News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jesse L. Kessler, of Fallbrook, California, was sentenced today, for using an electronic communication service to intimidate or harass another person in another state.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Ann Calvaresi Barr, the Inspector General of the United States Agency for International Development (“USAID"), announced the unsealing today of an indictment charging RENE DJESSA and DANIEL OHOYO, both nationals...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: Members also blast Trump’s limited & inadequate promise to donate “all profits from foreign governments’ patronage," which allows him to continue collecting large sums of revenue with no transparency or accountability
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - A three-count indictment was unsealed in federal court today charging John Widener Jordan, 38, and Michael James Friesen, 32, both of Prineville, Oregon, with conspiracy to transfer and unlawful possession of a machine gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Oct. 19, 2018 -Randall Griffin, 46, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was charged yesterday with mail fraud, for operating an embezzlement scheme, during which he stole more than $1 million from his former employer, Lasko Products, LLC., announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Oct. 19, 2018 - The Sherman Prescribed Burn in Sequoia National Park has been postponed until further notice. A test burn of three acres, which was conducted late this morning into early afternoon, yielded unsatisfactory results, with many of the ignitions self-extinguishing without consuming the fuel necessary to meet the objectives for the project.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: Victims were eight and 10-years-old. BOSTON - A Canadian national was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield for enticing children over the internet to produce child pornography and to send the sexually explicit content to him. Justin Carl Wong, 35, of Ontario, Canada, was sentenced by U.S.
By State Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement regarding the Saudi Government’s explanation of the death of Jamal Khashoggi...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA -U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that KENNETH MARTIN, age 44, from Slidell, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute and to possesses with the intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl and 100 grams or more of heroin, and to possession of three firearms in furtherance of his drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ERIC EDWARD ARMSTRONG, age 31, of Anoka, Minnesota, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Barry W. Ashe to one count of failure to register as a sex offender under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - On Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, Jamin C. Fletcher, age 35, of Council Bluffs, appeared before United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger and was sentenced to 108 months in prison for distribution and receipt of child pornography announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Fletcher was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, $200 to the Crime Victims’ Fund, and serve ten years of supervised release to follow his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - Gregory Scott Stephen, age 42, of Monticello, Iowa, pleaded guilty on Oct. 18, 2018, to five counts of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of possession of child pornography, and one count of transportation of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Laquan J. Simmons, 26, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and possessing of cocaine with the intent to distribute, was sentenced to 57 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Gilbert Guzman, 42, of Brooklyn, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine, was sentenced to three years probation by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Devon Deshaun Lawson a resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to 188 months incarceration for possession of a firearm after being convicted of a felony of Distribution of a Controlled Substance in January 2008.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: A Dallas-area pimp who preyed on teenage girls was sentenced to life in prison this afternoon, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to a total of 150 months in federal prison for the robbery of the U.S. Cellular store, 6430 E. State St., in Rockford, on June 1, 2016, and using a firearm during a violent crime. McKINLEY HOARDE, III, 23, was sentenced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former official with the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) allegedly accepted thousands of dollars in bribes from a consultant in exchange for taking official acts to financially benefit the consultant, including initiating ABC enforcement actions designed to generate consulting fees, according to a federal grand jury indictment announced today by United States Attorney Nick Hanna and FBI Assistant Director in Charge Paul Delacourt.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced today to 26 years in prison for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to a total of 150 months in federal prison for the robbery of the U.S. Cellular store, 6430 E. State St., in Rockford, on June 1, 2016, and using a firearm during a violent crime.
