News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - An armed man who robbed a casino floor cashier cage at New York-New York Hotel and Casino in January was charged today in federal court, announced United States Attorney Dayle Elieson of the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse of the FBI’s Las Vegas Division, and Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Steven Gray, age 45, of York, Pennsylvania, was convicted for being a felon in possession of a firearm after a three-day jury trial held before United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Totowa, New Jersey, man will appear in federal court today to face weapons charges after allegedly trying to get a firearm through security at Newark Liberty International Airport, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Steven Gray, age 45, of York, Pennsylvania, was convicted for being a felon in possession of a firearm after a three-day jury trial held before United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Four individuals have been indicted for conspiracy to commit robberies of drug dealers in the Western District of Tennessee, one of which resulted in a fatality. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictments today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: Fire Management staff at Denali National Park and Preserve will attempt to burn debris consisting of trees and brush between March 14 - 31, if weather conditions allow. The pile is located east of the park airstrip and west of the northernmost loop of the Riley Creek Campground.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 54-year-old resident of Kingwood has received a second federal sentence for failing to appear in court, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Oscar Cantalicio Ortiz pleaded guilty Dec. 4, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former settlement agent from Wyckoff, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for defrauding banks out of $1.1 million using phony loan applications for properties in Bergen and Morris Counties, New Jersey, and for failing to pay over $450,000 in personal income taxes, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: 35 Members and Associates of Bloods Gang Plead Guilty to Racketeering Conspiracy and Related Charges, Including Drug Trafficking and Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: On Feb. 28, 2018, Anthony Florence, a contractor for the Chatham Area Transit Authority (“CAT"), was convicted by a federal jury on twenty-two counts of mail fraud, two counts of wire fraud, and one count of bribery of a program receiving federal funds. United States District Court Judge William T. Moore presided over Florence’s three-day jury trial.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - To ensure the security of airline passengers and the nation’s airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began implementing new, stronger screening procedures for carry-on items at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport (AVP) today. The new procedures, which were...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: You can’t see well without lenses that can focus, whether those lenses are in your eye or the microscope you peer through. An innovative new way to focus beams of neutrons might allow scientists to probe the interiors of opaque objects at a size range they were blind to previously, allowing them to explore the innards of objects from meteorites to cutting-edge manufactured materials without damaging them.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, an indictment was unsealed charging Joshua Philips, also known as “Erick Ayo Kalu," “Anthony Abongile Baker" and “Johnson Foday Brown," with conspiring to commit wire and bank fraud and conspiring to commit money laundering, in connection with several business...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: Defendant Stole More Than $800,000 through Email Compromise Scheme, and Wired Illicit Proceeds to Conspirators Overseas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On March 8, 2018, Dale Alan Grau, age 52, of Des Moines, Iowa, appeared before United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose and was sentenced to 120 months in prison following his plea of guilty to enticement and attempted enticement of a minor to engage in elicit sexual activities announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Grau was ordered to serve a ten-year period of supervised release to follow his prison term.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), the co-chairs of the Joint Select Committee on the Solvency of Multiemployer Pensions Plans, today announced the first meeting of the full committee next Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at 10 a.m. During the organizational meeting, members...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: Andrew Kirchhoefer, 42, of Belleville, Illinois, doing business as Liberty International Operations Group, Inc. and Gateway Constructions Solutions, Inc., pled guilty to a charge of wire fraud in a scheme to defraud homeowners through contracts to do remodeling construction jobs in Missouri and Illinois...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge John J. Durastanti of the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Brent Broshow announced today that Nathan Jensen, a 35-year-old armed career criminal from Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment for convictions in two federal cases, and violating the conditions of supervised release in a third case.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Lawrence A. Griffen, Jr., age 50, of Williamstown, Vermont, was sentenced to a year in jail today by Judge William K. Sessions, III, in U.S. District Court in Burlington. Griffen was arrested last summer by agents with the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Kansas City, Mo., men pleaded guilty in federal court today to their roles in a conspiracy to commit 10 armed robberies at local businesses.
