News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Dumfries man was sentenced today to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay $648,000 in restitution for sex trafficking two minor victims from July 2013 to July 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Francisco Rivera, age 37, of Watervliet, New York, was sentenced today to 121 months in prison, to be followed by 8 years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Timothy C. Lynch and Joel L. Violanti, who are handling the case, stated that on Aug. 28, 2014, a community member advised the Federal Bureau of Investigation that the defendant spoke about violent jihad to various people in the Lackawanna community and it was common for Nagi to get into verbal complaints over his jihadi beliefs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man in Red or Orange Sweatshirt Robs Northeast Albuquerque Credit Union.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Nine people were arrested yesterday, Jan. 18, after Transportation Security Administration officers detected a suspicious item in a carry-on bag at a Newark Liberty International Airport checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: BUTTE - Shannon Marie Leavitt, a 30-year-old resident of Belgrade, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison followed by four years supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen handed down the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Audubon, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for conspiring with her former boyfriend to produce sexually explicit images of two children, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Joe David White, age 57, of Poteau, Oklahoma, and Laci Marie Fox, age, 27, of Poteau, Oklahoma, were indicted for Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities this morning arrested two local men on federal charges that allege a scheme to illegally obtain technology and integrated circuits with military applications that were exported to a Chinese company without the required export license.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement after the Trump administration this week announced it will encourage health care workers to deny services to women and LGBTQ individuals and overturn guidance on longstanding protections under Medicaid’s family planning freedom of choice provision that ensures states cannot arbitrarily defund essential family planning providers like Planned Parenthood...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that J. Guadalupe Hernandez, 33, and his sister, Felisita Hernandez, 32, both of Farmington, NY, who were convicted of conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens, harboring an illegal alien, and pattern and practice, were sentenced by U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Raymond Donovan, the Special Agent in Charge of the Special Operations Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), announced that Honduran congressman Fredy Renan Najera Montoya (“NAJERA") was...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Scripps Health to Pay $1.5 Million to Settle Claims for Services Rendered by Unauthorized Physical Therapists.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Pollock prisoner pleaded guilty to possessing an improvised knife.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Christopher Stevens, 36, Albany, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 72 months in federal prison for knowingly and intentionally possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Stevens pleaded guilty to this charge on November 6, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Judge Paul G. Byron yesterday sentenced Andres Fernando Cabezas (34, Leesburg) to 12 years in federal prison and 20 years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit a cell phone that had been used in connection with the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: A physician from Canfield was sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to pay $105,673 after failing to pay over Social Security, Medicare and employment taxes collected from his employees, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and Ryan L. Korner, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - United States Attorney David J. Freed and Dauphin County District Attorney Francis T. Chardo provide the following update after this afternoon’s press conference on the Harrisburg shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A federal prisoner at McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Bradford, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 12 months and 1 day in jail on his conviction of assaulting a federal officer, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. The sentence imposed will be consecutive to the sentence the defendant is presently serving.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a federal criminal complaint charging JOSEPH SEAN ANTHONY PORTER, 25, with the kidnapping of an Edina woman. PORTER is currently in custody in Little Rock, Arkansas and will make an initial appearance before a United States Magistrate Judge at a later date.
