News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Tunica-Biloxi Tribal Chairman Joey Barbry pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally taking more than $83,000 from the tribe’s check cashing business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Scott tax preparer was sentenced last week to 18 months in prison for falsifying tax returns and causing the IRS to pay out more than $105,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Indictment Alleges Clarksville, Tenn. Mongols Chapter Engaged in Murder, Attempted Murders, Kidnapping, Extortion, Robbery, Drug Trafficking and Other Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Acting U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse announced today that the Northern District of California collected $65,326,355.71 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2017. Of this amount, $59,083,869.47 was collected in criminal actions and $6,242,486.24 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Two Wichita police officers and a gambling operator tried to out an undercover investigator at a poker game, a federal indictment unsealed today alleges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Two residents of Albuquerque, N.M., were sentenced in federal court today for their convictions on conspiracy, fraud, identify theft and theft of mail charges. Katie Carrillo, 27, was sentenced to 25 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release, while her co-defendant Ralph Eastman, 49, was sentenced to 36 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing to examine Department of the Interior (DOI) actions to eliminate regulatory burdens for onshore oil and gas development on federal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS-Michael Lange, a 57-year old resident of Billings, Montana, was sentenced today to 216 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge Susan P. Watters issued the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Chaka Meredith, 42, previously of Laconia, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court to the robberies of seven banks in late 2016 and early 2017, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Christopher Gerard Dickerson (39, Sanford) to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances, distribution and possession with the intent to distribute controlled substances, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. A federal jury found him guilty on Oct. 23, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Matthew Felton, 38, of Somersworth, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of production of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Middlebourne, West Virginia man has admitted to a drug distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: As a result of snow accumulation and hazardous conditions, visitor facilities at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site will be closed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking Information for Bank Robbery in Littleton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking Information for Bank Robbery in Lakewood.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Fayette County man pleaded guilty today for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Donald L. Scalise, 60, of Montgomery, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone. Scalise is one of 23 defendants indicted in June 2017 after a comprehensive investigation of drug trafficking in Southern West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Karl Valencia, 39, of Twin Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Anthony Jammoni Atkins, 26, a multi-convicted felon, was sentenced on Jan. 16, 2018, by Senior U.S. District Judge William T. Moore, Jr. to 100 months in prison for possessing a loaded semiautomatic pistol. Atkins used that pistol to threaten a mother and her two children during a rush hour road rage incident. Upon completion of his prison sentence, Atkins will serve an additional three years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Jan. 17, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against a man allegedly involved in an assault and firearms offense on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Ronald...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Two inmates who possessed weapons at the Federal Correctional Institution at Beckley pleaded guilty today, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Daqone Lance, 23, pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon by an inmate. In a separate prosecution, Michael Camp, 29, entered his guilty plea to the same federal weapons charge. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the Federal Bureau of Prisons for their investigative work on these cases.
