News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that John Casimere, 33, of Lake Charles, was sentenced to two years in prison by U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter for possessing a revolver. He was also sentenced to three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Sumner County man pleaded guilty today to trying to get out of a traffic ticket by pretending to be an FBI agent, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Lucas Ramirez-Hernandez, 28, an illegal alien from Guatemala, Jose Valdez-Santana, 36, an illegal alien from Mexico, and Angel Martinez-Garcia, 19, an illegal alien from Mexico, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to unlawful reentry by an alien after...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO - The U.S. Department of Justice today charged a Rancho Peñasquitos man with federal hate crimes, including the murder of one person and the attempted murder of 53 others, for his actions during the April 27 shooting at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue.
By Homeland Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2020 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee on Friday, May 10. The legislation funds the Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, and other international programs and activities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: For Possession of Firearm with Obliterated Serial Number and Stolen Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Dustin Slack, age 33, of Bentonville, Arkansas, was sentenced yesterday to 130 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, on one count of Possession with...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Matthew Woodrome, age 36, of Bentonville, Arkansas, was sentenced yesterday to 84 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for one count of Possession of Heroin with Intent to Distribute. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOL Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) signed a strategic partnership with Gilbane Building Co. to promote worker safety and health during construction of a 216,484 square-foot student center at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Nelson, 63, of Tonawanda, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, oxycodone, and hydrocodone within 1,000 feet of a private school. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of one year in prison, a maximum penalty of 40 years, and a $2,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that, DELTON WARREN, 55, of Fayetteville was convicted in federal court following a 2-day trial before United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan. The jury found WARREN guilty of felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, woman was convicted today of charges of forced labor, alien harboring for financial gain, and marriage fraud, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Civil Rights Division announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Eugene, Ore. - Clay Creek Recreation Site, located southwest of Eugene, Oregon will open on Friday, June 7, 2019. Damage caused by winter storms, which resulted in numerous trees being uprooted and repairs needed to the water system, led to the site opening two weeks later than normal.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an indictment against four defendants charged with conducting a wide-ranging business email compromise fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Defendant made more than 50 flights, taking off and landing in his from his backyard.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: For Possessing with Intent to Distribute Marijuana and Possession of Firearms in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Hector Vinicio Howell-Calvo, age 51, a legal resident of Canada and citizen of Costa Rica, pled guilty today to smuggling three Mexican citizens from Canada to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana announced that CHRISTOPHER LORELL ROBERTS, JR., age 41, a resident of Gretna, Louisiana, was charged today in a 29-count Indictment with wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343, and tax evasion, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7201.
By Homeland Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Unlawfully present Mexican national Juan Antonio Perez, 46, was indicted on federal felony charges May 7 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia pursuant to a years-long investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) that culminated in the simultaneous execution of six federal search warrants in Georgia and Tennessee last week resulting in the federal criminal charges issued Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Honduran man was sentenced today to 33 years in prison for leading a drug trafficking organization that smuggled at least thousands of kilos of cocaine into the United States over the last decade.
