News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Wednesday, May 29, 2019, Gene Earl Easterling, 47, of Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 63 months of imprisonment for bank fraud, mail fraud, and drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., Postal Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez of the Houston Division...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina is promoting the Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative throughout the Piedmont Triad area, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin. On May 28, 2019, the Middle District partnered with the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - Rosalio Emmanuel Sanchez, age 33, of Pasco, Washington, was sentenced on May 29, 2019, after having been convicted after a 5-day jury trial in March 2019, of one count of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division and U.S. Attorney James Kennedy, Jr. announced that a federal jury convicted Richard Lucas, 34, of Williamsville, N.Y., of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, 500 grams or more of cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and an $8,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, convicted a former tax return preparer, Aminta Smith, 32, of Charlotte, of filing false tax returns for her clients and herself, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray for the Western District of North Carolina.
By USDA Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -Nine U.S. Senators, led by Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today raised concerns that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will continue to allow foreign companies to profit from the Trump Administration’s plan to assist American farmers affected by their trade policies.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: A Guatemalan man living in New Philadelphia was indicted for making a false claim of United States citizenship, as well as illegally reentering the country.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities this morning arrested eight people named in a federal grand jury indictment that alleges check-kiting schemes that used hundreds of altered Armenian passports to fraudulently open bank accounts and steal nearly $1.5 million from Bank of America and Wells Fargo. A ninth defendant in this case is currently being sought by authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Four individuals were arrested and charged today in federal court in Boston in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On May 29, 2019, Larry Steven Covington Jr., 40, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas W. Phillips, Senior U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 180 months in federal prison. Covington pleaded guilty on May 28, 2019, to an information charging him with assault upon a federal officer, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and failure to surrender for service of sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Joseph W. Cronin, Inspector in Charge of the Boston Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned a three-count indictment yesterday charging MIGUEL ANGEL MENDEZ-URENA, 34, of Bridgeport, with cocaine trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that WALTER OLIVER, age 28, of New Orleans, pled guilty as charged to a one count federal indictment for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Federal law prohibits individuals who have been convicted of certain crimes from possessing firearms after being convicted.
By DOE Newswire | May 30, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy released a groundbreaking analysis detailing how the United States can benefit from the vast potential of geothermal energy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was charged today in federal court in Boston with distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Opioid Drug Dealer Attempted to Continue Illegal Drugs Sales from Prison.
By Commerce Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have teleported a computer circuit instruction known as a quantum logic operation between two separated ions (electrically charged atoms), showcasing how quantum computer programs could carry out tasks in future large-scale quantum networks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Two former deputies with the Cameron County Precinct 5 Constable’s Office have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right and wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Ryan Charles McCraw, age 39, of Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve 216 months (18 years) in federal prison, followed by 15 years on supervised release for the production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips. McCraw appeared at the sentencing hearing in custody, and was remanded at its conclusion.
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 3,212,924 visitors to Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial in 2018 spent $203.1 million in communities near the parks. That spending supported 2,947 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $255.4 million. Visitation at Cape Hatteras National Seashore was 2,591,056--the highest in 15 years.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Two Cleveland men were indicted for federal firearms offenses. John W. Bryant, 38, is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Bryant allegedly had a Ruger 9 mm pistol and 17 rounds of ammunition on Feb. 26, 2019, despite previous convictions for aggravated robbery with ...
