News from November 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va.-A local man was caught by the Transportation Security Administration with a loaded gun at the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport checkpoint this morning, Nov. 29th.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar, Administrator Verma, Secretary Mnuchin, and Commissioner Rettig...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Mark A. Klaassen announced that former Cheyenne resident Dawn Marie Wheeler, 51, was sentenced on Nov. 26, 2018, to serve consecutive prison sentences of 27 months and 24 months, respectively, after engaging in a mail theft, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: A South Florida pharmacist was sentenced to 78 months in prison today for his role in a $5 million compounding pharmacy scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former resident of the Ritz-Carlton Residences at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles has been arrested on federal wire fraud charges that allege he defrauded investors out of more than $5 million in a Ponzi scheme, deceiving one investor by falsely telling him that NBA stars such as Stephen Curry would be endorsing one of his beverage products.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Jessica Payge Malcolm, 27, of California, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline, to serve 18 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A federal grand jury has indicted Tyler King, age 29, of Grand Prairie, Texas, for conspiring to access and install malicious software on a technology company’s computer network.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced Willie Lee Smallwood, Jr., 29, of Greenville to 30 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release; Keyonta...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - A dozen New York based businesses have partnered with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York Thursday by joining the agency’s employment compliance program IMAGE, or “ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: A woman who laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars of drug money was sentenced today to three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that today, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced BASIT JAVED SHEIKH, 39, of Cary, North Carolina, to 84 months imprisonment followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A federal grand jury has charged a tax lawyer in a three-count indictment that alleges she attempted to obstruct a federal investigation into millions of dollars in refunds claimed in tax returns prepared by her accounting firm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSE SANTIAGO-ORTIZ was sentenced today to three consecutive life sentences for murder, participating in a narcotics conspiracy, and firearms offenses. SANTIAGO-ORTIZ was convicted on May 15, 2018, following a one-week jury trial before U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who also imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Tyler Leevan Hill, age 28, of Okemah, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Abusive Sexual Contact with a Child In Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1153, 2244(a)(3) and 2246, punishable by not more than 2 years’ imprisonment followed by a term of supervised release of up to life, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: FRANKLIN, TN: The National Park Service (NPS) requests civic engagement about proposed options to screen a planned housing development. The Stephens Valley development will be built on the east, and eventually the west, side of the Natchez Trace Parkway (Parkway) near milepost 440 in Davidson and Williamson...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS- A former commercial banker for Synovus entered a guilty plea to bank fraud and tax evasion charges in federal court Wednesday, said Charles E. Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. John D. Evans, 47 of Columbus, Georgia, entered the plea before the Honorable...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Agoyo Vigil, 42, an enrolled member and resident of Tesuque Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to two years of probation for his conviction on a felony child abuse charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Russian national has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of wire fraud, computer fraud and money laundering, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Jeremiah D. Edwards, 33, Madison, Wisconsin, and Kanasha L. Woods, 24, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, are charged with the armed robbery of a Town of Blooming Grove business, and with brandishing firearms during this crime of violence. The indictment alleges that Edwards and Woods robbed the O’Reilly Auto Parts store on
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging SUSANNA KURUS, 43, of Garner, North Carolina, with six counts of wire fraud stemming from an embezzlement scheme.
