News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Derf Butler, owner and president of San Francisco-based Butler Enterprises, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with a federal construction contract, and making false statements to federal investigators, announced United States Attorney Alex G.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
Release: NEW YORK - A father and his young son were traveling through the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at LaGuardia Airport this morning on their way to Denver, and as the young boy began to remove his coat to go through the checkpoint, TSA officers saw that he had no shirt on beneath his coat.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Fourteen West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia residents are facing multiple drug and firearms charges after being indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Wheeling on Oct. 3, 2018, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana announced that JEFFREY DUNLAP, age 44, a resident of Slidell, Louisiana and owner of Phoenix Civil Contractors (“Phoenix") pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to defraud First NBC Bank, the New Orleans-based bank that failed in April 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: Ocala, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton today sentenced Mark Charles Barnett (50, Ocala) to 40 years in federal prison for attempted arson, possession of an unregistered National Firearms Act (NFA) destructive device, and making an unregistered NFA destructive device. A federal jury found Barnett guilty on July 27, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: OXFORD - The final defendant in a multi-defendant drug-trafficking case has been
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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The 26-year-old man convicted of burning the Victoria Islamic Center in January 2017 has been ordered to federal prison for more than 24 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 14, 2019, for Andrew J. Stone, 33, of Rocky River, Ohio, who entered pleas of guilty today to charges of transportation of a minor for unlawful sexual activity and production of child pornography. Stone appeared before U.S District Judge Sara Darrow in Rock Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that yesterday, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced DEANDRE SWEET, 27, of Wilmington to 105 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release. Additionally, yesterday, KYERIC SWEET, 25, of Wilmington was sentenced to 90 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eric Multine, 33, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 60 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition, and discharging a firearm near a school. Multine will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: Dawn Bennett Misappropriated Investors’ Funds, Including Using Them to Pay a Website Operator to Arrange for Priests in India to Perform Religious Ceremonies to Ward Off Federal Investigators.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - After two days of jury trial, an Ashburn woman pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy to impersonate a federal agent to demand money, and obtaining confidential phone records.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Nicholas Edwards, 38, Brainerd, Minnesota, pled guilty and was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 27 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender. This prison term will be followed by 10 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge James Hunt and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced today that Osvaldo Rivera-Amaro, 45, of Tonawanda, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: COTTONWOOD, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management Cottonwood Field Office has released the draft Boulder Creek Vegetation Project Environmental Assessment (EA) for a 30-day public review. The project is located within the Little Salmon River corridor and the wildland-urban interface in the northern portion of Adams County.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 50-year-old Plano, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Deonte Terrell Proctor, 33, of Jackson, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour, Jr., to 195-months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Texas man was sentenced Tuesday to 120 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm.
