News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Ashanti Roundtree (44, North Port) guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin, possessing a firearm in the furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Roundtree faces a maximum penalty of life and a mandatory minimum of 20 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 11, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on April 3, 2019, Salvatore Lawrence Bruno, age 68, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger for Possession of Child Pornography. Bruno was sentenced to 97 months in prison to be followed by a term of supervised release for ten years. Bruno was ordered to pay $500 to each victim seeking restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: *********** MEDIA ADVISORY ***********. FEDERAL & LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TO MAKE PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING MATTER INVOLVING MISSING AURORA, ILLINOIS BOY. The briefing will be held: TODAY: FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2019. WHEN: 11:30 A.M. WHERE: U.S. Attorney’s Office. 221 E. Fourth Street. Fourth Floor. Cincinnati...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - In a case led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Boston and ICE's Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center, a man who fled Rwanda near the end of the 1994 genocide was convicted today by a federal jury for immigration fraud and perjury in connection with his application for benefits in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Arrest Followed Investigation of “Doxxing" Activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-Laurel resident Jefferson Scott Perrigo, who admitted meth trafficking and firearms crimes, was sentenced on Thursday to 17 years in prison and five years of supervised release after agents found about 12.5 pounds of meth in his vehicle and a storage unit, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Events Planned Throughout the Northern District of Iowa, Including the Presentation of the Law Enforcement Victim Services Award to Algona Police Officer.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Special Agents with the NPS Investigative Services Branch (ISB) are investigating a theft of government property that occurred within Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park on or about Oct. 16, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has announced his senior and professional staff team for the House Natural Resources Committee during the 116th Congress. This is not a comprehensive staff list.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Billy D. Henderson, 39, and Denise Porter, 31, both of Buffalo, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with: possession with intent to distribute controlled substances; distribution of controlled substances; maintaining...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Demetrius Catching, age 28, formerly of Lexington, Kentucky, and currently inmate at FCI Allenwood, pleaded guilty on April 2, 2019, before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to assault on a correctional officer.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed an immigration fugitive and gang-affiliated Salvadoran national to his home country Friday. The individual had been residing in Connecticut prior to his removal and was wanted by El Salvadoran authorities on several charges, including: aggravated robbery, extortion, blackmail and gang-affiliation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Isiah Pierce, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted following a federal jury trial of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, fentanyl, and butryl fentanyl, maintaining a...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - April 5, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Christopher Younger, 38, of Jackson, was sentenced yesterday, by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, to 120 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana K. Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Robbery Was Part of Larger Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced William Beach (40, Tampa) to eight years and three months in federal prison for tampering with a federal witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Defendant was on Federal Supervision for Previous Child Pornography Conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Rancho Cordova woman was indicted on April 4, 2019, charged with distribution of fentanyl and oxycodone and other opioids as a result of a coordinated operation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service that has identified, disrupted and prosecuted illegal operators on the darknet.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL D’ALESSIO was sentenced to 72 months in prison for operating a years-long scheme to defraud investors in his luxury real estate development projects in Manhattan, the Hamptons, Westchester...
