News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: SEATTLE - Three members of an international drug trafficking organization pleaded guilty on March 25, 2019, in U.S. District Court in Seattle to distributing more than a thousand kilograms of marijuana. The defendants admitted in their plea agreements that they used money from conspirators in the Peoples...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Patricia L. Williams, age 63, of Binghamton, was sentenced today to 5 years of probation for stealing Social Security benefits deposited into her deceased husband’s bank account and for concealing her receipt of those benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was charged today in federal court in Boston in connection with trafficking fentanyl, false representation of a Social Security number, and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND- Marques Romale McCutcheon was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that multiple members and associates of a white supremacist gang known as the 1488s, have been arrested and charged for their alleged roles in a racketeering enterprise involving narcotics distribution, firearms trafficking, and acts of violence including murder, assault, and kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joseph W. Cronin, Inspector in Charge of the Boston Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, today announced that THOMAS PAPCIN, 48, of Naugatuck, pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to one count of mail fraud stemming from a fraudulent coupon scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Danien Brousseau, 40, of Manchester, was sentenced on Tuesday to 90 months in prison for bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Gabriel Dominguez, 31, of Hialeah, Florida, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Donald L. Graham to 240 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for distributing and possessing child pornography in connection with chats he had with minors over Instagram’s direct message feature and his cellular telephone.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was charged today in federal court in Boston in connection with trafficking fentanyl, false representation of a Social Security number, and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: CPA Andrew N. LaVigne Concealed Millions of Dollars from the Bankruptcy Court While Claiming Personal Bankruptcy and Defrauded a Client of $1 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM BURANK pled guilty today to defrauding investors in a scheme in which he solicited funds based on false and fraudulent pretenses to purportedly invest in dinar, the currency of Iraq. Upon obtaining...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Norwich Police Chief Patrick J. Daley today announced that, on March 5, 2019, a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment today charging 13 individuals with trafficking narcotics. The indictment was unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Yesterday, Shane Anthony Vernon, 28, from Kellyton, Alabama was arraigned in federal court on eight-felony charges, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. The eight charges include one count of kidnapping, two counts of carjacking, two counts of being a felon in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that the criminal complaint against Delshawn K. Trueheart, 43, of Buffalo, NY, has been amended to include an additional charge of production of child pornography. The defendant was arrested and charged by criminal complaint on March...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jorge Barron, age 21, and Ana Duenas, age 19, both of Boulder, Colorado, were sentenced for Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Ryan J. Fluke (28, Port Richey) to 21 months in federal prison for aiming a laser at a police helicopter. Fluke pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
Release: Congressman José E. Serrano (D-NY), Chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget request for NASA.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Jichun Zhang, 47, of Durham, was sentenced to two years of probation for stealing money from federal research grants, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that ARRINSON DE LA CRUZ, 39, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to drug charges related to his role in the large-scale importation of cocaine into the U.S.
