News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.VA. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today the West Virginia State Police received $1,087,285.15 as a result of a civil forfeiture action relating to violations of the Bank Secrecy Act by First National Bank of Williamson. The Bank Secrecy Act requires financial institutions...
By State Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Consistent with United States Attorney Mike Stuart’s priority on the prosecution of felon in possession cases as part of our strategy to reduce violent crime throughout the Southern District of West Virginia, the following hearings took place before United StatesDistrict Judge Robert C. Chambers today. Assistant United States Attorney Stephanie Taylor is handling the prosecutions.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: While on routine patrol in January, law enforcement Rangers from Redwood National and State Parks located a redwood poaching site inside the park boundaries. It was an old growth redwood with massive chunks cut out from the base of the tree. See attached Photo.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: Defendant Used Physical Force and Intimidation to Compel Victims to Engage in Sexual Acts with Him.
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: Protecting America’s energy systems from cyber attacks and other risks is a top national priority. The Department of Energy’s, which was released today, lays out an integrated strategy to reduce cyber risks in the U.S. energy sector by pursuing high-priority activities that are coordinated with other...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Thomas Bennett, of Steubenville, Ohio, was sentenced today to 76 months incarceration for unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: Government Recovers Digital Funds Worth More Than $60 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: Robert Khuzami, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that a grand jury in the Southern District of New York has returned an Indictment charging SOHRAB SHARMA, a/k/a “Sam Sharma," RAYMOND TRAPANI, a/k/a “Ray," and ROBERT FARKAS, a/k/a “RJ," a/k/a...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Sidney White, 21, of Dallas, Texas was sentenced Wednesday, May 2, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to serve a total of 102 months in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution, following his guilty plea in December 2017 to two robberies of a Metro PCS store in Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Sidney White, 21, of Dallas, Texas was sentenced Wednesday, May 2, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to serve a total of 102 months in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution, following his guilty plea in December 2017 to two robberies of a Metro PCS store in Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - An Albanian national living in Brooklyn, NY, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence to cutting his way through the roof into a Target department store in Smithfield, R.I., prying open an ATM inside the store and stealing more than $14,000, then cutting through a wall into a CVS Pharmacy located inside the store in order to steal controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on May 10, 2018, United States District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann sentenced Robert Stoddard, of Washington D.C., to nine years in prison for assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - On Friday, a Mexican National, Hector Salas-Pina, 40, was sentenced to 127 months in federal prison. United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves sentenced Salas-Pina for conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and unlawful re-entry into the United States, after a previous deportation for an aggravated felony.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Martinsburg, West Virginia woman has admitted to distributing cocaine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: Jeffery Lynn Gentry, 40, of White County, Tennessee, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for wire fraud and money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. U.S. District Court Judge Aleta A. Trauger also ordered Gentry to pay $10, 410,672.74 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Sponsored Foreign Nationals Through H-1B Visa Programs, Allegedly Using False Job Titles and Descriptions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On May 14, 2017, Robert Wayne Long, 24, of Sacaton, Ariz., a member of the Gila River Indian Community, was sentenced by U.S. District Douglas L. Rayes to over 22 years in prison. Long had previously pleaded guilty to second degree murder. At the time of the offense, Long was on Federal Supervised Release for assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Toroski Wolfe, 32, of Canton, pled guilty Thursday before United States District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The remaining defendants charged in a Dickinson area cocaine conspiracy have all been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The 10 were charged in a multi-state drug trafficking conspiracy that had been moving cocaine since 2014.
