News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Savannah man has been indicted on charges of production of child pornography and possession of child pornography. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Browning man on Monday admitted to strangling a woman during an argument in a vehicle on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in September 2018, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a narcotics trafficker from the Dominican Republic yesterday who was involved in a multi-million dollar deal to obtain a large quantity of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Kristopher Michael Williams, 33, of Moss Point, Mississippi, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - On Tuesday, March 19, 2019, Nathaniel Thomas, Jr., 29, of St. Croix, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge George Cannon, Jr., to escape from custody, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Sentencing is scheduled for July 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Tax Fraud (Part 1).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ELVIN FRANCISCO ALVAREZ-IZAGIRREZ, age 37, a native of Honduras, was charged Thursday, March 14, 2019 in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD JOSEPHBERG pled guilty today to one count of tax evasion and three counts of willful failure to file tax returns. In particular, JOSEPHBERG admitted that he deliberately evaded the assessment...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Khalil N. Al-Mashni, a 50 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $1,008.96.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: Des Moines, Iowa - On March 13, 2019, Ryan Nicholas Haynes, age 28, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose for Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Haynes was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Burlington man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegally possessing 30 pieces of ammunition.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: On Monday, March 11, 2019, the Department of Energy (DOE) rolled out its fiscal year (FY) 2020 budget request, which includes approximately $303 million for the Office of Legacy Management (LM). This FY 2020 budget request is approximately $144 million above the FY 2019 enacted. LM expects to transition...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Darrell Dewayne Roberts Jr., age 31, of Alma, Arkansas, entered a guilty plea to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), punishable by not less than 10 years and not more than life imprisonment, a fine up to $10,000,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Jeanette Elizabeth Ford has been sentenced for embezzling over $1.27 million from her now-bankrupt former employer, Classic Party Rentals (CPR). Ford was convicted of wire fraud on May 14, 2018, after she pleaded guilty to a criminal information.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: Applications for liability protections under the Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies (SAFETY) Act have steadily increased since its introduction as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Over time, the Office of SAFETY Act Implementation (OSAI) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has recognized ways to improve the process.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Daroy Murphy was sentenced to one year and three months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and para-fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl in 2018, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Golden Kingdom Produce Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Wolf Point resident Andrew Preston Martell admitted on Monday he had been drinking and driving under the influence on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation last October when he crashed his vehicle, killing one of his passengers, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: Des Moines, Iowa - On March 13, 2019, Ryan Nicholas Haynes, age 28, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose for Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Haynes was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeremy Custer, 36, of Norwich, NY, pleaded guilty to attempted coercion and enticement of a minor before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 1) years in prison and a maximum of life.
