News from March 2019
By State Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) released a statement following the kidnapping and detention of Robert Marrero, chief of staff to interim President Juan Guaidó, by Nicolás Maduro’s intelligence forces.
By State Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement on Kazakhstan...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Terry Glaspie, 55, Chicago, Illinois was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 66 months in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute 100 grams for more of heroin. Glaspie pleaded guilty to this charge on Jan. 21, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph C. Paternostro, 28, of Hamburg, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute, and distribution of, five kilograms or more of cocaine and retaliating against a witness, was sentenced to serve 132 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. In addition, the defendant was ordered to forfeit $200,000 in drug proceeds.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: In honor of Women’s History Month, the U.S. Census Bureau released today a graphic showing median earnings by detailed occupation from the 2017 American Community Survey. The occupation table shows the female earnings for full-time, year-round workers in 2017 and figures on the number of women in select occupations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Quniton Kinyoun Peairs, 34, of Pascagoula, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA has been sentenced in federal court to eight years (96 months) in prison followed by five years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $4,000 in restitution on his conviction of armed robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Gene Williams III, 22, of Abbeville, Louisiana, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Dee. D. Drell to 14 months in prison for lying on a firearms application. Williams was also sentenced to three years of supervised release to follow imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Richmond, VA - Working with Richmond Police Detectives, the U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force in Richmond tracked an attempted murder suspect to Cary, North Carolina, within 24 hours of a March 19 shooting.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) announced the Full Committee will hold a hearing titled, “The Cost of Doing Nothing: Why Investment in our Nation’s Airports Matters." The hearing will explore the state of U.S. airport infrastructure...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Defendant Also Trafficked in Guns for Gang Members.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: Three men charged with federal crimes as part of the multi-agency investigation of the Sex, Money, Murder criminal street gang in Richmond County have been sentenced to prison terms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- Yesterday, United States Magistrate Judge Camille L. Vélez-Rivé authorized a criminal complaint against Ángel Gabriel Díaz-Rosado, charging him for attempted production of child pornography, coercion and enticement of minors, and transfer of obscene matter to a minor, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a California man for stealing identities and using them to open accounts at the Birmingham-based BBVA Compass Bank, as well as using them for access device fraud against residents of Hickory, North Carolina, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E, Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and willfully violating the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) by operating fraudulent and unregistered political action committees.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Stephen Cometa (63, Marion County) to 17 years and 3 months in federal prison for forcibly assaulting and resisting federal employees with a deadly and dangerous weapon, and for discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. A federal jury previously found Cometa guilty of the offenses on Dec. 13, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Dominican woman was sentenced today to two years in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ROY DAVID MELANCON, age 40, a resident of Independence, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Carl J. Barbier to 108 months after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with receipt of images...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Jeremy Hill, 41, of Twin Falls, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 130 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Hill was sentenced by U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill. Hill was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on March 13, 2018, and pleaded guilty on December 4, 2018.
