News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ralph Terry, 42, of Germantown, Md., was sentenced today to 10 years and 10 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in the Washington, D.C. area, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Anthony Ighodaro, 32, of Toronto, Ontario, who was convicted of the importion of ecstasy pills containing both 3,4 Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, and N Benzylpiperazine [BZP] into the United States from Canada, was sentenced to time served (45 months) by U.S. District Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to be removed from the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that YONG WANG was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 210 months in prison for advertising in connection with the sexual exploitation of children through 18 Chinese-language child pornography websites he owned and operated. WANG pled guilty in May 2013 and was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Earlier today, Rakesh K. Punn, a licensed medical doctor and pediatrician, pleaded guilty to child sexual exploitation. Today’s plea took place before United States District Judge Joanna Seybert. At sentencing, Punn faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 30 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that Lee Anne Branch and Kyle Branch, both 41 of White Hall, Arkansas appeared before United States District Judge D. P. Marshall, Jr. to be sentenced for theft of government property. Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that St. Ignatius area rancher, Brent Powell, 54, pled guilty today in federal court in Missoula to violating the federal Clean Water Act by damaging a wetland on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Powell faces a possible 1 year in prison and a $25,000 per day fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that RONALD HAROLD FIELDS, 53, of Glasgow and Sidney, was sentenced to a term of 160 months imprisonment, 10 years supervised release, and a special assessment of $100 during a federal court hearing in Great Falls, Montana, on April 24, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement today after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its proposed “deeming regulations" for a range of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, bringing the products under the agency’s tobacco control authority. Harkin chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which has oversight of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway today sentenced Alan Gregory Ender (58, Melbourne) to 50 years in federal prison for production and possession of child pornography. He was also ordered to serve a life term of supervised release and ordered to comply with Sex Offender Registration and Notification. He pleaded guilty to the charges on Nov. 14, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: APR 24 (MIAMI) - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Michael Sean Crist, 46, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to one count of unlawfully possessing ammunition, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Randolph Louis Deyton, 46, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to embezzlement of public funds, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: A south King County man pleaded guilty to using a firearm during a drug crime in an attempted drug robbery that turned into a fatal shooting, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. LENNY BRIKN, JR, 19, of Federal Way, pleaded guilty today to Using a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Adams Produce Company LLC, of Birmingham, Ala., for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the former CFO/CEO of a Kansas City, Mo., company has pleaded guilty in federal court to a wire fraud scheme in which he embezzled at least $208,000 and as much as $338,221.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA - A federal indictment was unsealed earlier this month which charges 12 defendants with conspiring to traffic large amounts of methamphetamine, cocaine, oxycodone, and other drugs in Appling, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis, Telfair, and Wayne Counties, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Arturo Gallegos Castrellon, aka “Benny," “Farmero," “51," “Guero," “Pecas," “Tury," and “86," 35, of Chihuahua, Mexico, the Barrio Azteca Lieutenant who ordered the March 2010 murders of a U.S. Consulate employee, her husband and the husband of another U.S. Consulate employee, was sentenced today to serve life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Enouche Trosclair, 44, of Oakland, charging him with conspiring to commit armed bank robbery, armed bank robbery, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Anthony Ishmael Medina, age 20, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 51 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, California. - Los resultados de una operación de un año de duración con la intervención de múltiples agencias policiales y cuerpos de seguridad dirigida contra los cultivadores y distribuidores de marihuana en los Condados de Shasta y Trinidad fueron anunciados hoy por el procurador federal Benjamin B. Wagner, el alguacil del Condado de Shasta Tom Bosenko, y el alguacil del Condado de Trinidad Bruce Haney.
