News from October 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kimberly Dumbleton, 47, of Casselberry, FL, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Fayetteville man was sentenced to federal prison for heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine trafficking, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jason Dean Treadway, 36, was sentenced to 200 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, along with quantities of heroin and fentanyl. Upon completing his prison sentence, Treadway will serve an additional term of four years of supervised release.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to nearly five years in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Stephen Ushery, Jr., of Cincinnati, was sentenced Wednesday to 130 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Robert E. Wier, for conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced to federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Harvery Booker, 54, was sentenced to 78 months in prison, to be followed by a 3 year term of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - Elizabeth Meyer-Shields and Josh Sjostrom have joined the Bureau of Land Management’s Mother Lode Field Office as the new field manager and assistant field manager, respectively, based in El Dorado Hills.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Subree Waterman, 38, of Wilmington, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Leonard P. Stark to five years in federal prison for distributing crack cocaine.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A Hudson, Maine man was convicted today in federal court in Bangor of illegally possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Denver Sangster, 43, formerly of Pittsburgh, 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: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office will join Portland-area community and law enforcement organizations and community members for the fourth-annual Building Bridges of Understanding in Our Communities event on Oct. 24, 2019, hosted by the Muslim Educational Trust (MET) in Tigard, Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that LUIS FELIPE PALAFOX-ALVAREZ (PALAFOX-ALVAREZ), age 25, pled guilty on Oct. 1, 2019 before United States District Court Judge Greg G. Guidry, to a one-count bill of information charging him with misuse of a Social Security Number, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A Brownsville man and a couple living in Los Fresnos have been ordered to prison for a total of nearly 50 years for their role in transporting meth from Brownsville to Louisiana, announced U. S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Jesus Hector Garza Jr., 31, Gelacio Flores-Flores, 33, and Mayra Danira Rodriguez, 40, pleaded guilty in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kelly Wright-Meyers, of West Union, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 34 months incarceration for distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The mayor of Atlantic City today admitted to defrauding contributors to a youth basketball team of more than $87,000, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CAMERON COLLINS, the son of former United States Congressman Christopher Collins, and STEPHEN ZARSKY, the father of CAMERON COLLINS’s fiancée, pled guilty to participating in a scheme to commit insider trading in the stock of Innate Immunotherapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company for which Christopher Collins served on the board of directors.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: An Akron man was sentenced to six years in prison for launching denial of service attacks that shut down web sites for the city of Akron and the Akron Police Department.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OMAYRA SANTIAGO, 43, of Waterbury, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of theft and conversion of public money related to her illegal receipt of Social Security benefits.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALJERMIAH MACK, a/k/a “Nuke," and ANTHONY ELLISON, a/k/a “Harv," were found guilty today of racketeering conspiracy in connection with their membership in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods (“Nine Trey"), a...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky.- A Lexington man was indicted Thursday for robbing several Lexington businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A former Fort Fairfield resident pleaded guilty today in federal court in Bangor to sexually exploiting a child and possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.