News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Pam Bondi, Florida Attorney General, Office of Statewide Prosecution, announce last week the roundup of 10 individuals following an investigation into the Anthony Pomarico Drug Trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Conspirators Stole $14 Million Within 48 Hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Marcus Battles, a resident of McKees Rocks, Pa., was sentenced to 20 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: When researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) need a special tool to do their work more effectively, they often prove that necessity is truly the mother of invention. Such was the case recently for M. Lorna De Leoz and Stephen Stein, NIST chemists working in the growing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal jury has found Ashley Travis, 29, of Rochester, N.Y., guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine and to maintain a drug involved premises, distribution of crack cocaine, possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute, and maintaining a drug involved premises. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $1,000,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced that Ashley Assgill Glover, 29, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of theft of government property, one count of possession of unauthorized devices, and one count of aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Matthew C. Steging, age 42 of Emerson, Nebraska, was sentenced in United States District Court in Omaha, Nebraska, for producing child pornography. The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Steging to a fifteen year term of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal prison system. After his release from prison Steging will begin a fifteen year term of supervised release. He will also be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Luis Colon, a resident of Brooklyn, New York, was convicted of conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Sandra A Stroupe, age 67, of Clover, South Carolina was sentenced today in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, to a term of imprisonment of 24 months in federal prison. Stroupe was the secretary/bookkeeper at the Clover ARP Church for over 38 years. Beginning in at least 2006 and continuing until April of 2013 Stroupe embezzled over $600,000 of church money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Dustin Petry, an Allegheny County resident, was convicted of conspiring to distribute heroin and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man charged with Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding and Simple Assault pled guilty to and was sentenced on July 7, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Terrance Smith (39, Jacksonville) today pleaded guilty to two counts of aiding and abetting the passing or attempted passing of counterfeit checks. He faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in federal prison on each count.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Two Long Beach, California, men pleaded guilty today to conspiracy charges arising from a sex trafficking scheme that exploited adult women for prostitution. Roshaun Nakia Porter, 39, and Marquis Monte Horn, 35, both pleaded guilty before Judge Josephine L. Staton in the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Middleboro man pleaded guilty today two counts of coercion and enticement of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that Raheem Fitzgerald Bethel, age 27, of Columbia, was sentenced today in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, to a term of imprisonment of 35 months in federal prison. On Jan. 15, 2013, Bethel, a previously convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and the members of the South Florida Joint Terrorism Task...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, and Christopher A. Henry, Special Agent in Charge, IRS-Criminal Investigation, announced today that Nakita Brooks, 31, of Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John T. Fowlkes, Jr. to serve 120 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution of $690,767.84 to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Dear Secretary Burwell: As members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, we are writing with concerns and questions about three separate and deeply troubling incidents in which samples of select agents, highly dangerous pathogens, were reportedly improperly handled, ...
