News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Mario Alvarez-Muniz, aka Cirilio Cardenas-Alvarez, 49, a citizen of Mexico and former resident of Taft, was sentenced on Monday to 10 years and one month in prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: Defendant Robbed Three Victims in Separate Incidents Over One Weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Jose De La Altagracia Pimentel Lara, a/k/a Luis Colon. a/k/a Jose Pimentel, a/k/a Todolindo, a/k/a El Lindon. a/k/a Lindy, 26, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to serve 63 months in federal prison for participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Mountain Brook man pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to cyberstalking, including threatening to kill, a former girlfriend and a second woman associated with the woman he had dated, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Joseph Michael Griffin (30, Zephyrhills) to five years in federal prison for accessing child sexual abuse videos and images over the Internet using the “dark web." He was also sentenced to a 20-year term of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender. Griffin pleaded guilty on Sept. 28, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: AUGUSTA, Ga. - EM joined government agencies, regulators, and others from around the world to discuss best practices and challenges of in situ decommissioning (ISD), sometimes defined as entombing a contaminated facility in concrete.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Chaudhry Ahmad Farooq, 25, a Pakistani national residing in Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to 23 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Jermaine Griffin, 31, of Kosciusko, pled guilty on Jan. 18, 2018, before United States District Judge Tom S. Lee, to knowingly possessing and selling a stolen firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The EM Idaho Site ’s Calcine Retrieval Project team recently tested a robotic crawler to adhere to the interior surface of a waste storage vessel and remove residual granulated calcine, a high-level waste.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a nearly $600,000 tax fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) clerk was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for her role in a scheme to produce false identification documents.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: Tumacácori, AZ - Following the enactment of the continuing resolution, staff at Tumacácori National Historical Park have resumed regular operations. The park was fully operational at 9:00 a.m. this morning. Please visit www.nps.gov/tuma for updated information about the park and upcoming special programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Ohio, announce the arrest of Amer Jabir, 37, with residences in Cleveland, Chicago, and Weelawken, New Jersey; Ahmad Jabir, 23, and Aymen Abdelrahim, 28, both having last known addresses in Cleveland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: Defendant entered into false marriage to obtain U.S. citizenship.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Chesterfield County, Virginia, woman was arrested at Richmond International Airport on Monday, Jan. 22, after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer found a loaded handgun in the traveler’s carry-on bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James E. Sandford, III, 29, of Penn Yan, NY, who was convicted of possessing a stolen firearm, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and witness tampering, was sentenced to 156 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: Ascent 121 Receives 2017 Director’s Community Leadership Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 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 57 of them have been sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2018
News Release: A South Florida resident was sentenced to 70 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $507,495.28 for his participation in stolen identity tax fraud, a social security fraud scheme, and filing false tax returns.
