News from October 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Reps. Bennie G. Thompson, Elijah E. Cummings, Jerrold Nadler, Adam Smith, and Robert A. Brady, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Homeland Security, Oversight & Government Reform, the Judiciary, Armed Services, and House Administration, issued a statement after the Department...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore will host Astronomy Night on Saturday, October 27 at the Harkers Island Visitor Center, from 8:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Timothy Gregg Enjady, 54, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 18 months in prison for his conviction on an assault charge. Enjady will be on supervised release for two years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: Evaded Paying Taxes on Over $14 Million in Income.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of New York, NY, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge James Hunt and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman announced that Michael White, a leader of two violent street gangs, “MBG," and the “Young Gunnaz," was convicted of racketeering conspiracy, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon in aid of racketeering, and a firearms offense. White was convicted following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Robert W. Sweet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: NEWNAN, Ga. - Robert Bentley Davis was sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing a sawed-off shotgun. The Troup County Sheriff’s deputies discovered the weapon in Davis’s residence after responding to a domestic violence call.
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: SANTA ANA, California - A former executive at two Irvine-based engineering firms was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $2 million by making over 800 unauthorized withdrawals from company accounts over a five-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: A former supervisor of Deutsche Bank’s Pool Trading Desk and a former derivatives trader were convicted today in New York for their participation in a scheme to manipulate the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a critical global benchmark tied to trillions of dollars in derivatives, loans, mortgages, and other financial products.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: OXFORD - The final defendant in a multi-defendant drug-trafficking case has been sentenced to 72 months in federal prison resulting from her role in a methamphetamine (ice) distribution conspiracy in the Northern District of Mississippi. Tammy Joanne Brooks of Ashland previously pled guilty to drug trafficking in U.S. District Court in April 2018. Chief Judge Sharion Aycock sentenced her in U.S. District Court in Oxford Wednesday morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: New Jersey, New Mexico, and Indiana Defendants Convicted As Part of Operation Grand Champion.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
Release: ALBANY, N.Y. --Transportation Security Administration officers at Albany International Airport have always played a critical role in serving as the last line of defense in protecting the flying public from harm. Now they are also playing an important role in supporting area veterans who were once the first line of defense in protecting the nation.
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: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced DAVID ANDREW KIRTON, JR. 25, of Wilmington, North Carolina to 100 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised...
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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Tazewell county man, Eric Ingram, 30, of Washington, Ill., is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court on Oct. 31, 2018, on charges that he received child pornography on two occasions in July 2018. The grand jury returned the indictment charging Ingram on Oct. 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Justin Riley Brafford, 29, of Denton, Texas, made his initial appearance this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., on a criminal complaint charging him with interfering with and intimidating members of a flight crew and flight attendants while on an aircraft, a felony charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: FBI, Elizabethton Police Investigating Carter County Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 42-count indictment charging 14 defendants with methamphetamine conspiracy. Named in the indictment are.
