News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Yehuda Belsky, the owner of Brooklyn-based Y Trading, LLC, pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud, one count of failure to register as a commodities trading advisor and one count of misappropriation of customer funds. The plea was entered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that LEROY SMITH, age 35, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of a fentanyl analogue and 100 grams or more of heroin and one count of possessing firearms in furtherance of his drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Michael Rickett, 23, of Saco, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 27 months in prison and three years of supervised release for selling an unregistered destructive device. Rickett pled guilty to the charge on Feb. 21, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tremaine McDowell, 37, Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury yesterday of burglarizing an apartment in Northwest Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Fargo - First Assistant United States Attorney Nicholas W. Chase announced that on June 24, 2019, U.S. District Judge James M. Moody, Eastern District of Arkansas, sitting by designation, sentenced Calvin Keith Delorme, age 30, Belcourt, ND, to 30 years confinement in a federal prison on the charge of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child Under 12 Years, to be followed by lifetime supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray Announces the Western District’s Heroin and Opioid Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John Michael Herron II, 38, of Stockton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to six years and three months in prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and identity theft, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed legislation to provide urgently needed humanitarian assistance for migrants at the southern border.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, Oliver Hurley, of Inscription House, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dominic W. Lanza to 18 months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release. Hurley had previously pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Robert McLain, 27, of Groveton, New Hampshire, was sentenced on Monday to serve 65 months in prison for participating in a fentanyl drug trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former candidate for the Hoboken City Council was convicted today of conspiring to promote a voter bribery scheme by use of the mail, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area has a fun mix of programs for July on both ends of the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, Oliver Hurley, of Inscription House, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dominic W. Lanza to 18 months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release. Hurley had previously pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Aldo German Arechiga-Gutierrez, a 45 year-old citizen of Mexico, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 18 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for unlawful reentry by an alien who was previously deported after a conviction for an aggravated...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Later today, the Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to consider four protocols to the United States’ tax treaties with Spain, Switzerland, Japan and Luxembourg.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 33-year-old man from Guatemala has entered a guilty plea to assaulting a Border Patrol (BP) agent and for illegally entering the country, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: A Lima man with a long history of violence was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for having firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 55-year-old Ryan Glenn Martinez to 76 months in federal prison for embezzling over $800,000 from his employer and his failure to pay the IRS over $300,000, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Goss, Houston Field Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Chairman Elijah E. Cummings convened a hearing examining Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security vulnerabilities and personnel diverted to the southern border entitled, “Identifying, Resolving, and Preventing Vulnerabilities in TSA's Security Operations."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2019
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Leonard Velazquez-Martinez, 50, of Minnesota, and Joseph Andrade, 38, of Bakersfield, were arrested Monday for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
