News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Andre Muller, 48; Robert Holland, 39; and Hector Munoz, 57, all of New York, New York, were arrested in New York this week and charged by indictment in Maine with conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery. Munoz was also charged with attempted Hobbs Act robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Cranston man who admitted to collecting Social Security Supplemental Security Income (SSI) while at the same time depositing hundreds of thousands of dollars in his personal bank account and obtaining a home mortgage for more than a quarter million dollars was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay back funds he obtained fraudulently from the Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Milwaukee, WI - The U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested a fugitive wanted in Nashville, TN on outstanding warrants for aggravated rape, aggravated robbery and attempted aggravated robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Cleveland Division of the FBI to Host Diversity Agent Recruiting Event on August 8, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTOPHER J. SAKELARAKIS, 35, of Milford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for an investment scheme that defrauded an elderly victim of $60,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Explore the unique prairie plant universe and learn how these carbon based lifeforms thrive in their environment and impacted homesteaders! On Saturday, July 27 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Homestead’s Education Center discover the mysterious world of the plants of the tallgrass prairie. The Carbon Based...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced TIO ANTWIONE BISHOP, 43, of Ahoskie, North Carolina to a total of 84 months of imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
Release: As representatives of the international community, we stand together in condemning the systematic, ongoing, and egregious abuse of members of religions by terrorist and other violent, non-state actors. We support international efforts to prevent and counter terrorism and related violent extremism. We...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: A Broward County resident was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for distributing information pertaining to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Christian Henry Dorsch Jr., 50, of Vacaville, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley to seven years in prison for possessing methamphetamine for distribution, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Christopher Louis Wadstein, 31, of South Lake Tahoe, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Duane Aaron Skeet, 49, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Chichiltah, NM, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, NM for his conviction on a felony child abuse charge. Skeet was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison followed by a year of supervised release for endangering the lives and health of 25 Navajo children who were under his care while he was operating a school bus under the influence of alcohol.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - Giovonni Gaines was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for possession of an unregistered firearm, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent In Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded assault rifle on an elevated train platform in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood.
By State Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
Release: As representatives of the international community, we stand together in support of the interconnected freedoms of thought, conscience, religion or belief, and expression. We stand in firm opposition to laws that, inconsistent with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Wholesaler allegedly distributed 3.7 million hydrocodone pills to pharmacy in town of 400 people.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: This is the second Project Safe Neighborhoods grant awarded in the Middle District.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Former Tallassee Police investigator Brandan Smirnoff, 27, was sentenced to 22 months in prison for assaulting a handcuffed, 24-year-old man, announced U.S Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and FBI Special Agent in Charge James Jewell. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 45-year-old Houston man has been ordered to prison following his second conviction related to sex trafficking of minors, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An MCI-Cedar Junction inmate was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with smuggling drugs into the facility.
