News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Authorities have arrested eight members and associates of the East Side Torrance street gang on federal narcotics trafficking and firearms charges stemming from an investigation that led to a number of seizures, including 20 pounds of methamphetamine that was discovered in a Torrance apartment complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Four Mexican nationals were sentenced today in federal court in Charlotte for illegally reentering the United States after being deported, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. presided over the sentencings. The four defendants will also be subject to deportation proceedings upon completion of their sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man who robbed a bank and led law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase while carrying an infant in the back seat of his get-away car was sentenced in federal court today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C. F. Shappert announced that a Federal jury handed down a guilty verdict against Michael Hendrickson 28, for possession of prison contraband on Wednesday, following a one-day trial. “Contraband cell phones in correctional facilities create a security...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Avery Cate, 27, an enrolled member of the Kewa Pueblo who resides in Bernalillo, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Nov. 15, 2018, Robert Alan Knapp, 71, a former director of HDS Truck Driving Institute (HDS) in Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced to 48 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Màrquez. Knapp had previously pleaded guilty to bank fraud and federal student aid fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Robert Dean Caesar, 56, of Oxford, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment with production, receipt, and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: FBI AMMO Task Force Arrests Atlanta Top Ten Fugitive.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Fred Santiago, 30, of Dunkirk, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 70 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Noe Enrique Cabrera-Rivera, 38, a citizen of El Salvador, and Juan Angel Tabora-Garcia, 36, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty and were sentenced in federal court to unlawfully reentering the United States after being deported.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee today advanced the nominations of Andrew Saul, to be Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), Gordon Hartogensis, to be Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and Gail Ennis, to be Inspector General of the Social Security Administration (SSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Nov. 15, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Robert Dean Caesar, 56, of Oxford, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment with production, receipt, and possession of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: Washington - Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA is investing $501 million in 60 projects to help improve health care infrastructure (PDF, 170 KB) and services in rural communities nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Three drug traffickers have been sentenced to a combined 17 years in prison for participating in a lengthy and extensive drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Matthew Michael Fraticelli, 39, of Vacaville, charging him with possessing a firearm as a felon, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center (NTHIC) is hosting its annual model railroad exhibition this December. The exhibit is presented and operated by the Casper-based Central Wyoming Model Railroad Association (CWMRA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Christopher M. Arguelles, 34, of Pensacola, pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola to possession and access with intent to view child pornography. The guilty plea was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of RODNEY KEITH THOMPSON, 53, for corruptly soliciting a bribe.THOMPSON entered his guilty plea earlier today, before Judge Susan Nelson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was charged via felony information on Nov. 13, 2018.
