News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: FORT WAYNE - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Samuel J. Gemple, age 49, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before Chief Judge Theresa Springmann on his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy is accepting applications until February 19 for our 2018 summer college student internship program, and we're featuring past Indian Energy interns in a series of blog posts. In this blog, we highlight the last 16 years of our internship program, including what former students have been doing since their internships.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An Israeli national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to conspiring to transfer $2.5 million worth of cocaine from Colombia to Israel via Boston and to money laundering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Ashan M. Benedict, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Jan. 31, 2018, following a trial in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga before the Honorable Travis R. McDonough, U.S. District Judge, a jury convicted Donald Ray Hobgood, 31, of Shelbyville, Tennessee, of three counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg announced today that the Southern District of Florida collected $81,953,065.05 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2017. Of this amount, $57,410,683.40 was collected in criminal actions and $24,542,381.65 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Feb. 1, 2018, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against four defendants charged with Conspiracy to Possess with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine and Conspiracy to Import a Controlled Substance. Agents from the U.S. Customs and Border...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Two co-defendants in credit card fraud scheme also sentenced to prison time.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary Acosta: We write to bring to your attention a recent Government Accountability Office (“GAO") report (“the Report") on safety and health issues facing workers at meat and poultry plants and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) troubling response to its recommendations.[1] ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Arthur Nunes, III, 41, formerly of Dover, New Hampshire, was sentenced to serve 13 months in federal prison for making a false statement to obtain Social Security benefits, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that yesterday in federal court, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced DARIUS J. WILLIAMS, 38, of Wilmington, to 225 months of imprisonment followed by 6 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Feb. 2, 2018, Shawn Michael Kerby, 39, formerly of Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 20 months in prison for obtaining hydrocodone by misrepresentation and being a user and addict of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Kerby was ordered to pay a $15,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: To better facilitate emergency response for U.S. Park Police during construction, Morrow Drive NW will close to vehicle traffic at 9:30 a.m. Monday, February 5 and remain closed until Fall 2018. The road will remain open to pedestrians and bicyclists.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: In Austin today, a federal judge sentenced two Austinites to federal prison for defrauding Dell, Inc. and the Internal Revenue Service, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio, and IRS-Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Andy Tsui, San Antonio.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Carbon County, Pennsylvania, man was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport yesterday, Feb. 1, after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer detected a loaded pistol in the traveler’s jacket.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Three Chipley, Florida residents were sentenced yesterday to serve time in federal prison for their involvement in a steroid and counterfeit prescription drug lab in Northwest Florida, announced Louis V. Franklin, Sr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of New York returned an indictment charging Inna Chebanenko, Andrii Gerasymenko, and Georgy Zakalyugin with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The defendants were arrested in Illinois last week and are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in federal court in Brooklyn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Tara Lenich, a former supervisory Assistant District Attorney with the Kings County District Attorney’s Office (KCDA), was sentenced by United States District Judge William F. Kuntz II to a year and one day in prison on each of the two counts, to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Ashan M. Benedict, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF"), James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Washington D.C. / Greenbelt, Maryland - Two area men have been arrested in an investigation that led to the seizure of firearms, ammunition and narcotics at various locations in the District of Columbia and Maryland, including a barbershop and surrounding property in Southeast Washington.
