News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Distribution of a Controlled Substance to an Individual under 21 Years of Age and Transportation for Illegal Sexual Activity was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Paul Edward Lee, Jr. (38, Jacksonville) has been arrested and charged by a federal criminal complaint with soliciting child pornography using the internet. In 2011, Lee was convicted of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child in Duval County Circuit Court and is required to...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Henderson man who wore a “Jason"-style hockey mask during the robbery of a Las Vegas pawn shop and stole nearly $125,000 worth of jewelry was sentenced today to 78 months in prison and three years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Michael Brewer, 62, of Boothbay Harbor, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 47 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: The FBI is Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Miami.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office approved a plan for ten new motorized and non-motorized trails totaling about 18 miles in the Fourmile Trail System outside Buena Vista.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Two Joplin, Mo., men have been indicted by a federal grand jury, in separate and unrelated cases, for receiving and distributing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Dear Mr. Gore: On Dec. 12, 2017, the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a letter to Acting Census Bureau Director Ron Jarmin requesting that the Census Bureau add a citizenship question to the 2020 Decennial Census. DOJ alleged that decennial census citizenship data is “critical to the Department’s...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Defendant allegedly used false identification to secure MassHealth benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Andrew P. Young (619) 546-7981 and Emily W. Allen (619) 546-9738.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman and Trumbull County Prosecuting Attorney Dennis Watkins have cross-designated members of their respective offices to work together prosecuting drug trafficking cases, including those involving fatal overdoses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Danielle Hamilton, 29, of Cheektowaga, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to 36 months in prison. Hamilton was also ordered to pay approximately $300,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Stephan, SD - On May 1, 2018, United States Attorney Ron Parsons was a guest at the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Inauguration for the Tribe’s newly elected Chairman, Lester Thompson, Jr., and Tribal Council.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - Jorge Eliecer Cifuentes-Cuero (54, Colombia, South America) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while aboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, in violation of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Nine Trey Gangster Sentenced to Life in Prison for Four Murders.
By USDA Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Rigby Produce Inc., operating out of Rigby, Idaho, posted a $100,000 surety bond.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - The elevator foreman at the University of Illinois at Chicago received bribes from the owner of a suburban company in exchange for steering the school’s elevator repair work to it, according to an indictment returned in federal court in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HECTOR RIVERA was sentenced today to life in prison plus 25 years for murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire conspiracy, and use of a firearm resulting in death, in connection with his role in ordering the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2018
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - The federal grand jury in Springfield today returned a superseding indictment that charges Michael Hari, 47; Joe Morris, 22; Michael McWhorter, 29; and, Ellis Mack, 18, all of Clarence, Ill., with additional charges. The four men were previously indicted in April and charged with possession of a machine gun. They were arrested and charged with the initial offense in a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office on March 13, 2018.
