News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Yancy Todd Sonnier, 54, of Branch, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert R. Summerhays to serve 86 months in federal prison for drug and firearm charges. Sonnier pleaded guilty on Jan. 18, 2019, to one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-Lame Deer resident Danika Nurea Sanchez was sentenced today to three years in prison and five years of supervised release for conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today United States District James C. Dever sentenced ANTWINE “Big World" LUCAS, 37, of New Hanover County to 188 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. On March 21, 2019, LUCAS pled guilty to Conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of heroin and distribution of a quantity of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: A man who used another person’s Social Security number to get a job was sentenced Aug. 22, 2019, to four months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Honduran man who was recently convicted of aggravated sexual battery of a child under the age of 13, pleaded guilty today to illegally reentering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Akeem Cruz, a/k/a “Vybe" and “Mello", 29, and Lamale Lawson, a/k/a “Bishop" and “King Bishop", 28, both of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Larry A. Carr (84, Tampa) to four years in federal prison for the sale of unregistered securities. The court also ordered Carr to pay more than $8 million in restitution to his victim-investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Aldie man was sentenced today to five years in prison for distribution of a drug that resulted in the death of a Leesburg woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL YOUNG, 48, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for importing, manufacturing and distributing synthetic cannabinoids.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Robert Pratersch (58, Kissimmee) to 15 months in federal prison for threatening a federal official and interstate transmission of a threat to injure. A federal jury had found Pratersch guilty on April 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tim Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that Lt. David Williams of the Jefferson City, Missouri, Police Department has received the 2019 Enoch B. Morelock Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Three South American cocaine traffickers were sentenced in federal court this week after being convicted of transporting approximately 1,230 kilograms (2,706 pounds) of cocaine-worth more than $28 million USD-on the high seas.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
Release: HARRISBURG, Pa. - A local woman was cited by police on Thursday, Aug. 22, after Transportation Security Administration officers at Harrisburg International Airport caught her trying to bring a loaded revolver past a security checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that defendant LARMONDO ALLEN, a/k/a “Nino," 22 years of age, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019 by U.S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO-The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Violent Crimes Task Force is seeking the public’s assistance to identify the individual responsible for two bank robberies in the San Diego, California area.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration wants the public’s help to determine its cutest K9 in honor of National Dog Day, Monday, Aug. 26. The TSA Cutest K9 contest features four “top dog" finalists. Voting opened for the general public at 12:01 a.m. Friday morning on the TSA Instagram account and closes at midnight. The winner will be announced on Monday, Aug. 26 - National Dog Day on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who participated in an armed carjacking of a young woman near Kirkwood College on Oct. 22, 2017, and planned and participated in a robbery of a Sprint phone store in Cedar Rapids using the stolen car the following day, was sentenced Aug. 22, 2019, to serve twelve years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Jerome Leen-Whitewater, 34, of Post Falls, Idaho, and co-defendant Chauncey Franklin Whitright IV, 40, of Worley, Idaho, were sentenced this week in U.S. District Court for assault resulting in serious bodily injury, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Chief U.S. District Judge David...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Aldie man was sentenced today to five years in prison for distribution of a drug that resulted in the death of a Leesburg woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VICKI MILLER, 56, of Colchester, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to a fraud offense stemming from an embezzlement scheme.
