News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Hussien Noor Hussien, 56, of Burlington, Vermont, was convicted today following a three-day jury trial in U.S. District Court of personage of another in a naturalization proceeding, procuring naturalization contrary to law, and making a false statement on a passport application.
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 Wethersfield Police Chief James Cetran today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment yesterday charging SAMUEL NEATHERY, 29, and DAISY FELIBERTY, 35, both of Florida, with robbing a Wethersfield bank at gunpoint in December 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A criminal complaint has been filed in federal court against a resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., charging him with coercion and enticement of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Jonathan Donnell Thompson, a/k/a “Joe-Nae," a/k/a “Jonathan Joe Nate Thompson," age 37, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced to 4 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to steal firearms from a federal firearms licensee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., returned a guilty verdict against Yusef Casanova 46, of Albuquerque, on methamphetamine trafficking and firearms charges today after a four-day trial before Senior U.S. District Judge James A. Parker. The verdict was announced by First Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: A Strongsville man was charged in federal court after he allegedly defrauded companies, churches, schools and others out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on April 23, 2019, United States District Court Judge James M. Munley sentenced John Jacob Hasay, age 22, of Benton, Pennsylvania, to 24 months’ imprisonment and a two-year term of supervised release, for the illegal possession of a machinegun.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that two pharmaceutical companies - Astellas Pharma US, Inc. (Astellas), and Amgen Inc. (Amgen) - have agreed to pay a total of $124.75 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by illegally paying the Medicare co-pays for their own high-priced drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, 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 Camden County, N.J., man today admitted his role in a scheme to possess and distribute crystal methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on April 24, 2019, United States District Court Judge James M. Munley sentenced Theodore O. Wing, age 52, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, to 63 months’ imprisonment and a two-year term of supervised release, for aiding and abetting false statements in the purchase of firearms.
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: 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...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Learn about folk medicine, create a felted cell phone purse, and enjoy history brought to life at the California Trail Interpretive Center.
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...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: A Ravenna man was indicted in federal court for robbing four stores in Portage County earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Trucking Company Admits Executives Hid Losses in Aging Trucking Fleet and Lied to Auditors Investigating Allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Lemar Sheldon Conliffe, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: JACKSON BURLEY COOMBS, 30, was sentenced on April 24, 2019 to seventy-eight months in federal prison for assaulting two tourists in Yellowstone National Park in July of 2018. United States District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal imposed the sentence after Coombs pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of simple assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that Orlando Albert-Arroyo, 24, and Genesis Tolentino-Cruz, 25, both of Buffalo, N.Y., were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: A Jupiter resident was sentenced to twenty years in prison for a string of bank robberies in Palm Beach and Martin Counties in 2017 and 2018.
