News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A Paxton, Ill., man, Eddi Ramirez, 32, who led an extensive network of cocaine and heroin suppliers, couriers, and distributors, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, as announced by Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois. At sentencing yesterday, before U.S.
By USDA Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is accepting applications for grants to enhance telecommunications and broadcast services in rural areas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Four Lansing men were sentenced this week in U.S. District Court, announced U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. The men - Charles Kunta Lewis, age 36, Wallee Abdullazeem Al-Din, age 24, his brother, Mustafa Al-Din, age 25, and Ralphael Crenshaw, age 24 - were tried by a jury ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sixteen current and former Puerto Rico police officers have been indicted for their alleged participation in a criminal organization, run out of the police department, that used their affiliation with law enforcement to make money through robbery, extortion, manipulating court records and selling illegal narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Orlando Giovanni-Hernandez, 28, has been convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury sitting in Brownsville convicted Giovanni-Hernandez following three days of trial and approximately four hours of deliberation.
By Homeland Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, commended the approval of the DHS Cybersecurity Workforce Recruitment and Retention Act of 2014, S.2354. This legislation would help address critical challenges that the Department of Homeland...
By State Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Dear Prime Minister Orban: As Members of the United States Congress, and long-standing supporters of Hungary and the U.S.-Hungarian partnership, we are writing to express our deep concern over your government’s decision to move forward with the construction of a controversial monument commemorating...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Four Lansing men were sentenced this week in U.S. District Court, announced U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. The men - Charles Kunta Lewis, age 36, Wallee Abdullazeem Al-Din, age 24, his brother, Mustafa Al-Din, age 25, and Ralphael Crenshaw, age 24 - were tried by a jury...
By State Newswire | May 22, 2014
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 the military coup in Thailand...
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WHO: Audrey Tepper, historical architect, National Park Service (NPS), Technical Preservation Services Branch, at the next meeting of the Fort Hancock 21st Century Federal Advisory Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- Tracy Mitchell, of Phenix City, Alabama; Dameisha Mitchell, of Phenix City, Alabama; Latasha Mitchell, of Phenix City, Alabama; Keisha Lanier, of Seale, Alabama; Sharondra Johnson, of Phenix City, Alabama; Cynthia Johnson, of Phenix City, Alabama; Mequetta Snell-Quick, of Phenix...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: URBANA -, Ill. - A Paxton, IL, man, Eddi Ramirez, 32, who led an extensive network of cocaine and heroin suppliers, couriers, and distributors, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. The sentence was announced by Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Peter McGlynn, 45, of Raymond, pled guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On May 20, 2014, Reda Overton pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to a one-count Information charging her with unlawfully and wilfully embezzling over $200,000 from Locomotive Engineers, a labor union.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Dorothy Brown, aka Dorothy Hickey, 62, of Modesto, was indicted today by a federal grand jury charging her with stealing benefits paid by the United States Social Security Administration (SSA), misrepresenting her eligibility for benefits to the SSA, and concealing material information from the SSA, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Francisco Melgar-Cabrera, also known as Francisco Malgar-Cabrera, 30, a Salvadoran national, was extradited from El Salvador to the United States on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Melgar-Cabrera was previously indicted by a District of New Mexico grand jury on Oct. 14, 2010, on multiple charges, including federal robbery and felony murder stemming from an armed robbery and murder in Albuquerque, N.M., in June 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney maintains relentless pursuit of individuals who illegally use and possess firearms to reduce violence throughout Indianapolis.
By State Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) wrote President Thein Sein of Burma expressing deep concern over the worsening humanitarian crisis affecting the Muslim Rohingya in Burma.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ian D. Andrade, 37, of Tiverton, faces statutory penalties of up to life in federal prison when he is sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., on August 7, 2014, having pleaded guilty on Wednesday to trafficking cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Newport Police Chief Gary T. Silva.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A man who admitted coming to Charleston from Detroit, Michigan, to sell heroin was sentenced today to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Kermit Ware, III, 26, of Detroit, Michigan pleaded guilty last January to using a communication device to facilitate a drug...
