News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An investigation by federal and local authorities has resulted in a federal racketeering case that charges 22 people linked to the MS-13 transnational gang, most of whom allegedly participated in a series of murders, including several slayings in which victims were hacked to death with machetes in the Angeles National Forest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Kansas City, Missouri, woman was sentenced to prison today for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft related to the filing of false tax returns announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Stephen R. McAllister for the District of Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -John Rallo, 53, formerly of St. Louis County, pleaded guilty to three counts of Honest Services Mail Fraud/Bribery. Rallo appeared in federal court this afternoon before U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber who accepted his plea and set sentencing for Oct. 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: A federal inmate is potentially facing more time behind bars after he was caught trying to smuggle prescription narcotics into prison. Steven W. Snook, 42, pleaded guilty earlier today to conspiring with a licensed practical nurse and others to bring Suboxone (buprenorphine and naloxone) into the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: A Hillsborough County resident pled guilty to all counts of a Superseding Indictment charging him with armed robbery of the Ocean Five Hotel on South Beach, discharging a firearm at a Miami Beach Police Department officer while fleeing after the robbery, and unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition as a previously convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - Early this morning, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the U.S. Border Patrol led a large-scale enforcement action targeting a methamphetamine and heroin drug trafficking organization with ties to a Washington...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Enrico Fionn Hernandez, of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, appeared today in federal court on drug charges after being indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg on May 21, 2019, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Leaman George Crews, III, 44, of St. James, Missouri, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for wire fraud in connection with his scheme to defraud the company he worked for - Brewer Science Incorporated (BSI), Rolla, Missouri. Crews appeared today before U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Violet Anne Golden and Stephanie Barnes with a variety of offenses, including Conspiracy to Commit Theft from Programs Receiving Government Funds and Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that ANILESH AHUJA, a/k/a “Neil," the founder, chief executive officer, and chief investment officer of Premium Point Investments LP (“PPI"), a Manhattan-based investment firm that managed...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - - Annually, sea turtles make a quick trip to the beaches of Cape Lookout National Seashore to nest. The number of recorded sea turtle nests within the park this year has topped previous records. As of July 15, Cape Lookout resource managers have recorded 404 established nests, with additional nests still likely through September. The previous record was 352, back in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla.- A federal judge sentenced Juan Alberto Flores-Jimenez, age 34, a/k/a Juan Cantu, a/k/a Stoner, of Tamaulipas, Mexico, to 17 years in federal prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Flores-Jimenez had pleaded guilty on Feb. 7, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An investigation by federal and local authorities has resulted in a federal racketeering case that charges 22 people linked to the MS-13 transnational gang, most of whom allegedly participated in a series of murders, including several slayings in which victims were hacked to death with machetes in the Angeles National Forest.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - DOE recently honored the Savannah River Site ’s (SRS) aviation department with an excellence award, presented annually to the top program across the DOE complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Unterria Rogers, a 33 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced to 60 months in prison as a result of his conviction for use of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Francisco Guevara-Zamudio on Monday to a 120-month term of imprisonment to be served in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Guevara-Zamudio, of Arizona, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced Andrew Jonathan Bowles, 28, of Benson to 360 months’ imprisonment, followed by 15 years of supervised release. Bowles pled guilty to one count of manufacturing child pornography on Jan. 24, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces today that United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced JERRY LATWAN HARRIS, JR., 26, of Raleigh, North Carolina, to 48 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised released.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - ITT Cannon has agreed to pay the United States $11 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that it supplied electrical connectors to the military that had not been properly tested, the Justice Department announced today. ITT sold the untested connectors both directly to the Government and through distributors and other government contractors which incorporated them into technology and equipment sold to the Government.
