News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Roland Bedwell, the business manager of United Plant and Production Workers Local 175, was sentenced by United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis to five years’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release, following his guilty plea to extorting a construction business owner. Bedwell was arrested on the charges in December 2016 and pleaded guilty in August 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Former Detroit Police Department Officer Jamil Martin was sentenced yesterday to 20 months’ imprisonment for accepting a bribe from an owner of an automobile collision shop in exchange for referring stolen and abandoned vehicles recovered in the City of Detroit to that shop, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke published the Department’s final list of 35 critical minerals. Multiple federal agencies will now use this list to develop a strategy to reduce foreign dependence and strengthen U.S. mineral security.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: SEATTLE - Over the last few days investigators executed search warrants at 17 different Puget Sound area locations, and a commercial property in New Jersey, in connection with an internationally funded drug trafficking organization sending thousands of pounds of marijuana grown in Washington to the New...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to racketeering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Omar DeJesus, age 31, of Amsterdam, New York; Dalmary Morales, age 37, of Schenectady, New York; and Juan Saez, age 35, of Rochester, New York, pled guilty yesterday to their respective roles in transporting firearms stolen from Target Sports, Inc., a federally licensed firearms dealer in Schenectady County.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: A New Mexico man was sentenced yesterday in St. Paul, Minnesota, for directing computer attacks against the websites of his prior employers, business competitors, law enforcement, and the Minnesota State Courts system, as well as for felon-in-possession of a firearm charges. Acting Assistant Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Kenneth Faison, age 28, of Baltimore, Maryland today to 15 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for racketeering conspiracy. The Court found at sentencing that a total prison term of 20 years was appropriate, but it adjusted the sentence downward to account for the fact that Faison served five years in prison in connection with two related state cases.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces the arrest of Akram Abdel-Aziz, 50, on drug related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Wencai GUO was sentenced today by Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona for Harboring Illegal Aliens, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1324(a)(1)(a). The conviction...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday has sentenced Luis Moreno-Valencia (45, Colombia, South America) to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine on vessels subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and for conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine intending that it be unlawfully imported into the United States. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 15, 2018.
By US DOT Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders today introduced the bipartisan Waster Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2018, legislation that provides for improvements to the Nation’s ports, inland waterways, locks, dams, flood protection, ecosystem restoration, and other water resources infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Kingsmen Motorcycle Club Gang President, Regional President, and Member Convicted By A Federal Jury of Murder and Racketeering.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Taylor T. Sullivan, 21, of Elmira, NY, pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a fine of $250,000.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and his delegation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months’ incarceration, followed by three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearm laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced a suburban man to 16 years in prison for leading a Chicago-area cell of an international drug trafficking organization.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: At approximately 9:00 P.M. on May 16, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area received a call of a possible drowning in Lake Powell near Cedar Canyon. National Park Service Rangers along with Utah State Parks Officer responded from Bullfrog and located the reporting party in Cedar Canyon. Rangers confirmed...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Alejandro Tobon (35, Orlando) and Carlos Escarria (61, Largo) to 37 months and 18 months in federal prison, respectively, for conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud. They pleaded guilty on June 9, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Buckhannon, West Virginia, man has admitted to a child pornography charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
