News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Jeffrey John Abraham (52, formerly of Tampa) has pleaded guilty to distributing controlled substances not specified in his Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration. He faces a maximum penalty of four years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000. His sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: PECOS, NM-- Pecos National Historical Park will host the annual Feast Day celebration at Pecos Pueblo on Sunday, August 5th. Join in a time honored tradition as community members from the Pueblo of Jemez and Pecos celebrate Feast Day mass inside the ruins of Our Lady of the Angels of Porciúncula (Nuestra...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 3 years of probation, a condition of which requires 75 hours of community service, on his conviction of distribution of oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: A Virginia man was sentenced today to 186 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for multiple crimes related to the prostitution and exploitation of a 15-year-old minor. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: St. Croix, VI -Winston DeCastro, 45, of St. Croix, was sentenced in the District Court on July 19, 2018, on the charge of aiding and abetting the distribution of cocaine base, also known as "crack cocaine", United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jerry Kennedy Walsh, age 72, of Magnolia, Arkansas pleaded guilty today to conspiring to misapply over $380,000 from South Arkansas Youth Services without the authority of the non-profit’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Ari Fitzwater (619) 546-8756, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Gibbons (619) 546-8419, Assistant U.S. Attorney Connie Wu.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Eric Tracy, 46, of Bangor, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) sent a letter to Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló, inviting him to testify at a July 25 oversight hearing titled Management Crisis at the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and Implications for Recovery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Heath Street gang member was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for distributing drugs in and around the Mildred C. Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: FT. MITCHELL, Ky. - Dana Carter, 40, of Dayton, Ohio was sentenced today to 4 months in prison by United States District Judge David L. Bunning for making a false bomb threat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News woman pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen has announced her determination that an extension of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Somalia is warranted pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act. After carefully reviewing conditions in Somalia with interagency partners, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: The Trump Administration has repeatedly referenced the dangers of trekking to and attempting to illegally enter the southwest border of the United States. As the perilous realities of these journeys have gone underreported, the Department of Homeland Security has compiled a list of the illegality stemming ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: A jury in the Northern District of California convicted a San Francisco area Certified Public Accountant late yesterday of three counts of aiding and abetting the filing of a false tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse for the Northern District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal a grand jury sitting in Fort Worth, Texas returned an indictment yesterday charging a husband and wife and a Texas attorney with conspiring to defraud the United States and separately charging the husband and wife with tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced today the public release of a report produced by the Attorney General’s Cyber-Digital Task Force. The report provides a comprehensive assessment of the cyber-enabled threats confronting the Nation, and catalogs the ways in which the Department of Justice combats those threats. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein formally issued the report in remarks delivered today at the Aspen Security Forum in Aspen, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: Mississippi real estate investor Kimberly Foster became the seventh real estate investor to plead guilty in connection with the ongoing investigation into bid rigging at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Mississippi, the Department of Justice announced. Felony charges against Foster were filed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury returned an indictment on June 27, which was unsealed today, charging Hattiesburg, Mississippi certified public accountant Carl Nicholson with one count of conspiring to defraud the United States, four counts of filing false tax returns, and six counts of aiding in the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) today awarded $1 million to the Texas Office of the Governor, Criminal Justice Division, to pay overtime expenses for law enforcement officers who responded to the scene of the deadly shootings on May 18 at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. The State of Texas, ...
