News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Japanese Investment Company Executives Extradited on Charges Relating to $1.5 Billion Ponzi Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Salisbury resident was sentenced on April 17, 2019, in federal court in Winston-Salem, announced United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Roberto Joe Miguel Serpa, 39, of Caldwell, was sentenced this week for his role in two federal drug crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis. Serpa was sentenced on April 16, 2019 to 126 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release. Serpa was sentenced by U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - April 18, 2019 - Brandon Hunt-Clark, 22, of Nashville, Tennessee, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury and charged with conspiring to commit and committing Hobbs Act Robbery, using, carrying, brandishing and discharging a firearm resulting in death, and conspiring to tamper with a witness, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Larry Navarrete, age 38, a citizen of Nicaragua, was sentenced yesterday to 284 months in federal prison followed by six years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the International Trade Commission’s economic analysis of the updated NAFTA trade deal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of being a Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm, and Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, was sentenced on April 15, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
Release: LATROBE, Pa. - A Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, man was stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport (LBE) Saturday, April 13, when they detected a loaded handgun in his carry-on bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces today that Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced ANDREA BLOODWORTH, 57, of New Hanover County to 108 months’ imprisonment, followed by 4 years of supervised release.
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 DIEGO AROSTEGUI, JR, 23, of Cuba and WALTER CORREA-CISNEROS, 32, of Venezuelan to 33 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release and ordered them to pay $19,966.00 in restitution.
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 DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: For Hobbs Act Robbery. 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. Thomas was sentenced to 71 months in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A St. Joseph, Mo., in-home health care nursing assistant was sentenced in federal court today for stealing bank account information from one of her clients in order to illegally transfer more than $207,000 out of her account.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement on the Mueller report...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - On April 17, 2019, the Department of Justice released two complementary reports focusing on the mental health and safety of the nation’s federal, state, local and tribal police officers. The Bend Police Department in Bend, Oregon was featured in the report as one of eleven law enforcement agencies demonstrating a range of innovative approaches to safeguarding the mental health of both sworn and nonsworn employees.
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 Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Bayfield, WI - You are invited to attend a reception to welcome Lynne Dominy, new Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Superintendent.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Defendant possessed manual “How to Practice Child Love," and more than 5,000 images and 440 videos depicting sexual abuse of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Two cousins were sentenced today to a combined 24 years in prison for their roles in an armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 22 indictments charging 26 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
