News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Bryan County man who was part of the gang and drug trafficking conspiracy prosecuted under Operation Vanilla Gorilla has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A former bookkeeper was sentenced today to over five years in prison for embezzling funds from a Newport News medical practice and then obtaining a fraudulent SBA-guaranteed loan using the identification information of her father.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Christopher M. Arguelles, 34, of Pensacola, was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison today and a lifetime of supervised release as a federal sex offender. On Nov. 15, 2018, Arguelles pleaded guilty to possession and access with intent to view child pornography. The sentence was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Roger Ernesto Ballester Caser, of Hialeah, Florida, has admitted to using others’ bank information and personal identification numbers to make purchases, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Jevantae Phillips, 22, St. Louis, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for carjacking, brandishing a firearm during a federal crime of violence and robbery charges. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - After a two-day trial, a federal jury found Cyrus Dennis Braswell, 57, guilty today of three counts of mailing threatening communications, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced the release of a Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program (P25 CAP) draft Compliance Assessment Bulletin (CAB) for review and comment. This draft CAB is available for public comment through March 14, 2019 and addresses P25 Baseline Inter-Radio Frequency Sub-System Interface (ISSI) and Console Sub-System Interface (CSSI) Conformance Testing Requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Colorado man pleaded guilty in federal court today to traveling to Kansas City, Mo., to meet an undercover FBI agent, whom he believed to be a mother with her 7-year-old daughter, for illicit sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Nicole Wallace, 34, of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and Edward Hooten, 42, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been charged in two separate but related indictments with conspiring to rob three area banks, armed bank robbery, attempted armed bank robbery, and aiding and abetting armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-Garryowen resident Tyrone Joe Oldelk, who admitted beating a person, was sentenced today to prison and to three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-Garryowen resident Tyrone Joe Oldelk, who admitted beating a person, was sentenced today to prison and to three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to methamphetamine charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - After a two-day trial, a federal jury found Cyrus Dennis Braswell, 57, guilty today of three counts of mailing threatening communications, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Duquesne, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to fifteen months’ imprisonment and a three year term of supervised release, on his conviction of conspiracy and mail theft, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A member of the Te-Moak of the Western Shoshone pleaded guilty today to stabbing an elderly man multiple times, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-On Feb. 12, 2019, Kenneth Wenberg, 72, a medical doctor from Heppner, Oregon, pleaded guilty to a single count of tax evasion. The government demonstrated it could prove Dr. Wenberg failed to report income resulting in a tax loss of approximately $187,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Seven defendants, in multiple cases, have been sentenced for their roles in schemes related to defrauding health care benefit programs, unlawful dispensing of opioids, and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-Lame Deer resident Darrell Lee Whiteman, Jr. admitted today that he fatally stabbed a person during an argument in March 2017, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Colorado man pleaded guilty in federal court today to traveling to Kansas City, Mo., to meet an undercover FBI agent, whom he believed to be a mother with her 7-year-old daughter, for illicit sexual activity.
