News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Jwain Dennis Francis, a/k/a “Love," age 28, of West Columbia, plead guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and to possession with intent to crack cocaine and cocaine, in violation of...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) released the following statement after President Trump announced that he will end the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) program, which has allowed Liberian immigrants to remain in the United States and work legally.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Beers, 68, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to an FBI special agent before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charge carries a maximum penalty of eight years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: OXFORD - A Tupelo woman, the final defendant in a multi-defendant conspiracy, has been sentenced to 205 months in federal prison resulting from her role in a methamphetamine (ice) distribution conspiracy in the Northern District of Mississippi. The defendant, Judy Harmon, was also ordered to forfeit...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: A Euclid man was arrested and charged in federal court after ordering shipments of suspected fentanyl and several other opioid analogues from China and selling the drugs domestically.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Misraim Israel Briones Pasos aka Mario Ozuna, 36, of Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for his role in a vast conspiracy responsible for trafficking hundreds of pounds of black tar heroin from Nayarit, Mexico to the Portland metropolitan area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: A Euclid man was arrested and charged in federal court after ordering shipments of suspected fentanyl and several other opioid analogues from China and selling the drugs domestically.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Wilmington man was sentenced today for making threats over Facebook to burn a local mosque and for unlawfully possessing dozens of firearms, ammunition and child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: NEWARK N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was charged today with offering a bribe to an employee of the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 26-year-old former Navy sailor has been convicted of distributing a video depicting the drowning of puppies, announced U.S. Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - As it celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2018, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was a featured site at this year’s Waste Management Symposia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A series of ongoing Project Safe Neighborhoods investigations targeting individuals who allegedly provided false information to federally licensed firearms dealers in Rhode Island when purchasing firearms has, to date, resulted in criminal charges against eight individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- On March 28, 2018, James Edward Hiatt, 33, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge, to serve168 months in federal prison for distributing and possessing child pornography. Following his release from prison, Hiatt will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for 14 years and required to register with the sex offender registry in any state in which he resides, works, or attends school.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jordan Michael Conaway, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a drug distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Medical Transport LLC, a Virginia Beach-based provider of ambulance services, agreed to pay $9 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims for ambulance transports, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Nicolas LaShawn Finley, a/k/a “Shy," a/k/a “Shy Money," a/k/a “Shakim Karim," age 45, of Mauldin, South Carolina, was sentenced in Greenville for two counts of possession of a firearm after having been convicted of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Glenn Eugene Oden, of Stephens City, Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JASON NISSEN pled guilty today to defrauding victims of more than $60 million by falsely representing that he was using the victims’ money to further a profitable, multimillion-dollar wholesale ticket business. NISSEN pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, and is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 21, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Parminder Sidhu, 43, of Brampton, Ontario, who was convicted of conspiracy to export from the United States five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 15 years (180 months) in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Defendant has prior heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine convictions.
