News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Robert Richard Jodoin (50, Flagler Beach) to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for importing GHB into the United States, distributing benzoyl fentanyl, possessing with the intent to distribute N-Ethylhexedrone, maintaining...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Lavitress Williams (39, Orlando) has pleaded guilty to five counts of wire fraud and five counts of passing counterfeit checks. She faces up to 20 years in federal prison for each wire fraud count, and up to 10 years’ imprisonment for each count of passing a counterfeit check. Williams will also be ordered to pay restitution to her victims.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Oklahoma returned a twelve-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging two individuals in connection with the theft and embezzlement of funds from business entities wholly owned by the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town (AQTT) of Wetumka, OK.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Mark Randy Magee, 61, of Purvis, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 10 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for transferring obscene materials to a minor under the age of 16, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - On 5/13/2019 Darunn Turner was arrested for First Degree Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Juan A. Torres, age 36, of Albany, pled guilty today to unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Thursday, May 16, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., the Committee on Oversight and Reform will hold a hearing on “HIV Prevention Drug: Billions in Corporate Profits after Millions in Taxpayer Investments."
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Communities across eastern Tennessee continued supporting Safety Fest TN this year, helping expand the weeklong annual program’s national reach through more than 100 free health and safety classes and demonstrations at nine area locations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Aliso Viejo man pleaded guilty this morning to federal charges stemming from a vehicular assault that severely injured an employee of U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the federal building in Laguna Niguel.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Kevin Clinton, age 62, of New Carlisle, Indiana was convicted on 4 counts of mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 10, 2019, Seth M. Rector (age: 37) was sentenced by the Honorable Chief Judge William C. Griesbach to two years in prison and eight years supervised release following his guilty plea to possession of...
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is preparing for summer and the upcoming Memorial Day weekend. The courtesy docks are in at Barry’s Landing and Ok-A-Beh. The Kane boat ramp is cleared and open. The docks and the floating comfort stations have been placed at Day Board 9, Black Canyon and Dryhead.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Wichita man pleaded guilty Monday to committing a liquor store robbery during which a clerk shot him in the leg, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against the Chinese Embassy Scam.
By USDA Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Marcia L. Fudge, Chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations, sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue in advance of a Senate hearing this morning to review the nomination of Naomi Earp as USDA Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights. Chair Fudge issued the following statement detailing her concerns with Ms. Earp’s nomination...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - Alan M. Thorkelson, 38, of Challis, Idaho, pleaded guilty last month to the unauthorized excavation of the Devil Canyon Archaeological Site in Challis, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Thorkelson was sentenced on April 29, 2019, by U.S. District Judge David C. Nye to pay $2,000 in restitution. At his sentencing hearing, Thorkelson apologized to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes for the damaged site.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: Raymond Moya Convicted of Selling Heroin Resulting in Death of.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A suspected drug trafficker who fled members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force in Pawtucket in early April and was arrested the next day in Fall River is facing a minimum of 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in federal court in Providence today to fentanyl and cocaine trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman and Joseph R. Bonavolonta, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - A federal jury has found Rudolph Randolph Meighan (28, Belize), Jorge Ramon Newball-May (48, Colombia), and Calbot Reid-Dilbert (59, Colombia) each guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while onboard...
