News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - An e-commerce company president entered a guilty plea today for conspiring to fix prices for customized promotional products sold online to customers in the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: ORLANDO - A man was sentenced yesterday to seven years and three months in federal prison for forcible assaulting a federal officer causing bodily injury. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two federal inmates have pleaded guilty to escape from a Bureau of Prisons facility in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - DEA New Orleans Division Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley will announce that New Orleans and the surrounding parishes of Jefferson and St. Bernard will be the next region where the DEA will implement its 360 Strategy, a comprehensive approach to address prescription opioid abuse, heroin use and violent crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A mother and her daughter pled guilty to federal drug charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Sherry Gray, 62, pled guilty to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in Kanawha County in August and September 2018. Gray’s daughter, Miranda Brandon, 38, pled guilty to distributing methamphetamine on Aug. 1, 2018, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime on Sept. 28, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Corbin Kauffman, age 30, of Lehighton, Pennsylvania, was charged by a criminal complaint on April 1, 2019, with interstate transmission of threats to injure the person of another.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on April 10, 2019, a federal grand jury sitting in Rutland, Vermont, returned an indictment charging Bradley Smith, 66, of Jericho, Vermont, with one count of possession of child pornography. Smith will be arraigned on the indictment by U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy on April 16, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Alfred Henderson, 28, of Brookhaven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III to 60 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Henderson was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Prineville, Ore. - Varying degrees of flooding have occurred in numerous portions of the Lower Deschutes and John Day Rivers over the past several days. Prineville BLM recreation staff have surveyed as many sites as possible that are accessible by land and have made initial assessments of their status.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Excelsior Springs, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing and attempting to distribute child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Pawtucket man who fled members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force on Tuesday during an investigation into his alleged drug trafficking activities was arrested by FBI agents on Wednesday in Fall River, Mass., and ordered detained today following his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Providence on drug trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Mike Hurst announced the Southern District of Mississippi’s 2019 Crime Victims Service Awards recipients during a ceremony yesterday in Jackson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Multiple felons charged with federal gun crimes appeared in court this week, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Karen Kinsley, of Grafton, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 36 months incarceration for taking out loans and opening accounts in bank customers’ names without their knowledge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - In observance of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 7-13, 2019, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona hosted its annual Service Award Ceremony today to recognize individuals who have performed exceptional service on behalf of crime victims. This year’s theme for National Crime Victims’ Rights Week is “Honoring Our Past. Creating Hope for the Future.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that IVAN NIEVES was convicted of vandalism for defacing a sign on the grounds of the African Burial Ground National Monument by writing a threatening racial slur on it. The conviction follows a bench trial before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after voting to confirm David Bernhardt to be Secretary of the Interior. The Senate confirmed Bernhardt through a bipartisan vote of 56-41.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Heightened public awareness of the serious safety risk posed by lasers reduced the total number of laser strikes for the second consecutive year, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two Corpus Christi men have received significant sentences for sexual exploitation crimes that involved the use of social media, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Jesus Ramirez Jr., 27, and Julio Cesar Diaz, 31, pleaded guilty in September and January 2018, respectively, to production of child pornography in separate, but similar cases. Diaz also admitted to online solicitation of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Lance Green, age 37, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison, to be followed by 4 years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute crack cocaine.
