News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Derek Boprey, age 31, of Ravena, New York, pled guilty today to distributing child pornography via an encrypted messaging application on his phone.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces the guilty plea and sentence of defendant Kevin V. Lucy for unlawfully possessing a firearm. Lucy pled guilty to being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm in Federal Court on July 23, 2018, before Senior Judge Callie V.S. Granade. On November 7, 2018, Senior Judge Granade sentenced the defendant to 97 months.

By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Today, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg announced that Brian J. Anderson, Ph.D. will be the new director of DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), effective Nov. 11, 2018. Anderson comes to NETL from West Virginia University (WVU) where...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man was sentenced this week to 41 months in prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Huntington Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Defendant Was on Release Following Prison Term for Earlier Armed Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea woman was arrested yesterday and charged in connection with using her position as an airline gate agent to convert low cost flights to more expensive flights and destinations for friends, family and acquaintances.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Over One Year Imported more than 70 Shipments of Fentanyl Analogues from China for Distribution in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Neighborhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Seven Syracuse residents face drug charges and other offenses following a joint federal, state, and local law enforcement operation aimed at area drug dealers, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler, Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent...

By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Individuals Taking Energy Action in Manufacturing (ITEAM) prize, a competition designed to identify and attract attention to a wide range of ideas and practices that are driving measurable energy savings at U.S. manufacturing plants to stimulate...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Defendant Drugged Victims and Abused them Simultaneously.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Jack Edward Armey (69, Interlachen) has pleaded guilty to accessing videos depicting child pornography using the internet. Armey faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervised release. A sentencing date has not yet been set.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: A Longview, Washington man who was convicted last year of a triple homicide in Vancouver, was convicted today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma of federal felonies for illegal weapons possession, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. BRENT LUYSTER, 37, was convicted following a three day trial of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Glenn Ranger, age 56, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to two counts of production of child pornography in connection with his sexual abuse of a young boy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that on November 7, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment against Lonnie Mixon (age: 28), of Milwaukee. The indictment charges Mixon with five separate counts of illegally possessing a firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Russell Cherry, 51, of Anchorage, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason, to serve four years in federal prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, after previously pleading guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. Cherry worked as a neuropsychologist treating children in Anchorage until he was indicted in June 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: From the day that Jeff Sessions took office as Attorney General of the United States, he motivated law enforcement professionals at all levels to recommit to the highest ideals of community protection, public service and respect for the rule of law. AG Sessions made crystal clear to anyone who had the honor of working with him that he was leading a department that he loves.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced El Salvadoran national Kevin Fernandez-Serrano, age 23, of Langley Park, Maryland, to 68 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for leading a conspiracy to rob taxi cab drivers. At his sentencing hearing on November 8, 2018, Fernandez-Serrano admitted that he is a member of the MS-13 gang.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Two Residents of Lebanon Arrested in Seattle in Connection with Scheme to Illegally Export Firearms to Lebanon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Nov. 30, 2018 Update: Hania Aguilar has been found deceased. The FBI and Lumberton Police Department are continuing the investigation to find the person responsible for kidnapping and killing Hania Aguilar, and the FBI is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information that leads to the arrest...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the November 2018 Federal Grand Jury.