News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A local man has been indicted for six counts of Hobbs Act robbery and four counts of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A corrections officer at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute facility in Norfolk (MCI-Norfolk) was arrested today and charged in connection with conspiracy to smuggle Suboxone strips into the facility for an inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Ali Haider Pasha, age 23, of Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, pled guilty today to attempted illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 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 SCOTT MATHEWS, 34, of North Branford, with one count of distribution of heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Lawrence Stone, age 63, of Scranton, was indicted on Nov. 13, 2018, by a federal grand jury on charges of production and transportation of child pornography. The case was unsealed following Stone’s arrest.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: GRANTS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Rio Puerco Field Office plans to conduct a prescribed burn on approximately 1,000 acres within the El Malpais National Conservation Area, located approximately 40 miles southeast of Grants, NM, beginning Nov. 26, weather permitting. Fire managers estimate...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Jean Carlos Vega-Arizmendi, age 27, of Puerto Rico, was sentenced on Friday to 120 months in prison for conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute and attempted possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, by District Court Judge Wilma A. Lewis, announced United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: ST. LOUIS -The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Marshals Service extradited Armando Medina-Hernandez from Mexico on Nov. 7, 2018, to face federal drug trafficking charges in the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Central Islip, Blake Kantor, who formerly operated a binary options company known as Blue Bit Banc and Blue Bit Analytics (“BBB"), pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. As part of his plea agreement, Kantor admitted to obstructing an investigation into his...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gabriel Vasile Lincan, age 47, and a citizen of Romania, was sentenced today to time served (47 days in jail), for illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Ohio resident has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years in prison followed by eight years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jarrett Edmonds, also known as “Lollipop" and “Dollar," age 36, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Nov. 13, 2018, by a federal grand jury for possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and crack cocaine. The case was unsealed following Edmonds’ arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A South Los Angeles woman who called herself “The Most Hated Hoe in L.A." on social media pleaded guilty today to a federal sex trafficking offense and admitted she used the Internet to solicit minors to engage in commercial sex acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of East Orange, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of felony heroin trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Partnership with the Michigan State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jarrett Edmonds, also known as “Lollipop" and “Dollar," age 36, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Nov. 13, 2018, by a federal grand jury for possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and crack cocaine. The case was unsealed following Edmonds’ arrest.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Miguel Lopez-Castillo, 34, a Mexican national, pleaded not guilty on Nov. 15, 2018, in United States District Court in Burlington to a charge that he was found in the United States after having been previously deported. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy ordered that Lopez-Castillo be detained pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Dale Ricardo Easterling, 43, of Moss Point, Mississippi, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to conspiring to distribute cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant DOLORES DIANA M.B. WESTFALL, age 37, from Yona, was sentenced in District Court to serve a 77-month term of imprisonment for Attempted Possession with Intent to Distribute Fifty...
