News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced CHICOBE ANTRELL WILLIAMS, 33, of Greenville, North Carolina to 151 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - Wild horses and burros, including several mustangs trained to saddle, will be available for adoption at Napa Mustang Days, Friday through Sunday, June 15-17, at the Napa Valley Horsemen’s Association Grounds, 1200 Foster Rd., in Napa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: On the 500th day of the Trump Administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced that the Department of Justice is taking a dramatic step to increase resources to combat violent crime, enforce our immigration laws, and help roll back the devastating opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Mark Joshua Mitchell, 40, of Destin, was sentenced today to 240 months in prison, after pleading guilty on June 22, 2017, to seven counts of interstate transportation of stolen property. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates Two Prosecutors to the Eastern District of Kentucky to Focus on Violent Crime and Civil Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Vladimir Nevidomy, 32, of Hallandale Beach, Florida, was sentenced to 26 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to illegally export military-grade night vision and thermal vision devices, and ammunition primers to Russia.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Tumi Produce International Corp.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Richard Ross Valentine, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to heroin distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Prosecutors to Focus on Violent Crime, Affirmative Civil Enforcement, and Immigration Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Matthews, N.C. man was arrested on Friday, June 1, 2018, for attempting to hire a hitman via the internet to murder a Charlotte area resident, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Bryant Riyanto Budi, 26, appeared in federal court today before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Elias Muhammad, 21, of Fresno, was arraigned today for a two-count indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. A federal grand jury returned the indictment against him on May 24, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Williamsburg man who told an FBI undercover employee that he wanted to commit jihad was sentenced today to five years in prison for passport fraud and making false statements in his application to join the United States military.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Société Générale S.A. (Société Générale), a global financial services institution based in Paris, France, and its wholly owned subsidiary, SGA Société Générale Acceptance N.V., have agreed to pay a combined total penalty of more than $860 million to resolve charges with criminal authorities in the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Shreveport man was sentenced last week to five years and 10 months in prison for possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute and use of a firearm in a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, sentenced EQUAN CORNELIUS DUNSTON, 26, of Spring Hope, North Carolina to 114 months imprisonment followed by 5 years supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Most of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park remains closed due to increased and damaging earthquakes, corrosive volcanic ash, and continuing explosions from Halema‘uma‘u, the summit crater of Kīlauea Volcano.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that Chief U.S. District Court Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced ANDREW EASTERLY, age 21, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to serve 144 months in federal prison following his conviction for transportation of child pornography. EASTERLY will also be required to serve a 10-year term of supervised release and register as a convicted sex offender upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced CHICOBE ANTRELL WILLIAMS, 33, of Greenville, North Carolina to 151 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced that the Department of Justice is taking a dramatic step to increase resources to combat violent crime, enforce our immigration laws, and help roll back the devastating opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A national sales executive for Dr. Pepper/Seven Up, Inc., a subsidiary of Dr. Pepper Snapple Group (Dr. Pepper), was sentenced Friday to 33 months in federal prison for submitting more than $1.7 million dollars worth of fraudulent invoices to Dr. Pepper through a promotions and marketing company he formed in his wife’s name.
