News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas W. Pilchak (619) 546-9709 or Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey D. Hill (619) 546-7924.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Today the U.S. Census Bureau convened the Investing in the American Workforce workshop, which focused on creating data-driven digital products for workers, businesses, investors and communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Five Perrine residents were arrested this morning for their involvement in a drug trafficking network believed to be the largest source of narcotics supply in the neighborhood of Perrine, as part of the Southern District of Florida’s Violence Reduction Partnership (“VRP") initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former postal carrier was sentenced in federal court today for stealing mail from dozens of residents and for possessing methamphetamine to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today Cesar Rivera-Figueroa, aka Fat Boy, 28, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise. The charge carries mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $2,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Electrical Engineer Convicted of Conspiring to Illegally Export to China Semiconductor Chips with Missile Guidance Applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: A 33-year-old resident of Clark County, Washington was sentenced July 1, 2019 to 66 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. JOSHUA ADAM HOOVER was on supervised release for illegally selling a firearm in 2011, when he sold methamphetamine to a person working with law enforcement. U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle imposed a four-year term of supervised release to follow this new prison term.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - Just before midnight on June 27, EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) received its 12,500th transuranic (TRU) waste shipment since operations began there in 1999.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Dean Volkes, 55, Donna Fallon, 54, both of Long Island, NY, and Devos Ltd., doing business as Guaranteed Returns, also located in Long Island, were sentenced to five years’ incarceration, one year and one days’ incarceration, and...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
Release: BURBANK, Calif. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is now offering full TSA Pre✓® screening benefits to eligible travelers departing Hollywood Burbank Airport’s Terminal B during peak travel times.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: A federal jury in Central Islip returned a guilty verdict today against Spencer Jean for Hobbs Act robbery of a marijuana trafficker, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice. The verdict...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. -A Burlington man who possessed firearms silencers and discussed using them to shoot into a Raleigh federal building was sentenced to five years in prison on June 28, 2019, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Defendant has 5 Felony Convictions over 13 Year Period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Concord, NH - Last Thursday, 2017 “Fugitive of the Week," Ramon Rivera Muniz, 31, was arrested during multi-state investigation involving agents from DEA, and law enforcement officers from both Massachusetts & New Hampshire. Muniz was originally wanted on a 2017 outstanding NH parole violation stemming from an original conviction and sentence for heroin possession, as well as a new heroin possession charge out of Hillsborough County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - U.S. Attorney Lawrence Keefe for the Northern District of Florida today announced the sentencing of William Larry Johns, 69, of Gainesville, after he was sentenced on June 24 in the United States District Court in Gainesville to a federal grand jury indictment that charged him with one count of theft of government money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that GREGORY ST. ANGELO (“ST. ANGELO"), age 54, a resident of St. Tammany Parish, pled guilty Friday, June 28, 2019 to conspiring to defraud First NBC Bank, the New Orleans-based bank that failed in April of 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Springfield with extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Christopher Lee Scott, age 37, of Marion County, was sentenced to six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to selling a firearm to a known convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - Four Houston men will serve the rest of their lives behind bars for the robbery and murder of an armored car guard and attempted robbery and murder of another, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
