News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Anitra Edmond, age 43, of New Carrollton, Maryland, the treasurer for the “Friends of Tawanna P. Gaines" campaign committee, pleaded guilty today to a federal wire fraud charge, admitting that she converted more than $35,000 in campaign funds to her personal use.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that COLBI TRENT DEFIORE, age 27, a resident of Carriere, Mississippi, was charged November 7, 2019 by a federal grand jury in a one-count indictment with intentionally accessing a protected computer in excess of authorization for the purpose of commercial advantage and private financial gain, and in furtherance of the commission of a felony, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 1030(a)(2)(C).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Note to editors: High-resolution public domain images available on Flickr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Jason Paul Schaefer, 28, of Beaverton, Oregon, was sentenced today to 40 years in federal prison and 5 years’ supervised release for detonating an improvised explosive device on Oct. 11, 2017, assaulting two members of the Portland Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - An indictment unsealed today charges former Prattsville Town Supervisor Kory O’Hara, age 42, and Prattsville resident Stephen Baker, age 68, with fraud relating to grants extended to Prattsville in the wake of Hurricane Irene.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Detroit Police Department Officer, Deonne Dotson, was convicted today by a federal jury in Detroit on six charges of extortion announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Tara Sabatini, 44, of St. Charles, Missouri, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday, November 7, 2019, on three counts of wire fraud. She appeared this afternoon for her initial appearance.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALBERTO SILVA-GARCIA, 44, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 18 months of imprisonment for violating the conditions of his supervised release that followed a conviction for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported. The sentence will run consecutively to a 42-month prison term that Silva-Garcia is currently serving.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging SHELBY GENE BOSWELL, 28, a convicted felon, with possessing and discharging a firearm in a school zone.[1] BOSWELL will make his initial appearance today at 2:00 pm before Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Cowan Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Eleven Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today expressing growing concern that the FCC is failing to protect consumers’ privacy by refusing to hold wireless carriers accountable for unauthorized disclosures of consumers’ real-time location data.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Forestville, Maryland man pleaded guilty today to making false statements in order to illegally purchase firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Defendant directed man to sexually abuse the man’s eight-year-old autistic daughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A Harris County judge has been indicted on allegations of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI - Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Defendants Were Drug Suppliers and Armed Enforcers for the Nineties Crew.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that VINSON SINGLETON, JR., 25, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to a federal robbery offense.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: TRUCKEE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today announced the suspension of Boca Dam seismic modifications project for the 2019/2020 winter within the next week. The reservoir has been operating at around half its capacity, about 28-feet lower than maximum water levels, in summer and fall of 2019 during construction.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 24-year-old man from Zacatecas, Mexico, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of assaulting three Border Patrol (BP) agents, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Luis Gustavo Ramirez-Saucedo pleaded guilty June 25.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C., November 8, 2019 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will make available $800 million to agricultural producers in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia affected by hurricanes Michael and Florence. The state block grants are part...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida Lawrence Keefe.
