News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SEAN DEY, 40, of Torrington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by 12 months of home confinement and three years of supervised release, for illegally manufacturing and selling machine guns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Billie Gene Spears, 47, of Jacksboro, Tennessee, was sentenced today to 300 months (25 Years) in federal prison, by United States District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, for crossing a state line with the intent to engage in a sexual act with a person who was under 12 years of age.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: On Jan. 24, more than 300 students from Piñon High School in Piñon, Arizona, learned about uranium legacy sites on the Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation. The high school welcomed the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management (LM) to share information about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts at the event. This outreach was possible through LM’s collaboration with the Navajo Nation Abandoned Mine Lands program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A suspended Massachusetts State Police Trooper agreed to plead guilty in connection with the ongoing investigation of overtime abuse at the Massachusetts State Police (MSP).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former corporate secretary and director of corporate law at a global technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, was charged today with insider trading, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Antoine Devon Wilson, 35, of Pensacola, Florida, was sentenced today to serve 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty on Nov. 29, 2018, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute over 5 kilograms of cocaine. The sentence was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Corey Bircher, of Elk Garden, West Virginia, and Steve William Gray, of Luray, Virginia, have admitted to their roles in a methamphetamine conspiracy, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr., the Westchester County District Attorney, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Joseph F. Schaller, Commissioner...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has posted a rule in the Federal Register requiring small drone owners to display the FAA-issued registration number on an outside surface of the aircraft. Owners and operators may no longer place or write registration numbers in an interior compartment. The rule is effective on February 25. The markings must be in place for any flight after that date.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, held a public oversight hearing to explore the successes, challenges, and innovations of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP). Committee members heard from weatherization experts at the local, state, and federal levels. The hearing can be viewed here.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Jokelra Copeland has been convicted by a federal jury for accepting bribe payments to smuggle contraband, including illegal drugs, into Autry State Prison in Pelham, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Pennsylvania woman today admitted unlawfully distributing prescription opioid pain medication in the Philadelphia and South Jersey areas, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: On February 7, a federal grand jury returned an 18-count indictment against two individuals for carjacking, kidnapping, interference with commerce by robbery (Hobbs Act), and possessing and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that former Kanawha County Deputy Sheriff Robert Dwight Evans, 52, of Boomer was sentenced today to three years of probation for lying to the FBI. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the FBI and the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. -The February 12 conviction of Sinaloa Cartel drug trafficker Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman-Lorea serves as a reminder of the effect his organization has had on the five states that make up the Drug Enforcement Administration Omaha Division. Countless illicit drugs have made their way into local communities in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota from routes that begin in Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Authorities have arrested 11 members and associates of the South Los Angeles-based Florencia-13 (F13) street gang on federal racketeering, narcotics and firearms charges. One of the indictments unsealed today alleges that defendants linked to the gang trafficked methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and other drugs in their territory and attempted to smuggle narcotics into the state prison system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County man caught with approximately 259 grams of methamphetamine in August 2017 was sentenced today to 144 months in prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Maurice Rashee Flint, 39, of Charleston, previously pled guilty plea to possession with the intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RISHI MALIK, 46, a citizen of India residing in Fairfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to three years of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding the State of Connecticut of more than $5.8 million in taxes due on tobacco products imported into the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Allen H. Loughry II, 48, of Charleston, West Virginia, a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by Senior United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr., announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Loughry was...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2019
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa has established a link on its website and a dedicated telephone line to provide case updates and other information, including assistance in submitting victim impact statements or claims for restitution, for potential victims in the...
