News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph Harrison, of Pine Grove, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury today for firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By State Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s decision to freeze foreign affairs funding approved by Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Complaint describes drug dealers housed in the East Bay and carpooling across the Bay Bridge who distributed heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl in the Tenderloin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that DARLYS BARRIOS-HERRERA, age 29, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a one-count bill of information for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a) on Monday, August 6, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that COREY ROPER was sentenced today to 13 years in prison for sex trafficking of minor females. ROPER was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, before whom he previously pled guilty to one count of sex trafficking minor victims. As part of his plea, ROPER acknowledged that he trafficked three minor females, and also trafficked another female by force.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -Mike Stuart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, joined by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), will hold a press conference on Thursday, August 8, 2019, at 9:30 a.m. to announce an important development.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man today admitted that he embezzled funds from an employee benefit plan, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Suit Proposes Judgment of $250,000 and Strict Limitations on Controlled Substance Prescribing.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: FINAL UPDATE (Aug. 8, 2019): The name of the victim in Tuesday's Pray Lake drowning is 64-year-old Wales Wai Ming Poon. He was a resident of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, who was visiting Glacier National Park with family.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO-This week the Department of Justice announced the nationwide recovery or identification of 103 child victims and the arrest of 67 sex traffickers through the FBI-led Operation Independence Day. This initiative was a month long coordinated law enforcement effort, focused on the recovery of child sex trafficking victims and providing them with the assistance they needed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York (“NYPD"), announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging ELIJAH BILAL, a/k/a “Karate Kid," with the April 15, 2012, murder...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Pecos, TX - The United States Marshals Service, Northern District of West Virginia, announces the recovery of Gracelynn June Scritchfield in Pecos, TX at approximately 2:30 pm EST today. During the recovery, Arlie Edward Hetrick was apprehended on federal and state warrants by Deputy U.S. Marshals from the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force based upon a lead which was communicated by U.S. Marshal Investigators in Clarksburg, WV.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Alan Womack, 44, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was convicted today at trial with conspiracy to distribute over 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow today sentenced Jonathan Williams, age 48, of Boston, Massachusetts, a former Maryland insurance agent and financial planner with New York Life, to 57 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for wire fraud, in connection with a scheme to defraud clients of more than $2.8 million. Judge Chasanow also ordered Williams to forfeit and pay restitution of $2.8 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Beau Cook, 32, an associate of a white supremacist gang known as the 1488s, has pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge arising from the August 2017 beating, kidnapping, and murder of Michael Staton, aka “Steak Knife.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Joseph Richard, age 26, of Philadelphia, was sentenced on August 6, 2019, to 168 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann, for drug trafficking and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A woman from Chesapeake was sentenced to 8 months in prison, followed by 9 to 12 months of in-patient drug treatment, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Ashley Nichole Rhodes, 24, previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Enjoy the Perseid Meteor Shower Peak Night at White Sands National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal robbery laws, using a firearm during a crime of violence, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND - Diquan Ray, 24 years old, of Hammond, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon after pleading guilty, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
