News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Another Houston, Texas resident has been sentenced in the Southern District of Illinois to federal prison for drug trafficking. On Thursday, May 10, 2018, Victor Johnson, age 44, was sentenced to 188 months in prison and five years of supervised release for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy that...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that James Williams, III, a/k/a “Dilly," age 30, of Stroud Township, Pennsylvania, was indicted on May 8, 2018, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-- A Japanese shipping company that delivered steel products to Wilmington, NC, was convicted and sentenced today for obstruction of justice and falsification of an Oil Record Book to cover-up intentional oil pollution from the Motor Vessel (“M/V") Atlantic Oasis, announced Acting Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Joan Cicchiello, age 67, of Annville and Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on May 9, 2018, to 72 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, II on Health Care Fraud related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office reached a settlement agreement today with Charlwell House, a skilled nursing facility in Norwood, to resolve allegations that the facility violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by refusing to accept a patient because they were being treated for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Rember Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today pressing him for information on Zinke’s recently announced decision to send National Park Police personnel to the U.S.-Mexico border as part of President Trump’s ill-defined and poorly thought-out border security efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An alleged member of a Buena Park street gang has been arrested and charged in relation to a series of armed robberies of gas stations and 7-Eleven convenience stores over the past 18 months.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney R. Trent Shores announced today the results of the May 2018 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida Maria Chapa Lopez recognize the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal police officers on the occasion of National Police Week and remembered those law enforcement officers killed and assaulted...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: David Haisten, 51, and Judy Haisten, 51, both of Irmo, South Carolina, were sentenced yesterday to 78 and 60 months of incarceration, respectively, by U.S. District Judge Gerald J. Pappert, announced United States Attorney William M. McSwain. A jury found the Haistens guilty in October 2017 of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: FBI Releases 2017 Statistics on Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: VALDOSTA: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on May 9, 2018, Senior United States District Court Judge Hugh Lawson revoked the Supervised Release for Ferrell Walker, age 50, of Quitman, Georgia and ordered him to serve sixty (60) months in the Bureau of Prisons following a two-day hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TREVOIR JACKSON, age 38, a resident of Jefferson, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today to one count of a two-count indictment charging possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Joan Cicchiello, age 67, of Annville and Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on May 9, 2018, to 72 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, II on Health Care Fraud related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: HELENA - Elbert Flores Hernandez, Jr., a 44-year-old Helena resident, was sentenced today to 56 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release after pleading guilty to prohibited person in possession of a firearm and ammunition on Jan. 3, 2018. U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon handed down the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DANIEL DELVALLE, a/k/a “BD," a/k/a “Danny," 31, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald to a term of 156 months in prison for his participation in the murder of Kenya Miller, ...
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,319,420 visitors to New River Gorge National River, Bluestone National Scenic River, and Gauley River National Recreation Area spent $56,289,700 in communities near the three parks in 2017. That spending supported 823 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economies of $64,220,300. The parks span four counties in southern West Virginia: Fayette, Nicholas, Raleigh, and Summers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: RSK Gang Members Sentenced to Lengthy Prison Terms for Conspiracy to Commit Acts of Racketeering, Including Murder, Kidnapping, Drug Trafficking and Other Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Elmer Swain Stewart was sentenced to federal prison on charges that he defrauded 18 individuals of more than $1 million after he persuaded them to invest their retirement savings in tracts of timber land.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Steven Andrew Bush, 56, a former Nikiski resident, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess, to serve 45 months in prison for illegally possessing firearms as a convicted felon. Bush previously pleaded guilty on Jan. 3, 2018, to one count of felon in possession of a firearm.
