News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHRISTOPHER GOFF was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his participation in a fraudulent scheme to charge mobile phone customers millions of dollars in monthly fees for unsolicited, recurring...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Daniel F. Dyer, 57, of Plaster Rock, New Brunswick, Canada pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to importing illegally-taken moose antlers and a hide.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: MOAB, UT-Due to very dry conditions and increasing fire danger in southeast Utah, Superintendent Kate Cannon has announced fire restrictions for Arches and Canyonlands national parks, and Natural Bridges and Hovenweep national monuments.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Defendant Boasted on Facebook about His Illegal Drug Dealing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Money from China Financing Criminal Drug Distribution Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: 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 York City...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Citizens being told to send money for not reporting for jury duty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - On May 17, 2018, Glen S. Davis, age 48, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to one year and one day in prison for interstate communication of a threat, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Following his prison term, Davis will serve three years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after Rep. Mike Bishop (R-MI) and Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) introduced the Securing the International Mail Against Opioids Act of 2018 (H.R. 5788). The Committee will mark up this legislation on Wednesday, May 16, at 2:00 PM in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building as part of a bipartisan package aimed to help stop the abuse of and distribution of opioids...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Early Thursday morning, law enforcement authorities arrested an alleged gang member who had been a fugitive for nearly two years after the unsealing of a federal racketeering indictment that charges him in the attempted murder of an undercover Whittier Police Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Dr. Perrin D. Edwards Billed Insurers for Services that he Never Rendered.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Newport News man today of attempted receipt of obscene images depicting the sexual abuse of children, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and penalties for a registered sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Rabobank NA Sentenced for Conspiring to Impair, Impede, and Obstruct Its Primary Regulator.
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: ALBUQUERQUE - Scott Richard Lange, 55, of Phoenix, Ariz., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kayode Yard, a/k/a Eric Thomas, 44, and Arlynda Ray, 46, both of Buffalo, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute, and to distribute, 500 grams or more of cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - United States District Judge Paula Xinis sentenced William Alberto Campos-Escobar (a/k/a “Will Campos"), age 43, of Hyattsville, Maryland, to 54 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy and bribery in relation to a scheme to use County funds to obtain bribe payments. In addition, Judge Xinis ordered Campos to pay $340,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield for distributing heroin.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Due to an administrative error, BLM Wyoming is changing the sale date for the 2nd quarter oil and gas lease sale from June 20-21, 2018 to June 26-27, 2018. This change was necessary because the sale notice posted on Monday, May 7, 2018 instead of Friday, May 4, 2018.
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.
