News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that he will join numerous federal, state, and local law enforcement leaders in announcing a significant law enforcement action on Tuesday, March 6, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. CST in Conference Room C of the United States Attorney’s Office, located at 777 Florida Street, Suite 208, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Press should plan to arrive at the U.S. Attorney’s Office and be in place by 9:30 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Emanuel Alexander Cheeseboro, a/k/a “Mandoo" was sentenced in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for six (6) counts of possession with the intent to distribute a quantity of crack cocaine, a violation of 21 U.S.C.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A North Texas man was sentenced Monday to 90 years in federal prison for producing child pornography by sexually exploiting children.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JUAN CARLOS MOSQUERA-AMARI, age 46, of New Orleans, ALEXANDER MURIEL-DIAZ, age 52, of Houston, Texas, LUIS RAMOS GRAVEDEPERALTA, age 60, of Kenner, CARLOS ALBERTO GONZALEZ VALENCIA, age 36, of Houston, Texas, STEVEN DUNCAN, age 45, of Metairie, and JOSE ANTONIO...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Five defendants convicted of child sex trafficking were ordered to serve a combined 38 years in federal prison and pay over $635,000 in restitution to victims, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Department of State’s reported failure to use $120 million designated to combat Russian propaganda...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Michael Vincent Alvarez, 32, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to striking Air-1, a Fresno Police Department helicopter, with a green laser beam, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: BURNS, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management today announced it will hold a meeting of the Southeast Oregon Resource Advisory Council. The public is welcome to attend the meeting, which will occur on Thursday and Friday, March 15 and 16, at the Burns Paiute Tribe Gathering Center, 40 PaSiGo Street, Burns, Ore., beginning at 8 a.m. each day.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - George Muzio, Jr., age 36, of Cohoes, New York, was arraigned Friday on a superseding indictment charging him with the production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury convicted Adrian Gordon (aka “Tit"), Charles Heard (aka “Cheese"), Esau Ferdinand (aka “Sauce"), Monzell Harding, Jr., and Jaquain Young (aka “Loc") today of racketeering, murder, and conspiracy charges, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex Tse and FBI Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Six members of the street gang La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, were convicted today by a federal jury for their roles in a kidnapping, murder, and an extortion conspiracy in Northern Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: On March 1, 2018, Joseph Michael Kehrer was charged with the felony offense of failure to notify regulatory authorities prior to removing asbestos material, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. Mr. Kehrer pled guilty to the charge. The sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 12, 2018, in the federal district court in Benton.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following comment today on the Department of Education’s Inspector General’s recommendations to strengthen accountability measures for colleges and programs in the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security reminds interested student candidates that the window for submitting applications for the 2018 Secretary’s Honors Program (SHP) Cyber Student Volunteer Initiative (CSVI) will close at 3 p.m. (EST) March 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Devon Davis, 27, of St. Thomas, pleaded guilty today in District Court to one count of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert, announced. Davis was the last of seven men charged with the Hobbs Act robbery of the Gems and Gold Corner jewelry store on St. Thomas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Norcross, Georgia, man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for his role in an international drug trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Newark police officer was indicted by a federal grand jury today for allegedly conspiring to defraud the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation (NWCDC) and giving kickbacks to its former executive director, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Iowa recently obtained several convictions against defendants committing offenses against minor children, as part of the United States Department of Justice Project Safe Childhood Initiative, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Transfer of Obscene Material to a Minor was sentenced on March 2, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is accepting applications for street performers or buskers - including musicians, jugglers, magicians, puppeteers and others from the local performance art community for its 2018 farmers market season. USDA...
