News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 2, 2019, Marcus Hutchins, aka “MalwareTech," pleaded guilty to two counts relating to his creation and distribution of the Kronos banking Trojan and UPAS Kit malware. This includes one count of...
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 RAEKWON OVERSTREET, 23, of Waterbury, with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: FBI and Chula Vista PD Request Assistance to Identify Chula Vista Credit Union Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Toyosi Alatishe, a/k/a Felix Victor Johnson, age 49, of Columbia, Maryland, today to 11 years in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for a conspiracy to commit credit/debit card fraud, wire fraud, and for aggravated...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CHARLES WILKERSON, 37, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of distribution of 28 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack").
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: A South Carolina man was indicted in federal court in Cleveland on charges of kidnapping and obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - Benjamin Drake Daley and Michael Paul Miselis, members of the white-supremacist organization known as the Rise Above Movement (RAM), pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville to one count of conspiracy to riot in connection with the August 2017 “Unite...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Two Greek Shipping Companies Sentenced After Illegally Discharging Oil Into Texas Port Waters.
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2019
Release: WARWICK, R.I. -A Providence County, Rhode Island, man was stopped yesterday, May 2, after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at T.F. Green International Airport (PVD) caught him with a loaded handgun at the security checkpoint. It marked the first gun caught at the airport’s checkpoint this year. Last year TSA officers detected four firearms at the PVD Airport checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: The last of four defendants was sentenced to prison their roles in a conspiracy to defraud the MetroHealth Hospital System and others through a series of bribes and kickbacks totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars related to the hospital’s dental program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, Ga: A career criminal who pled guilty to robbing a convenience store was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Aesha Rivers, age 43, of St. Croix, was found guilty yesterday, following a federal jury trial in the St. Croix District Court of 48 counts of Wire Fraud; 1 count of Theft of Government Money; and 1 count of False Statement to Government, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. The jury acquitted Rivers on an additional 27 counts of Wire Fraud. Trial commenced on April 30, 2019 and concluded on May 2, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 2, 2019, Marcus Hutchins, aka “MalwareTech," pleaded guilty to two counts relating to his creation and distribution of the Kronos banking Trojan and UPAS Kit malware. This includes one count of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jeffry Robtoy, 49, of St. Albans, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont, to serve 42 months in prison after his guilty plea to distribution of heroin and cocaine base. Chief U.S. District Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford also ordered Robtoy to serve a three year term of supervised release upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: MACON - A defendant linked to bank robberies in three Middle and Southwest Georgia cities during September 2017 entered a guilty plea in Macon federal court Thursday, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Clifford Terrell, 44, of Barnesville, GA...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Goochland man was sentenced today to more than 15 years in prison for possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Damien Nixon, 40, was sentenced to 240 months imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of 50 grams of actual methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas E. Ozga, age 30, of East Nassau, New York, was arrested today on a charge of possessing unregistered firearms.
