News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Donald Threatt, 68, of Fairfield, was sentenced Thursday to 17 years and eight months in prison for attempted online enticement of a minor, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: A special exhibit on Empire, Wyoming will be on display at Homestead National Monument of America’s Education Center from the end of January to the last week of March 2019. Part of the exhibit, a collection of standing banners, has been lent to the Monument by the Wyoming State Museum in Cheyenne, and part of the exhibit comes from the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted two Florida men yesterday on charges of conspiracy, making false claims on the United States government, and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A high priority target of the Savannah Police Department has pled guilty to a federal firearms possession charge and now awaits sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Four men from Toledo were indicted for firearms crimes. Emanuel Riley, 27, and Sevario Whitaker, 36, were charged with with theft from a federal firearms licensee, possession of silencers not registered to them, possession of stolen firearms, and possession of firearms after being convicted of a felony.
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: Ocala, Florida - German De Jesus Ventura (40, Sumter County) has pleaded guilty to one count of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to inflict bodily harm. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Ventura is currently serving a federal sentence for a sex trafficking conviction in the District of Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that DENSLO ALLEN PAIGE, age 66, of Wake County, North Carolina, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Louise Wood Flanagan to two (2) months active time in the custody of the...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A North Texas man was charged Friday with conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Phay Lam Souphanthog, 39, of Irvington, Alabama, was sentenced this morning to 168 months imprisonment for his illegal possession of firearms. Souphanthog had been previously convicted of Manslaughter in 1999 in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Today, U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling announced the launch of a new wave of public service announcements primarily aimed at increasing awareness about the dangers and consequences of abusing, selling and sharing opioids. The ads can be found at www.justice.gov/usao-ma/ResistTheRisk.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Charlestown man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that PHILLIP GUIDRY, age 49, of Loranger, Louisiana, yesterday pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm before the Honorable Barry W. Ashe.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, Jerrold Nadler, Frank Pallone Jr., and Adam Schiff, the Chairmen of the Committees on Oversight and Reform, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, and Intelligence, sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker seeking full compliance with their prior...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Tyvon Bannister, also known as “Turtle," a member of the Crips-affiliated Cypress Gangsta Crips (CGC) street gang, was sentenced by United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan to 30 years’ imprisonment following his conviction for the July 8, 2014 murder of Rayvon Henreques. Bannister pleaded guilty in May 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dillon T. Boyington, 35, of Gates, NY, pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford, to attempted online enticement of a minor. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management Anchorage Field Office is seeking public input on an Environmental Assessment of a right-of-way request from the U.S. Air Force for continued operation of the King Salmon Air Station.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Two men were indicted for child pornography crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Timothy Reddin, age 68, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by twenty-five years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Threatened Co-Conspirators by Showing Videos of Cartel Beheadings.
