News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty to one count of international parental kidnapping and was sentenced in federal court to "time served," having been imprisoned for 25 months, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Acadia National Park’s Draft Transportation Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is available for public comment through June 26, 2018. The National Park Service (NPS) invites the public to provide feedback on the range of management alternatives and potential environmental impacts identified in the Draft Transportation Plan and EIS.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Tiffaney Ann Boland was sentenced to 60 months in prison, five years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Susan P. Watters presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the conviction of YAHYE MOHAMED HERROW, 46, for his role in a multi-million dollar insurance fraud scheme. HERROW was initially indicted on Dec. 20, 2016, and following a three-day trial before Senior Judge Michael J. Davis in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the jury convicted HERROW on counts of conspiracy and mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced today to 12 years and 10 months in federal prison for robbing a McDonald’s restaurant, U.S. Attorney Stephan McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Thomas S. Harris, 27, of North Haverhill, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Mark Merrill Reynolds, 62, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to unlawfully converting to his own use client funds held by his company, Ben-E-Lect, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - After a ten-day trial and 62 witnesses, a federal jury returned three guilty verdicts - conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and two counts of possession of a firearm (with death resulting) in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Keith J. Bleau, age 52, of Buskirk, New York, was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - 2018 has brought record-low snowpack levels to many locations in the Colorado River Basin, making this the driest 19-year period on record. With the depressed snowpack and warming conditions, experts indicate that runoff from the Rocky Mountains into Lake Powell this spring will yield only 42 percent of the long-term average.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Lake in the Hills, Ill. man was sentenced on May 7, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for wire fraud. SALVATORE CRIBARI (also known as “Sal Fradillio"), 61, was sentencing to 3 years in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, and was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $342,489.52. Cribari pleaded guilty to wire fraud on Dec. 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: Defendant faces 10-year mandatory minimum. BOSTON - A Wilmington man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to dealing fentanyl. Bryan Moran, 35, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani scheduled sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: Department of Justice Files Complaints Against Florida and California Companies to Stop Use of Experimental Stem Cell Drugs on Patients.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Lake in the Hills, Ill. man was sentenced on May 7, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for wire fraud. SALVATORE CRIBARI (also known as “Sal Fradillio"), 61, was sentencing to 3 years in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, and was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $342,489.52. Cribari pleaded guilty to wire fraud on Dec. 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Christopher Kevin Solomon, also known as Kevin Murphy, age 41, and a citizen of Jamaica, pled guilty today to illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A South Carolina man who had been residing in Charleston was sentenced today to 33 months imprisonment on federal drug charges, announced United States Attorney Michael B. Stuart. Antoine Dericus Wilmore, 30, pled guilty in November to four counts of distribution of heroin, one count...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jalisa L. Hawkins, of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, appeared this week before a federal magistrate judge to face charges involving a heroin distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: The United States filed civil complaints in Florida and California to enjoin two companies that purport to offer stem cell treatments, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
