News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced JAMES CURTIS DENTON, 37, of Willow Springs, North Carolina to 360 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: An 11-count indictment was filed in U.S. District Court charging two Cleveland men were for brandishing firearms while robbing four MetroPCS stores and shooting at an off-duty Cleveland police officer.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH - Today, June 7, 2018, Isle Royale National Park officials will hold a press briefing to announce the release of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Final Environmental Impact Statement to Address the Presence of Wolves at Isle Royale National Park (EIS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 31-year-old former law enforcement official has been ordered to federal prison for more than 27 years following his convictions of production and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Andrew Craig Sustaita, of Spring, pleaded guilty as charged March 15, 2018. He was previously a Harris County deputy sheriff at the time of the offense, but is no longer employed there.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Buffalo, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for using Twitter to transmit threatening communications against several persons, including two FBI employees and two former members of the military and their families, on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also known as ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former staff employee of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) has been indicted and arrested on charges of making false statements to special agents of the FBI during the course of an investigation into the unlawful disclosure of classified information, announced Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Cory Dalton Cochran, 40, of Wayne County, Mississippi, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to one count of making counterfeit currency and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michael Williams of the United States Secret Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An East Side Money Gang (ESMG) member was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston on racketeering and drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Roderick Simpson, 43, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Mike Hurst and Assistant Special Agent in Charge J. Derryle Smith with the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeffrey Bernecky, 30, of Pittsford, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography depicting prepubescent minors, was sentenced to serve 10 years in federal prison and 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates [3] Prosecutors to the Middle District of Pennsylvania to Focus on Violent Crime, Civil Enforcement, and Immigration Crimes.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is introducing legislation today that would require federal agencies to send reports and similar materials to congressional offices only by email or other electronic means,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Todd Macaluso, a former attorney, was sentenced by United States District Judge I. Leo Glasser to 15 years’ imprisonment, following his November 2017 jury trial conviction for participating in an international cocaine distribution conspiracy. Macaluso was also ordered by the court to pay a $10,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH - The National Park Service (NPS) has prepared and approved a Record of Decision (ROD) for the Final Environmental Impact Statement to Address the Presence of Wolves at Isle Royale National Park (EIS). On June 7, 2018, Midwest Regional Director Cam Sholly signed the ROD selecting the Preferred...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania resident has been sentenced in federal court to 41 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of wire fraud and damaging a computer, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. Sullivan, Jr. was also ordered to pay $374,198.73 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Stanley Olejniczak, 53, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of RICO conspiracy, was sentenced to 96 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Egg Harbor Township man was arrested by federal agents today for allegedly receiving images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Columbia, South Carolina, returned an indictment against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Webster County woman was convicted yesterday following a two-day trial, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. The jury convicted Jaclyn Burkholder, 30, of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine between January and February 2017, returning its verdict late yesterday evening.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was charged today in federal court in Boston with illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
