News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Marcelo Jecher Ortonez, 28, an illegal alien from Honduras, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 14 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegal transportation of an alien, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Jere T. Miles...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Richard Ronnie Jenkins (39, Jacksonville) today pleaded guilty to transporting a person in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: GREENVILLE, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Kerry Inc. for failing to provide fall protection to employees working in the company’s facility in Greenville, Missouri. The food flavoring company faces $223,525 in penalties for one willful and eight serious safety violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Alfred McCaskill, 25, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Thirteen people from West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania were arrested and charged with multiple drug counts involving the distribution of cocaine base, methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal law enforcement seized more than 14 kilograms of cocaine and 15 firearms as part of an investigation that dismantled a Texas-to-Chicago narcotics pipeline and resulted in charges against ten defendants.
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: 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: Rian Patterson, Devin Diggs and Tyrease Kimmons Arrested for Firearms Stolen in North Country Burglaries.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was indicted today for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Jakobe McCray Woullard, 19, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Two people from Toledo were indicted in federal court on firearms crimes.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced a resolution designating October as “National Cybersecurity Awareness Month." The resolution aims to raise public awareness of cyber threats and encourage Michiganders...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ronald McKenna, age 39, of Wilkes-Barre, Drew Miller, age 34, of East Stroudsburg, and William Hill, age 38, of East Stroudsburg, were indicted on Oct. 1, 2019, by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Kirkland George Lawrence (34, Jacksonville), a/k/a “Killa," to eight years and nine months in federal prison for attempted distribution of heroin, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, and distribution of cocaine. The court also ordered Lawrence to forfeit the Smith & Wesson pistol that he had used in one of the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 32-year-old Mexican national has admitted he conspired to import over 50 kilograms of meth into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A four-count information filed today in U.S. District Court charges a former Oak Landing Assisted Living Facility employee with embezzling money and assets from a former resident at Oak Landing, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Special Agent in Charge Patrick M. Davis, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Four Pounds of Heroin, Five Pounds of Fentanyl Seized at Local Bus Station.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID BRITT, a former KPMG partner who was the co-head of the Banking and Capital Markets Group within the audit group of KPMG’s Department of Professional Practice (“DPP"), pled guilty today to participating...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Justin Scott Hunt (31, Tampa) to 12 years and 8 months in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity and attempting to transfer obscene material to a minor.
