News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that RIGOBERTO FRANQUIS-HERNANDEZ, age 35, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a one-count bill of information with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. ' 1326(a) on Wednesday, July 17, 2019 in the court of U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Massachusetts Man Sentenced to Prison After Pleading Guilty to Child Pornography Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two Springfield men pleaded guilty in federal court in Springfield to their roles in a large-scale heroin trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Robert Pantori, Jr., 51, of Charlotte, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. to 108 months in prison on child pornography charges. Judge Conrad also ordered Pantori to serve twenty years of supervised release and to register as a sex offender following his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Adam R. Walker, 34, of Herrin, Illinois, has been charged by indictment with unlawfully possessing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that SHANARD ZELRON BANKS, a.k.a. “Nardie," age 30, pled guilty before Judge Brian A. Jackson to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances, one count of possession with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOSEPH SABELLA, a/k/a “Joe Valet," was sentenced to 87 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein for his role as a captain in the Bonanno Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: David C. Hogue, 32, of Granite City, Illinois, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography and destroying evidence of his crimes, U.S. Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft announced today. Chief United States District Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel handed down the 240-month sentence, which includes a 10-year term of supervised release. Hogue pleaded guilty to a three-count superseding indictment late last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Agents seized 34 pounds of meth in suitcase.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Two people from Northeast Ohio were indicted on firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Violent Convicted Felon Found with Multiple Firearms after Search Warrant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 15 indictments charging 15 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By State Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
Release: As representatives of the international community, we recognize that religious communities of all traditions can be powerful, peaceful forces for good in the world. We call upon all governments to respect the individual’s human right to believe or not believe, to practice any faith tradition or none.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Former Nevada State Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson was sentenced today to more than two years in federal prison for misusing at least $249,900 of campaign donor money on personal expenses including opening a Las Vegas nightclub, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that GLENN JAMISON, 37, of Waterbury, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 25 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTHONY PENA, 25, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Funding Helps Farmers, Rural Small Businesses and Ag Producers Cut Energy Costs WASHINGTON, July 18, 2019– Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today encouraged farmers, rural small businesses and agricultural producers to apply for financing in a key U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program that provides loan guarantees to help rural small businesses lower their energy costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: The G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors met on July 17-18, 2019 in Chantilly, France. The United States was represented by Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin. One of the items on the agenda was Competition and the Digital Economy. In preparation for this meeting, Assistant Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Former Tallassee Police investigator Brandan Smirnoff, 27, was sentenced to 22 months in prison for assaulting a handcuffed, 24-year-old man. Smirnoff encountered the victim, J.M., after a vehicle pursuit. After officers pursued J.M. for several minutes on a four-wheeler, J.M. stepped off the four-wheeler, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Michael P. Casey of Poquoson, Virginia, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Newport News, Virginia, on charges stemming from his participation in a lucrative conspiracy to falsely label millions of dollars-worth of foreign crab meat as “Product of USA.” “By illegally mislabeling hundreds of thousands ...
