News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALFREDO DAGOBERTO HERCULES-SANTOS, 40, a citizen of El Salvador last residing in New Britain, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to approximately six months of imprisonment, time already served, for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A former Virginia Tech professor studying artificial sweeteners was found guilty last week of conspiring to commit federal grant fraud, making false statements and obstruction by falsification, First Assistant United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal jury has convicted Jerry Drake Varnell, 24, of Sayre, Oklahoma, for attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction at BancFirst in downtown Oklahoma City, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: HONOLULU - A federal inmate, Taloa Latu, 29, was sentenced today to 8 years of imprisonment for committing an assault resulting in serious bodily injury to another inmate. Following his incarceration, Latu will be on supervised release for 3 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Jay Walter Sall, 54, of Miami Beach, was sentenced, on Feb. 21, 2019, to a total of 240 months in prison by U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore, for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Southern California Pharmacy Owner Sentenced to Prison for Her Role in Health Care and Wire Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: On Friday, February 22 through Sunday, Feb. 24, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area recovery team continued recovery efforts, and maintained the safety and integrity of the search site at Fort Funston. The team, supported by soils specialists from partner agencies, and the National Park Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today the return of an indictment charging Jimmie Dwight Whitfield (42, Valdosta, GA) with failing to register as a sex offender after relocating from Georgia to Florida. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in federal prison. Whitfield was arrested in Atlantic Beach, Florida on Oct. 25, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Phillip Ryan Williams, of McCoole, Maryland, was sentenced today to 30 months incarceration for distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A former Brinks, Inc., driver has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for his role in staging a pair of armored-car robberies in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - David Ernesto Nolasco Soriano, 31, of El Salvador, made a first appearance and had a detention hearing on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, in Pensacola in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida. United States Attorney Lawrence Keefe of the Northern District of Florida made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man appeared in federal court in Worcester today to face an illegal firearm possession charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Derrius Cunningham, a/k/a Baby, 41, of Buffalo, N.Y., with conspiracy to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Josue Navarro, 37 of St. Croix, was sentenced Friday for attempted coercion and enticement for illegal sexual activity, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that James Mark Minichella, age 23, of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Feb. 19, 2019, by a federal grand jury for drug distribution resulting in death. The case was unsealed following the arrest of the defendant.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Some of the most advanced communication systems now under development rely on the properties of quantum science to store and transport information. However, researchers designing quantum communication systems that rely on light, rather than electric current, to transmit information face a quandary: The...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN -A local man has been found guilty by a jury for being a felon in possession of a firearm after he committed an armed robbery. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the conviction today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - Anyone that knowingly removes, conceals or withholds a part of a civil aircraft involved in an accident could face civil penalties, criminal charges or both, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Long Beach resident who traveled to Mexico to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor - and also enticed his victim to produce child pornography - was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Amy Bingaman, 34, of Levant, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to 12 months and one day in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to make false statements to a federal firearms licensee and making false statements to federal agents.
