News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Frank Saddler, 52, of Ridgeland, was charged by Criminal Information with one count of Extortion Under Color of Official Right, relating to his former job with the Mississippi Department of Human Services investigating fraud related to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - April Sizemore Bowling, 31, of Corbin, Kentucky, was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years in federal prison, by United States District Judge Robert E. Wier, for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Millan-Miranda, age 31, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday to 151 months’ imprisonment and five years’ supervised release by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III for various drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Pennsylvania Man Pleads Guilty to Biodiesel Tax Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - Twelve individuals are facing federal charges as part of an investigation into heroin trafficking on the West Side of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, NJ - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man has been convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, money laundering, structuring monetary instruments, and conspiracy to commit money laundering and structuring. Khamraj Lall, 51, of Ringwood, New Jersey, was convicted Oct. 4, 2018, on all eight counts of a superseding indictment following an eight-day trial before U.S. District Judge Anne E. Thompson in Trenton federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W. VA - Donald Wayne McCune of St. Albans was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for the distribution of methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of firearms, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stuart commended the investigative work of the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced ERIC LASHAWN WILLIAMS, a.k.a. “E" and “EZ," age 35, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 70 months in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Mexican national pleaded guilty today to participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving the distribution of kilogram-level amounts of controlled substances on behalf of co-conspirators located overseas and throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, a federal judge sentenced 36-year-old Gerardo Javier Carreon of Laredo, TX, to 70 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for transporting illegal aliens, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Honolulu - Tours of Pearl Harbor’s infamous Battleship Row will be reinstated tomorrow, October 5th following a five day temporary suspension to affect repairs to the Visitor Center loading dock. These repairs were completed thanks to the outstanding support of the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Divers...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 33-year-old pilot, formerly of Kemah, Texas, has been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate passed a key measure backed by U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, that would boost cybersecurity coordination efforts at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She worked with Republican Committee Chairman Ron Johnson on the proposal, and the measure is strongly endorsed by DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Colorado today announced that it is reopening the public call for nominations for five open positions on the 15-member Northwest Resource Advisory Council (NW RAC), which advices the BLM Colorado Northwest District, including the Colorado River Valley, Kremmling, Little Snake and White River field offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Damion Christopher Alexander Brown, 43, a Jamaican national residing in Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana, and bribery of a public official, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Oct. 2, 2018, Amir Hossain Rasekh, 40, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge, to serve 33 months in federal prison for stealing Social Security benefits from unsuspecting seniors through a conspiracy involving theft of their personal information. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $547,719.20.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Anthony Monjure, age 23, of Bentonville, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison followed by twenty-five years of supervised release on one count of Accessing the Internet with the Intent to View Child Pornography. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in three separate bank robberies of the same Wells Fargo branch on Debarr Road, occurring on July 7, 2017; April 3, 2018; and April 16, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The U.S. Attorney’s Office, EDLA announced that U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier sentenced CHRIS WELLS, age 35, of Chalmette, Louisiana, to 240 months imprisonment and 8 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to several drug charges, including conspiracy to distribute and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that two Alaska residents have been sentenced to federal prison for attempting to smuggle drugs into the State of Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) Mat-Su Pretrial Correctional Facility (Mat-Su Pretrial) in Palmer.
