News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 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 JAMES DANIEL MCKOY, 54 from Garland, North Carolina, to 210 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release. JAMES MCKOY was part...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - A Mableton, Georgia, man who allegedly lured more than 100 young girls into sending him sexually explicit photographs and videos via social media, which he then posted online and distributed to their friends and family when the girls subsequently refused his violent demands for additional explicit...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: A Waterloo man who illegally possessed a sawed-off shotgun was sentenced on May 31, 2018, to more than two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Abolghasseni “Abe" Alizadeh, 59, of Granite Bay, today to four years and eight months in prison, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Alizadeh was also ordered to pay $15,879,945 in restitution to the victims of his crimes.
By State Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By State Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Panama - LNG Transits Increase. Colombia - Tourism Boom. Brazil - Successful Oil and Gas Auction. Peru - Boosts Public Investment. Resource Links.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Cronan, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, announced that DAVID WALDMAN was arrested today and charged with conducting an extensive cyberstalking and threats campaign that targeted a woman he dated for several months in 2014. WALDMAN will be presented this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn in Manhattan federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Jose De Jesus Cordova-Saldana, 29, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday to serve 18 months in federal prison following his March 5, 2018 entry of a guilty plea to Illegal Alien in Possession of a Firearm and Illegal Reentry into the United States, both felonies. The proceedings were held before U.S. District Judge Raymond P. Moore. Cordova-Saldana’s guilty plea followed a January 2018 indictment.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today released the fifth video from its “Personal Stories from the Opioid Crisis" video series.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that a federal grand jury charged Mark Consiglio, 48, of Elsmere, Delaware with three counts of illegally possessing a destructive device, commonly known as a pipe bomb. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years of imprisonment, three years of supervised release, a $10,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment on each count, if convicted.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: BOSTON, MA - After multiple investigations by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit ordered a Maine roofing contractor who has operated as Lessard Roofing & Siding Inc. and Lessard Brothers Construction Inc.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) requests public comments on a plan to manage trespass livestock in Big Bend National Park. The 30-day review and comment period for the park’s Trespass Livestock Management Plan and Environmental Assessment begins June 4, and continues through July 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Everardo Donoteo-Reyes, a/k/a, Alberto Ebarado Gutierrez-Reyes, 26, of Mexico, was charged by criminal complaint with possession of a counterfeit social security card and alien registration card, and illegal re-entry after deportation. The charges each carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today released the fifth video from its “Personal Stories from the Opioid Crisis" video series.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: On May 30, 2018, Arthur Robinson, 30, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced to serve 188 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. United States District Judge David...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Victims Tried to Stop Defendant From Stealing, Were Attacked With Knife.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: Thirteen people from Ohio were indicted or charged in the past week in U.S. District Court in Cleveland for firearms crimes and related violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Victor Aguirre-Rodriguez was sentenced today to federal prison for his role in a Mexican methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking organization that distributed approximately 100 kilograms of methamphetamine per week (valued at $1.75 million per week) in the Atlanta area. Aguirre-Rodriguez was convicted by a federal jury on Feb. 16, 2018.
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 Joseph P. Kelly announced that Anthony D. Gordon, age 28, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today by the Honorable Robert F. Rossiter having previously pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Gordon was sentenced to 5 years, 10 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release when his prison sentence is completed.
