News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - Daniel Delangel Villeda, 45, a Mexican national, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 42 months in prison for illegally reentering the United States after being removed from the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Hyannis woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield in connection with a cocaine smuggling conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Beginning in February, the Bureau of Land Management Rio Puerco Field Office, in cooperation with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, plans to conduct the Mertz Ranch prescribed fire on approximately 1,000 acres within the El Malpais National Conservation Area (NCA). Fire managers estimate it...
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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Dijon Jamese Seales a/k/a “DJ," 28, of Philadelphia, pled guilty today before U.S. Chief District Judge Daniel P. Jordan, III., to possession with intent to distribute 5 grams or more of methamphetamine and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: SENTENCING - Bradley Matocha. On Feb. 8, Bradley James Matocha, II, was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison, followed by a 20-year term of supervised release, after pleading guilty to attempted enticement of a minor. Matocha, 32, of Plano, responded to an ad in which a father stated he had a daughter...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: AUGUSTA, Ga: A Martinez man has been sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $1.5 million in restitution for defrauding government healthcare and disability programs.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today raising a series of questions following an alarming new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) identifying serious Medicaid abortion coverage violations in 15 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that NORMAN SEABROOK, the former president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association (“COBA") was sentenced to 58 months in prison for his role in a bribery scheme in which he accepted a $60,000...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today raising a series of questions following an alarming new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) identifying serious Medicaid abortion coverage violations in 15 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Daniel Thompson, a/k/a “Daniel Walker," 21, formerly of South Paris, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to five years in prison and three years of supervised release for maliciously damaging property used in interstate commerce by fire. He was also ordered to pay over $184,000 in restitution. Thompson pleaded guilty on Aug. 10, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - Harlow White, 77, of Gilbert, Ariz. was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $291,420 in restitution. White had previously pleaded guilty to money laundering for using stolen client funds to enrich himself. White will self-surrender to custody at a date to be determined by the court.
By EPA 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: 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 Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today raising a series of questions following an alarming new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) identifying serious Medicaid abortion coverage violations in 15 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on February 5, 2019, a federal grand jury issued an indictment against Tou W. Vang, also known as “Meng Vang" (age: 38) of Neenah, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph A. Heath, Jr., 46, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 16 years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson sentenced Ricky Dean Clark, 37, to a term of life imprisonment without parole for multiple charges involving the sex exploitation of three minor children, including one child who lived in Ireland. In addition, Clark was sentenced for distributing, receiving, and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Defendant Shot at Victim Leaving in Car.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: DETROIT - The Detroit Police Department began receiving real-time intelligence on its local gun crime from ATF's National Correlation and Training Center. The center examines and correlates ballistic evidence submitted through ATF's National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, or NIBIN, to identify where, when and how criminals are using firearms in a community within 48 hours of entry.
