News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama. - On Thursday, July 26, 2018, Elvis Mark Hartrick, 42, of Panama City, Florida, received a sentence of 84 months for assaulting a correctional officer with a deadly weapon, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Hartrick pled guilty to the charge in April.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: ALBANY: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on July 11, 2018, a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Macon, Georgia returned a sealed indictment. That indictment has now been unsealed, revealing charges against six individuals. An indictment is only an allegation of criminal conduct, and all of the defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Watertown man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with his role in a long-running interstate prostitution ring.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: On Saturday December 8, 2018 from 4-7 pm, Thomas Stone National Historic Site will host a colonial Christmas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Nicholas Toth, 30, of Summerdale, Alabama, was sentenced on July 26, 2018, to 120 months imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Court documents show that Toth sold methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: MACON: United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, Charles E. Peeler, announces that Delma Goddard, a/k/a “Shug" and “Big Hxmie" age 38, of Milledgeville, Georgia, was found guilty by a jury of his peers of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute more than 280 Grams of Crack Cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.VA. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Labaron Bulley, 32, of Charleston, pled guilty today before United States District Court Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr., to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Stuart credited the collaborative investigative efforts of the Charleston Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) with the successful prosecution of Bulley.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Fred Swan, Jr., 29, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to Hobbs Act Robbery, Attempted Hobbs Act Robbery, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The robbery charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - In two separate federal trials this week, the United States won convictions for heroin trafficking and firearms offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Leitscha Poncedeleon, 28, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Michael Leonard, 21, of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today in District Court before District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez, to misprision of a felony, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Sentencing is set for Nov. 29, 2018. The federal definition of misprision...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Warrensburg, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for using a 13-year-old victim to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: West Palm Beach, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Lorenzo Gatti (52, Delray Beach) yesterday pleaded guilty to one count of making materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements in official FBI reports. Gatti faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Michael R. Casey, 71, a fugitive for over four years, wanted on federal charges related to an alleged $20 million investment fraud scheme, is scheduled to have his initial appearance today at 1:30 p.m. before United States Magistrate Judge Lauren F. Louis in Miami, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court on one count of possession with intent to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: On Oct. 1, 2018, Thomas Stone NHS will open a new temporary exhibit entitled, “On Death & Dying in the 1700s". This exhibit will explore how the inevitable act of death impacted the lives of Americans in the 1700s and will focus much of the exhibit on the lives of the Stone family.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - More than 50 undergraduate and graduate students presented their research at the EM Savannah River National Laboratory ’s (SRNL) annual summer intern poster session July 25.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Everyone is invited to find their park and experience authentic Hawaiian cultural programs, guided hikes and more from Ka‘ū to Volcano to Hilo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL D. MIR, 41, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 20 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for preparing false tax returns and underpaying his own federal taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2018
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Georgia. Tuesday, July 31, 2018. ATLANTA - Charles Hubbard, a former police officer with the Auburn, Georgia Police Department, has been sentenced to federal prison for his role relating to conspiracies to commit extortion, traffic drugs...
