News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced two Trenton men were both sentenced to over seven years in prison for conspiring to distribute over a kilogram of cocaine and 100 grams of crack cocaine in the Trenton area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Washington state resident has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years supervised release, and was ordered to pay approximately $846,819 in restitution on his conviction of embezzlement, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
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: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Terrell Shankle, a/k/a “King Relly" (age 40), of Milwaukee was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in prison and 5 years supervised release for sex trafficking crimes. Shankle was found guilty after a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - J. Douglas Overbey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, today announced changes in some of the management and supervisory personnel for the district.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 156 months imprisonment, followed by a term of lifetime supervised release, on a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted a Naperville man on sex trafficking charges for violently forcing women to engage in prostitution between 2007 and 2016.
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: Jon E. Montroll Allegedly Lied Repeatedly to SEC Staff During Testimony to Conceal Substantial Customer Losses Due to a Software Exploit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that Megan Fox, age 31, of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison on Feb. 20, 2018, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, for conspiring with others to distribute heroin in Luzerne County during February through November 2014.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
Release: Thanks to USDA’s Borlaug Fellowship Program, an African researcher is in the United States acquiring knowledge that will help protect farmers’ livelihoods and improve food security on his home continent. Kwame Ogero, a research associate at the International Potato Center in Tanzania, is working with...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Today, a federal jury convicted James Philip Lucero of three counts of violating the Federal Clean Water Act for illegally discharging pollutants into waters of the United States, including wetlands, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Environmental Protection Agency Special Agent in Charge Jay Green, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Defendant Pointed Firearm at DEA Task Force Officer.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: MIAMI- A Cuban national in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) died Monday afternoon at the Kendall Regional Medical Center (KRMC) in Miami. The official cause of death has not yet been determined.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A Mexican man was sentenced Wednesday to three years in federal prison for trafficking cocaine through the Brownsville port of entry.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RODNEY T. MORGAN, 48, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing oxycodone, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Rochester-based tax return preparer with conspiring to file false claims for tax refunds, theft of public money, and aggravated identity theft, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Gregory G. Brooker for the District of Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of the Western District of Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court on his conviction of fraud conspiracy; mail fraud; wire fraud; conspiracy to commit money laundering; trafficking or using unauthorized access devices aggregating $1,000 or more (attempt); and possession of 15 or more access devices, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A previously convicted felon was charged today for possession of a 12-inch pipe bomb that was found in a North Las Vegas house, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Leff of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), San Juan Field Office, announced the arrests of ADALBERTO MARTINEZ-NUÑEZ and ERIC LUGO-GOTAY.
