News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Brittney Ridgeway, 29, of Buffalo, NY, with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL CHAPMAN, also known as “Nice" and “Mizzo," 26, of New Britain, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for supplying crack cocaine to a Hartford drug trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CASEY JOHNSON, age 27, has pleaded guilty to one count of Bank Robbery with a Firearm in violation of Title 18, U.S.C. Sections 2113(a) and (d) and 2. The defendant faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in the Bureau of Prisons, five years of supervised release, a fine of up to $250,000, and restitution to the victim bank in this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: A New York stock promoter, a Colorado registered stock transfer agent, and a California securities attorney were recently convicted of securities fraud offenses. These cases pertain to a conspiracy to sell shares of fraudulently registered companies that could then be used for pump and dump and other stock manipulation schemes. To date, ten defendants have been convicted in connection with the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Michael Todd Ward a/k/a "Chicken," 51, of Moss Point, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Jan. 25, 2018, United States District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Brian Shumate, age 50, of Edgewood, Maryland to 31 years in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release for the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a Ketchikan man and woman have been indicted on federal drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Plea Deal Calls for 45-year Prison Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Todd E. Varney, 34, of Wellsville, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: PRESS RELEASE. Indianapolis-United States Attorney Josh Minkler announced today federal charges against a Muncie man for engaging in illegal sexual conduct with minor children over a three (3) year period. Nolan M. Brand, 24, Muncie, has been charged with sexual exploitation of a minor. “This Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division hosted a roundtable in Roanoke today for community organizations, United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Clayton Quiz Smith was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for the armed robbery of three banks in the East Bay and one bank in Folsom, Calif., announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down today by the Honorable Jon S. Tigar, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Five Members of International Organized Criminal Enterprise Indicted in More Than $9.5 Million Counterfeit Documents Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former Hadley Police Officer was arrested today and charged in federal court in Springfield in connection with using unreasonable force during an arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A former teller at a South Side bank has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for gradually embezzling approximately $180,000 in bank funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Shreveport man pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing a pistol even though he was a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation released a draft Environmental Assessment and proposed Finding of No Significant Impact (EA/FONSI) regarding construction of a fish screen on the Green River Canal located near Green River, Utah. Under the direction and legislative authority of the Upper Colorado River Recovery Implementation Program, Reclamation would provide funding for construction of the fish screen facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Yuttana Choochongkol, aka Jason Manotham, 40, of San Antonio, Texas, has been arrested and charged in a criminal complaint with one count of transmitting interstate threatening communications, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
