News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Glendale police officer was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to a series of charges and admitted that he provided information to the Mexican Mafia that allowed an associate of the prison gang to escape justice for a time and that he also repeatedly mislead investigators who were probing his connections to the Mexican Mafia and Armenian organized crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: A U.S. District Judge has granted federal prosecutors’ motion to shut down a drug-infested hotel located just 1000 feet from a Dallas elementary school, U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Three defendants have been sentenced for their roles in a bribery scheme uncovered by an FBI investigation at Idaho Department of Correction’s (“IDOC") request to address concerns of corruption among IDOC correction officers, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. On March 7, 2019, Senior U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A former police officer who admitted to engaging in sexually explicit discussions via social media and text message with a 15-year-old girl and transferring obscene material to her while employed by the Narragansett Police Department was sentenced today to 21 motnths in federal prison, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NY - Victor M. Diaz, age 29, of Johnstown, New York, was arrested yesterday for possessing and intending to distribute a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Robert Khuzami, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced that JOHN GALANIS was sentenced today by the U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams to 10 years in prison for defrauding a Native American tribal entity and various investment advisory clients of tens of millions of dollars in connection with the issuance of bonds by the tribal entity and the subsequent sale of those bonds through fraudulent and deceptive means.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Dominican Republic national today admitted his role in a conspiracy to commit identity theft, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Travis L. McCryndle, a 33 year old resident of Bay Minette, Alabama was sentenced to 12 months and a day for possession of a Ruger.22, semi-automatic rifle after being convicted of Burglary 2nd Degree.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Joseph Lanckriet, 28, was sentenced on Thursday March 7, 201,9 in Omaha, Nebraska, by United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., for the crime of armed bank robbery. Judge Rossiter sentenced Lanckriet to 56 months’ imprisonment, a five-year term of supervised release, and ordered Lanckriet to make restitution in the amount of $27,278 to the SAC Federal Credit Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for Social Security fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Two Metro Denver men were found guilty earlier this week of drug trafficking crimes following a five day jury trial before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer, announced U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn and DEA Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Tim McDermott. Both of the defendants...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: MOAB, UT- The arrival of spring also brings extended hours of operation or reopening for Arches and Canyonlands national parks’ visitor centers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Southfield resident Mervin E. Hawk, 59, the former president of Local 1640 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), was sentenced yesterday for embezzling over $300,000 in union funds, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Springfield man was sentenced today to total of 16 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for receipt of child pornography and a supervised release violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Salem County, New Jersey, man with a previous felony record was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for illegally possessing guns and selling guns without a license, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Previous gun conviction did not deter Moritz from carrying a gun, and crashing a motorcycle during flight from police.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Alessandra P. Serano (202) 252-5843 or Joseph Orabona (619) 546-7951.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Juan Holmes, of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to his involvement in a heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation today announced that the marketing assistance loan rate for 2019-crop base quality upland cotton is 52 cents per pound.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury indicted a Gadsden man for two Nov. 25, 2018 carjackings announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr. and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
