News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 54-year Mexican citizen who illegally resided in Houston has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute meth, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Salvador Naranjo-Sosa pleaded guilty April 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Jonathan Shane Blakeley, 25, of Vallejo, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - James Robert Dorsey III, age 29, of Oxon Hill, Maryland, has pleaded guilty to federal charges for possession with intent to distribute marijuana and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The guilty plea was entered on Oct. 2, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of Romania has been sentenced in federal court to 34 months of imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Giovanni Deleon, 27, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - Dayvon Cook, 25, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 64 months in prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition after being convicted of a felony crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A defendant in the MS-13 racketeering case pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today and accepted responsibility for his involvement as a shooter in one homicide. His plea agreement includes a recommended sentence of 30 years in prison.
By State Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Washington-Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs received testimony from Ambassador Kurt Volker, former State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, as part of the House...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Terre Haute - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Robin Lennox, 49, of Terre Haute, Indiana was sentenced for his role in a major drug trafficking operation in Terre Haute, Indiana. Lennox was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge James Patrick Hanlon. Lennox previously pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Denver Sangster, 43, formerly of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years’ imprisonment after a jury found him guilty in May of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The former co-chairman of a global law firm became the fourth parent to be sentenced to prison in connection with his involvement in the college admissions case.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A Saudi man who is a former Oklahoma resident, was sentenced Thursday to nearly 13 years in federal prison for making a false statement to the FBI about his attendance at an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in late 2000, and for visa fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that on Oct. 3, 2019, Christopher L. Childs (age 47), of Hartford, Wisconsin, entered a guilty plea before United States District Judge Pamela Pepper to one count of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1591(a)(1) & 1591(b)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Laquanna Bacote, age 25, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Oct. 1, 2019, by a federal grand jury for her role in a scheme to illegally obtain firearms from federally licensed gun dealers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Cody Patrick Cannon, 31, a transient, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and possession of reproduced U.S. Postal Service keys, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Fentanyl Distribution Resulted in the Overdose Death of a U.S. Marine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Darren Duane Coleman, 24, of Fresno, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Four people, including two doctors, are scheduled to appear in court today on charges they defrauded New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers of $4.5 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. A fifth individual, a physician’s assistant, has pleaded guilty to participating in the health care fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 39-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been indicted for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted today in federal court in Boston for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
