News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: FLINT - Amor M. Ftouhi, 51, of Quebec, Canada, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Leitman to life in prison for committing an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries and two other offenses in conjunction with his attack on a Bishop Airport police officer on June 21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Glendive man who admitted drug and firearm crimes after law enforcement found more than a pound of methamphetamine in his hotel room was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 years in prison and to five years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALCIDES ALBA-GOMEZ, 29, of Providence, Rhode Island, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Demetrius Thomas, age 39, of Michigan City, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio upon his plea of guilty to 5 counts of Hobbs Act Robbery, announced U. S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Four additional defendants have been arrested and charged with using false or stolen Social Security numbers. Five other defendants were charged in March with illegally using Social Security numbers to lease cars and apartments and get approximately $200,000 of credit.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced LASHUN TRACY TINNEN, 37, of Mebane, North Carolina to 262 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 26-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been arrested for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 79-year-old Hooks, Texas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A former member of the Ghost Face Gangsters has become the first defendant to be sentenced as part of Operation Vanilla Gorilla.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield for dealing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announced the arrest of Joshua Fassett, a 25-year-old Tempe man taken into custody by DEA agents. Fassett was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 10, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Altoona, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to 80 months in prison and ten years’ supervised release on his conviction of distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, California April 18, 2019 - Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks is kicking off National Park Week this Saturday, April 20th with a fee free day. Visitors can enjoy the parks for free, and are invited to participate in the annual Junior Ranger Day festival...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that a two-count bill of information was filed against a neurologist charging him with conspiracy to unlawfully dispense controlled substances and conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Park rangers located a body just before noon today, Thursday, April 18, 2019, while searching for an overdue male hiker from Tuesday, April 16. The body, also a male, was located below the Angels Landing hiking route. The identity of the man has not yet been confirmed.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Larry Casper (619) 546-6734.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Oliver Kimmons, 51, of Lockport, NY, pleaded guilty to five counts of sex trafficking before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - James Rapier, 42, of Rossburg, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 35 years in prison for coercing teenage girls to send him sexually explicit pictures of themselves.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A Monroe County, New York, man was stopped after Transportation Security Administration officers at Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC) stopped him from bringing a loaded handgun onto an airplane on Tuesday, April 16. It marked the first gun caught at the airport’s checkpoint so far this year.
