News from September 2019
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Charles Pinckney NHS will hold an indigo extraction and dyeing demonstration on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019 from 10 am until 1 pm. Visitors will learn about this plant and the role of the Pinckneys in growing it. Plus, staff will show the process of taking it from a green plant to a beautiful indigo...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Felicity Huffman was sentenced today to 14 days in federal prison for her involvement in the college admissions case. She must report to the Bureau of Prison on Oct. 25, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Mark Cassity, 22, of Jackson, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 30 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - WICHITA, KAN. - An Ohio gamer involved in a swatting incident that led to a death was sentenced today to 15 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. In addition, the defendant was ordered to pay $2,500 in restitution. After the prison term, he will serve two years on supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Gerry Connolly, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter to the Inspector General of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) requesting a review...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Rashaaud K. Garrett, 21, of Flint was sentenced on Sept. 12, 2019 to 135 months (11¼ years) in federal prison following his conviction for interference with commerce by robbery and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Lavon Wims, 27, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to six counts of Hobbs Act robbery. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Sept. 11, 2019, Judith Cefaly, age 54, of Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 24 months of imprisonment and two years of supervised release, by United States District Judge James Munley, for failing to remit to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) federal payroll taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: John P. Selleck Named Assistant Director of the Critical Incident Response Group.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando Valley man has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges that he conspired to smuggle approximately 40 kilograms of cocaine - concealed and suspended in grease - in household products and mailed it to Australia, then laundered up to $3.5 million of the illicit drug proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Braxton Dontrel Burns, 33, of Jackson, pled guilty Friday before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Andrew Perez, age 31, of Allentown, Lehigh County, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo to ninety months’ imprisonment and four years on supervised release for his role in a Monroe County-based heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Felicity Huffman was sentenced today to 14 days in federal prison for her involvement in the college admissions case. She must report to the Bureau of Prison on Oct. 25, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Farewell. Superintendent Mark Spier will retire after 43 years with the National Park Service. He first put on the ranger uniform the summer of 1976 while still in college. It was not that he was necessarily qualified, but because, according to his height and weight listed on his application, he fit...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was sentenced yesterday for violating conditions of his supervised release by engaging in another cybercrime after being released from federal custody after two prior convictions.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Dear Acting Secretary McAleenan and Director Wray...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS-CI"), announced that ALFRED FERATOVIC pled guilty today in Manhattan federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Timothy Gregg, the former Provisional Supervisor of Facilities for the Hempstead School District, pleaded guilty today at the federal courthouse in Central Islip to access device fraud in connection with his misuse of a school district credit card. The plea was entered before United States District Judge Joanna Seybert. When sentenced, Gregg faces up to 15 years in prison, as well as forfeiture and a fine of up to $250,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON ― Today, 12 military veterans graduated from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Human Exploitation Rescue Operative (HERO) Child Rescue Corps program during a ceremony at ICE Headquarters. This year’s class is composed of U.S. Army, Coast Guard, Air Force, and Marine Corps veterans from Texas, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Florida, South Carolina, and Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE-U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge James C. Langenberg of the FBI Albuquerque Division, and Rio Arriba County Sheriff James D. Lujan announced that the FBI has assumed the lead in the investigation into the death of Renezmae Calzada, 5, whose body was found in the Rio Grande River in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, on Sept. 11, 2019.
