News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Bar Shani, 27, of San Francisco, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to launder money, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a recruitment event Friday, May 3, to recruit part-time TSA officers to work at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (CHO). The goal is to have many of the new employees onboard ahead of the busy summer travel season.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal calling on Congress to fix the failed immigration policies that have created a crisis at our southern border and a new business model for Mexican cartels...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A New York man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston for assaulting a woman aboard a cruise ship.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Somerville man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for assaulting two federal officers.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Pecos, NM:- Pecos National Historical Park will offer two special backcountry hikes this May.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Lexington - A federal jury has found Patsy Wardle, a 65 year old woman from Richmond, Kentucky, guilty of conspiring to distribute oxycodone. The jury also found Wardle guilty of two additional counts of distributing oxycodone on Feb. 16, 2018 and March 7, 2018. The jury convicted Wardle on Wednesday, April 24, 2019, following a 3-day trial in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: SENTENCING -- Mario Melendez. On April 26, Dallas tax return preparer Mario Melendez was sentenced to 51 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and aiding in the preparation of false tax returns. From November 2013 to April 2014, Mr. Melendez, a manager at Uptown Multi Services...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Ahead of schedule, the Zion-Mount Carmel Highway (State Route 9 Connector) will reopen on Saturday, April 27th. Construction began on April 9, 2019 and required a section of the damaged road to be completely removed, a new culvert placed, the slope stabilized, and a retaining wall rebuilt.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced today to more than six years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Marcus Edwards, age 38, of Benton Harbor, Michigan, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio upon his plea of guilty to robbery, carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, announced U. S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that ROLANDO RUSSELL, 62, of Bridgeport, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to preparing false tax returns for clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ramon Perdomo, 38, of Greece, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, was sentenced to serve 135 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Bernardino County tax preparer was found guilty late Thursday of filing false and fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service as part of a scheme that illegally generated more than $1 million in refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Tyler Leevan Hill, age 28, of Okemah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 8 months’ imprisonment, 6 months of home confinement upon his release from imprisonment, and 5 years of supervised release for...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ricky T. Olson, 60, Gays Mills, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 13 years in federal prison for receipt of child pornography. Olson pleaded guilty to this charge on January 7, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Timothy Tijwan Doctor (42, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Due to his extensive criminal history, Doctor qualifies as an Armed Career Criminal and faces an enhanced minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement after President Trump announced in a speech to the National Rifle Association that he plans to withdraw the United States from the Arms Trade Treaty...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Hayes woman was sentenced today to more than five years in prison for stealing approximately $100,000 from a disabled woman for whom she provided caregiving services.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that Devin Jefferson (age: 30) of Indianapolis, Indiana was sentenced yesterday by the Honorable Judge Pamela Pepper to 130 months’ imprisonment for his involvement in three armed pharmacy robberies of Walgreens stores located in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
