News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Computer Attack Stemmed from Ransomware Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Surreptitiously Producing and Distributing Pornographic Audio and Video Recordings of Himself Engaged in Sexual Activity With at Least 80 Others.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeriel Slay, 28, of Brooklyn, NY, and his sister, Angela Slay, 28, of Jamaica, NY, were charged by criminal complaint with engaging in a conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Devils Tower, WY. Devils Tower National Monument kicks off a fall ethnobotany guest series with representatives from the Oglala Sioux Tribe, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and the Sicangu Lakota Tribe. Ethnobotany, the study of the relationships between people, the lifeforms surrounding them, and the environment...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal jury has found Rodney Flucas, 49, of Stockton, guilty of transportation of minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and one count of transporting an adult daughter across state lines with intent to engage in incest, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that MICHAEL DEXTER BRODIE was arrested today, Sept. 20, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: GLEN JEAN, WV- The Long Point Trail parking area on Newton Road near Fayetteville will be temporarily closed from Monday, September 24 through Friday, October 5, 2018. The parking lot is being closed to allow National Park Service maintenance staff to make improvements to the parking area of this popular...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, Sept. 20, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today granted flexibility to allow South Carolina residents to replace food purchased with SNAP benefits that was lost due to power outages and flooding caused by Hurricane Florence. Over 185,000 impacted households in 26 counties now have until Oct. 15, 2018 to report food loss to the state and request replacement benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Dubai man was indicted today for his alleged participation in a long-running credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Nikko Adolfo Perez, 26, of Atwater, charging him with one count of sexual exploitation of children, one count of coercion or enticement of a minor, and one count of receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: MACON: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Arthur Lee Bennett, age 45, of Milledgeville, Georgia was sentenced to serve 72 months in federal prison for Possession of a Stolen Firearm before U.S. District Judge Marc T. Treadwell in Macon, Georgia on Sept. 19, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who was sentenced to three years of probation on Nov. 10, 2016, for possession of a sawed off shotgun and being an unlawful user of drugs in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison today for violating his probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - After a two-day trial, a federal jury returned a guilty verdict for the United States finding Philandias Samuel Calvin guilty of assaulting federal law enforcement officers as they attempted to arrest him pursuant to two valid arrest warrants.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: POCATELLO - Norman Hyrum Turnbeaugh, 62, of Rockland, Idaho, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis. Turnbeaugh was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on March 27, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered two loaded firearms, carried by different passengers, yesterday morning at security screening checkpoints at Will Rogers World Airport (OKC).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, after a 11-day jury trial, a jury found Oscar Martínez-Hernández, a.k.a. “Cali;" guilty of the murder of Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati-Casañas, a Federal Bureau of Prisons Correctional Officer, announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Vélez. Lieutenant Albarati was murdered on Feb. 26, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Robert Wells, 49, of Pataskala, Ohio, with crimes related to using excessive force as a law enforcement officer in an indictment returned here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: A former elected county executive for Jackson County, Missouri and his chief of staff were sentenced to 27 months and six months in prison, respectively, for engaging in a scheme to steal campaign contributions, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of Donora, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to a narcotics charge, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - The owner of two recycling businesses illegally landfilled potentially hazardous electronic waste as part of a scheme to re-sell the materials and avoid paying income taxes, according to his guilty plea in federal court in Chicago.
