News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff sentenced Davi Sarah Bailey to six and a half years in prison for retaliating against a victim of child pornography pro-duction, along with the victim’s family. Judge Neff made clear that threatening and intimidating witnesses will not be tolerated...
By State Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Ed Royce, the Committee’s Chairman, today announced that they have introduced legislation in the House condemning Russia’s recent aggression toward Ukrainian vessels attempting to pass through...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Trevon Beasley, a/k/a Tre, age 24, of Baltimore, of federal racketeering charges related to his gang crimes, including murders committed by Beasley, related to his membership in the Old York Money Gang (OYMG); a federal drug distribution conspiracy;...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jessica Henton, 30, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to Hobbs Act Robbery, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $125,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - The National Park Service is seeking public comment on an environmental assessment for a General Management Plan Amendment to address low-water conditions at Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Nov. 30, 2018 - Former Davidson County General Sessions Judge Cason “Casey" Moreland, 61, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 44 months in prison, restitution of $18,000 and a forfeiture of $13,500 for obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and stealing money from...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that on Nov. 29, 2018, Roger Mercedes, age 30, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced to 24 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud stemming from a plan to sell seven (7) kilograms of fake cocaine in Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Lee John Maher, 60, of Orlando, Florida, was sentenced to 30 months in prison today, after being convicted on Dec. 18, 2017, of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and of retaining and concealing federal funds, knowing that they were wrongly taken. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - After a four-day trial before U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, a federal jury in Jackson found Willie Charles Blackmon, Jr., 36, of Jackson, guilty on Thursday of two counts of sex trafficking minors through force, fraud, maintaining and harboring the minors for commercial sex acts...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Cole White Admits to Traveling from California to Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017 and Committing Acts of Violence at the University of Virginia and Unite the Right Rally.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced that Anthony Lamont Caldwell, 49, of Charlotte, was sentenced yesterday afternoon to 284 months in prison on armed bank robbery and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Rudy Portillo Sepulveda, Jr., 28, of Grant County, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to violating the federal firearms laws by being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 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 an Indictment charging SARAH JANE BRINSON, age 34, from Clinton, North Carolina, with aiding and abetting visa fraud and false statements in immigration proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Kyle Wallace (22, Tampa) has been arrested and charged by a federal criminal complaint with production and attempted production of child pornography and possession of child pornography. If convicted, Wallace faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to 30 years in federal prison, and a potential lifetime of supervision.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Robert Lee Ward (50, Fort Myers) with conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and tampering with an informant by killing him. The indictment also charges Dalton Kelvin McGriff...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Arthur L. Gurbey, age 46, of Green Island, New York, appeared today on a criminal complaint charging him with receiving and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Distributed More Than 920,000 Counterfeit Xanax Pills on the Dark Web in Exchange for Bitcoin Worth More Than $5 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Austin Lee Ritter, age 23, and Kimberly Denise Cannon, age 40, both of Lancaster, South Carolina, each were sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty in June to being a felon in possession of firearms and to possession of machineguns and destructive device not registered to them.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Canadian man living in Leesburg pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl that caused two deaths and one non-fatal overdose in 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2018
News Release: Salem, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Northwest Oregon District, Siuslaw Field Office is conducting a public scoping meeting on a late successional reserve forest management project for lands within the Siuslaw Watershed. The BLM will partner with the Siuslaw Watershed Council and Big Bear...
