News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that Ramon Perdomo, 38, of Greece, N.Y., 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: 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: BOSTON - An alleged member of the transnational criminal gang La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, was indicted on Wednesday, April 24, 2019, on racketeering conspiracy.
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: WASHINGTON - A Virginia man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release following his conviction at trial for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - DEA New Jersey Division Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito announced a federal jury today found a Paterson, N.J., man guilty of two counts of drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced former Philadelphia Police officer Eric Troy Snell, age 34, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, today to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: MOBILE, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Ampac Mobile Holdings LLC - operating as ProAmpac - for exposing employees to caught-in and struck-by hazards at the packaging manufacturer’s facility in Mobile, Alabama. The company faces $75,156 in penalties.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has published the Proposed Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/EIS) for the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (NCA), located near Sierra Vista. The plan expands public access and enables responsible use of natural resources while fostering conservation stewardship and ensuring protection of the NCA for generations to come.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Hamilton man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Ross Township, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of Attempted Coercion and Enticement of a Minor to Engage in Illegal Sexual Activity, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury recently returned a four-count indictment charging Wallace Byers, age 59, of Miami, Florida, with wire fraud and international money laundering. Byers appeared for his arraignment in court today and pled not guilty to the pending charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Rhode Island Foreclosed Property Preservationist Charged in $10 Million Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two Massachusetts men were sentenced in federal court in Worcester in connection with operating separate illegal sports gambling businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 38-year-old resident of Omaha, Nebraska, man has been ordered to federal prison for more than 18 years for his conviction of bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Kenneth S. Jones pleaded guilty Feb. 4, 2019, admitting he entered the Greater State Bank in McAllen and announced “This is a robbery!".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Two men with prior homicide convictions were sentenced to prison for firearms and drug trafficking charges crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Earlier this week, a former bookkeeper at a Pelham-area accounting firm pled guilty to charges that she embezzled money from a local hotel, and on Thursday, a grand jury returned an indictment against the bookkeeper’s alleged co-conspirator on related charges, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and United States Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Michael Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Russell Clark, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, has admitted to his involvement in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JONATHAN LAWRENCE, a/k/a “Chop," a/k/a “Mego," age 32, and VONZO MAGEE, a/k/a “Zo, a/k/a “Dark Low," age 31, both of New Orleans, pleaded guilty yesterday to violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act and Federal Gun Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation in New England, announced...
