News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - An EMT in Jackson County, Kan., is charged with stealing morphine from vials, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - Five members of the Mad Stone Bloods (MSB) gang were sentenced this week in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke for their roles in a criminal conspiracy that involved the smuggling of drugs and other contraband into Virginia prisons, and the facilitation of the sale of drugs outside the prisons, with the help of complicit corrections officers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Nicholas Guy, 23, of Somersworth, New Hampshire, was sentenced to serve 48 months in federal prison for possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: “Chief Judge Dora L. Irizarry has notified me that the Court, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546(d), has appointed me to serve as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. I am deeply grateful to the Court for the opportunity to continue to serve as the U.S. Attorney. I am equally grateful...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that seven individuals have been indicted on federal drug trafficking and firearms charges. The defendants named in the indictment are.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Brian Scott Miller, the President of Executive Air Terminal, Inc., and Executive Air Terminal, Inc. each pled guilty to the felony offense of Storage of Hazardous Waste without a Permit, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Executive Air provides fueling and other services...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiring to possess and distribute opiate painkillers, oxycodone and oxymorphone, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jesus Rojas, 32, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine and crack cocaine before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On May 2, 2018, Marc Ryan Shipley, 34, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge David C. Bury to 96 months’ imprisonment. Shipley had been previously found guilty following trial of possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of two Cambridge-based investment advisory firms was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud hedge fund investors.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Burlington man with at least four prior felony convictions was charged today in federal court in Boston with unlawfully possessing ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: A former attorney from Hiram was indicted for failing to report nearly $400,000 that he used to pay personal expenses.
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - More than 1,000 students from the public schools in Guaynabo received tips on how to avoid falling victim to online sexual predators Monday through Thursday at the Guaynabo Police Athletic League Theater in Guaynabo. The presentation is the fifth child abuse prevention summit organized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Puerto Rico as part of ICE’s iGuardian initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOSE REYES-GABRIELES, age 33, a native of Honduras, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Gratiot, Wisc., woman was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for stealing more than $2 million from her former employer and related companies.
By Commerce Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today referred his correspondence with the National Rifle Association (NRA) regarding donations from Russian nationals and other contributions to the Federal Election Commission, which reportedly has an inquiry into the NRA’s campaign practices.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: Vladimir Ziskind, a/k/a “Mike Palmer," Keith Orlean, a/k/a “Jack Allen," and Kevin Weinzoff, a/k/a “Mike Palmer," Solicited Stock Purchases from Elderly Victims Using Fake Names, False Information, and Bogus Promises of High Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: On April 25, 2018, a federal jury in Miami convicted Michael Roy Fraser, a Jamaican national, of naturalization fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a Federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned an eleven-count indictment charging RICARDO JEROME BENNETT, SR., age 47, of Wilmington, North Carolina, with ten counts of Receipt of Child Pornography and one count of Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a criminal complaint charging MICHAEL WAYNE WHITEFEATHER, 18, with murder in the second degree.WHITEFEATHER made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge Huseby in United States District Court in Bemidji, Minnesota.
