News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A man who had owned Stat Source Inc. has admitted he willfully failed to truthfully account for and pay over employment taxes to the IRS, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Approximately $9.3 Million Allegedly Embezzled in 2016 and 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Mehboob Mansurali Charania was arraigned on charges relating to his involvement in a transnational criminal organization that victimized over 340 people in the United States through a fraudulent India-based call-center scheme, resulting in over $200,000 in losses. Charania was indicted by a federal grand jury on November 6, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hoboken, New Jersey, woman today admitted her role in a conspiracy to promote a voter bribery scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Deonte R. Dickey, 21, of Cincinnati was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 240 months in prison and ordered to pay $7,000 in restitution for funeral costs for distributing heroin and fentanyl that resulted in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Poplar couple who admitted assault charges for driving a vehicle into a group of pedestrians, seriously injuring one, in a drug debt dispute were sentenced to years in federal prison this week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal jury has convicted Dontrell Wise, 32, of Buffalo, NY, of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, butyryl fentanyl, fentanyl, cocaine, and crack cocaine; possession with intent to distribute butyryl fentanyl; and distribution of fentanyl causing death. As a result of Wise’s criminal history, the “death results" charge carries with it a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -- United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that three participants in a drug trafficking ring operating primarily in the City of Chester, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking offenses. Co-conspirators David Toney, James Townsend, and Cheron Jackson were scheduled to begin trial on Monday, November 5, 2018, before United States District Court Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -- United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that three participants in a drug trafficking ring operating primarily in the City of Chester, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking offenses. Co-conspirators David Toney, James Townsend, and Cheron Jackson were scheduled to begin trial on Monday, November 5, 2018, before United States District Court Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN. - Michael Jay Harris, 47, of McNairy County, TN was sentenced to life imprisonment for methamphetamine trafficking. D. Michael Dunavant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal jury Wednesday convicted a Marshall County man for distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E, Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Mo., man has been convicted by a federal trial jury of leading a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Jasper County, Mo.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Washington -U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary Greg Ibach joined dairy farmers in Tulare County, Calif., on November 7 to celebrate implementation of the new California Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) that went into effect Nov. 1, 2018. California is the largest milk-producing state in the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced that MICHAEL BROWN, age 24, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced today for murder through use of a firearm and carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Port Graham resident has been sentenced to federal prison for causing the U.S. Coast Guard to attempt to save life and property when no help was needed, thereby causing unnecessary expenditure of vital lifesaving resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Prosecution of Keemo Lee Comes as Part of Western District of Virginia’s Ongoing Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative to Reduce Violent Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Lohri, of Williamstown, West Virginia, was sentenced to 121 months incarceration for his involvement in methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin distribution that spanned multiple states, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Mismatch Bandit Now Suspected of 18 Robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town appointed to serve on the Justice Department’s China Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, 42-year-old Dennis Edward Stephen, pleaded guilty in federal court to robbing multiple San Antonio banks and stealing approximately $479,000, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, F.B.I. Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
