News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Larry Allen Todt, 66, formerly of Malibu, was sentenced to over seven years in prison and ordered to pay over $3,000,000 in restitution for his role in a fraudulent mortgage elimination scheme, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Freiry Martinez, a member of the Herndon City Locos Salvatruchas clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in connection with his participation in the April 11, 2017 murders of Justin Llivicura, Michael Lopez, Jorge Tigre and Jefferson Villalobos. The guilty plea was entered before United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Defendant Met Australian Teen Online and Encouraged Her to Join Him in New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Richard Thomas, age 53, of Green Island, New York, was arraigned yesterday on a charge that he possessed and intended to distribute crack cocaine and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced David Hardman (55, Melbourne) to 30 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting minors and for forcibly assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon. The court also ordered Hardman to forfeit the proceeds obtained from the...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - Over the next several months, Bureau of Reclamation geologists are extracting core samples from on, around and deep within Shasta Dam. Gathered data will be used to characterize concrete and geology conditions related to a proposed 18 ½ feet Shasta Dam raise.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Douglas Fountain, age 29, of Colonie, New York, was ordered detained yesterday after being charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and transporting child pornography over the internet.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: The Bridger-Teton National Forest, Grand Teton National Park and the High Desert District of the Bureau of Land Management, as well as Teton, Sublette and Lincoln Counties in Wyoming, are implementing fire restrictions. The restrictions do not apply to the Gros Ventre, Bridger and Teton Wilderness.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JEFFERY B. MONTALBANO, age 58, a resident of Mandeville, Louisiana, was charged yesterday in a one-count bill of information with making false statements to federal authorities, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 1001(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Brandon Jock, age 35, of Massena, New York, was sentenced yesterday to serve 30 years in federal prison following his plea of guilty to five federal felonies relating to child pornography offenses, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, James Hendricks, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Jose Luis Alonso DeLeon was sentenced today by United States District Judge William Steele. DeLeon pled guilty without benefit of a plea agreement to an indictment charging him with possession of a firearm by an...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jeremy A. Churchill, 38, of Cabot, Vermont, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Court Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford to six years in federal prison for possessing stolen handguns. Churchill pleaded guilty to the stolen firearms charge in May 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: PLEA - Joe Frank Rodriguez, Jr., 46.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 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 Lynch, the Ranking Member of the National Security Subcommittee, sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly requesting...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara has sentenced Stevie Cavazos (24, Hillsborough County) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The sentence was the highest permissible under the relevant statute. The court also ordered Cavazos to forfeit the firearms and ammunition that he had possessed, which are traceable to proceeds of the offense. Cavazos pleaded guilty on June 8, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Raleigh, N.C. - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) is responding to national parks impacted by Hurricane Florence. At this time, 57 National Park Service employees from 25 parks and 16 states and the District of Columbia are assigned to the incident. The public should not enter parks or areas of parks that are closed until stabilization and restoration efforts are complete.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Metro Terminates Employee Charged with Soliciting Minor in Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Rashica Shaguana Ford (39, Sarasota) to nine years and two months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit arson. A federal jury found Ford guilty on June 8, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Russell Young, 39, of Albuquerque, N.M., a sex offender serving a term of supervised release from a prior child pornography conviction, pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to new child pornography charges.
