News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Clifton, New Jersey, man admitted today to owning and operating a variety of household goods moving companies in New Jersey that systematically extorted hundreds of customers, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Freemont and coconspirators brought pounds of meth from Omaha to sell in Sioux City near Cook Park.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents conducted a community outreach operation at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to educate some and remind other travelers about female genital mutilation (FGM) and HSI’s commitment to help the U.S. Government to end this practice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Washington, D.C. man today for his participation in a string of armed robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Charges Include Firearms, Drug Trafficking, Conspiracy, Embezzlement And Bomb Threat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance was sentenced on June 11, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By State Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a hearing on "NATO Expansion: Examining the Accession of North Macedonia", with witness testimony from Mr. Philip T. Reeker, acting assistant secretary, bureau of European and Eurasian affairs at the Department of State and Ms. Kathryn Wheelbarger, acting assistant secretary, international security affairs at the Department of Defense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that QUADELL DANIELS, 32, of New London, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking guns from Georgia to Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Two men accused of kidnapping a victim at gunpoint and torturing him with a blowtorch were indicted. One man is currently being detained in South Florida, and the second was arrested and is currently being detained in Spain.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A former financial advisor with a lengthy disciplinary history was arrested today pursuant to a federal grand jury indictment charging him with running a $14.5 million real estate fraud scheme by inducing victims to invest in his businesses and then using their money for personal expenses, including the down payment on a home in Upland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance has been sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Louis S. Boatner, 44, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 10 years in federal prison, followed by a four-year term of supervised release, for possessing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Fla. - Lonnie Jack Trowell, 31, of Lake City, Fla., was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine and possession with the intent to distribute five grams or more of actual methamphetamine. Trowell had pleaded guilty on March 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Antonio Broadus, 33, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By State Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Michael T. McCaul (R-TX), Ranking Member of the Committee, today congratulated the new co-chairs of the Congressional Argentina Caucus, Representatives James A. Himes (D-CT) and Jeff Duncan (R-SC)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Wildt caught selling meth after two prior felony drug convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Dr. Arnita Avery-Kelly, a licensed podiatrist, has been found guilty on federal charges of illegally prescribing opioid painkillers and other drugs at clinic locations purporting to provide podiatric care in Sandy Springs and Lithonia, Ga.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of, the first minibus of fiscal year 2020 appropriations bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Veronica Lewis was charged yesterday by Criminal Complaint in U.S. District Court with unlawfully possessing a firearm after having been adjudicated as mentally defective, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(4), and possessing a stolen firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(j). Lewis was arrested this morning, and will appear today in federal court in Burlington.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Goodson, Missouri, man linked to several alleged fraud schemes has been indicted by a federal grand jury for making false statements to federal investigators.
