News from April 2019
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: Ocala, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced German De Jesus Ventura (40, Sumter County) to an additional 48 months in federal prison for assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm. The sentence will be served consecutive to an existing 35-year prison sentence that Ventura was already serving at the time he committed the assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Terrell Sivells, a/k/a Rell, age 27, of Baltimore, to life in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as Trained To Go (TTG). The racketeering...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today indicted five members of a robbery crew who allegedly committed sophisticated heists by following wholesale jewelers and bank customers - sometimes for days - and then robbing them, netting the thieves more than $1 million worth of jewelry and tens of thousands of dollars in cash over the past 18 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Jorion Garrett, 21, of Hazelwood, MO, pleaded guilty to three carjacking and two firearms charges. Garrett appeared today before U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for July 31, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 31-year-old resident of Houston has pleaded guilty to kidnapping in connection with the death of a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Employee, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An East Greenwich, R.I. woman whose business specialized in preserving the current condition of foreclosed homes for resale has been charged in U.S. District Court in Providence. The defendant allegedly operated a scheme whereby she raised and pocketed millions of dollars from investors...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Albert Chris Partee (25, Cocoa Beach) with disaster-assistance fraud involving Hurricane Irma. If convicted, Partee faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mariia Butina, a Russian national, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison after earlier pleading guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - William Hampton, 21, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 48 months in prison today for illegally possessing a firearm while being an unlawful user of a controlled substance. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel. Hampton’s sentence was ordered to run consecutive to any sentence imposed in Hampton’s pending State case, Cause Number1822-CR1904, Circuit Court, City of St. Louis.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Harry E. Rivers, a/k/a “Hakeem" and “Pots," age 29, of Delaware, today to 12 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Porter County, Ind. - In April of this year, the Porter County Sheriff’s Office and the Drug Enforcement Administration received a narcotics tip regarding manufacturing and sales of synthetic drugs in the 5600 block of Carnation Ave. in Portage, Ind. Investigators assigned to the Porter County Multi-Enforcement...
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: PHILADELPHIA - Deputy U.S. Attorney Louis D. Lappen announced that the political consultant to then-Allentown Mayor Edwin Pawlowski, Michael Fleck, 40, formerly of Allentown, PA was sentenced today to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release by Chief U.S. District Court Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Kelly L. McCabe, 36, of Saco, Maine, pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to social security fraud and theft of public money.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Saturday, April 27, 2019, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., is National Prescription Drug “Take Back Day." This event will give the public its 17th opportunity in nine years to prevent pill abuse...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SEBASTIAN PINTO-THOMAZ, a former credit ratings analyst at Standard & Poor’s, was convicted today of participating in two schemes to trade on material, nonpublic information in advance of the Sherwin-Williams Company’s acquisition of the Valspar Corporation, following a seven-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man was sentenced today to five years in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., has returned an indictment charging Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, of Flora Vista, N.M., with being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, announced New Mexico U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson and Special Agent in Charge James C. Langenberg of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Kevin Douglas Jenkins, 35, of Pelahatchie, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 262 months in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for producing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Mike Hurst, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze, and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. Jenkins was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $3,000.
