News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that on July 11, 2019, Chief United States District Judge Daniel L. Hovland sentenced Lonnie Alonzo Howard, age 48, of Bismarck, North Dakota, on charges of Possession of Firearm and Ammunition by a convicted felon, and Escape. Judge Hovland sentenced Howard to serve 17 1/2 years imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. On April 11, 2019, a federal jury found Howard guilty on both counts.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: July 8, 2019 Contact: David Wooldridge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - William Timothy Hopmeier, 48, of Des Peres, pled guilty to two counts of Production of Child Pornography. Hopmeier appeared before United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig and set sentencing for Oct. 23, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Anas Alshurafa, 50, of St. Louis County, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and three counts of wire fraud this morning before Chief Judge Rodney Sippel in St. Louis. Judge Sippel accepted Alshurafa’s plea and deferred sentencing until October 4, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Springfield on the charge of extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ryan Kleinschmidt, 25, Merrill, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 54 months in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Kleinschmidt pleaded guilty to these charges on April 11, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Gary B. Shaffer, 60, the former Chief of Police in Manning, has pleaded guilty in federal court to theft of federal funds and making a false statement.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - In response to news that Turkey began receiving the first shipment of the Russian S-400 surface-to-air-missile system, U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Tyler Scher, age 30, of Mount Pleasant, was sentenced in federal court in Charleston after pleading guilty to one count of Distribution of Fentanyl, three counts of Wire Fraud, and three counts of Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: CORONADO, Calif. - On July 11, 2019, Vice President Mike Pence, Office of National Drug Control Policy Director James W. Carroll, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon, and Vice Admiral Linda Fagan, commander of Coast Guard Pacific Area, attended a United States Coast Guard drug offload at Naval Base Coronado.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officers arrested 20 criminal aliens and immigration violators during a five-day enforcement surge focused on immigration fugitives with a final removal order and a criminal conviction(s) or a criminal charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Chicago attorney Edward Lee Filer, consultant Robert Joseph Gereg and business owner Paul Michael Kelly have been indicted on wire and bankruptcy fraud charges alleging that they created a sham secured creditor with a senior lien on all of the assets of Kelly’s Chicago company, Barsanti Woodwork Corporation, for the purpose of fraudulently shielding the assets from legitimate creditors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that defendants Khaiyri Burgess, 20, and Shaquan Johnson, 20, both of Philadelphia, PA, were charged by Indictment today with Hobbs Act robbery and using, carrying and brandishing a firearm during commission of that crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Kia Zolfaghari pleaded guilty today to charges regarding his role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, as well as to related weapons and money laundering charges, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen. The plea was accepted by the Honorable Susan Illston, Senior United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: After a lengthy investigation into the criminal conduct of various street gangs operating in and around Miami Gardens, Florida, a federal grand jury indicted 22 people in Miami on charges that include drug trafficking, armed drug trafficking, dealing in firearms, and firearm possession by convicted felons. Some of the defendants are members and known associates of the Zone 3 gang, a Miami Gardens based gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Defendant Was Arrested at Location Where He Previously Sold Narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Colombian National Pleads Guilty to Operating an International Fentanyl Trafficking Organization from a Canadian Prison.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C.- Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Congressman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the Committee, today made the following statement on Turkey’s acquisition of the Russian S-400 air and missile defense system...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A South Carolina couple was indicted today on charges stemming from their conspiracy to obtain a U.S. passport by falsely claiming they were the parents of a baby from the Philippines and by using false records to apply for a U.S. passport for the baby, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Sherri A. Lydon of the District of South Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: BAR HARBOR, ME - While July 4th was comparably quiet at Acadia National Park, Friday July 5th and the following weekend saw park staff swamped with calls for assistance and closing roads due to traffic congestion. According to Acadia National Park Social Scientist Adam Gibson, July 5, 2019 was the busiest...
