News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Javis Royale Wise, age 29, of Newberry, was sentenced in federal court in Greenville for Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). United States District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks, of Charleston, sentenced Wise to 327 months imprisonment and 5 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A man pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to using his home computer and printers to produce nearly $30,000 in counterfeit U.S. currency, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph M. Gullotti, 57, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of food stamp benefits fraud, was sentenced to six months home detention by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The defendant was also ordered to pay $173,515.00 in restitution to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeks Information About a Serial Armed Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: A Duncan, Oklahoma man pleaded guilty today to breaking out of federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JULIEN POLK, a/k/a “Simone," age 40, of San Francisco, California, pled guilty today to one count of conspiring to traffic 50 grams of methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Louisiana. POLK faces a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years in prison, a maximum life sentence, a fine of up to $10,000,000 and at least five years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah), issued the following statement regarding the Department of the Interior’s issued rule to end burdensome Obama-era regulations on venting and flaring.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Terry Lee Powell, 42, of Point Pleasant, was sentenced today to five months in prison, followed by six months of home confinement for possession of a stolen firearm. Stuart commended the efforts of the West Virginia State Police and the Mason County Sheriff’s Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation, the first 90 days of which are to be served under home detention, on her conviction of maintaining a drug-involved premises, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: According to court documents, Virginia Beach police officers executing a search warrant in March 2016 found a number of chemicals, packages of castor beans, and multiple firearms, one with an obliterated serial number, in a storage unit rented by Debbie Siers-Hill, 63, of Summerville, who was then living...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: SEPT. 18, 2018 - The U.S. Census Bureau’s International Data Base update provides demographic revisions for 23 countries. Ten of these countries are in sub-Saharan Africa, six are in Europe, and the rest are in the Middle East, North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore and U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser today announced that former St. Bernard Parish correctional officer Timothy Williams pled guilty to violating the civil rights of inmate Nimali Henry, who died in the St. Bernard Parish Prison on April 1, 2014.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Whatcom County, Washington, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that RUBENS ELEUTERIO DE ALMEIDA JUNIOR (“DE ALMEIDA"), age 30, a citizen of Brazil, pleaded guilty on Sept. 18, 2018, to aggravated identity theft before U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance. In the same case, Judge Vance sentenced ANDRE LION GONCALVES PEREIRA (“PEREIRA"), age 29, also a citizen of Brazil, to two years of imprisonment for aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Yana Potapova, age 29, and a Russian citizen residing in Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 2 years of probation for conspiring to commit marriage fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A political consultant from Essex County, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for her role in a fraud scheme related to contracts with the Newark Watershed Development Corp. (NWCDC) and kickbacks to officials there, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on National Security, sent letters asking Chairman Trey Gowdy to issue subpoenas to compel the White House...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Kristopher Douglas McKay, 36, of Boise, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 108 months in prison followed by five years supervised release, for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. McKay pleaded guilty on May 2, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: Two Defendants Linked to Fatal Overdose - Second Overdose Victim Revived by Medics.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of Texas has been sentenced in federal court to 96 months’ imprisonment, followed by five years’ supervised release on his conviction of conspiring to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
