News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Fredericksburg man today on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a kilogram or more of heroin and of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Defendant Was Member of Crew of Opioid Bandits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TIMOTHY JOHNSON, age 35, a resident of Avondale, was sentenced Jan. 23, 2018 after previously pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base and a quantity of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JONATHAN POWELL was sentenced yesterday to six months in prison for computer fraud in connection with his scheme to obtain unauthorized access to more than 1,000 email accounts maintained by a New York...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that FREDERICK FLOYD, D.O., age 58, a physician who practiced and resided in New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a two-count Bill of Information charging him with illegally dispensing controlled substances and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A North Smithfield, R.I., man who recently relocated from Texas to Rhode Island has been ordered detained in federal custody in Rhode Island for allegedly cyberstalking and threatening to harm or kill a former girlfriend, her parents and three prosecutors in Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Dr. Frederick Floyd, age 58, a medical physician who practiced and resided in New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a two-count Bill of Information charging him with illegally dispensing controlled substances and money laundering, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Antonio Crawley, age 39, will be sentenced on Monday, January 29th, at 9:30 A.M. The sentencing hearing will take place in the G. Ross Anderson, Jr. Federal Courthouse, 315 South McDuffie Street, Anderson, South Carolina, before the Honorable Timothy M. Cain, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DASHAWN HAWKINS, a/k/a “Jhonny Cash," of New York, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 21 years in prison by United States District Judge Gregory H. Woods for selling heroin and fentanyl that resulted in the overdose death of Colin Cameron, age 29, of New York, New York, on Sept. 2, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: New charges were filed yesterday in the prosecution of the northwest Detroit street gang Young and Scantless (YNS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Boone County man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Roger Dane Adkins, 45, of Morrisvale entered his guilty plea to obtaining hydromorphone and fentanyl by subterfuge. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Tactical Diversion Squad and the Charleston Police Department for the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Carlos Francisco Lopez, 28, of Los Angeles, CA, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and attempting to transport a minor across state lines to engage in sexual activity. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years and a maximum of life in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: RIDGELAND, MS: Partial closures are in effect for equestrian use of the Yockanookany section of the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail. The trail is unmaintained from the Highway 43 trailhead to the northern trail terminus and is closed to equestrian use but remains open to hiking. Horseback riders...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of receipt of child pornography was sentenced on Jan. 19, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: FORT WORTH - Willie Thompson, Jr., 53, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to serve a total of 262 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in August 2017 to his role in the conspiracy to rob Haltom’s Jewelers in Grapevine, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Defendant Used Investors’ Money to Pay for Outside Business Ventures and Personal Expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Additional Members of Detroit-Based Gang “YNS" Charged with Racketeering, Kidnapping, and Trafficking Crack Cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Riverside woman who was the controller at a Fontana-based metal forging company was sentenced this morning to one year and one day in federal prison for embezzling more than $1.5 million from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The final two people involved in the July 2017 armed robbery of First Community Credit Union in Katy have been convicted, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The jury deliberated for approximately two hours following a four-day trial before convicting Walter Freeman Jordan aka “Wacko," 30, and Johnathon Nico Wise, 26, both of Houston.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has filed an amended complaint to forfeit an additional $500,000, for an aggregate amount of $4,583,935, from Dandong Chengtai Trading Co. Ltd. also known as Dandong Zhicheng Metallic Material Co., Ltd, and its owner Chi Yupeng, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Jeffrey S. Sallet, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Chicago Field Office.
