News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that two additional individuals have been sentenced to federal prison following their convictions in Operation Dirty Bird, an extensive federal, state, and local investigation aimed at dismantling a large scale heroin trafficking network based...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man was sentenced today to nearly three years in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: Tuscaloosa, Alabama- U.S. Attorneys Jay E. Town, Louis V. Franklin, Sr., and Richard W. Moore, take time to stop, remember, and recognize all federal, state and local law enforcement officers and pay tribute to their service and sacrifice. Law enforcement has the difficult and dangerous task of making our communities safer, while placing their own lives and well-being at risk.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 10: 0 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on gun violence in America. During the hearing, Members of Congress will examine the problem and hear recommendations from witnesses about how Congress should address it.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Abdul Basier Hashimi, 26, of Elk Grove, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to 12 years and seven months in prison for sex trafficking of a child, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Box Elder resident Larry Ray Denny, Jr., admitted a domestic assault charge on Tuesday in federal court, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Aaron Marxsen, 40, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for distributing child pornography. United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Marxsen to 72 months of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester restaurant manager pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester to conspiring with the wife of a convicted drug dealer to use drug proceeds to renovate and operate a Shrewsbury Street restaurant.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell has sentenced John Dillon Williamson (27, Orlando) to four years in federal prison for distributing anabolic steroids. Williamson had pleaded guilty on Nov. 13, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with his participation in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: FEB. 1, 2019 - As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau projects the U.S. population will be 328,231,337 on Jan. 1, 2019. This represents an increase of 2,013,241, or 0.62 percent, from New Year’s Day 2018. Since Census Day (April 1) 2010, the population has grown by 19,485,799 or 6.31 percent.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: DENVER - A federal jury sitting in Denver convicted a Colorado Springs man of receipt, storage, and/or possession of a stolen firearm and for being a felon in possession of ammunition, announced United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn, Denver FBI Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips and ATF Denver Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Swiss lawyer pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with participating in an international pump-and-dump scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: Wire Fraud Conviction Carries Maximum 20-year Prison Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The co-owner of Alpha Star Health Care Inc. was sentenced today in federal court to 18 months in prison for running home health care fraud and tax fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Hamilton man today on charges of producing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - A week after the longest government shutdown on record ended, services are back to normal in Death Valley National Park. Park staff are still assessing the government shutdown’s impacts, but preliminary reports of human waste, trash, vandalism, and impacts to wildlife are disturbing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Aaron Marxsen, 40, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for distributing child pornography. United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Marxsen to 72 months of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - MARTIN ROCHA, 56, a resident of Caddo County, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The sentence took into account Rocha’s having used the firearm to shoot a woman in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Roderick Lamar Duval (39, Bradenton) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for distributing fentanyl and heroin. He had pleaded guilty on Sept. 27, 2018.
