News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging HIRAN SANCHEZ, also known as “Ivan" and “Pablo," 20, of Hartford, with one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor and two counts of sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After an eight-day trial, a federal jury found Steel A. Davis, 45, of Chico, guilty today of all eight counts of wire fraud in a scheme to obtain bonuses for referring individuals to enlist in the California National Guard, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Beaumont man was sentenced Tuesday to 120 months in prison for kidnapping two girls after stealing the truck they were in.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Daraya Marshall, 37, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 25 years in prison on four federal charges of sex trafficking of children, one federal count of sexual exploitation of a minor, and one District of Columbia offense of first-degree child sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Terry White, age 22, of Pine Hill, Alabama was sentenced today after earlier pleading guilty to a violation of 18 USC Section 2252A(a)(2), Receipt of Child Pornography. White was sentenced to serve 84 months imprisonment followed by a life time term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced today that Craig Harry Lipinski (49, Jacksonville) has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with transporting and possessing child pornography. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, up to 30 years, in federal prison and a potential lifetime of supervision.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - A Mexican national, who has been repatriated five times since 2005 and is wanted in his native country for homicide and violent robbery, was deported Tuesday, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: National Park Service invites proposals for Alcatraz Island Passenger Ferry Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Faces at Least 15 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Andrew Goldberg (35, Sanford) to 30 years and 5 months in federal prison for attempting to entice minors to engage in sexual activity and distributing child pornography. As part of the sentence, the Court also ordered him to serve a life term of supervision following his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Sean McLyman, 43, Madison, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 56 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. McLyman pleaded guilty to this charge on November 6, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management will be conducting prescribed burns along several fence lines within the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area throughout the remainder of this winter and spring. The objective of these burns is to reduce unsafe fuels comprised of tumbleweed that has accumulated along fence lines and roadways that threaten grazing, recreation and other multiple-use activities on public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Anthony Horton, 37, of Philadelphia; Aaron Horton, Jr., 39, formerly of Philadelphia; Thomas Gillis, 39, of Philadelphia; Faith Charlton, 34, of Philadelphia; Lynda Slaughter, 36, of Sharon Hill; and Marie “Kellie" Slaughter, 32, of Philadelphia, were all charged today with conspiracy against the United...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: New program to improve visitor experience and reduce traffic congestion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that William Robert Rosica, 51, of Irondequoit NY, who was convicted of cyberstalking and computer intrusion, was sentenced to 60 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy and passing and uttering counterfeit money, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A guidance counselor with the Pleasantville public school district today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of over $3 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Orlando, FL -U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Eric Bishop (43, Orlando) to 17 years and 5 months in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity. He pleaded guilty on Sept. 25, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - On Jan. 31, 2018, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against four individuals as a result of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation led by the U.S Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, DEA and the Puerto Rico...
