News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced JEREL LEON JORDAN, 27, of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, to 195 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, AR - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Robert Rogers, age 73, of Rogers, Arkansas, was sentenced today to three years probation with the first 18 months to be served as home confinement and ordered to pay $250,000.00 in fines for Operating an Illegal Gambling Business. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal inmate already serving a lengthy sentence for a child pornography conviction was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for possessing images of child pornography while incarcerated, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two Long Island residents were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven for their roles in two separate investment fraud schemes. THOMAS HEAPHY, Jr., 43, of East Moriches, N.Y, and BRIAN FERRAIOLI, 41, of Sayville, N.Y., were each sentenced to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Mark Triolo, 46, of Texas, has been charged by criminal complaint for violating the federal robbery statute. Triolo is currently being treated at Dartmouth Medical Center in New Hampshire for gunshot wounds he sustained...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, announces that William Coleman, a 31 year old, resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to 164 months of incarceration and ordered to pay $582.00 in restitution followed by five years of supervised release for the armed robbery of a local retail business.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, announced today that a Manhattan Supreme Court jury returned a guilty verdict against Dr. Rogelio Lucas and his wife Lydia Lucas, who managed...
By State Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ADAM J. STEELE, 26, has been charged with the robbery of an IBC Bank in Shawnee, Oklahoma, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Americans nationwide did their part to drop off a record number of unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications during the DEA’s 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, at close to 6,000 sites across the country. Together with a record-setting amount of local, state and federal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Michael Vincent Alvarez, 32, of Fresno, Calif., was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for striking Air-1, a Fresno Police Department helicopter, with a powerful green laser beam, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: Pills Disguised as Oxycodone Actually Contained Elephant Tranquilizer.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: (MILES CITY, Mont.) - Spring has sprung --and whether you are after a trophy gobbler, hiking, biking or just enjoying a snow-free getaway, your Public Lands await your arrival.
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: Thank you Chairman Simpson and all Members of this great subcommittee that consistently endeavors to work on a bipartisan basis to produce bills that meet our nation’s priorities in energy, water, and nuclear capabilities for domestic needs as well as security. As always, we applaud that our subcommittee...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Charles W. Johnston, age 70, of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 12, 2018, for obstruction of proceedings before agencies of the United States. The indictment was unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two Long Island residents were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven for their roles in two separate investment fraud schemes. THOMAS HEAPHY, Jr., 43, of East Moriches, N.Y, and BRIAN FERRAIOLI, 41, of Sayville, N.Y., were each sentenced to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: A man who attempted to rob the Freedom Bank in Monona, Iowa, was sentenced today to 3 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Romanian computer hacker who orchestrated a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the European servers of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft was sentenced today to one year in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA -Trevor King, a former sergeant with the Atlanta Police Department, was sentenced to five years in prison for using excessive force when he arrested a Walmart shopper who King wrongfully suspected of shoplifting a tomato and for writing a false police report about the incident in an effort to cover up his crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Maine woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to her role in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
