News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Hang T. Lam, 46, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with the unauthorized use, transfer, acquisition, and possession of USDA food stamp benefits. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced the selection of Audrey Strauss as Deputy U.S. Attorney and Craig A. Stewart as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Attorney. Ms. Strauss will replace Robert Khuzami on his departure April 12. Rob will return to his home in Washington DC after commuting to the Office weekly while serving as Deputy U.S. Attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that BRIA DAVIS, age 25, of New Orleans, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty yesterday before United States District Judge Carl J. Barbier to Theft of Mail by an Officer or Employee of the U.S. Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA -- 17 additional defendants indicted on drug trafficking and firearms charges as part of Operation Vanilla Gorilla have pled guilty in federal court, bringing to 33 the total number of guilty pleas only months after charges were filed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Yossi Avitan, a resident and citizen of Israel, has been sentenced to a five-month term of imprisonment for taking part in an international conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Solomon Cottrill, of Salem, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a methamphetamine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Sentenced to Two More Years in Prison Five Months After Starting Supervised Release.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy announced that it has awarded contracts from the recent Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) crude oil sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Sharoz Haywood, a/k/a “Baby Dreads," a/k/a “Rah," 22, of Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack," and distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Calvin Taylor, 51, of Yazoo City, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to embezzling parcels of mail during the course of his employment with the U.S. Postal Service, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Chris Cave with the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, Southern Area Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Danny Porter, of Salyersville, Kentucky, was convicted by a federal jury this week, for conspiring with two Indiana women to traffic oxycodone pills in Magoffin County. The jury also convicted Porter of possessing oxycodone pills with the intent to distribute them. Porter was acquitted of a firearm offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Dante Marice Martin, 37, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was sentenced on Thursday to 7 years in federal prison by United States District Judge David L. Bunning for conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin, fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Flores-Torres, 25, a citizen of Mexico living in Dunkirk, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Upon completion of his sentence, the defendant is subject to deportation proceedings.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) reached a consent decision with John P. McGraw (McGraw), a dealer buying and selling livestock on commission for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. The consent decision was signed by Administrative Law Judge, Jill S. Clifton, on Feb. 27, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: North Carolina Bloods Gang Member Sentenced to Prison for Racketeering Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: SENTENCES. Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal sentenced JORGE LOPEZ-TREJO, 36, of Hidalgo, Mexico on March 18, 2019 for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Lopez-Trejo was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received time served plus ten day to allow for...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rock Springs Wild Horse Holding Facility will host an adoption event April 12-13, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The BLM will offer approximately 60 wild horses during this adoption, including mares, geldings and weanlings. The horses were gathered in 2018 in the Green Mountain and Stewart Creek herd management areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On March 21, 2019, Ricardo Macias Saucedo, age 29, formerly of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, was sentenced by United States Chief District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to prison in the amount of time already served on the charge of unlawful re-entry into the United States, announced United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - U.S. Senior District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Richard Mel Phillips (36, Fruitland Park) to 18 months in federal prison for transmitting threatening communications in interstate commerce. Phillips had pleaded guilty on November 8, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today issued the following statement welcoming further steps from IRS to provide penalty relief during the first tax-filing season since the historic passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
