News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Kingsmen President and Nomad, Convicted by a Federal Jury of Murder and Racketeering, Sentenced to Life in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Offenses include distribution, receipt, and possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Alphonso L. Howard, Jr., age 28, and Javonte J. Johnson, age 22, both of Decatur, Georgia, were indicted yesterday for creating counterfeit checks and then cashing them at banks in Saratoga and Warren Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jason Pantone, age 34, of Hyde Park, New York, was arrested and charged in a criminal complaint with mailing envelopes containing suspicious white powder to federal offices in New York and Connecticut, announced United States Attorney Grant Jaquith, James Hendricks, Special Agent in...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Acting Intermountain Regional Director Kate Hammond announced the selection of Paul Scolari as Superintendent of Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah. Scolari will also supervise the Superintendent of Fossil Butte National Monument in Wyoming. He will begin his new assignment on March 31, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Bilal Hamid Love, 35, of Meridian, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III, to 168 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for importing the controlled substance AB-PINACA and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - United States Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham today announced that two men have been sentenced in Hartford federal court for their participation in a Southeastern Connecticut heroin trafficking ring.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: National Parks of Eastern North Carolina Superintendent David Hallac invites the public to visit with staff on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands, where he will review visitation patterns and park activities during 2018 at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge James Moody, Jr. today sentenced Cedrick Lee Taylor (32, Sarasota) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Taylor to forfeit the firearm and ammunition he used during the offense. Taylor had pleaded guilty on March 14, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew has sentenced Gary Kinard (40, St. Petersburg) to 7 years and 11 months in federal prison for his role in a telemarketing scheme. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment of $75,000, the proceeds of the wire fraud conspiracy. In addition, Kinard was directed to pay a total of $2,244,735.66 to 43 identified victims of the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Following a six-day jury trial, the president and vice president of a South Florida construction company were convicted of defrauding a low-income housing development program.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC) sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr referring Michael Cohen to the U.S. Department of Justice for perjury and knowingly making false statements before the Committee at yesterday’s hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Defendant ordered to pay over $2.6 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida- U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced James Lester Calloway, Jr. (49, Jacksonville) to 24 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Calloway had pleaded guilty on Sept. 12, 2018, his third federal felony conviction. Calloway was previously convicted in August 2010, in the Middle District of Florida, for conspiracy to manufacture 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Elvin Castron-Murcia, 20, a Honduran native residing between Louisiana and Tennessee, pleaded guilty today to traveling for illicit sexual conduct and transporting a minor for criminal sexual activity. The guilty plea was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a Princeton man was sentenced in federal court on his conviction for distributing cocaine. Jermaine Jones, 30, was sentenced to 21 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Over the last week, five people have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in trafficking methamphetamine throughout central and northern Iowa.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee's "Female Veterans Access to VA Hearing".
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Jovaun Patterson, 30, of Philadelphia. The indictment charges him with one count of attempted robbery which interferes with interstate commerce, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), ...
