News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Christopher James Preston, 52, of Tucson, Arizona, was found guilty of two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child by a federal jury in Tucson. The case was tried before U.S. District Judge James A. Soto on July 10-16, 2019. The defendant is being held in custody pending sentencing, which is currently set before Judge Soto on Sept. 26, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Seafood Processor Pleads Guilty to Selling Foreign Crab Meat Falsely Labeled as Blue Crab from USA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin Scott C. Blader announced that Thomas Strick, 60, of Wausau, Wis., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Madison to five counts of obtaining fentanyl by use of misrepresentation and fraud. Strick faces a maximum penalty of four years in prison. District Judge William Conley scheduled sentencing for Oct. 9, 2019, at 1:00 p.m.
By State Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
Release: As representatives of the international community, we stand together in condemning the systematic, ongoing, and egregious abuses of religious freedom perpetrated by terrorist and extremist groups. We support international efforts to prevent and counter terrorism and violent extremism, and we are concerned...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Gregory Bethea, 51, Milwaukee, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 21 months in federal prison for credit card fraud. Bethea was also ordered to pay $62,888.48 in restitution to Discover Financial Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Kevin A. Howard, 35, of Cincinnati, was sentenced on Thursday, to 188 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for distribution of 50 grams or more of crystal methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a two-count indictment charging Shanna Smith, 25, of Buffalo, NY, with false declarations before grand jury and obstruction of justice. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Exploitation of a Child and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Former Alabama Police Investigator Sentenced to Prison for Assaulting Handcuffed Arrestee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: DURANGO - Wambli Mills, age 23, of Towaoc, Colorado, was found guilty today of federal sexual assault charges following a four-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn, announced U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn. Mills appeared at trial in custody and was remanded at the trial’s conclusion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of DYLAN MATTHEW DELING, a/k/a “Jason Keens," a/k/a “Dylan Nash," 20, to one count of production of child pornography and one count of extortion. DELING entered his guilty plea today before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A federal grand jury on July 17 returned a three-count indictment (the Indictment) against Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 21, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in connection with his planned attack on a Christian church in Pittsburgh, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. The Indictment...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Come join us for a workshop about animal evidence! Learn how to identify tracks and scat from local animals. Make a cast of your favorite animal track to take home!.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Jimmie Crowder Excavating and Land Clearing Inc. for exposing employees to amputation and other safety hazards at the company’s facility in Tallahassee, Florida. The demolition and excavating company faces $81,833 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A felon who was serving a term of supervised release when he committed the offense was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release for unlawful possession of firearms, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: The former police chief of the Village of Oakley, located in Saginaw County, Michigan, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison based on his convictions for wire fraud and filing a false income tax return for 2012, stated United States Attorney Matthew Schneider. Reznick was also ordered to pay $124,078.88...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments yesterday. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A former resident of Pittsburgh, PA was sentenced to 23 years (276 months) in prison and six years of supervised release for violating federal narcotics laws, including three charges of distribution of heroin and fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury and death, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A drug dealer from Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (“MDENT"), the Charleston Police Department, the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department, the St. Albans Police Department, the Nitro Police Department, and the South Charleston Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Kwamaine Jerell Ford has been sentenced to federal prison for hacking into more than 100 Apple accounts belonging to high-profile professional athletes and rappers and spending nearly $325,000 using stolen financial information from several of these victims.