News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Alan Lee Baky, 41, of Bayou La Batre, was sentenced in federal court for his illegal possession of a firearm as a convicted felon. Baky pled guilty to the charge in July of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Leticia Bedolla, 39, of Porterville, pleaded guilty today to aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of a false and fraudulent tax return, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: She stole over 140,000 dollars between 2010 and 2014 from Charleston Building and Construction Trades Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was indicted in federal court Wednesday on a charge of robbing a Walgreens store, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DEVELL CONLEY, 32, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to narcotics distribution offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: New Jersey, New Mexico, and Indiana Defendants Convicted As Part of Operation Grand Champion.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A federal grand jury has charged Charles A. Hewitt, 47, of Creve Coeur, Ill., with enticement and exploitation of minor girls to engage in sexual acts. The indictment, returned on Oct. 16, alleges that Hewitt engaged in the sexual exploitation of three minor victims. At the time of the alleged offenses, Hewitt was required to register as a sex offender. Arraignment is scheduled on Oct. 31, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Bilal Hamid Love, 35, of Meridian, pled guilty yesterday before Senior U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour III to importing the controlled substance AB-PINACA and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly announced today that former Omaha Tribal Council Chairman Amen Sheridan (age 57), and former Omaha Tribal Council members Mitchell Parker (age 70) and Jeff Miller (age 54) were sentenced on Oct. 16, 2018, by United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to kidnapping, loansharking and illegal gambling.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Wayne Oddo, 54, of Poultney, was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment by Chief United States District Court Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford sitting in Rutland, Vermont. Chief Judge Crawford also sentenced Oddo to a three-year period of supervised release by the U.S. Probation Office, which will begin when Oddo is released from prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today released the latest report of her wide-ranging investigation into opioid manufacturers and distributors. “Fueling an Epidemic: Inside the Insys Strategy for Boosting Fentanyl Sales" documents Insys Therapeutics’ strategy for driving up the volume and strength of prescriptions for its fentanyl drug Subsys.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictment today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: DURANGO - Bryan Ace Ponzo, age 36, from the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation surrounding Towaoc, was recently sentenced to serve 129 months in federal prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn for assault with a dangerous weapon, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer, FBI Denver Division Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Peter Mastin, age 26, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute at Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possession of a weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - The final defendant in a Jefferson County violent crime spree has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Chairman Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke regarding the number and total acreage of mineral withdrawals, for both minerals and oil and gas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Two Savannah men are facing years in federal prison after being sentenced this week in a cross-country drug-trafficking conspiracy that funneled major amounts of cocaine and marijuana to coastal Georgia.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
Release: ERIE, PA - Residents of the Erie area and northwestern Pennsylvania region will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s popular TSA Pre✓® application program inside Erie International Airport from November 5th through 9th, where officials will host a temporary “pop-up" enrollment center.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
Release: LINTHICUM, Md. - Transportation Security Administration officers at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) stopped a Maryland man from bringing a collapsible rifle onto an airplane on Friday, October 12th.
