News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 102 months in prison for perpetrating a long-running scheme to defraud investment clients out of millions of dollars, forging an attorney’s signature without authorization in connection with that scheme, and preparing false tax returns for his clients, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Sara Beth Cummings, 36, of Boise, Idaho, and Candelaria Sanchez, 43, of Las Vegas, Nevada, were sentenced today in U.S. District Court for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Cummings to 21 months, and Sanchez to 84 months, in prison. Judge Lodge also ordered that both serve a period of supervised release after their prison sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, man was arrested and appeared in federal court today for allegedly distributing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mitchell, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of a Firearm with an Obliterated Serial Number, and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Antonio Oswaldo Burgos, 48, of Portland, pleaded guilty today to one count of bribery of a public official after attempting to bribe a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: BILLNGS-U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme announced today that Lance X. Ratcliff, a Billings resident, was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 months in prison and three years supervised release for illegally possessing a shotgun that was found between the mattress and box spring of his bed.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Airfare Scams.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Washington - On May 22, 2018, Worland Livestock Auction LLC. (Worland), Worland, Wyoming, waived its right to a hearing, entered into a stipulation agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and paid a penalty of $3,000 for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DEAN JONES, a/k/a “Kurupt," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 26 years in prison for robbing a restaurant in 2012, during which JONES shot an innocent customer, as well as for JONES’s...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: EM federal and contractor employees across the DOE complex donated tens of thousands of pounds of food for people in need during this year’s annual Feds Feed Families campaign.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Albuquerque, New Mexico, man has been convicted on federal dog fighting charges, stemming from a case brought by federal authorities in the U.S. District Court in the District of New Mexico. Robert Arellano, 65, pleaded guilty on Nov. 15, 2018, in federal court in Trenton, New Jersey...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 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 James C. Dever III sentenced ANDREW HARGETT, JR. 46, to 240 months imprisonment followed by 8 years of supervised release. HARGETT was also fined...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Shaun Michael Cook, 31, of Lansing, Michigan, was sentenced to 102 months in federal prison for his role in a series of Lansing area robberies, U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. Cook and his codefendants, Donald Charles Westmoreland and Shackeem Louis Jones, committed...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - James Mattison, age 47, of Fort Edward, New York, was sentenced today to 292 months in prison for sexually exploiting a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A local man has been sentenced in federal court to six months probation and six months home detention on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Terrance Wilson, a/k/a “Mutt," 30, of St. Louis, was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and use of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking offense resulting in death.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As the holiday season approaches, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Wage and Hour Division (WHD) are reminding employers to protect worker safety and pay.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: A federal judge sentenced two men today in U.S. District Court for conspiring to brandish a firearm during a Dec. 26, 2017, carjacking, and for firing at a Tulsa police officer during the resulting pursuit, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) on Friday removed five illegal aliens from El Salvador, who were fugitives wanted in their home country for various serious crimes, including aggravated murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Washington County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of three years and five months, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his conviction on a charge of armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
