News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas E. Gregory, who handled the case, stated that on Aug. 10, 2015, at approximately 3:20 a.m., Blackshell and co-defendant Joseph Lowry entered the 7-Eleven convenience store located on Lake Avenue in Rochester intending to rob both cash and goods. After entering the store...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Two Beckley felons were sentenced to federal prison today on gun charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Ryan Henry Guerrant, 27, previously entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm, and was sentenced to three years and 10 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Defendant used stolen identity to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois collected nearly $75 million in criminal, civil and asset forfeiture actions in Fiscal Year 2017, John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Bradley S. Leffers, 47, formerly of McCook, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 2 years in prison by United States Senior District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for wire fraud. Leffers was also ordered to pay $712,066.64 in restitution and serve 3 years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a three-count indictment charging TNUZA JAMAL HASSAN, 19, with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, arson, and making a false statement. HASSAN will make her initial appearance before a United States Magistrate Judge at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal jury found Donnie Phillips, 64, of Concord, and Gordon Miller, 60, of Clayton, guilty today of multiple methamphetamine-trafficking counts, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Juan David Monzon Tejada, age 29, and a citizen of El Salvador, was sentenced today to time served (80 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Government Operations, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released The Annual Compendium of Commercial Space Transportation: 2018, which shows space activity in the United States and worldwide is strong and growing. Specifically, the report finds the global space industry, which combines satellite services and ground equipment, government space budgets, and global navigation satellite services equipment represents about $345 billion in activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Edrick McCary (25, Sarasota) to six years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: A Latvian man pleaded guilty yesterday for participating in a lucrative “scareware" hacking scheme that targeted visitors to the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s website. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division; United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker of the District of Minnesota; and Special Agent in Charge Richard T. Thornton of the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Minneapolis Field Office made the announcement.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: For Wednesday, February 7, NIST Gaithersburg will be OPEN with 2 Hours Delayed Arrival with Option for UNSCHEDULED LEAVE or UNSCHEDULED TELEWORK.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District has released an American Flat Mill documentary and is continuing to host a mobile exhibit highlighting the history of the 1920s United Comstock Merger Mill at American Flat (also known as the American Flat Mill).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Julio Cesar Torres, 52, of Greenville, Texas was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 84 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in September 2017 to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute a schedule II controlled substance, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former pharmaceutical employee was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for filling medically unnecessary prescriptions for compounded medications for herself and her husband, causing losses of $956,885, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal jury found Donnie Phillips, 64, of Concord, and Gordon Miller, 60, of Clayton, guilty today of multiple methamphetamine-trafficking counts, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood and Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney R. Trent Shores announced today the results of the February 2018 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York (“NYPD"), Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s...
