News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT MELILLO, 25, of Wallingford, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing oxycodone and marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: JUNE 05 - (NEW HAVEN, Conn.) - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Robert Melillo, 25, of Wallingford, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing oxycodone and marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, announced today that.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced SHAWN CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT, of Windsor, North Carolina to 70 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release. Judge Boyle also sentenced ELLIOTT...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on June 5, 2013, Mark Robert Perry of West Fargo, N.D., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson on a charge of possession of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors. Perry, 53, pleaded guilty on March 11, 2013, to the charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Six individuals appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Ball in federal court today for conspiring to kidnap six-year-old Jashayla Hopson from East Kemper Elementary School on April 30, 2013, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen.

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Every month, between 50 and 70 million passengers travel through U.S. airports, toting more than 30 million pieces of luggage destined for aircraft cargo holds. Since 2004, federal legislation requires that every one of those checked bags - around a million a day - has to be scanned for explosives and other threats, typically using computed tomography (CT) machines similar in operation to those used in medical diagnostics but several times as long.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota man convicted of Larceny was sentenced on June 3, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Gibsonia, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of bank fraud and money laundering, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: A Mt. Carmel resident pled guilty in federal court to wire fraud and money laundering on June 5, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Kevin C. Williams, 53, was indicted by the federal grand jury on January 8, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - James Ronquillo, 19, of Albuquerque, N.M., made his initial appearance in federal court this morning on a criminal complaint charging him with assault on a federal officer. Ronquillo remains in custody pending a detention hearing, which has yet to be scheduled.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Laquan Draper, 21, and Angelo Draper, 20, both of Portsmouth, Virginia, were sentenced today on charges stemming from a series of commercial robberies over an eight week period in the summer of 2011. Laquan Draper was sentenced to 413 months and Angelo Draper was sentenced to 300 months for the conspiracy, robbery, and firearm convictions.

By State Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC--Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY-16), the Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after President Barack Obama announced the resignation of National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, and the appointment of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice to replace him.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - A federal jury convicted Jared L. Hester, 29, late Tuesday on charges involving a conspiracy to possess and distribute pseudoephedrine, knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine. The guilty verdict was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By State Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on Thursday’s scheduled confirmation hearing of Michael Froman, President Obama’s nominee to serve as the U.S. Trade Representative...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm Howard sentenced TIROM MARSELLE TOLER, 23, of Smithfield, North Carolina, to 60 months imprisonment followed by 4 years supervised release.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: TNEWARK, N.J. - A former engineer for global medical technology company Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) was arrested this morning by special agents of the FBI at a hotel in Ramsey, N.J., disrupting his alleged plan to relocate to India with trade secrets he stole from the Franklin Lakes, N.J.-based company, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALAN EMMETT BRADLEY, 57, formerly of Norwalk, Conn., and Ocoee, Fla., was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for defrauding Connecticut’s Medicaid program. BRADLEY also was ordered to pay $151,898.75 in restitution.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas and Randall Coleman, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced a 27-count indictment was handed down by a Federal Grand Jury today, charging six defendants in connection with multiple armed...