News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: JUAN CASTILLO-PADILLA, 24, of Guadalajara, Mexico was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on July 9, 2018 for conspiracy to distribute heroin. Castillo-Padilla was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received sixty months of imprisonment, to be followed by forty-eight months of supervised release. The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation and Wyoming Highway Patrol investigated this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that ARLANDER CELIUS, age 23, of Marrero, Louisiana, was sentenced to 30 months in the Bureau of Prisons and to be followed by a term of three years of supervised release for his involvement in a plan to rob the Whitney Bank located on South Carrollton Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOSE MARTINEZ-OSWALDO, age 33, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 8 United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner and manager of a New Jersey hedge fund was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for defrauding two investors of $4 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Murville Lavelle Lampkin, 45, of Anchorage, was sentenced on July 10, 2018, to serve 20 years in prison, followed by a 10-year term of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, distribution of heroin, and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Carissa Carpenter, 55, formerly of Malibu, pleaded guilty today to two counts of mail fraud and one count of lying to a federal agent, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Federal Arrest Warrant Issued for Albuquerque Man.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Benjamin C. Glassman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, today announced Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (S.O.S.), a new program that seeks to reduce the supply of deadly synthetic opioids in high impact areas and to identify wholesale distribution networks and international and domestic suppliers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Defendant robbed three banks in the Metro Denver area.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today released the latest product of her wide-ranging investigation into opioid manufacturers and distributors. “Fueling an Epidemic: A Flood of 1.6 Billion Doses of Opioids...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALAIN KALOYEROS, the former president of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (“SUNY Poly"), was convicted of defrauding and conspiring to defraud a SUNY Poly-affiliated not-for-profit...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas -In a collaborative effort by the Safe Streets Task Force, to include agents and officers from the FBI and Wichita Falls Police Department, Twenty-two individuals are in federal custody on a federal Complaint for a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that the former president of a mental health clinic was sentenced today to 82 months in federal prison for perpetrating a multiyear fraud scheme through which the defendant stole over two million dollars that was supposed to be spent to help some of the most at-risk individuals in her community.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: ADDITIONAL AUSA POSITION ALLOCATED IN CONJUNCTION WITH OPERATION SYNTHETIC OPIOID SURGE (S.O.S.).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the Committee on the Judiciary, released a joint statement after former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok testified during a joint Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing for more than 9 hours...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Defendant stole identity of U.S. Army Specialist.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Roseburg, Ore. - Wondering what to do on a Saturday in July? Get out and explore the North Umpqua Wild and Scenic River and the North Umpqua Trail as part of the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Wild and Scenic Rivers and National Trails Act!
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 24-year-old Bradley Ahearn to 20 years in federal prison for shooting a U.S. Mail carrier last year in Spring Branch, TX, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Houston Division; and, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: MACON: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that a Grand Jury, sitting in Macon Georgia, has returned indictments charging 67 individuals. An indictment is only an allegation of criminal conduct. All of the defendants are presumed innocent until and...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: NOAA and its research partners predict that western Lake Erie will experience a harmful algal bloom (HAB) of cyanobacteria this summer that is smaller than in 2017 but larger than the mild bloom in 2016.
