News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dajon Nettles, a/k/a Gucc, 25, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to racketeering conspiracy. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to eight and a half years in federal prison for using thousands of stolen credit cards to purchase luxury goods and services.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, issued the following statement after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning letter to JUUL Labs, Inc. three days after Chairman Krishnamoorthi urged the FDA to evaluate admissions and statements made by JUUL representatives under oath during a hearing before the Subcommittee...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Blake Spears, age 38, of Westmere, Town of Guilderland, New York, was indicted on August 29 on charges of sexual exploiting a child, and child pornography distribution and possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Blanca Quintero (619) 546-7118.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - Gerdandino Delgado-Escobar, a/k/a “Pumba," age 24, of Hyattsville, Md., a member of La Mara Salvatrucha (“MS-13"), sentenced to 51 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - Yiheng Percival Zhang, a former Virginia Tech professor studying artificial sweeteners, was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court to time served, which included incarceration for approximately three months, and home incarceration for approximately two years, First Assistant United...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis today sentenced Jose Augustin Salmeron-Larios (a/k/a Joseph Morales-Martinez, Angel Salvador Gutierrez, Yankee, and Kean), age 26, of Severn, Maryland, to 260 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for a conspiracy...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Missouri, man was cited on state weapons charges by police at Richmond International Airport on Sunday, September 8, after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer found a loaded handgun in the traveler’s carry-on bag.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee heard from three former homeland security secretaries at a field hearing at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York Monday to discuss how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has evolved to address an ever-changing threat landscape since 9/11, how it can adapt to new and emerging threats, and what role Congress plays in addressing the dynamic nature of identified threats.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The Department of Justice established the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, when billions of dollars in federal disaster relief poured into the Gulf Coast region, which opened opportunities for criminals to exploit people during vulnerable times. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Files Lawsuit Against Massachusetts Landlord and Employee Who Subjected Women to Sexual Harassment.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: LARAMIE, Wyo. - The BLM, along with the Deerwood Ranch Wild Horse Public Off-Range Pasture and the Mantle Ranch and Wild Horse Training Facility, will host a wild horse adoption and free Open Ranch Days Sept. 27 - 28. The BLM is committed to managing healthy wild horses on sustainable rangelands by placing excess wild horses and burros into caring homes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kenneth J. Monahan, age 44, of Menands, New York, pled guilty today to one count of distribution of child pornography, one count of receipt of child pornography, and two counts of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Two national pharmacy chains agreed to pay civil monetary penalties to resolve allegations that they violated the Controlled Substances Act by filling fraudulent prescriptions, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-After years of contentious litigation and attempts to obstruct justice, Andrew Franklin Kowalczyk, 44, formerly of Portland, was sentenced today to 270 years in federal prison followed by a life term of supervised release for the repeated sexual abuse, exploitation and torture of three young children.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office announced that a South Florida woman was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $1.6 million in restitution for orchestrating a fraud scheme involving “fortune telling.".
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: On Saturday, Sept. 28, and on Sunday, Sept. 29, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will conduct Civilian Conservation Corps programs at Point Park, on Lookout Mountain. Living historians, portraying members of the CCC, will have displays set up in Point Park, and will conduct...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Illegally Worked under False Name and Social Security Number Belonging to U.S. Citizen.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Antoni Peralta, 33, of Anchorage, was found guilty on Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, after a three-day federal jury trial. The jury found Peralta guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm and associated ammunition in connection with the December 2016 gunfight on Donna Road in Anchorage.
