News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Isaac Thomas (Winter Haven, 25) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for possessing a firearm in a school zone. Judge Merryday said Thomas is an immediate and lethal threat to the community and stated that the court had only “one intelligent" option, before sentencing him to the statutory maximum sentence. Thomas pleaded guilty on Aug. 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and law enforcement partners announced today the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. The cases involve more than two hundred and fifty defendants from around the globe who victimized more than a million Americans, most of whom were elderly. The cases...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - United States Attorney Brian J. Kuester announced today that the Department of Justice, along with many of its law enforcement partners, effected the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. These cases involved over 250 defendants from around the globe who victimized more than a million Americans, most of whom were elderly.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and law enforcement partners announced today the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. The cases involve more than 250 defendants from around the globe who victimized more than a million Americans, most of whom were elderly. The cases...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MILTON CARLOS SEGURA-SANCHEZ, a/k/a “Milton Reyna Segura-Sanchez," a/k/a “Milton Carlos Segura Reyna," a/k/a “Carlos," age 36, from Houston, Texas, has pleaded guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Distribute One Kilogram or more of Cocaine. The defendant faces a sentence of between five and forty years imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Importance of District and Nationwide Efforts Highlighted by Attorney General and Agency Chiefs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Shreveport man previously convicted of a felony pleaded guilty last week possessing a.45 caliber pistol.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Fernando Reyes, 37, a resident of Florida, was indicted today on charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: A former research oceanographer in the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has been sentenced for accepting a salary from the People’s Republic of China.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
Release: Summary: USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to recognize Japan as being free of classical swine fever and swine vesicular disease, following a risk evaluation. APHIS is making the risk evaluation available for public review and comment. View it here.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - On Aug. 23, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a one count indictment against Rafael Garza a/k/a "Poppy," Timothy Woods, Juan Cisneros a/k/a "Hot Rod," Alfredo Arambul a/k/a "Freddy," a/k/a "Chain," Carlos Alberto Lopez, Tiffany Harper, Anthony Hope, Anthony Gilliam, Corey Blair, Marcus Joyner, Ricky Dortch, and Johnny Smith alleging that these individuals conspired to possess with the intent distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Following a collaborative effort by the Dallas Police Department and United States Postal Inspection Service, with assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Donnie Arlondo Ferrell, 25, of Hutchins, Texas, is in federal custody on a federal criminal complaint for the Feb. 19, 2018 murder of a United States Postal Service employee. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Lawrence H. Wolf, a/k/a “Larry," Allegedly Obtained and Spent More Than $12 Million in Victim Funds by Falsely Claiming Ownership Over Valuable Oil and Gas Assets.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the Trump administration’s proposed rule expanding the availability of junk, “short-term" insurance plans...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Marc Jason Levene (56, Sarasota) with three counts of possessing explosives as a convicted felon, two counts of improper storage of explosive materials, and one count of possessing ammunition as a convicted felon. If convicted, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Pennsylvania wholesale tobacco distributor was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for aiding and abetting untaxed shipments of tobacco products into Massachusetts and evading financial reporting requirements.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Although few people realize it, modern medicine relies heavily on the ovarian cells of Chinese hamsters, not as a direct cure, but rather as a way to engineer custom protein-based therapeutics. These therapeutics can treat a wide range of ailments, including leukemia, hemophilia, hormone imbalance, psoriasis...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, a two-count indictment was unsealed in federal court in Central Islip, New York, charging Richard “Rob" Walker, the former Chief Deputy County Executive under Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, with obstruction of justice and making false statements. Walker’s arraignment on the indictment will take place at 12:00 p.m. this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Anne Y. Shields in Courtroom 830.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against William Lamar Blessett, 38, of Sacramento, charging him with receipt and possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Timothy Murphy, a/k/a Mr. Black, a/k/a Colby Muhlberg, a/k/a Arthur Whitton, 34, of Phoenix, Arizona, pled guilty to one count of wire fraud in connection with telemarketing and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, before United States Judge...
