News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Devin Dewayne Williams, 27, of West Monroe, Louisiana, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty to serve 46 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Williams pleaded guilty on April 11, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that after an eight-day trial, a federal jury convicted Glenn Pernell, 41, his sister Whitney Pernell, 29, and their cousin Fatima Ford, 33, all of Marion County, and Santerrio Smith, 31, and Terrence Dunlap, 25, of Columbia, on drug trafficking charges. These five defendants were charged along with 11 others in a 53-count Superseding Indictment alleging drug conspiracy and related charges.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ -Over the past two days, firefighters made progress with firing operations along Forest Road 223. This tactic is conducted to strengthen and improve the northern boundary of the planning area. Crews continue to move along the southern boundary, using hand ignitions to create a buffer as the main fire advances to the west. Yesterday the fire was tested by gusty, erratic winds but continued to spread as expected at a low to moderate rate.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Defendant Also Had Prior Conviction for Conspiracy to Traffic Methamphetamine, Threw Gun Out While Being Pursued by Law Enforcement.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has evaluated the potential environmental impacts of various alternatives to reduce seismic risks at B.F. Sisk Dam, located in Merced County.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Ajo, AZ - Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (Organ Pipe Cactus NM) instituted a road closure on the southeast border road (Roosevelt Reservation) from Lukeville Port of Entry east to the Santa Rosa Mountains.
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: 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 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: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Josue Cardona-Soto, 38, of Puerto Rico, and Virgen Perez-Jurado, 28, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, over five kilograms of cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life in prison, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Tyrique F. Williams, a former officer with Georgia’s Department of Community Supervision, has been sentenced to federal prison for accepting bribe payments from a parolee in exchange for allowing a parolee to avoid wearing an ankle monitor, taking polygraph examinations, and attending treatment classes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jerel Seahorn, of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to drug distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Mitchell Nicholas Threatened a Pair of Federal Judges in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: A St. Louis-area dentist has been charged with executing a wide-ranging health care fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Bilal A. El Yousseph, 27, of Westerville, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 102 months in prison for conspiring to distribute controlled substances and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - On Aug. 9, after a five-day jury trial, Jarvis Thomas, 34, of Bakersfield, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Aug. 23, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Anh Viet Quach, 42, of D’Iberville, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to five years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. Quach was also ordered to pay a $15,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S Attorney James P. Kennedy. Jr. and Chautauqua County District Attorney Patrick Swanson announced today the creation of the Overdose Response Initiative (ORI). Modeled after similar initiatives across the state and country, this program aims to examine overdose deaths in an effort to track down drug dealers and offer support to victims’ relatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: FBI Announces $10,000 Reward for Armed and Dangerous Bank Robber.
