News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Robert Raniery Arias, 35, a citizen of the Dominican Republic who most recently resided in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced on Tuesday to serve 120 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A North Carolina man was sentenced today to 18 years in prison for committing two armed bank robberies.
By State Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following opening remarks today at a full committee markup of H.R. 2615, H.R. 2744, H.R. 598, H.R. 2140, H.R. 2023, H.R. 2046, H.Res. 129, H.Res. 372, H.Res. 345...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Mikhail Munoz, 31, originally of St. Croix, was charged with possession with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Munoz made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller on Tuesday and, after a detention hearing on Wednesday, Judge Miller ordered Munoz detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: For lying about child pornography offenses, defendant loses U.S. citizenship and is ordered back to China.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel sentenced Dionne Lamont Gatling, a/k/a “Cuffy," 53, of St. Charles, MO, to 27 years in prison for drug trafficking charges and the use of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIEL LION, 64, of Hamden, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of wire fraud stemming from a long-running embezzlement scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: Federal Grand Jury Charges San Fernando Valley Man with Planning Long Beach Terror Attack in Plot to Cause Mass Casualties.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Sandra Mae Evans, of Petersburg, West Virginia, has admitted to mail fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Twaine M. Willie, 28, of Farmington, N.M. was sentenced in federal court on Monday to 30 months in prison for assault causing serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 46-year old Brownsville resident has been ordered to federal prison for 18 years following his conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana plus failing to appear in court for sentencing, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kelly D. Brady, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, today announced that RAY QUAN SANTOS, 21, of Hartford, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with conspiracy and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On May 20, 2019, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a seven-count indictment charging 26 defendants with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and with firearms violations, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 114-count superseding indictment charging Robert Morgan, Frank Giacobbe, Todd Morgan, and Michael Tremiti, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud for their roles in a half billion...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Mexican citizen who was convicted in state court of a sex offense against a minor pleaded guilty today to illegally reentering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A North Carolina man was sentenced today to 18 years in prison for committing two armed bank robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: Connect, Create, Contribute. WASHINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington will host two Senior Awareness Events featuring fitness workshops, exercise classes and public safety seminars on May 23, 2019, and May 28, 2019, from 9:00...
By DOL Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Acosta: We write to express our strong opposition to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed rule to rescind the 2016 overtime rule and replace it with a rule that will leave millions of workers without overtime protection. The overtime protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced Clifton Eugene Battle, 35, of Raleigh to 48 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Battle pled guilty to one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon on Feb. 20, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND- Terry Brown, 33, of Gary, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen on his plea of guilty to distribution of cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
