News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS-Billings resident Michael James Chapman was sentenced yesterday to 132 months of imprisonment and four years of supervised release after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge Susan P. Watters presided over Chapman’s sentencing.
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 Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: CEDARVILLE, Calif. - Fire crews from the Bureau of Land Management will conduct prescribed burning projects in Modoc, Siskiyou, and Lassen counties, California, and in Washoe County, Nevada, during winter and early spring. These projects will involve burning piles of brush and limbs created during projects to reduce wildfire danger and to improve wildlife habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Today, United States District Judge David J. Hale sentenced a Lexington, Indiana, man to 20 years in prison followed by 20 years of Supervised Release for violating federal child exploitation laws, announced United States Attorney Russel M. Coleman. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that the United States Attorney’s Office demonstrated its commitment to support our nation’s men and women in uniform, including the protections for service members with disabilities under the Uniformed Services Employment Reemployment Rights Act or the USERRA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: In Austin, 47-year-old Charles McAllister, owner of Bullion Direct, Inc. (BDI), faces federal wire fraud and money laundering charges in connection with a scheme to defraud customers out of millions of dollars announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special...
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: HUNTSVILLE - The U.S. Attorney’s Office, University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, University of Alabama School of Social Work, and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will present a conference Feb. 9 to discuss Veterans Treatment Courts and their positive impact on making communities safer and helping veterans reintegrate into society.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County felon who possessed guns and drugs was sentenced today to five years and three months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Eddie Wayne Chapman, Jr., 32, of Malden, previously pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Juan Francisco Benavides, 44, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Sul Ozerden to serve 39 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for using the interstate to travel in aid of an unlawful activity, specifically distribution of cocaine. Benavides was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine. He pled guilty to the charge on July 10, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: In El Paso yesterday afternoon, a federal judge sentenced 21-year-old Reiquon Gaines of Evanston, IL, to 30 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay a combined $15,853 in restitution for two bank robberies in the Western District of Texas, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, El Paso Division, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Sharon Marie Clark, 57, of Parker, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 25 years in prison, followed by a term of five years of supervised release. Clark had previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and aiding and abetting. On Dec. 20, 2017, Jeffrey...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Rochester, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eric P. Laube, 45, of Canandaigua, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt, distribution, and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum sentenced of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Brendan T. Cullinane, who handled the case, stated that between January of 2011 and Oct. 25, 2011, the defendant conspired to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine. In order to avoid restrictions on the purchase of pseudoephedrine, an important chemical in the methamphetamine manufacturing process, Billings engaged in the practice of “smurfing" (buying small quantities) at local pharmacies.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) and U.S. Representative Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, (D-Md.) and U.S. Representative Don Young (R-Alaska) introduced the Federal Labor-Management Partnerships Act, a bill that would...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted George Sambuca a/k/a “Jack Yates," a/k/a “Steven Thompson," age 32, of Henderson, Nevada, today on charges related to a scheme to defraud customers by mislabeling drugs and distributing anabolic steroids. The indictment was returned on Nov. 15, 2017, and unsealed upon the arrest of the Sambuca.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: EFRAIN VARELA-TOLENTINO, age 31, a citizen of Mexico was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to illegal use of a Social Security Number in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former owner and president of a Glassboro, New Jersey, drum reconditioning company was indicted today for allegedly illegally storing and disposing of hazardous waste, U.S Attorney Craig Carpenito and Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey H. Wood of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that William Padovani, 37, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of narcotics conspiracy, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse of a Minor was sentenced on Jan. 22, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
