News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Brian E. Jordan, 51, of Olney, Illinois, was sentenced today to 108 months in federal prison on methamphetamine-related charges. Jordan had previously pleaded guilty to three counts in a federal indictment returned late last year. Counts 1 and 2 charged that on October 25 and 26, 2018, Jordan distributed methamphetamine. Count 3 charged that on Oct. 27, 2018, Jordan possessed with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced over $79 million in funding for bioenergy research and development including biofuels, bioproducts, and biopower. This funding supports DOE’s goal of providing consumers and businesses with a range of domestic energy options that are affordable, reliable, and secure.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Greek shipping companies, Avin International LTD and Nicos I.V. Special Maritime Enterprises, were sentenced today in the Eastern District of Texas before Judge Marcia A. Crone on charges stemming from several discharges of oil into the waters of Texas ports by the oil tanker M/T Nicos...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 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 that VICTOR GONZALEZ was sentenced yesterday in White Plains federal court...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal agents this week arrested seven people indicted in April on charges that they conspired to distribute marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Washington, D.C. man was sentenced today to six and a half years in prison for in prison for his role in a marijuana conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Robert McKenna, 48, of Indian Township, Maine; Renita Honea, 57, of Jonesport, Maine; Chandra Hanscom, 44, of Cutler, Maine; Barry McCarthy, 43, of Columbia, Maine; Cody Look, 30, of Cutler; William Smeal, 32, of Hancock, Maine; Ralph...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging WILLIAM MOORE, 39, of Waterbury, with drug trafficking and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Javier Tellez-Lopez, 38, an illegal alien from Mexico living in South Carolina, pled guilty yesterday before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to conspiracy to transport illegal aliens within the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Jere T. Miles, Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former Camden County, New Jersey, man today admitted perpetrating a long-running scheme to defraud the U.S. Treasury Department of millions of dollars by falsely claiming federal rebates for solar panels his company never installed, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man was sentenced today to more than 17 years in prison for the unlawful possession of ammunition by a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Fire managers with the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire and Aviation Management Unit are planning to burn up to 200 acres of Bureau of Land Management administered lands 18 miles south of Grand Junction on Sunday.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - May 3, 2019 -Randall Griffin, 46, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was sentenced today to 27 months in federal prison, for operating an embezzlement scheme, during which he stole more than $1 million from his former employer, Lasko Products, LLC., announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: International “Malvertiser" Extradited from the Netherlands to Face Hacking Charges in New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: DALLAS - DEA and its law enforcement partners have now collected nearly 12 million pounds of unused or expired prescription medications over the course of 17 successful DEA National Prescription Drug Take Back events. During the 17th semiannual event on April 27, the Take Back initiative saw new records...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Trenton Farnsworth, of Weston, West Virginia, was sentenced this week to 215 months incarceration for methamphetamine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Crystal Key Hensley, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced this week to 30 months incarceration for operating a drug house, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A Salvadoran fugitive and 18th Street Gang associate, who is wanted for aggravated homicide in his home country, was arrested in Sioux Falls Wednesday by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced today that Derrick Washington, 41, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to serve 70 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that SANTOS EVELIO NOLAZCO, age 48, a native of Honduras, was charged yesterday in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
