News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 23-year-old El Salvadorian citizen has been ordered to federal prison for his role in a horrific gang slaying - the murder of a teenager in the Sam Houston National Forest in 2013, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Jose Leonel Bonilla-Romero aka Jose Tupapa, who resided in Houston, pleaded guilty April 19, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: VALE, Ore. -- The Bureau of Land Management, Vale District, is hosting two National Public Lands Day events Saturday, Sept. 28, in Malheur County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against two Maryland men for defrauding victims of over $15 million during the defendants’ operation of the New Orleans EB-5 Regional Center after Hurricane Katrina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: BALTIMORE - On Sept. 5, 2019, Delroy Williams, Jr., 32, of Baltimore, Md., was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for a conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, and for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, Ricardo Alberto Ruiz Pelayo, 24, of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins to 30 months in prison followed by three years’ supervised release. Ruiz Pelayo previously pleaded guilty to an indictment charging one count of unlawful smuggling goods from the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former broker and investment adviser was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for stealing millions of dollars from his clients in order to pay for personal expenses, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced today to 28 years in prison for committing a series of armed robberies in Petersburg, Henrico, and Richmond.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Lawrence Oakie, age 38, of Eagle Butte, South Dakota, was found guilty of three counts of Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child, as a result of a three-day federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: Charlotte, N.C. - Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Charlotte arrested one suspected human rights violator at large in the community during a 3-day period, from August 27-29th. The alien was arrested as part of a nation-wide operation, No Safe Haven V, where 39 known or suspected human rights violators and war criminals with final orders of removal were arrested throughout the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Delroy Williams, Jr. age 32, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 135 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for a conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, and for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana. Judge Hollander imposed the sentence on September 5, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: FBI Announces an Arrest for Alleged Aircraft Sabotage.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman today urged everyone, particularly online users, to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity and would-be scammers who may target Hurricane Dorian disaster victims and potential donors.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: HONOLULU - A federal jury today found Chun Mei Tong, also known as Mei Tong, 43, of Honolulu, guilty of five counts of wire fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft for her scheme to use an alias and forge signatures to rent out properties under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Jasiel F. Correia II, the Mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts, has been arrested and charged for allegedly extorting marijuana vendors for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes; extorting a building owner for cash and a Rolex watch in exchange for activating the water supply to a commercial...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - William Miller, 54, of Richmond Heights, was sentenced to 15 months and three years supervised release for aiding and abetting former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger’s honest services wire fraud/bribery scheme. Miller appeared in front of U.S. District Court Judge Rodney W. Sippel.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 23-year-old El Salvadorian citizen has been ordered to federal prison for his role in a horrific gang slaying - the murder of a teenager in the Sam Houston National Forest in 2013, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Jose Leonel Bonilla-Romero aka Jose Tupapa, who resided in Houston, pleaded guilty April 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two Alexandria men, Jose Castro and Martin Vitela, were sentenced today to two and a half years in prison for distribution of heroin and pure methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that WILMER A. GARCIA-LOPEZ, age 22, a native of Guatemala, was sentenced September 5, 2019 after previously pleading guilty to illegally using a Social Security number in order to obtain employment, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: John Shedd and Terry Tooley Filled Controlled Substance Prescriptions They Knew Were Written For No Legitimate Medical Purpose and Fraudulently Billed Health Insurers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tony Moore, a cook supervisor at USP Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, has admitted to assaulting an inmate, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
