News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A felon who admitted to threatening to “blow up the house" was sentenced today 57 months in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a 12-inch pipe bomb, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada.
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: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Uford Davis, a 44 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to 12 months in prison as a result of his conviction for possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: One year ago, the Justice Department announced the formation of Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (S.O.S.), a program designed to reduce the supply of deadly synthetic opioids in high impact areas as well as identifying wholesale distribution networks and international and domestic suppliers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Jose Manuel Cristobal-Joaquin, 33, an illegal alien from Mexico, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to unlawful reentry by an alien after removal, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, and Scott Sutterfield, Acting Field Office Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: A prolific sextortionist has been brought to justice in the Southern District of Illinois. Joshua P. Breckel, 21, of Mascoutah, Illinois, was sentenced today to 420 months in federal prison after spending years exploiting and blackmailing young girls over the internet. The sentencing comes three months...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Defendant Received Information From Former Investment Bank Analyst Tied to Case Against NFL Linebacker.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: With summer in full swing and temperatures rising at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, the National Park Service would like to remind visitors to wear their life jackets when they are in, on, and around the water.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) during today’s hearing titled: “Oversight of the Federal Transit Administration’s Implementation of the Capital Investment Grant Program."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Madison County woman has agreed to resolve civil allegations that she violated the False Claims Act, a federal law that prohibits the submission of false or fraudulent claims, agreeing to pay the federal government, after admitting that she falsified timesheets that caused her to wrongfully receive federal funds from the AmeriCorps Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Drug Enforcement Administration are working together with our local partners to investigate the violent acts that transpired last night in Old San Juan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Colin Harle, 23, of Portland, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to holding for sale counterfeit drugs and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy. B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Juan Alberto Flores-Jimenez (34, Tamaulipas, Mexico), a/k/a Juan Cantu, a/k/a Stoner, 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 February 7, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Today, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Robert K. Hur, officials from the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Baltimore Police Department, the Office of the State’s Attorney’s for Baltimore City, and other federal law enforcement officials ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: The Defendant Allegedly Conspired with Former Buncombe County Manager to Use $575,000 in County Funds to Sponsor Equestrian Activities in North Carolina and Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Ryan Cody Goodman, a 29 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to 57 months of incarceration for possession of a five stolen firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that James Bernard Braddy, 43, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced in federal court. Braddy pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 62 kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A criminal complaint has been filed in federal court charging a resident of Brackenridge, PA., with the July 10, 2019 armed robbery of the Allegheny-Ludlum Brackenridge Federal Credit Union, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: The Affected Brokerage Firms Lost More Than $2 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: A superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging 17 members and associates of the Makk Balla Brims set of the Bloods street gang with crimes related to their participation in a robbery crew that used guns and violence to steal property over a nine-month period in 2017...
