News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX- On March 26, 2019, Frankie Nez, 38, of Sanders, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 20 years in prison, followed by life time supervised release. Nez had previously pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual abuse by force.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DENROY FABLE, also known as “Kik," 35, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for firearm and narcotics offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LATIQUE JOHNSON, a/k/a “La Brim," a/k/a “Straight 2 Business," a/k/a “Breezy," a/k/a “Boss Dog," BRANDON GREEN, a/k/a “Light," a/k/a “Moneywell," and DONNELL MURRAY, a/k/a “Don P," were found guilty yesterday...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: United States Files Lawsuit Against California State Water Resources Control Board for Failure to Comply With California Environmental Quality Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX- On March 26, 2019, Daniel Braden, 33, of Spring, Texas was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to five years in prison. Braden had previously pleaded guilty to wire fraud for inducing clients to invest in fake opportunities he promoted. Braden was also ordered to pay $1,017,500 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Robert L. Minette, 32, Shakopee, Minnesota, was sentenced to nine years in federal prison today by U.S. District Court Judge William Conley on two counts of aiding and abetting bank robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm. Minette entered a guilty plea to these charges on Jan. 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: A Lorain man was indicted on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Michael Atkinson, 24, pleaded guilty today to kidnapping and conspiracy charges in connection with his involvement in a scheme using Grindr to target gay men for violent crimes, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox and Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Extrudex Aluminum, Inc., an aluminum manufacturing company in Mahoning County, with a parent company in Canada, was charged by information for misprision of felony in connection with a conspiracy to obstruct justice related to an investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Three Cleveland men were indicted on firearms charges. Leandre M. Jeter, 29 possessed a Palmetto State Armory PA-15 rifle and a RG Industries.22-caliber revolver on Jan. 25, despite a previous convictions for aggravated robbery with a firearm specification and being a felon in possession of a firearm, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Chicago Home Health Company Owner Convicted for Role in $3 Million Kickback Scheme.
By State Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Jim Risch (R-ID), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with their colleagues Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ron Johnson (R-WI), and Chris Murphy (D-CT), have introduced bipartisan legislation in support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and in recognition of the great accomplishments the organization has made over the past 70 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The former Yale University women’s soccer coach pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with accepting bribes to facilitate the admission of students to Yale as recruited athletes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Kwamaine Jerell Ford has pleaded guilty to logging into Apple accounts belonging to high-profile professional athletes and musicians without authorization and stealing credit card information from several of those victims.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
Release: WARWICK, R.I. - The number of passengers expected to fly this spring is expected to be the highest in years with more than 2.2 million passengers per day expected to pass through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints during the popular spring break travel period. Nationwide, TSA expects to screen 107 million passengers and crew from March 14 to April 28. This represents checkpoint volume growth of more than 3 percent compared to the same period in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Also Possessed Pistol with an Obliterated Serial Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton resident was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston to more than four years in prison for fentanyl distribution.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming -- The Bureau of Reclamation has scheduled a North Platte River Water Information Meeting in Torrington, Wyoming.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $7 million toward the research and development (R&D) of innovative subsurface geothermal technologies. DOE’s Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) will fund projects that will focus on improving geothermal drilling efficiency and cost reduction by addressing two of the most significant barriers: state of stress and lost circulation events.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ISMAEL MANGUAL, 43, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to heroin distribution and firearm possession offenses.
