News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark, New Jersey, man who was previously convicted of federal heroin distribution charges was indicted today with drug distribution and firearms crimes, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Lafayette man pleaded guilty to storing thousands of images of child pornography on his laptop.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: ST. AUGUSTINE, FL: Castillo de San Marcos and Fort Matanzas National Monuments are currently accepting applicants for the Teacher-Ranger-Teacher program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Rohan Chopra, 23, of Amherst, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, MDMA, also known as “Molly," was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement on the passing of Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: U.S. Gold refinery Elemetal LLC, based in Dallas, Texas, doing business as “Elemetal" and “NTR Metals," pled guilty today to a single-count information charging Elemetal with failure to maintain an adequate anti-money laundering program, in violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, as part of a plea agreement with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLOS ANARIBA, also known as Marvin Guillen, 27, a citizen of Honduras last residing in Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to six months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: Five South Florida Law Enforcement Officers Graduate FBI National Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah, a Syrian national who had been living in Iraq, was convicted by a jury, following a six-week trial, of conspiring and supporting the 1920s Revolutionary Brigades, an insurgent group that planted road-side bombs to attack and kill American soldiers in Iraq.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: The Department of Energy’s FY 2019 Budget Request is now available HERE. The FY 2019 Budget Request for the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability is available.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly announced that Melchor Ramirez-Chavez, a national of Mexico, was sentenced on March 9, 2018, in Lincoln, Nebraska, by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, to 12 months and one day imprisonment for making a false statement on a load or credit application.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: BOSTON -The nationwide leader of MS-13’s Molinos Locos Salvatrucha clique pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to charges of racketeering conspiracy involving murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - William Hernandez Castillo, 26, and Citlaly Casillas, 22, both of Columbus, were each sentenced today in U.S. District Court for conspiracy to commit kidnapping following a failed drug transaction. Hernandez Castillo was sentenced to 48 months in prison and Casillas was sentenced to 42 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A correctional officer employed by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Correctional Complex in Victorville has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing two female inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that it has in recent weeks reached settlements with four health care providers to settle claims that they submitted false claims to the United States for services not rendered.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
News Release: FBI Announces an Arrest in Connection with Bomb Threat to a School in North Miami Beach.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 16, 2018
Release: ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - It’s not always easy to determine whether an item should be packed in a carry-on bag, a checked bag, either or neither, so the Transportation Security Administration is offering a handful of tips to help travelers flying out of Atlantic City International Airport know how to properly pack an item before heading to the airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Nolan Patrick John, III, age 25, of Toppenish, Washington, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on December 6, 2017, to Voluntary Manslaughter. United States District Court Judge Salvador Mendoza, Jr. sentenced John to 78 months imprisonment, to be followed by a three-year term of court supervision after he is released from federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA - Federal indictments were unsealed yesterday revealing that sixteen (16) residents from Glynn County and McIntosh County, in the Southern District of Georgia, and elsewhere, have been charged with federal firearms and drug-trafficking offenses. The Brunswick District Attorney’s Office has charged an additional eight defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDREW DEME, 52, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to a conspiracy charge stemming from an investment fraud scheme.
