News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Ajarhi Roberts, of Stephens City, Virginia, was sentenced today to 24 months incarceration for bank fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Today, in a 5-4 decision written by Judge Gorsuch, the Supreme Court held in Epic Systems v. Lewis that employers may use forced arbitration to circumvent workers’ rights to band together to hold employers accountable for wage theft and other misconduct.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: The Felon, an Avowed Violent White Supremacist, Killed Three People in July 2016.
By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Two men, one from Georgia, the other from California, were charged, on May 24, with sex trafficking and related crimes, following an investigation by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Honduran Drug Kingpin Sentenced to Life in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 22-year-old Houston resident has pleaded guilty to stealing guns that belonged to three police officers who were traveling out of George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Three Co-Conspirators Previously Sentenced For Armed Robberies of Pharmacies.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The ex-wife of a man who was a fugitive for 20 years until his arrest in April 2017, was sentenced today to probation for lying about the whereabouts of her former spouse.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: BLAST (Building Lasting Relationships Between Police and Community) Program Brings Law Enforcement and Communities Together.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Producers Paid for Destruction, Instead Defendant Resold Goods to Discount Chains.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 52-year-old Mexican citizen who illegally resided in Houston was ordered to federal prison for 30 years for his conviction of trafficking a kilogram of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Arturo Hernandez-Villegas pleaded guilty Aug. 15, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Columbia, SC - Carrie B. Caldwell, age 40, of Aiken, South Carolina, was sentenced to 27 months imprisonment for embezzlement by a bank officer, in violation of Title 18, United States Code Section 656 and filing false tax returns in violation of Title 26, United States Code Section 7206(1). According...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 26-year-old Corpus Christi man has admitted he illegally distributed child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Clinton Ray Stevens acknowledged he uploaded the images to an internet chat room called “UNderAg3.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- Seven Puerto Rico police officers have been charged in four different indictments for their alleged participation in a criminal acts, announced U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez of the District of Puerto Rico. The FBI is in charge of the investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina: Colby L. Simmons, age 35, of Lithia Springs, Georgia, was sentenced to 78 months in prison after being found guilty by a jury for his involvement in a conspiracy to pass Treasury checks of the United States bearing falsely made or forged endorsements, a violation of Title 18...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Inland Empire man who impersonated an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent and who possessed multiple destructive devices was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that two people were indicted for the armed robbery of the Swan Serv-U Pharmacy in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Elix Powell (age: 19 ) of Indianapolis, Indiana and Antonio Jamerson (age: 19) Chicago, Illinois were charged with one count of interference with commerce by robbery pursuant to the Hobbs Act, and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Velma White, 32, of Jackson, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to serve a total of 170 months in federal prison for a murder-for-hire plot to kill a family member, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Dana Nichols, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. White was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Jeff Roselien was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by Chief United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry for his role in four gunpoint robberies of pharmacies. Roselien had previously pleaded guilty on Nov. 15, 2017 to Hobbs Act robbery conspiracy ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, woman today admitted participating in a credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
