News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A coal company executive who was in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency Actions in north Birmingham, received a federal prison sentence today of 30 months, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan committed RONALD BAKER, 55, to the custody of the Attorney General as a sexually dangerous person under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.
By State Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Armed Services Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) sent a letter to President Trump warning against an exit from the INF and New START treaties, and demanding a briefing from Secretaries Mattis and Pompeo about any plans to do so. The text of the letter can be found here.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney John H. Durham, Chief State’s Attorney Kevin T. Kane, Special Agent in Charge Brian C. Turner of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief David Rosado today announced that a federal jury in Bridgeport has found DOUGLAS LEE, also known...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: DAVIS, Calif. - Halter-trained burros will be available for public adoption Sunday, Oct. 28, in conjunction with the Donkey Welfare Symposium at the University of California, Davis. Registration is at 11 a.m. and adoptions start at noon at the Animal Science Barns, 448 La Rue Road, Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nine Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSA), one paralegal specialist and a former AUSA from the Eastern District of New York (EDNY) were among the 244 department employees recognized by Attorney General Jeff Sessions for their distinguished public service today at the 66th Annual Attorney...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: On Oct. 13, North Country National Scenic Trail celebrated the one-year anniversary of their first land acquisition with neighbors, local dignitaries, Michigan Department of Natural Resources staff, and staff and volunteers of the National Park Service and North Country Trail Association in Augusta, Michigan.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: MIAMI - A Cuban national living in Palm Beach was convicted in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Monday on felony labor trafficking and alien smuggling charges for forcing two Cuban nationals to work in South Florida strip clubs to repay their debts to him for bringing them into...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A four-count indictment was unsealed Tuesday charging Ivan Isho, 41, of Phoenix, Arizona, with wire fraud, impersonation of a federal officer, and cyberstalking, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Steven Paul Burch (43, Cape Coral), a criminal defense attorney, to 30 months’ imprisonment for conspiring to distribute heroin. The Court also ordered Burch to forfeit his license to practice law. Burch pleaded guilty in August 2018. On Oct. 18, 2018, the Florida Supreme Court permanently disbarred him.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is seeking information from the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP) and the Pharmaceutical Security Institute (PSI) to better understand how they collaborate with the pharmaceutical industry and law enforcement agencies to prevent the sale of counterfeit medicines online.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Christopher Martinelli, age 40, of Syracuse, pled guilty today to distributing, receiving and transporting child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith; James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Lepoleon Spikes (46, Jacksonville) with five counts of wire fraud involving fraudulent disaster assistance applications made to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Spikes faces...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Pamela Harris Defrauded Government Agencies out of Tens of Thousands of Dollars and Obstructed Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Birmingham lawyer who was in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency Actions in north Birmingham, received a federal prison sentence today of 5 years, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant Sexually Abused Three Female Inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and Received Thousands of Dollars in Bribes to Smuggle Narcotics into the Jail.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Tucson, AZ--- Clear fall skies and a range of amateur telescopes will await junior rangers, aged 8 to 12, attending “Astronomy Camp" in the Rincon Mountain District of Saguaro National Park on Saturday, November 17. This fall’s event, running from 1 to 8:30 PM will travel from earth orbit to the farthest reaches of space through indoor and outdoor activities and a hands-on telescope session when darkness falls.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday recognized a team of Montana law enforcement officers from multiple agencies for their work in the arrest and prosecution of a man convicted in the 2016 kidnapping and assault of a young girl on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Mark A. Klaassen announced that David Peter Vier, 63, of Granite Falls, Washington, was sentenced on Oct. 22, 2018, to serve 15 years in prison for transporting two minors, with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, from Washington to Wyoming. After serving his prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment today charging JULIAN DeJESUS CASTILLO, 34, with possession of contraband in a federal prison.
