News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment yesterday charging CANDACE RISPOLI, 31, of Stamford, with one count of wire fraud stemming from an embezzlement scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Adrian A. Douglas, 48, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 144 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Douglas led a Central Ohio marijuana trafficking ring that involved receiving UPS shipments of the drug from Las Vegas and mailing cash back to the supplier. He pleaded guilty to the two charges in June 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Sabrina Feve (619) 546-6786.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Maryland. Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. Contact ELIZABETH MORSE. www.justice.gov/usao/md at (410) 209-4885. DEDICATION CEREMONY IN MEMORY OF DEBORAH A. JOHNSTON. Baltimore/ Greenbelt, Maryland - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - The government today filed its notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Brendt A. Christensen, 28, of Champaign, Ill. Christensen is charged with the kidnapping resulting in death of visiting Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang on June 9, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - A Gangster Disciple member was sentenced to 360 months imprisonment and five years of supervised release for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A registered sex offender living in Providence has been ordered detained in federal custody on charges he allegedly possessed and distributed child pornography, and allegedly transferred obscene material to a 14-year-old female.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania encourages the public to be aware of the possibility of sex trafficking during the NFC Championship game weekend in and around the Philadelphia area.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee Hearing on “Legislation Addressing LNG Exports and PURPA Modernization:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Carlos Martinez, a Lieutenant at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, Threatened Victim with Solitary Confinement and More Jail Time if She Reported the Attacks.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent Eduardo Escobar, along with other personnel from HSI Colombia, will be featured in part 3 of the documentary series Chain of Command airing Jan. 19 on National Geographic Channel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today a guilty plea and two sentencings in connection with related Heath Care Fraud and prescription pill distribution cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Mark Elkhorn, 58, of York, Maine pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to making false statements to a federal law enforcement agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corporation has agreed to a settlement valued at $4.4 million to resolve allegations that it violated the civil False Claims Act by providing defective communications systems for the United States Coast Guard’s National Security Cutters, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego Field Office Amanda Thandi.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore yesterday sentenced Thomas Edward Abney, Jr. (38, Leesburg) to 40 years in federal prison for production of child pornography and aiding and abetting the transportation of child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit a cellular telephone used in the commission of the crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Charmaine Peralta, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in to assaulting a federal law enforcement officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Andre Brown was sentenced today to 252 months in prison and ordered to pay $170,451 in restitution for four armed bank robberies and related crimes, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Susan Illston, U.S. District Judge, following Brown’s plea of guilty to the charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former bank teller was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay full restitution for stealing more than $185,000 from a longtime customer of the bank, a homeless man, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Andrew W. Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant and Two Others Used Muffled Chainsaws in Middle of the Night to Cut and Steal Valuable Music Wood.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Andre Brown was sentenced today to 252 months in prison and ordered to pay $170,451 in restitution for four armed bank robberies and related crimes, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Susan Illston, U.S. District Judge, following Brown’s plea of guilty to the charges.
