News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - THOMAS BROUSSARD (“BROUSSARD"), age 69, of Houma, Louisiana, was sentenced Tuesday, May 14, 2019 for receiving child pornography, announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Raymond Hoak, of Kearnysville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 41 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Two Miami-Dade County, Florida residents were charged with participating in a scheme to fraudulently obtain Hurricane Harvey disaster-relief funds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - May 16, 2019 - Gerson Serrano-Ramirez, aka Frijole, 31, an illegal alien and MS-13 gang member from El Salvador, was sentenced today to 19 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. At the completion of his sentence, Serrano-Ramirez will be deported from the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Rodrecas Tims, 33, of Jackson, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 108 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Tims was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: A convicted felon who possessed and sold a firearm was sentenced on May 16, 2019, to more than one year in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: BOISE - A federal grand jury indicted ten members of an Idaho prison gang called the Aryan Knights on RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act) charges, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. The indictment results from an FBI investigation of the Aryan Knights at the request of the Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC).
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Loren John Jay Meade, age 32, of Moses Lake, Washington, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on Oct. 2, 2018, to conspiracy to distribute 50 or more grams of actual methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that eight individuals were charged in an indictment unsealed today with one count each of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Seven of those individuals were also charged with the actual kidnapping, and five of the individuals were charged with...
By US DOT Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) from today’s hearing entitled, “The Impacts of State-Owned Enterprises on Public Transit and Freight Rail Sectors":
By Homeland Newswire | May 16, 2019
Release: NORFOLK, Va., - A Virginia Beach man was caught by the Transportation Security Administration with a loaded handgun at a Norfolk International Airport checkpoint on Wednesday, May 15. It marked the fifth gun that TSA officers have caught at the airport so far this year. In 2018, TSA officers stopped 21 guns at the airport’s checkpoints.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury returned a second superseding indictment on May 14, 2019, charging Phillip Finn, Jr, age 48, of Plains Township, Pennsylvania, with attempted witness tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: ST. LOUIS -- Following a four-day trial, Dr. Dawn Rhodes, 43, presently of Atlanta, Georgia, was convicted of eight counts of engaging in a scheme to defraud Medicare and submitting false claims to Medicare. The trial took place before U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Autrey.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Heath Palmer, 39, of Manchester, was arrested on a federal complaint charging him with possessing a synthetic cannabinoid product containing 5F-MDMB-PICA with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By State Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Pompeo: We are deeply concerned by recent reporting that the 2019 State Department Report on Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments, which the State Department submitted to Congress on April 15, may have been the product...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury returned a second superseding indictment on May 14, 2019, charging Phillip Finn, Jr, age 48, of Plains Township, Pennsylvania, with attempted witness tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Jaceta Anya Streeter (38, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and wire fraud. She faces up to 20 years in federal prison on the wire fraud charge and a consecutive minimum mandatory term of 2 years in federal prison for the aggravated identity theft charge. Streeter was also ordered to pay restitution to her victims.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Previously convicted five times for state felony drug offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: With over 700 women in America dying of pregnancy-related deaths each year, tragically, experts view us as one of the most dangerous places in the industrialized world to give birth. This should not be the case. Pregnancy should be one of the happiest times in a woman’s life, not an experience filled with fear.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A complex transnational organized cybercrime network that used GozNym malware in an attempt to steal an estimated $100 million from unsuspecting victims in the United States and around the world has been dismantled as part of an international law enforcement operation. GozNym infected tens...
