News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that United States District Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson granted summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Forest regarding an ecosystem restoration project challenged by the Alliance of the Wild Rockies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, Acting Assistant Attorney General...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against Ruben Gonzalo Duran-Sanchez, 42, and Daniel Delgado, 27, both Mexican nationals, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Delgado is also charged with assault on a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Scott W. Atway, 44, of Powell, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 12 months and one day in prison, four months of community confinement and eight months of house arrest for filing a false tax return. Atway was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $600,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTOPHER STEVENS, 27, of East Lyme, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin to an overdose victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va.-United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a Princeton man pled guilty in federal court to distribution of cocaine. Stuart commended the work of the Southern Regional Drug and Violent Crime Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Four Louisiana businessmen have been indicted and arrested for conspiracy, paying bribes, and attempting to pay bribes to former Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Christopher B. Epps and current Kemper County Sheriff James Moore in exchange for receiving contracts involving...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Edward Hartley, 37, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to violating the federal firearms laws by being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Shenika D. Boyd, aka “Misses," age 38, of Albany, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison, to be followed by 6 years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register was sentenced on Oct. 2, 2018, by U.S. District Court Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robert C. Ponce, 43, of Carlsbad, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to drug trafficking and firearms offenses. Ponce is the eighth of the ten defendants charged as the result of a multi-agency investigation into a criminal organization that was trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine and firearms in southeastern New Mexico to plead guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Two Joplin, Mo., men, one of whom is a former police officer, were charged in federal court this week for the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief David Rosado today announced that, on Oct. 2, 2018, a grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment charging five alleged members of the Almighty Latin Kings Nation (“Latin Kings") with kidnapping a firearm offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. -The Bureau of Land Management will host a public tour of the Indian Lakes Off-Range Wild Horse and Burro Corral in Fallon, Nevada, on Friday, October 26. Attendees will have the opportunity to view horses recently gathered from overpopulated herds in Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Houston, Texas-area patient recruiter was sentenced to 108 months in prison today for her role in a $3.6 million Medicare fraud scheme involving fraudulent claims for home health services.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief David Rosado today announced that, on Oct. 2, 2018, a grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment charging five alleged members of the Almighty Latin Kings Nation (“Latin Kings") with kidnapping a firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Van Nuys man has been arrested on federal charges that he sold the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl to a 23-year-old victim, who then suffered a fatal overdose. James Dorion Rodriguez, 27, was arrested Wednesday afternoon at a motel in Mission Hills.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: * WHO: U.S. Attorneys from the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama, along with representatives from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), the U.S. Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Alabama...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Cindy Cipriani 619-546-9608.
