News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County woman pled guilty to a federal drug charge. Shanika Collins, 41, of Charleston, pled guilty to one count of distribution of marijuana. Collins is the second defendant to be convicted based on an investigation conducted by the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT). Earlier this year, Collins’ former boyfriend, James Michael Hill, pled guilty to multiple federal charges, and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: A Warren man was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for selling heroin that resulted in the overdose death of a woman, as well as other crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Iranian Citizen Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Facilitate the Illegal Export of Technology to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that James Latron Sumter, a/k/a “T", age 35, of Myrtle Beach, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to distribute a quantity of cocaine and heroin, the use of which resulted in serious bodily injury or death. Chief United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell of Florence accepted Sumter’s plea and imposed the sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: All National Parks across the country will be fee free on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019 in honor of Founder’s Day. Montezuma Castle will be celebrating Founder’s Day with a children’s themed storytime featuring local authors from 9:00am-12:00pm. Rita Goldner (Agent H20 Rides the Water Cycle), Kathy Peach (The Tiniest Tumbleweed), and Rita Reger (A Duck in the Desert) will read their books and provide a craft activity.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Mulvaney and Mr. Vought.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Armin Harcevic, 41, of Ballwin, MO, appeared today before U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry. Harcevic was sentenced to 66 months in prison for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and providing material support to terrorists. Harcevic was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal to begin his sentence immediately. Based on the offenses for which Harcevic was convicted he is subject to deportation and removal from the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: A Toledo man was charged in federal court for making threats against a member of Congress and illegally having ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, working jointly with the FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) arrested a Dominican national Wednesday for crimes related to alien smuggling and prostitution scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: FBI Announces the Arrest of a Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Marcus Devaughn Coleman, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging three Honduran nationals, Gregorio Fuentes-Zelaya (26), Santiago Erazo-Zelaya (25), and Dennis Barahona (36), with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Fuentes-Zelaya is also charged with one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Rose Beth Litzky (33, Palm Bay) guilty of conspiracy to produce child pornography, production of child pornography, and possession of child pornography, involving two female children. Both of the victims...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 39-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been arrested for federal drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-Bruce Howell Runion was sentenced today to three years in prison and three years of supervised after admitting he possessed 20 firearms in Musselshell County despite being prohibited from having guns because of a felony conviction, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Matthew Osuba, 34, of Saugerties, New York, was found guilty today of sexual exploitation of a child, of distributing child pornography, and of possessing child pornography following a three-day jury trial. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: DECATUR, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Atlanta Kitchen LLC for exposing employees to amputation, silica, and other safety and health hazards at its Decatur, Georgia, manufacturing facility. The countertop manufacturer faces $132,604 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that ROBERTO MUNOZ-AGUILAR, age 32 was sentenced Wednesday, August 7. 2019 on a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a). He pled guilty on June 20, 2019. He was sentenced to time served.
