News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A “full patch" member of the Rhode Island chapter of the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club has been ordered detained in federal custody on a criminal complaint charging him with trafficking methamphetamine and cocaine and on firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-Libby resident Joshua David Hoffman was sentenced on Friday to eight months in prison and three years of supervised release for illegally possessing three firearms, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - On Feb. 7, 2019, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Saud Alessa, Jeffrey Bowen, and Jackie Hayes, with conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and additionally charged Alessa with tax evasion and filing false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. TJ Cox (D-Calif.), chair of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, sent a letter to Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt late yesterday requesting calendars prepared by him or on his behalf after July 24, 2017. The letter, which also requests any Meeting Proposal Information Forms submitted to his office after July 4, 2017, is available at.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: A Waterloo man who illegally possessed a firearm and ammunition while being a user of marijuana and methamphetamine was sentenced today to more than one year in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Antonio Rivera, 35, of Williamsville, NY, was arrested and charged by complaint with theft of pre-retail medical products; trafficking in stolen pre-retail medical products; conspiracy to sell and distribute stolen pre-retail medical products; and wire fraud. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced today that on Feb. 12, 2019, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine, the Androscoggin County District Attorney Office, the Lewiston Police Department, and the FBI will present the TRUST (Teach mutual Respect and Understanding through SimulaTion) Program to about 40 Lewiston High School students at The Green Ladle, 156 East Ave., Lewiston.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Luis Rivas, Dennis Cabrera and Javier Rodriguez, members of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, will be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Vera M. Scanlon in federal court in Brooklyn on an indictment charging them with assault in-aid-of racketeering. The defendants were arrested earlier today and transferred to federal custody. The case is assigned to United States District Judge Pamela K. Chen.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: A Monticello man who robbed a bank in Springville last year was sentenced today to five years in federal prison. Joseph Jay Kripner, age 46, received the prison term after an Aug. 21, 2018 guilty plea to one count of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Adewale Aniyeloye, age 32 from Nigeria, was sentenced today for Wire Fraud. United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Aniyeloye to a 96-month term of imprisonment. After his release from prison, Aniyeloye will begin a 3-year term of supervised release. The restitution amount is to be determined and will be ordered at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Wesley Dallas Ayers, 27, of Anderson, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court for using, attempting to use, and threatening to use weapons of mass destruction; possession and discharge of a firearm in furtherance...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Beginning the week of March 4, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is planning a prescribed burn at the Dripping Springs Natural Area (Natural Area) near Las Cruces. If weather is not within necessary parameters, the burn may occur the following week. Smoke will be highly visible to the City of Las Cruces...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Joseph Thomas, 62, of St. Louis, pleaded guilty to two counts of filing false tax returns. Thomas appeared today before U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh, Jr. who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for May 9, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: A federal jury in Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict today against Nicholas Washington, also known as “Face," a member of the Bedford Stuyvesant-based street gang G’z Up, on two counts of murder-in-aid of racketeering, two counts of causing a death through the use of a firearm, and attempted obstruction...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Lame Deer woman convicted in a large methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy that brought multi-pound quantities to Montana from California was sentenced on Thursday to nine months in prison, two years of house arrest and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - James Paul Adams, 35, of Cypress, Texas, also known as Beau Adams, owner of the Texas marketing company One Source Healthcare Organization, LLC, agreed to pay the government $339,412.50 for allegedly accepting illegal kickback payments from OK Compounding, LLC, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: (LEWISTOWN, Mont.) - A report that will help the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) analyze a proposal to change grazing allotments in north central Montana held by the American Prairie Reserve (APR) has been released.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant was recently elected a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation, an association of 868 attorneys across the state. Invitations to membership, which is a position of honor, were extended to 24 attorneys this year by the Board of Trustees. The introduction of new Fellows took place in January at the annual Fellows' Dinner in Nashville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - United States Attorney Jeff Jensen announced today the results of this week’s Federal Grand Jury. An additional five sealed indictments were also returned.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake Sheriff’s Deputy was arrested this morning on charges related to his role in smuggling heroin into the Chesapeake City Jail.
