News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Beverly, Mass., man agreed to plead guilty today in connection with mailing six threatening letters containing suspicious white powder to high-profile individuals and to sending another seven threatening letters to law enforcement officials and others.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today advanced six bipartisan bills to improve health care.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service issues a prospectus soliciting proposals for the award of a concession contract to provide for the sale of visitor convenience items within several National Park units in the Midwest Region.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: Defendant Held Gun to Victim’s Head During Attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Waddah Siedahmed, 23, of South Portland, Maine, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to commit bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: The FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Marshals Service, Connecticut State Police, Hartford Police Department anjd New Haven Police Department, in coordination with other federal, state and local law enforcement and emergency services agencies, continue to investigate several incidents of letters...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Braintree man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston on drug trafficking charges.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today advanced six bipartisan bills to improve health care.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jesus Manuel Almanza, 23, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty yesterday in federal court to a bank robbery charge. Almanza entered the guilty plea without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Richard Winn, 35, of Philadelphia, PA, was found guilty after a jury trial for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, heroin, and marijuana; and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Mauricio Andulo Hidalgo, age 43, of Costa Rica, was sentenced to a term of 30 months in prison by the United States District Court in Charleston for stealing from the United States Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: Defendant Brought Guns from Florida and Distributed Them to MS-13 Members in Maryland; Participated in a Shooting; and Sold Cocaine for the Benefit of the Gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that one Shreveport felon was sentenced and two other felons pleaded guilty this week to possessing firearms prosecuted under the Project Safe Neighborhoods program.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Law enforcement officials from the United States and the United Kingdom wrapped up Friday a “week of action" during which they conducted outreach at major international airports with the goal of education about and prevention of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). This outreach, called...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Sierra Madre man who until earlier this year served as a lieutenant in the Pasadena Police Department has agreed to plead guilty to two federal felony offenses related to the illegal sale of more than 100 firearms over the course of three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Robert Patrick King, 39, of Suffolk, Virginia, pleaded guilty Friday to sexual exploitation of a child, announced United States Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that AVTANDIL KHURTSIDZE, a former world boxing champion and the chief enforcer for Razhden Shulaya, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by United States District Judge Katherine B. Forrest, following KHURTSIDZE’s conviction in June on charges of racketeering and fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Cedric Walker, 30, of Laurel, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, to serve 120 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith with the Drug Enforcement Administration. Walker was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Beverly, Mass., man agreed to plead guilty today in connection with mailing six threatening letters containing suspicious white powder to high-profile individuals and to sending another seven threatening letters to law enforcement officials and others.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted two Chicago Police Department officers for allegedly providing information from non-public traffic crash reports to the owner of an attorney-referral service in exchange for money.
