News from May 2019
By US DOT Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) understands airport safety and security concerns raised by the malicious or errant use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The agency shares these concerns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of possession of a prohibited object in prison, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: EASTON, PA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Martin Castro-Molina, a/k/a “Jose Noe Galsano-Castellano", 42, of Bethlehem, PA was found guilty by a federal jury of one count of reentering the United States after deportation. He was removed from the United States on three prior occasions...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - KEVIN WIECK, of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to six years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By US DOT Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about how to avoid loss of control (LOC) accidents.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Mason County man who threatened two employees of the Putnam Public Service District with a machinegun and stole their company truck last year in Teays Valley was convicted today after a one-day bench trial of multiple federal offenses. Justin Michael Wilson, 20, was convicted of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Lewis County Magistrate Roger D. Clem, Jr. and Gilmer County Magistrate Alton L. Skinner, II were indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges involving wire fraud, mail fraud, and obstruction charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: An Idaho man who conspired to obstruct justice pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids. David Emerson Smith, from Pocatello, Idaho, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to obstruct, influence, and impede an official proceeding.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for producing child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released its fiscal year 2020 302(b) subcommittee allocations and its report accompanying the fiscal year 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - KEVIN WIECK, of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to six years in prison for wire fraud and money laundering, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hoboken, New Jersey, man today admitted promoting a voter bribery scheme in two city elections, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today that Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Roberts was awarded the Outstanding Safety and Security Award for his dedication to prosecuting violent crime in Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - NATHANIEL LOUIS, age 45, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty May 2, 2019 before the Honorable Carl J. Barbier to an indictment charging him with violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former chiropractor with offices in Lakewood, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for evading income taxes totaling more than half a million dollars from 2012 through 2015 and failing to report a Russian bank account, to which he wired more than $1.5 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By State Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer today made the following statement on the recall of Ambassador Masha Yovanovitch from her post in Ukraine...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Allen Griffin (23, Coral Springs) to four years and nine months in federal prison for his role in a check counterfeiting scheme. The court also ordered Griffin to pay nearly $80,000 in restitution to financial institutions. Griffin had pleaded guilty on Feb. 21, 2019, to seven counts of bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was convicted by a federal trial jury today of illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Julion Adamski Parker, a/k/a Julian Iden Lima, 27, of Chester, pleaded guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and making a false statement during the acquisition of a firearm, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Michael Todd Barrick, aka Kentuckyana Jones, age 56, of Smiths Grove, Kentucky, pleaded guilty to five counts of bank fraud on Monday in United States District Court in Louisville, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman. Barrick also stipulated to a loss of over $1.4 million. Barrick’s codefendants, Roger Hagan, Lorri Hughes, and Garry Hammer, all pleaded guilty in April.
