News from March 2019
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 US DOT Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a full Committee markup and approved a slate of bipartisan measures by voice vote, including the Aviation Funding Stability Act, Notice to Airmen Improvement Act, Pay Our Coast Guard Parity Act, legislation to require...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Purdy, Mo., man has been convicted by a federal trial jury of possessing methamphetamine to distribute and of illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that two men pled guilty today to federal drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Alex Fields Jr., 21, the Ohio man who drove his car into a diverse crowd of counter-protestors on Aug. 12, 2017, killing one woman and injuring dozens, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to 29 counts of violating the federal Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Travis Lee Kisto, 40, of Sacaton, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 137 months in prison for crimes he committed on the Gila River Indian Community. Judge Humetewa sentenced Kisto to 120 months for felon in possession of a firearm and 105 months for...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Andrew N. LaVigne, age 66, of Lansing, New York, pled guilty today in federal court in Binghamton to bankruptcy fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, James Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Jamar Freeman, 27 years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Theresa L. Springmann after pleading guilty to attempted bank robbery and aiding and abetting, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Tommy Blake McCary, age 67, of Idabel, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Tampering With A Witness in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1512(b)(2)(C), punishable by not more than 20 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - MARKEZ LOUISE THOMPSON, 21, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for robbery affecting interstate commerce, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, the Committee on Oversight and Reform passed multiple bills to improve government ethics, protect federal inspectors general, and help formerly-incarcerated people obtain non-sensitive federal jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Wilkinsburg, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to violations of federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Jakwan Sweeney, 21, of St. Croix arrested yesterday on an indictment charging him with conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert, announced. Sweeney made his initial appearance before Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller and was detained pending further proceedings on March 29, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - At approximately 9:00 am on Tuesday, March 26, park dispatch received a missing person notification from a concerned family member for a 48-year-old male of Arizona believed to be in Glacier National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Felix Calderon-Valcarcel, 28, of Orchard Park, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with the intent to distribute, and distribution of, five kilograms or more of cocaine, maintaining a drug-involved premises, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - Joseph Lavern Harris, 31, of Rigby, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to sexual exploitation of a minor child, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis and Special Agent in Charge Brad Bench of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Seattle Field Office announced. Harris was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on March 27, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Braithwaite, Mr. Burt, and Mr. Poulos...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Ariel Mendoza, 27, a citizen of Dominican Republic, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing items of mail and conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: Wholesaler Repeatedly Ignored Warning Signs That Its Importer Was Falsely Underreporting the Value of Garments Imported Into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Amanze Antoine, of Mt. Vernon, New York, was sentenced today to 120 months incarceration for illegal firearms sales and cocaine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
