News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Timothy Chenault, who traveled from Oregon to Georgia but then did not register as a sex offender here, has pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to update or maintain his status on the Sex Offender Registry.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - Two men pled guilty today for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Shawn Akiem Anderson, 44, of Mt. Hope, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute less than 50 kilograms of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. - Jimolo Coates, a.k.a. “Lo," Marlo" and “Brodie," age 24, of Annapolis, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Defendant faces at least five and up to 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 33-year-old U.S. citizen who was residing in Mexico has been ordered to federal prison for cocaine trafficking, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Gerardo Leal pleaded guilty July 19, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 36-year-old man from Galveston County has been ordered to federal prison following his guilty plea of receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Lavelas Luckey pleaded guilty Oct. 28, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The former bookkeeper of a company located in Watauga Co. admitted in federal court today to embezzling more than $1.5 million from her employer and committing tax fraud, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Connie S. Franklin, 58, of Boone, N.C. appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler and pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Edward C. O’Callaghan, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that SAJMIR ALIMEHMETI, a/k/a “Abdul Qawii," pled guilty to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A medical doctor was arrested this morning on federal charges of illegally selling prescriptions without a legitimate medical purpose to undercover operatives who visited the physician’s Victorville medical office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two Trenton men were both sentenced to over seven years in prison today for conspiring to distribute over a kilogram of cocaine and 100 grams of crack cocaine in the Trenton area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division announced that Justin L. Billings, 35, of Wellsville, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 50 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine, was sentenced to 54 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Richard Wolfe, 60, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years and a $250,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Alvin Felicianosoto, age 34, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was found guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine as a result of a federal jury trial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The trial began February 12 and ended Feb. 14, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced today that, BRANDON AHART HAMPTON, a resident of Florence, South Carolina, was convicted in a two-day jury trial before United States District Judge Terrance W. Boyle. The jury found HAMPTON guilty of Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence. He previously pled guilty to a charge of Hobbs Act Robbery on February 6, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 30-year-old Corpus Christi man has been charged with multiple child sexual exploitation crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - The founder and former chief executive officer of a Sunnyvale-based fiber optics equipment maker, Peter C. Chang, pleaded guilty today to insider trading and tender offer fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The Honorable Lucy H. Koh, United States District Judge, accepted Chang’s guilty plea earlier today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Heather R. King, 31, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to theft of government funds, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Ocala, Florida - A federal jury has found Tirso Hernandez-Astudillo (35, Ocala) guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, and possession with the intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Jimolo Coates Continued to Direct Heroin Distribution from Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A Sweeny woman has pleaded guilty in Galveston federal court to conspiracy and sex trafficking of children, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
