News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of a criminal complaint charging DAVID SMOTHERMON with...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging two residents of Washington County, Pennsylvania, with violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced DANIEL LEE WADE, JR., 24, of Greenville, North Carolina to 120 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has released for public review and comment an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Exotic Plant Management Plan for Rocky Mountain National Park. Invasive exotic plants are capable of spreading rapidly, outcompeting native plants, and drastically altering ecosystem conditions...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A New York man, formerly residing in Massachusetts, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The owner of three Houston area clinics has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Joy Aneke, 51, of Katy, entered her plea on May 16, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JOSEPH MALDONADO-PASSAGE, also known as Joseph Allen Maldonado, Joseph Allen Schreibvogel, and "Joe Exotic," 55, formerly of Wynnewood, Oklahoma, has been charged in a 21-count superseding indictment that includes the two previously charged murder-for-hire counts and also alleges nineteen...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: Defendant bought firearms for felons. DENVER - A Grand Junction man was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to serve 6 months in federal prison followed by 6 months on home detention for making false statements to a firearms dealer, U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn and ATF...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced a federal indictment charging KERRY DALE KISSLINGER, 58, former owner and CEO of a wind energy company, with five counts of wire fraud in a $1 million fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Suffolk man was sentenced today to more than eight years in prison for being a felon in possession of more than a dozen firearms and attempting to obstruct justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that two Alaska men were sentenced yesterday in federal court for harassing and killing Steller sea lions with shotguns, and obstructing the government’s investigation into their criminal activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Todd McDonald, age 35, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 210 months in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release on one count each of Online Enticement of a Minor and Unlawful Possession of Ammunition. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Hot Springs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-On Oct. 22, 2018, Miranda Maloney, 34, also known as the “Grimace Bandit," was sentenced to 84 months in prison, along with 36 months of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution of $15,085.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Andrew Daniel Hill (29, Jacksonville) to four years and eight months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute MDMA and for violating the terms of his supervised release, which he was serving after a 2013 federal conviction for possessing with the intent to distribute methylone. Hill was previously sentenced to 42 months’ imprisonment in connection with the 2013 conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A man from the Washington, D.C. area pleaded guilty today to possessing multiple firearms as a convicted felon and passing counterfeit Federal Reserve Notes.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, NV - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited the United States Postal Service (USPS) $129,336 after investigators determined the employer failed to provide proper safety measures to a Las Vegas, Nevada, mail carrier hospitalized for heat exposure.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendants THOMAS J.S. ATOIGUE, age 27, from Dededo, and AUSTIN JAY SAN NICOLAS, age 23, from Santa Rita, were sentenced on November 6, 2018, in District Court by Senior District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Zachary A. C. Benoit, 28, of Canaan, pleaded guilty in federal court to transportation and possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - John M. Talkington, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 63 months incarceration for his role in a methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin distribution operation that spanned multiple states, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted James Ronnell Davis, a/k/a Twin, Slim and Slick, age 41, of Springfield, Virginia, for a cocaine distribution conspiracy, two counts of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
