News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Zachary A. C. Benoit, 28, of Canaan, was sentenced to 156 months in prison for transportation and possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the unsealing today of an Indictment charging TODD CAPSER with defrauding...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christopher Wiesner, 32, of Watkins Glen, NY, who was convicted of attempted possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine was sentenced to 130 months In prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Madison, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Antron Allen, 34, Wausau, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 11 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine. Allen pleaded guilty to this charge on Nov. 28, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Three men who violated the Lacey Act in Yellowstone National Park (an act that prohibits hunting in the park) have been sentenced in federal court. The men, from Livingston, Montana, were charged with illegally hunting a male mountain lion in the northern section of the park, north of the Yellowstone River, Dec. 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: A Weston resident was sentenced today to federal prison for two bank robberies and an attempted carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Albert Hessberg III, age 64, an attorney residing in Slingerlands, New York, pled guilty today to stealing at least $2 million in the course of defrauding his former clients and law firm.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2020 Labor-HHS-Education bill.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Men from Mansfield and Perry were indicted in federal court on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jason Guck, 43, of Victor, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and filing a false tax return for the year 2012, was sentenced to serve seven months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: News Conference Set for Wednesday, May 8, at 2 p.m. ET at U.S. Courthouse in Pittsburgh.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - RANDOLPH ARD (“ARD"), age 62, of Kentwood, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty May 3, 2018 to Possession of Child Pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252(a)(4)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging JOSEPH GRIFFIN, 42, of Hartford, with two counts of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, has announced that yesterday, a federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment against Tyler A. Blackmon (age: 28) of Prattville, Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: OMAHA, Neb.,- The United States Drug Enforcement Administration collected nearly 469 tons of unwanted medication at the 17th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day event, April 27, with a record-setting 6,398 sites hosted by more than 5,000 law enforcement partners. In Nebraska, 5,661 pounds of potentially...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Two leaders of a Houston-based robbery conspiracy were sentenced to more than a dozen years in prison each this week, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging PERCY LEE STROTHER JR., 47, with two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. STROTHER will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Aaron C. Collins, 37, of Lincoln, was sentenced today to four years, (48 months), in federal prison by Chief United States District John M. Gerrard on each of two counts of possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine actual (pure). The two sentences will run concurrently (at the same time). Following the prison term, Collins will serve five years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Peruvian Man Pleads Guilty to Operating Spanish-Speaking Call Center that Threatened and Extorted U.S. Consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: A Weston resident was sentenced today to federal prison for two bank robberies and an attempted carjacking.
