unsealed today against six individuals for their alleged participation in an elaborate international advance fee and money laundering scheme. The scheme allegedly involved the impersonation of Branch Banking & Trust (BB&T) and JPMorgan Chase (Chase) executives, the fabrication...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Wyoming County dentist, Christopher Bereznak, age 48, was indicted by a federal grand jury on February 6, 2018, for unlawfully distributing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jesse Carey, age 30, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was indicted on February 6, 2018, by a federal grand jury for possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Thursday, February 8, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Eric Nathaniel Agee, 39, of Linn County, Oregon, to 15 years in federal prison for possession of methamphetamine and a stolen firearm. The day prior, on Wednesday, February 7, 2018, Judge Aiken sentenced Shawna...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: A Toledo man was charged in federal court in relation to the production of false identification documents, law enforcement officials said.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Until late February, visitors to Fort Stanwix National Monument have the opportunity to see projects completed by 7th grade students at Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Middle School.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Arnulfo Garza Gonzalez a/k/a "Peaty," age 41, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 223 months in federal prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and DEA Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam. He was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
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: An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty today to possession of child pornography, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Trent Shores of the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 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 sent letters to 12 trade associations requesting information on harassment statistics. These associations represent the industries with some of the highest rates of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dr. Clifford Jacobson, M.D., 68, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of illegally distributing a controlled substance, was sentenced to one year probation to include four months of home confinement by U.S. District Judge Charles...
