News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today that three Western Pennsylvania counties will receive new federal funding to combat drug trafficking and reduce the supply of illegal drugs. The counties of Allegheny, Beaver and Washington have been officially designated as a High Intensity...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Brookhaven, Pennsylvania, man was sentenced today to an additional 160 months in prison for possessing hundreds of images and videos of child sexual abuse while imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix for previous offenses involving the distribution and possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Valerie A. Nickerson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito announced three men were charged today in connection with their respective roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant fraudulently spent over 34,000 dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Howes, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) announced that the Oversight Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “IRS Taxpayer Authentication: Strengthening Security While Ensuring Access," on Wednesday, September 26th, at 10:45 A.M. in 2020 Rayburn...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Aaron O. Leyva was arrested Saturday on a federal warrant. Today, the indictment against Leyva has been unsealed. Leyva is charged with twice distributing five grams or more of actual methamphetamine in March of 2018. Last week, on Sept. 20, 2018, several...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: NEW BERLIN, Wis. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), in conjunction with the New Berlin Police Department, continue to urge the public to report information related to the New Berlin, Wisconsin, explosions that occurred earlier last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Colin Stewart, age 41, of Elgin, Quebec, Canada, was sentenced today to 135 months in prison for conspiring to smuggle thousands of pounds of marijuana into the United States from Canada through the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 59-year-old Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Organization National Vice President John Xavier Portillo to two consecutive life sentences, plus twenty years, in federal prison for racketeering and drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A federal jury has convicted a local man for illegally possessing a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSEPH DATELLO pled guilty today before United States District Judge Cathy Seibel to numerous acts of racketeering, including attempting to kill a witness against him. In May 2017, DATELLO and 18 other...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Sent Child Pornography He Produced to Others.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Embezzled Payments Made by Callaway County Taxpayers.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the Committee passed Tax Reform 2.0...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Zane Vicente, 26, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Magdalena, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an assault charge. Vicente’s plea agreement recommends that he be sentenced within the range of 24 to 30 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Mexican national was arrested and charged today in federal court in Boston in connection with the murder of an individual aboard a fishing vessel off the coast of Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Statement Regarding FBI Director Christopher A. Wray’s Visit to Finland.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Tommie L. Walker, a/k/a Columbia BT, and Juan Carlos Garcia-Martinez, a/k/a Carlos Garcia were arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda T. Walker on Sept. 21, 2018 on federal charges of drug trafficking and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Walker, Garcia-Martinez, and Samuel Anchondo-Galaviz were indicted by a federal grand jury on Sept. 12, 2018.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL) sent a letter today to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to confirm a commitment he made during his testimony before the Committee on September 5th that Twitter would soon have an independent, third party conduct a civil rights audit of the platform.
