News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Masecchia, 53, of Williamsville, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, marijuana, maintaining a drug-involved premises, and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: Western WY - With Labor Day weekend just around the corner, many people will be heading outside to enjoy the holiday. The weather report for the weekend calls for more hot, dry, and breezy afternoons.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND- Adam Soboll has been charged with traveling to the United States with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Francisco Special Agent in Charge Tatum King. Soboll was arrested in Brentwood, Calif., on Aug. 25, 2019, and charged by complaint on Aug. 28, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: In Austin today, U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel sentenced 28-year-old Austin resident Douglas Ryan Dahl to 51 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm and conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud using information obtained from...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: A Texas woman who managed aspects of an international program at an Ohio-based adoption agency pleaded guilty today for her role in a scheme to corruptly facilitate adoptions of Ugandan children through bribing Ugandan officials and defrauding U.S. adoptive parents and the U.S. Department of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The former Linn County Attorney was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison for stealing $75,000 worth of electronics and equipment that belonged to the county, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. In addition, the defendant was ordered to pay $75,000 in restitution and a fine totaling $11,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that William Battle, age 28, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Aug. 28, 2019, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to participating in a sex trafficking conspiracy that involved using threats and coercion to force women to engage in prostitution in the Monroe County area between 2011 and June 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-Jermaine David Richardson, a Billings resident who admitted possessing a semi-automatic pistol while having been convicted of a felony, was sentenced today to four years in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: LABELLE, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Twins Twins LLC for exposing employees to amputations at the company’s facility in Labelle, Florida. The tortilla company faces $81,682 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: A Toledo woman pleaded guilty to terrorism charges related to her role in a conspiracy to launch an attack on a bar in Toledo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The former Linn County Attorney was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison for stealing $75,000 worth of electronics and equipment that belonged to the county, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. In addition, the defendant was ordered to pay $75,000 in restitution and a fine totaling $11,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Mikal Hamilton, 28, of St. Louis, MO, pleaded guilty to one felony count of felon in possession of a firearm. Hamilton appeared in federal court this afternoon before U.S. District Judge John A. Ross who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for December 5, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - LUIS FELIPE PALAFOX-ALVAREZ (PALAFOX-ALVAREZ), age 25, a citizen of Mexico, was charged on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019 in federal court in a one-count Bill of Information with misuse of a Social Security Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that BEHZAD POURGHANNAD pled guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to export carbon fiber from the United States to Iran between 2008 and 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that RODNEY J. STRAIN (a/k/a Jack Strain), age 56, from Abita Springs, Louisiana, was charged today by a federal grand jury in a 16-count Indictment with conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, soliciting a bribe, and offering a bribe in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Henry Berg, 42, formerly of Arcadia, Wisconsin, and currently of Geneva, Illinois, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to one year and one day in federal prison for lying on a farm loan application. He was also sentenced to four years of supervised release following incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced Barbara Caylor-Hernandez (48, Dalton, Georgia) to 14 years in federal prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, including Fort Caroline National Memorial, Kingsley Plantation, Cedar Point and Theodore Roosevelt Area will be closed as of 5:00 p.m. Thursday August, 29, 2019 with the approach of Hurricane Dorian. The projected forecast and potential for tornadoes, high winds...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARQUIS PARKER, 26, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a New Haven drug trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2019
News Release: Texas Woman Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Facilitate Adoptions From Uganda Through Bribery and Fraud.
