News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores shared his response today after the Department of Justice announced that two federal courts had handed down decisions protecting religious liberty, agreeing with the positions taken by the Department of Justice.
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: 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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced yesterday that EDWIN RAMON HERNANDEZ-ELVIR, age 39, was charged in a one-count indictment for reentry of deported alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Teddy Stevens, 45, currently of Arizona but formerly of Middleton, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to one year and one day in federal prison for bankruptcy fraud. Stevens pleaded guilty to the charge on November 7, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson imposes maximum sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned this week before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Florida man was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud for orchestrating a scheme that caused over $1.7 million in losses to multiple victims.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service is now accepting applications for $5 million in grants to support the preservation of historic buildings in rural communities across the country that are listed in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places through the Historic Revitalization Subgrant Program (HRSP).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Jackson Man, Previously Convicted of Armed Robbery and Selling Cocaine Near a School, Illegally Possessed Gun.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A South Texas man was sentenced Friday to 10 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Defendant and accomplices take close to 60 firearms from Dragon Arms in El Paso County.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Nicholas Washington Targeted Rivals, Shooting and Killing Bystanders.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: FBI Requests Public Assistance to Identify Gloved Robber Carrying Motorcycle Helmet.
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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Wheeling residents have admitted to their roles in a cocaine and heroin distribution operation that spanned two states, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Kevin W. McRae, age 48, was sentenced in federal court today in Omaha, Nebraska, for one count of cyberstalking. The Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced McRae to 5 months in prison, ordered him to pay $4,590 in expenses to the court, and three years of supervised release after he is released from prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
Release: BOSTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a one-day, “fast track" hiring event on Saturday, Feb. 16, to recruit full- and part-time TSA officers to work at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). TSA is looking to hire more than 50 full-time and part-time officers to work at the airport. The goal is to have many of the new employees onboard ahead of the busy summer travel season.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced that Henry Benson, 37, and Roselle Cipriano, 36, both of Vallejo, were arrested yesterday at their business, the Genesis Care Home for the Elderly in Vallejo, Calif.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A joint collaborative effort between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations, resulted in the seizure of 221.7 pounds (100.6 kilograms) of Cocaine concealed in produce cargo vessels arriving from Ecuador and Guatemala.
