News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Cedar Knolls, New Jersey, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, March 21, 2019-In a basic survey of more than a thousand pork kidney samples, almost no veterinary drug residues were found and none at levels that even approached U. S. regulatory limits, according to a study just published by an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist in Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - In connection with the U.S. Attorney’s Office continuing efforts to reduce violent crime through the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative, U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich today announced the results of three sentencings in firearms-related cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Miguel Leon Bejarano, age 25, of Irving, Texas, was sentenced to 5 months’ imprisonment and 4 years of supervised release for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349. The charges arose from an investigation by the Lighthorse Police Department, the Waxahachie Police Department, and the United States Secret Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Mediha Medy Salkicevic, a/k/a Medy Ummuluna, a/k/a Bosna Mexico, 38, pled guilty today to one federal count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Salkicevic appeared today before Judge Catherine D. Perry who accepted her plea and set her sentencing for June 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Two Tribes Receive $1.28 Million in Northern District of Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- A recent National Park Service report for 2018 shows that Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) was on track to surpass the number of visits from the previous year but then the Woolsey Fire struck on November 9, 2018. There were 867,154 visits recorded total for the year - a decrease of about 61,409 visits from 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DAWN CONRAVEY, age 38, of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to participating in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy throughout the New Orleans area. Specifically CONRAVEY pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture of methamphetamine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. '' 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(B) and 846.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that James Hill, of Philadelphia, PA, was convicted at trial of one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Sentencing is scheduled before United States District Judge Gerald McHugh.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Jason Earl Hill (53, Ingles) to 15 years in federal prison for bank robbery. The court also ordered Hill to make restitution to Center State Bank, N.A., in the amount of $2,250.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- Cody Eugene Mobley, 29, of Montgomery, Alabama was convicted last week of federal drug trafficking and firearms charges, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., DEA Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley, ATF Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson, and Montgomery Police Chief Ernest Finley.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: California Resident Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Over $1.6 Million of Taxpayer Money.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - City of Chicago Alderman WILLIE B. COCHRAN pleaded guilty today to a federal fraud charge for pocketing money from a charitable fund intended to help families and children in his South Side ward.
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: Jackson, Miss. - Jerome Steve, 33, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 540 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for second degree murder, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Steve was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: High Ranking Member of the Gangster Disciples in Tennessee Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Racketeering Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - DEA New Jersey Division Special Agent in Charge Susan A. Gibson and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced the arrests of three men in the takedown of a major fentanyl and heroin mill in Harrison, N.J., whose drugs have been linked to 227 overdoses, including 84 deaths. Approximately 32,500 individual doses and four kilos of fentanyl and heroin were seized in the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An Orleans investment adviser was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for defrauding her clients of more than $3 million and using those funds for her own expenses.
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: SANTA ANA, California - A federal grand jury has returned a four-count superseding indictment charging three men with conspiring to sell 100 pounds of methamphetamine at a luxury hotel in Huntington Beach.
