News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Admitted Driving the Robbers to Each Robbery, Brandishing a Gun, and Demanding Money from Store Employees at Gunpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A high-ranking North Carolina leader of the Nine Trey Gangsters set of the United Blood Nation (UBN or Bloods) street gang, was sentenced today to 19 years in prison for racketeering conspiracy. Also sentenced today were two other members of the Bloods gang. Sixty-seven defendants have now either pleaded guilty or have been convicted at trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Five individuals have been indicted for carjacking and armed robbery. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictments today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Penobscot Nation to Participate in the TAP Program in District of Maine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) worked together with local law enforcement from several counties to arrest two individuals yesterday in Fullerton, California, suspected of conducting more than a dozen robberies. One suspect, would pass a note to the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Noel Carter, 46, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring with Bakersfield police officers Damacio Diaz and Patrick Mara to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana that Diaz and Mara seized in the course of their duties as police officers, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Linden, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for conspiring with officials at the Paterson Municipal Utilities Authority (MUA) and the Jersey City Childhood Development Centers Inc. (JCCDC) to fraudulently obtain payments for services he never provided, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Roy Breedlove, age 54, of Ozark, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by five years of supervised release on Possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant EDWARD A. BAZA (“BAZA"), age 65, originally from Guam but residing in Hesperia, California, was sentenced on Oct. 22, 2018, in District Court to a 45-month term of imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Nigerian owner of a day care center in Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to submitting false information to the government as part of a fraud scheme to receive federal child care subsidies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NIKKITA CHESNEY, 45, of Bridgeport, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of health care fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Olayinka Olaniyi, a citizen of Nigeria, was sentenced on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft. Olaniyi was convicted by a federal jury on August 9, 2018, after a three-day trial. Co-defendant, Damilola Solomon Ibiwoye, pleaded guilty to similar charges and was sentenced on Jan. 31, 2018.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: PARKLAND, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited C.W. Hendrix Farms Inc. for failing to protect workers from recognized hazards after lightning struck and killed an employee at the Parkland, Florida, farm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Nixa, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: St. Louis - Dale Johansen, 63, of Rocky Mount, Missouri, pleaded guilty today to making a false statement during the course of an investigation of the Rogue Creek water and sewer system.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has discovered that a collapsed culvert along the access road in Bird Canyon in Sublette County is badly damaged, and compromises the integrity of the road. For the safety of all motorists and to prevent damage to vehicles traveling over that area, it is necessary to temporarily close the road for repairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Vascular Access Centers to Pay at Least $3.825 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former fire inspector for Middlesex Borough and other New Jersey municipalities was sentenced today to 34 months in prison for conspiring with another person to commit a strongarm extortion, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY WHITLEY, 35, of Hartford and New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking narcotics.
