News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Zerisenay Gebregiorgis, 36, a Washington resident, was sentenced today in Juneau by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess, to serve 121 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine. Gebregiorgis was previously convicted in December 2017, following a five-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: A Dubuque man who was found in possession of over 660 grams of ice methamphetamine was sentenced May 31, 2018, to more than 23 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Chelsea Leonowicz, 28, of Fort Collins, Colorado, was sentenced on today’s date to serve 100 months in federal prison following her Aug. 23, 2017 entry of a guilty plea to Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl, a Schedule II Controlled Substance, the use of which resulted in death. The proceedings...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: MOOSE, WY-Teton Interagency Dispatch received notification about 8 a.m. this morning, Friday, June 1, that several individuals were injured in a horse incident near the Colter Bay Corral operated by Grand Teton Lodge Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - Following his conviction at trial by a federal jury of conspiracy and wire fraud, Bryan Bailey, 39, of Milan, Tenn. was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge S. Thomas Anderson to 84 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, and a $200 special assessment. Bailey was also order to pay more than $1.9 million in restitution to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: (NEW YORK) - DEA and federal prosecutors announced that Pakistani drug kingpin Shahbaz Khan has pled guilty to heroin trafficking in a Manhattan court room. Khan was the leader of a drug trafficking organization based in Afghanistan and Pakistan that produced and distributed massive quantities of heroin...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: JACKSON, Miss. - Eleven individuals are facing federal drug charges in multiple indictments unsealed May 30 targeting a large, multi-state drug trafficking organization based in Mississippi, following a joint investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Fairfax man was sentenced today to five years in prison for downloading videos depicting the sexual abuse of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that a Shreveport man previously convicted of a felony was sentenced to 37 months in prison for possessing a pistol and ammunition in his car.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Scott Freeman, 42, of Silver City, N.M., made his initial appearance today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., on a criminal complaint charging him with violating the federal firearms laws by unlawfully possessing firearms. The firearms at issue allegedly were stolen during a home burglary in Aug. 2017. Freeman remains in custody pending a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing both of which have yet to be scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman convicted of Distribution of a Controlled Substance (methamphetamine) was sentenced on May 22, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the unsealing of a Complaint charging BETSY MONTALVO and EDWARD GONZALEZ with a wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft in connection with a fraudulent scheme to provide of nursing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Wanted by the FBI. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of a man accused of a fatal shooting on the Navajo Nation in April of 2016. Please see the following poster for a composite sketch of the suspect and information about the crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Virgil Left Hand, Sr., age 51, was found guilty of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury following a federal trial in Rapid City, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Three Southern Nevada residents, including two nurse practitioners, have been arrested and charged in a 29-count indictment for unlawful distribution of prescription opioids and Medicare/Medicaid fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Virgil Left Hand, Sr., age 51, was found guilty of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury following a federal trial in Rapid City, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: The Defendant Admitted to Prescribing Pain Medication to Female Patients in Exchange for Sex Acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - United States Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Patrick D. Angelo, 28, of Syracuse, NY, who was convicted of interstate communication of a threat, was sentenced to time served (seven months in prison) and three years’ supervised release by the Honorable Mae A. D’Agostino, United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York. The defendant was also ordered to have no direct contact with Congressman John Katko.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Maine man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to resisting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - United States Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Patrick D. Angelo, 28, of Syracuse, NY, who was convicted of interstate communication of a threat, was sentenced to time served (seven months in prison) and three years’ supervised release by the Honorable Mae A. D’Agostino, United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York. The defendant was also ordered to have no direct contact with Congressman John Katko.
