News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Shreveport man pleaded guilty last week to distributing marijuana and firearm possession.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: BROWSNVILLE, Texas - A south Texas man was sentenced Wednesday to four years in federal prison for cocaine trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man who worked as a private tutor pleaded guilty in federal court today to the sexual exploitation of a child who was a former student.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Allegedly Did Not Report More Than $3 Million Embezzled From Deceased Client’s Estate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A Texas resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Cross Lanes man pled guilty today to a child pornography crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Charles William Lourett, 62, entered his guilty plea to receiving child pornography. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the West Virginia State Police, the West Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the Parkersburg Police Department, the FBI, and the FBI Violent Crimes Against Children Task Force.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: With Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) at the helm, the Senate Finance Committee has already secured numerous legislative achievements this Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- Rehelio Trant, 39, and Gamba Potter, 32, both of St. Thomas, made their initial appearances today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being charged in an indictment with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Gretchen C. F. Shappert announced today. Trant and Potter were detained pending further proceedings. Both are scheduled to be arraigned on Friday.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal jury sitting in Charlotte convicted Jose Antonio Hendricks, 59, of Charlotte, of possession, receipt and transportation of child pornography following a two-day trial, announced R. Andrew Murray U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE - David Prejean, a former Sergeant in the K-9 Unit of the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office (IPSO), pleaded guilty today to assaulting a pre-trial detainee at the Iberia Parish Jail (IPJ) by commanding his K-9 to bite the detainee, and by striking the detainee, all without justification, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook for the Western District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Mia Coy Campbell, 34, of Carlsbad, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., in two cases to a total of 156 months of imprisonment for violating the federal firearms laws by unlawfully possessing firearms and ammunition. Campbell will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey-based securities trader was indicted today on additional charges stemming from his alleged role in orchestrating a massive, long-running market manipulation scheme that netted tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits between 2014 and 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Ronald Combs and the Ronald Combs Healthmark Trust have agreed to pay to the government $650,000 to resolve allegations that Combs wrongfully deposited tainted compounding pharmacy proceeds into the Ronald Combs Healthmark Trust.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a prisoner at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, La., was sentenced last week to two years in prison for assaulting another inmate who later died.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that additional charges have been filed against a St. Joseph, Mo., in-home health care nursing assistant for stealing bank account information from one of her clients to illegally transfer more than $207,000 out of her account.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Floyd Preston Miller III, age 38, of Ada, Oklahoma was found guilty by a federal jury of Enticement Of A Minor Using The Internet, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2422(b). The jury trial began with testimony on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018 and concluded on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018 with the guilty verdict.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a criminal complaint charging AVIEL LI GOODMAN, 62, a licensed psychiatrist, with receipt of child pornography. GOODMAN made his initial appearance today before Magistrate Judge Menendez in United States District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 33-year-old Garciasville resident has been ordered to federal prison for cocaine trafficking, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Jorge Barrera pleaded guilty Nov. 16, 2017.
