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 Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: On Nov. 11, a ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day will take place at Fort Stanwix National Monument. Beginning at 10:30 a.m., several speakers will discuss the history of the end of World War I and the day that we now call “Veteran’s Day," leading up to a playing of “Taps"...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: This week a federal judge sentenced 59-year-old Jose Cruz Iglesias of Midland to 78 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for stealing approximately $200,000 from the Community National Bank in Stanton, TX, on Dec. 23, 2016, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and F.B.I. Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division.
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: Syrian Man Sentenced for Terrorism-Related Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: GREENVILLE - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that TAMER AHMED QAID SAID RABEH, age 37, of Egypt, illegally present in the United States and residing in Pender County, North Carolina, was sentenced today to 18 months imprisonment, after...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the midterm election results that Democrats will have a majority in the House of Representatives in 2019...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Boston and the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) announced the successful results from the Boston segment of this year’s "Operation: Ground Rules" an aggressive counterfeit-combatting enforcement multi-partner operation held during and immediately following Major League Baseball's 2018 World Series.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dickson Gutierrez, age 43, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on November 6, 2018, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to serve 50 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today announced progress in combatting violent crime through a series of targeted strategies as part of the Department of Justice’s revitalized Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Quirino Hernandez, 31; Adam Stone, 28; and Luis Rodriguez, 29, were sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to participating in a drug conspiracy involving methamphetamine. Hernandez, Stone, and Rodriguez received sentences of 17 years, 13 years, and 5 years in federal prison, respectively. There is no parole in the federal system.
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: HOUSTON - A woman claiming to be a financial advisor and money manager has received that statutory maximum for defrauding former NBA players Travis Best and Dennis Rodman and NFL football players Ricky Williams and Lex Hilliard out of millions, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Peggy Ann Fulford, 60, formerly of Houston and New Orleans, pleaded guilty Feb. 1, 2018, to one count of interstate transportation of stolen property.
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: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Charles C. Williamson, of Sistersville, West Virginia, was sentenced to 121 months incarceration for methamphetamine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania thanks Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his leadership of the Department of Justice during his two-year tenure as Attorney General.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
Release: WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - The number of passengers expected to be screened at Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints across the country this Thanksgiving season is expected to be extremely high. From Friday, November 16 through Monday, Nov. 26, more than 25 million travelers, one of TSA’s busiest Thanksgivings on record, will be screened at airport checkpoints during the holiday travel period, nearly a 7 percent increase compared to last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 32-year-old Donna man has been sentenced in federal court for being a felon unlawfully in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Joaquin Ramos De La Cruz pleaded guilty Sept. 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On Nov. 7, 2018, Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah, aka Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Ahmad, 41, of Syria, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Roslyn O. Silver to Life plus 30 years. Alahmedalabdaloklah was found guilty by a federal jury on March 16, 2018 of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction...
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...
