News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ROBERTO UMANA-ROSA, age 45, a native of Honduras, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal entry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 34-year-old Harlingen man has been ordered to federal prison for his role in the robbery of a Bank of America in Harlingen on May 26, 2017, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Adrian Paul Ross pleaded guilty Nov. 29, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: West Virginia Business Owner Sentenced to Prison for Failing to Pay Employment Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Two Ravenna men were indicted on firearms and marijuana charges, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Jonathan Donnell Thompson, age 36, of Columbia, plead guilty in federal court to conspiracy to steal firearms from a federal firearms licensee, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. In January 2018, Thompson’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Leonard Johnson and Robert Dales, both inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution FCI-Berlin, pleaded guilty to assaulting another inmate on May 23, 2017. A sentencing hearing for Leonard Johnson and for Robert Dales will be held on June 27th, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Raul Ernesto Landaverde-Giron, a/k/a “Humilde," a/k/a “Decente," of Silver Spring, Maryland of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise in connection with his gang activity as a member of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. Landaverde-Giron...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on March 13, 2018, Anthony Diaz, age 48, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was charged in a superseding indictment with additional charges of mail and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A United States citizen who resides in Mexico was arrested early Saturday morning on charges of importing heroin into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Colombian drug kingpin Henry de Jesus Lopez Londoño was convicted today by a jury in Miami.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) will be conducting a variety of resource management activities in the month of March. Below is a brief synopsis of the field projects that are currently underway and/or scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering ring operating between Massachusetts and California.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Newport News couple with 12 counts of robbery and two counts of use of a firearm during a crime of violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: You can sum up the health care policy of the Trump administration in just one word -- discrimination. I’m here with my colleagues today to discuss another alarming example of the Trump agenda of health care discrimination, an example of where the administration is working overtime to make women’s health care worse.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: On Wednesday, 83 House Democrats released a letter they signed to House Leadership in both parties and to Appropriators calling for the Dream Act to be attached to the Omnibus spending bill the House will vote on this week or next. The lawmakers also asked that the government funding bill be free from increased spending on immigrant deportation and detention and free from further border militarization.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A San Gabriel Valley doctor who pleaded guilty to a federal drug trafficking charge for illegally distributing the powerful opioid best known by the brand name OxyContin was sentenced today to over 13 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Salman Mohamed, 20, of Portland, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to five years in prison and four years of supervised release for possessing with intent to distribute cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." He pleaded guilty on Sept. 20, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EDWIN CABAN, a former Protective Security Officer, pleaded guilty yesterday to creating a false incident report in which CABAN intentionally omitted the fact that CABAN had repeatedly punched a member...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Andrew Byerly Birge, who has led the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the last 14 months, has been appointed by the U.S. District Court to continue leading the Office. In an order signed yesterday afternoon, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Jonker announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Following a referral by the Toa Alta Municipal Police, a woman of this locality and her partner were arrested Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents for production of child pornography. Both arrests were executed without incident.
