News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Alvin Arely Potts II, age 38, of Durant, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Count Six Conspiracy To Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343, punishable by not more than 30 years imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ALEX ALBERTO FAJIN-DIAZ, 31, a citizen of Spain, and ARGENYS RODRIGUEZ, 21, of Springfield, Massachusetts, have been charged by federal criminal complaint with bank fraud stemming from an alleged ATM “jackpotting" scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Washington, D.C., man pleaded guilty today to forcibly sex trafficking a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: MCALLEN, TX-A federal fugitive sentenced to life in prison for his role in a hostage-taking conspiracy has been returned to the United States after his capture in Mexico by Mexican authorities. Luis Gerardo Betancourt, previously residing in Pharr, Texas, was apprehended by Mexican authorities in October 2017 and returned to the United States at the Columbia Port of Entry, Laredo, Texas late in the evening on Friday, February 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Sinclair Gibbs, age 31, of North Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. United States District Judge Richard M. Gergel, of Charleston, sentenced Gibbs to 57 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Arizona man pleaded guilty today to his role in a conspiracy that defrauded elderly victims, including several Virginia residents, out of nearly $500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Nilsa Marie Urena, 25, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged with bank robbery yesterday, after being arrested near the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Nashville on Saturday, following an earlier robbery of the Upper Cumberland Credit Union in Crossville, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Vahan Kelerchian, 58, of Richboro, Pennsylvania, doing business as Armament Services International “ASI", was sentenced before Senior District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen for his role in the acquisition of machineguns and restricted laser aiming sights.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of JARED DANIEL JONES, 23, to 360 months in prison for the murder of two individuals, including one minor victim. JONES, who pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in the second degree, was sentenced on Feb. 2, 2018, before Senior Judge Donovan W. Frank in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman today announced the guilty plea by former Warren County, Kentucky, physician Charles Fred Gott to multiple charges of unlawful distribution and dispensing of controlled substances and health care fraud, in United States District Court, before United States District Judge Greg N. Stivers.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 1:30 p.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections will hold a hearing on “Reviewing the Policies and Priorities of the Mine Safety and Health Administration." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Camden County, Mo., sheriff’s deputy has been indicted by a federal grand jury on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, before United States Magistrate Judge Kimberly A. Swank, DAQUANJRA TASHA WHITE, 28, of Fayetteville, pled guilty to one count of Sex Trafficking of Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - Four West Tennessee residents have been indicted on conspiracy to distribute 280 grams or more of cocaine base (crack cocaine); distribution of and possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine; and conspiracy to commit money laundering. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: YVONNE WILSON, age 37, of Kenner, Louisiana, pled guilty in federal court yesterday before U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon to embezzlement of mail matter by a postal service employee, announced U. S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Antonio Michael Ross, 49, of Biloxi, Mississippi, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Thomas M. Annello, Acting Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard J. Hall, 32, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 63 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on a bank robbery charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for selling fake driver’s licenses through an online shop and filing fraudulent tax returns using stolen identity information, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Sinclair Gibbs, age 31, of North Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. United States District Judge Richard M. Gergel, of Charleston, sentenced Gibbs to 57 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
