News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - In Aug. 2016, a multi-agency investigation led by the ATF concluded with the filing of 59 federal indictments and a federal criminal complaint charging 103 Bernalillo County residents with federal firearms and narcotics trafficking offenses. To date, 84 of these defendants have been convicted, including 83 who have entered guilty pleas, and 56 of them have been sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Darius L. James, 40, an enrolled member of Acoma Pueblo, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to voluntary manslaughter and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - In a case that is the product of the 10-month investigation into the Bakersfield criminal street gang known as the West Side Crips (WSC), a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today against alleged WSC member Jarvis Thomas, 32, charging him with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, as well as possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Robert Bryan Mansfield, age 61, of Ladson, South Carolina, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Charleston, to distribution of fentanyl resulting in death. United States District Judge David C. Norton, of Charleston, accepted the guilty plea and will impose sentence after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: A Canton man pleaded guilty in federal court to failing to report more than $1 million in income over seven years, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - Two Indianapolis men were sentenced today in U.S. District Court for conspiring to rob a Middletown pharmacy of morphine and oxycodone on April 29, 2017 for the purpose of selling the drugs on the street.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Donald Cain, 49, of Conroe, Texas, and formerly Columbia, South Carolina, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in U.S. District Court to interstate stalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - U.S. Attorney Alan R. Jackson announced today that eight individuals have been charged with federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Emerson Miller, age 31, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Jan. 10, 2018, with four counts of distribution of crack cocaine, two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon, and one count of possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: FBI Honors the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas with Director’s Community Leadership Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Timothy Murphy, 53, of St. Louis, pled guilty today to participating in a scheme to defraud Excel Bank and assisting in making illegal insider loans. He pled guilty to one count of bank fraud. The maximum punishment is 30 years in prison and a fine of $1,000,000.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Scotty Hagans, age 49, of Harrison, Georgia, was sentenced to serve thirteen years and four months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base (crack cocaine). The sentence was handed down on Jan. 10, 2018, by the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Judge in Macon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - A federal grand jury indicted Adam Thatcher Lawrence today with importing wildlife contrary to law and mislabeling wildlife intended for importation, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and United States Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement Region 8 Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel Crum.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Abdulkareem Daham, 22, of Westbrook, Maine, was convicted today following a three-day jury trial in U.S. District Court of conspiracy to defraud and to commit offenses against the United States. The charges arise out of the defendant’s employment at Ahram Halal Market on Forest Avenue in Portland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Karl J. Rogers, 33, of Willard, was indicted on one count of receipt and distribution of child pornography, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -Antonin DeHays, age 33, of College Park, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to theft of government property stemming from the theft of government records from the National Archives and Records Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Edward W. Holt, III, was sentenced to 149 months in prison on Jan. 10, 2018, for armed robbery and attempted armed robbery in violation of the Hobbs Act and for brandishing of a firearm during these robberies. Sentencing was by the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Judge, in Macon, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was found guilty yesterday by a federal jury in Boston of dealing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: DENVER - A Denver man was sentenced earlier this week to serve 7 years in federal prison for brandishing and use of a firearm during a drug trafficking offense, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and ATF Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Debora Livingston announced. The man, James Harley Wheeler, age 24...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Elmer Uriel Moreno-Armas, Leonardo Garcia Castro, Guillermo Rios, Jorge Alberto Barajas Govea, Pedro Oseguera Ramirez, Hugo Leon-Mendez a/k/a Guero, Warren Ferguson, Stephan Sessoms, and Tyler Owens have been sentenced for their respective roles in trafficking more than 58 gallons of liquid methamphetamine, 28 kilograms of methamphetamine, or “ice," and 5 kilograms of cocaine. All nine were active participants in a Mexico-based drug trafficking operation.
