News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: A complaint was unsealed earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Igal Haimoff, a rabbi, and Mark Weissman with engaging in a scheme to extort $7 million from an individual in exchange for not providing purportedly incriminating information to law enforcement authorities. Haimoff and Weismann...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Last week, Kiana Walker, 29, of Supai Village, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee to 18 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Walker had previously pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: The former Allen County Sheriff was indicted in federal court for asking for and taking bribes from drug dealers, people arrested in prostitution stings, suspected gamblers and others.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Bronston Begay, 32, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 36 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a vehicle theft on the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation. Begay also received a consecutive eight-month sentence for violating his...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Oganes Emirzyan, 54, of North Hollywood, pleaded guilty today to a scheme to traffic in and possess stolen credit card numbers and the account holders’ information, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Oganes Emirzyan, 54, of North Hollywood, pleaded guilty today to a scheme to traffic in and possess stolen credit card numbers and the account holders’ information, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is making it easier for researchers and innovators to work with us. We’ve made it a priority to engage with our partners using more modern business practices, and the newly-streamlined Long-Range Broad Agency Announcement (LRBAA) is a result.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
Release: COLONIE, N.Y. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is preparing for another record-breaking travel season this summer, as 243 million passengers and crew are projected to come through security checkpoints nationwide between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Branchland man who helped break in a local pawn shop and steal firearms pled guilty today in federal court in Huntington, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jonathan Chafin, 18, entered a guilty plea to theft of firearms from a federally licensed firearms dealer before...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: (LOS ANGELES) - A former Los Angeles Police Department officer whose garage explosion revealed the makeshift lab where he used butane to extract hash oil containing tetrahydrocannabinol, or “THC," from marijuana plants, was sentenced to five years in federal prison. Joseph Jay Spadafore, 64, of Menifee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: FBI Announces $10,000 Reward for Armed and Dangerous Fugitive.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Crane, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: (TRENTON, N.J.) - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced two California men were arrested in Mercer County, New Jersey, with over 50 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and nine kilograms of heroin appeared today in Trenton federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Ali Ratib Daham, 41, of Westbrook, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for SNAP and WIC trafficking conspiracy, money laundering...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Lacortney D. Sanders (aka “Supreme"), age 36, of Hope, Arkansas was sentenced today to 121 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in El Dorado.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: SEARCH UNDERWAY FOR MISSING MAN. BOULDER CITY, Nevada - National Park Service rangers are responding to reports of a possible drowning at Pot Cove on Lake Mohave within Lake Mead National Recreation Area. At 11:13 a.m., the Lake Mead Interagency Communication Center received a report stating that an...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two California men who were arrested in Mercer County, New Jersey, with over 50 pounds of crystal methamphetamine and nine kilograms of heroin appeared today in Trenton federal court, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced nearly $64 million in awards for advanced nuclear energy technology to DOE national laboratories, industry, and 39 U.S. universities in 29 states. In total, DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy selected 89 projects for funding for nuclear energy research, facility access, and crosscutting technology and infrastructure development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Alena Aleykina, former special agent for the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Division, was convicted on June 15 after a jury in Sacramento, Calif., found her guilty of filing false tax returns, obstruction of justice, and stealing government money, announced Acting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man who led a multi-year conspiracy to distribute heroin in the Huntington area was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Charles Duncan Pippins, 49, was previously convicted following a jury trial in January 2018 of...
