News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: FBI Announces the Arrest of an Alleged Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A New York man who helped obstruct a federal drug conspiracy case in 2017 was sentenced today in Huntington to 12 months and 1 day in prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kevin Fritz Lamerique, 34, previously pled guilty to aiding and abetting an attempt to obstruct and impede an official proceeding. United States Attorney Stuart commended the work of the Huntington FBI Drug Task Force and the United States Postal Inspection Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: Kenneth R. Betts Indicted by Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 42-year-old Raymondville woman has been sentenced following her conviction of attempting to bring a minor alien into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Melissa Grimaldo pleaded guilty Aug. 7, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Keith Kruskall, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Leibys Mercedes was found guilty today of conspiring to distribute heroin. A unanimous jury convicted Mercedes after a four-day trial before United States District Judge Kenneth M. Karas.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service invites the public to attend the unveiling of two temporary waysides interpreting the 1881 assassination of President James A. Garfield on Monday, Nov. 19, at 10:30 a.m. The waysides, located on the National Mall within the historic footprint of the Baltimore and Potomac...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: Former U.S. Congressman Stephen E. Stockman was sentenced today to serve 120 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,014,718.51 in restitution, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for orchestrating a four-year scheme to defraud charitable donors of hundreds of thousands of dollars and secretly to funnel the proceeds to pay for personal expenses and to illegally finance his campaigns for public office.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) on Tuesday removed a Peruvian citizen wanted in Peru in connection with the 1991 “Santa Barbara Massacre."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a grand jury sitting in Hartford returned an indictment yesterday charging JOSE TORRES, 32, of Hartford, with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging 10 individuals with conspiring to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider. Joining Schneider in the announcement was Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Timothy Slater. Named in the federal indictment were.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service will commemorate Veterans Day with special events and free admission nationwide on Sunday, November 11. Multiple parks and programs will emphasize the 100th anniversary of the Armistice of World War I.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Greene County resident has been sentenced in federal court to four years of probation, together with twelve months of home detention, and restitution of $115,597.94 on her conviction of Social Security fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Juan M. Serrano Acevedo, also known as Juan Acevedo-Serrano, 36, of Lockport, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession with intent to distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 39-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine and illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging PRAJEDES AVILA-VALENZUELA, age 50, of Mexico, DANIEL CARDONA-TOMAS, age 23, of Guatemala, GILBERTO CAZAREZ-MONTIEL, age...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma-based agri-business on Thursday agreed to a $1 million civil settlement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the State of Oklahoma’s Office of the Attorney General.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Darrell Leon Jennings, 51, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of possession of a prohibited object in prison, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee thanks Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his dedicated service to our Nation and his effective leadership of the Department of Justice during his two-year tenure as Attorney General.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury on Tuesday returned an eight-count indictment charging a Providence man with trafficking fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and crack cocaine, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
