News from July 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JON E. MONTROLL, a/k/a “Ukyo," was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman to 14 months in prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MIGUEL CLAUDIO, also known as “Mega," 36, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 96 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for firearm offenses related to a shootout in Hartford’s South End in April 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: One of five guns Despenas illegally purchased was found loaded, lying in a yard.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS -United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that an Indianapolis man was sentenced to 10 years and 1 day in federal prison for robbing a cell phone store in Indianapolis, Indiana. The sentence was handed down on July 11, 2019, after Andre Hamilton, 24, was found guilty of one...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tavor Tom, 18, of Shiprock, N.M. appeared in federal court today on a criminal complaint charging him with murder in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Cody Patrick Cannon, 31, a transient, pleaded guilty yesterday to bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and possession of reproduced U.S. Postal Service keys, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: A Palm Beach County resident was arrested on July 11, 2019, based on a complaint charging him with conspiracy to violate and attempted violations of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (18 U.S.C. 371 and 22 U.S.C. 2778).

By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Glacier National Park is midway through a parkwide pavement preservation effort. Pavement preservation -- including chip seal, slurry seal, microseal, or fog seal -- extends pavement life and saves in costly rehabilitation efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tavor Tom, 18, of Shiprock, N.M. appeared in federal court today on a criminal complaint charging him with murder in Indian Country.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 104,100 metric tons of corn for delivery to Panama during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 12, 2019-On June 7, 2019, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it was investigating a detection of genetically engineered (GE) wheat in an unplanted agricultural field in Washington State. The GE wheat plants in question were resistant to the ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: The United States today extradited Andres Felipe Arias Leiva, who served as Colombia’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development from 2005 to 2009, to face a prison sentence in that country based on a 2014 conviction by the Supreme Court of Colombia for two offenses committed while Arias served in public office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Offense Represents Fourth Felony Conviction. WASHINGTON - Artinis Winston, 43, of Northeast, D.C. pled guilty yesterday to his role in a large-scale narcotics conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Division of the U.S. Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that former U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah, Sr., 62, of Philadelphia, PA was resentenced to 10 years of incarceration by United States District Judge Harvey Bartle, III.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, or Wounding, and Simple Assault was sentenced on July 8, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kevin James Fox, 63, of Limestone, NY, who was convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 220 months in prison and lifetime supervised release by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man has been convicted on heroin trafficking, firearms and witness tampering charges, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An Illinois man was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a bank robbery.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Mark Manapsil, 35, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to distribution of cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for using a firearm while trafficking fentanyl, heroin and cocaine.