News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Dinwiddie County man was sentenced today to 27 years in prison and ordered to pay $97,500 in restitution for producing images of child sexual abuse involving two local minor victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The founder and operator of a Swiss asset management firm was arrested today on charges of engaging in a massive global securities fraud scheme that netted trading proceeds of approximately $164 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - U.S. Attorney Bill Powell joined the Department of Justice today in announcing more than $70 million in grant funding to bolster school security, educate and train students and faculty, and support law enforcement officers and first responders who arrive on the scene of a school violence incident, including $500,000 for the West Virginia Department of Education.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - U.S. District Judge David J. Hale sentenced Jeffrey Adam Stone to 10 years in federal prison followed by 20 years of Supervised Release today for two child exploitation offenses, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman. Stone will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two Beaumont brothers have been indicted on federal violations in connection with a shooting in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Southern District U.S. Attorney Bobby L. Christine joined the Department of Justice in announcing more than $70 million in grant funding to bolster school security, educate and train students and faculty, and support law enforcement officers and first responders who arrive on the scene of a school violence incident, including $306,911 for Chatham County and $187,500 for the Savannah-Chatham Board of Education Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: Recently, the Chattanooga Police Department announced crime statistics showing reductions in violent crime from 2017 to 2018. According to the statistics, criminal homicides were down 61%; gang member involved homicides were down 53%; and non-fatal shootings involving gang members were down 35%. Overall, persons shot in Chattanooga, both fatal and non-fatal, were reduced by 27%.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: Washington - On Sept. 19, 2018, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Ronald L. Lemons (Lemons), Lewisburg, West Virginia, settled a complaint filed against Lemons for suspected violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Terms of the settlement are set forth in a consent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - One year ago, the Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which Attorney General Sessions has made the centerpiece of the Department’s violent crime reduction strategy. PSN is a nationwide initiative that brings together...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Providence man arrested in April 2017 during a year-long Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation to identify individuals possessing or trafficking firearms in and around the Chad Brown neighborhood of Providence was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for possessing and selling an unregistered machine gun equipped with a silencer and for selling 240 grams of fentanyl laced heroin to an undercover federal law enforcement agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: One year ago, the Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which Attorney General Sessions has made the centerpiece of the Department’s violent crime reduction strategy. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Manuel Torres-Zapien, age 23, was sentenced in federal court Monday in Omaha, Nebraska, for one count of bank theft. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Mitchell to three years’ probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Garrison Sloan, 44, of Fort Defiance, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 6 years’ imprisonment, to be followed by lifetime probation with sex offender conditions and registration. Sloan had previously pleaded guilty to ten counts of Voyeurism, an Arizona state law assimilated for federal prosecution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jordan T. Ratliff, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 92 months incarceration for methamphetamine distribution and firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - John Vaughn Rohan, 38, of Taos County, N.M., pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to theft and destruction of U.S. Government property charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: NOTE: The Revised FY 2018 PSN Funding Allocation Amounts can be found.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Santoria L. French, 41, of Hattiesburg, and Lemont Antoine Jackson, 33, of Jackson, were sentenced yesterday to multiple years in federal prison by District Judge Keith Starrett for federal drug and firearms charges, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Utah today announced that it is reopening the public call for nominations for four open positions on its citizen-based Utah Resource Advisory Council (RAC).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
