News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, announces that Johnny Wilson Weaver, a 37 year old resident of Semmes, Alabama was sentenced to 41 months of incarceration for illegal possession of a Hi-Point 9mm rifle after being convicted of felony Possession of a Controlled Substance.
By State Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON- Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a full committee hearing on the Rohingya crisis...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - Three Rockford-area men were indicted Tuesday in separate cases by a federal grand jury in Rockford on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Miranda Stewart and Michael Shawn Hartline, both of Sistersville, West Virginia, were sentenced today for their roles in a methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin distribution operation that spanned multiple states, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: St. Croix, USVI -One man was detained and two are scheduled to appear in District Court on Sept. 27, 2018 for detention hearings after they were arrested and charged in connection with a home invasion and carjacking on St. Croix, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Luis Davis, 30, Chriss Cepeda, 22, and Joel Rivera, 33, all of St. Croix, were arraigned in the District Court on St. Croix on Sept. 24, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ernest Bewanika, 62, an enrolled member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., pled guilty yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to abusive sexual contact of a minor charges. Bewanika’s plea agreement recommends a prison sentence within the range of 180 to 240 months followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Bewanika also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Rayshaun Roach, 36, Beloit, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 12 years in federal prison, for possessing heroin with intent to distribute, possessing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Jeremy Scott Clark (45, Ponte Vedra) to seven years and six months in federal prison for transporting images depicting child sexual abuse over the internet. Clark was also ordered to serve a 15-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender. Clark pleaded guilty in June 2018 and has been held in federal custody since his arrest on March 8, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury sitting in Houston has convicted a 35-year-old Houston man for carjacking and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The jury deliberated for approximately three hours before convicting Sean Rodriguez following a less than three-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Amy Reardon, 33, of North Haverhill, pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a fentanyl drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Court Judge Callie V.S. Granade sentenced Randy Eugene Rester on Sept. 24, 2018 to serve a term of imprisonment of 37 months followed by 4 years of supervised release for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine in violation of Title 21 USC § 841(a)(1). The defendant previously plead guilty to the offense on June 20, 2018.
By State Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) applauded the inclusion of the BUILD Act (H.R. 5105) in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, which passed the House today. The legislation now heads to the Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a White River, South Dakota, man convicted of Passing Counterfeit Obligations of the United States was sentenced on Sept. 24, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A man with a conviction for attempted murder and a woman who has seven convictions for driving under the influence are among the 150 criminal aliens and immigration violators arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers this week. Approximately 40 percent of those...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Dr. John R. Sink, Jr., who is a Ph.D. psychologist, and his wife Diane M. Sink pled guilty on Sept. 25, 2018 before Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson in federal court in Cheyenne to making false statements to Wyoming Medicaid as part of a scheme to fraudulently bill Medicaid for alleged mental health services. U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming Mark A. Klaassen, whose office prosecuted the case, announced the guilty pleas.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman announced that Reclamation is providing $45,000 to the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to continue a study of how Reclamation's projects are affecting the endangered pallid sturgeon in the upper Missouri River above Fort Peck.
By State Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Genocide Against the Burmese Rohingya." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced Gregory Michael Terronez, 31, of Rock Island, Ill., to 110 months (9 years, 2 months) in federal prison for illegal possession of a firearm by a felon. Terronez was ordered to remain on supervised release for two years following his release from prison. Terronez has remained in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since he was arrested on Jan. 29, 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway (TX-11) and Ranking Member Collin Peterson (MN-7) made the following statement today after holding a roundtable with USTR Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Gregg Doud, and USDA Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, Ted McKinney, to discuss the administration’s agricultural trade agenda...
