News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on Aug. 12, 2015, Jonathan Nisbett, age 23, of Newark, New Jersey, was charged via federal criminal complaint with possessing with intent to distribute heroin. Nisbett made his initial appearance in federal court on August...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: ELYRIA, Ohio - The first day on the job for a new employee ended tragically when the 21-year-old man suffered severe burns and the loss of four fingers on his right hand as he tried to clear a jam in a plastic molding machine. The man had been working for a few hours when the incident occurred at an Elyria manufacturer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced LESLIE FAVIOLA-ALVARADO, 22, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, to 56 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of MARTEL JAVELL EINFELDT, a/k/a “Peanut," 26, to 87 months in federal prison, the top of the federal guideline range, for illegally possessing a firearm after having been previously convicted of two felonies in Hennepin County. The ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Beckley, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a female inmate pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Beckley to escaping from a federal correctional facility. Patricia Alfieri, 54, admitted that she escaped from the Federal Prison Camp at Alderson, a federal prison for women...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Thomas Murray, 62, a non-Indian who resides in Acoma Pueblo, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a federal child pornography charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: In Del Rio today, 28-year-old Noe Ramirez and 28-year-old Juliette Ramirez (no relation) were sentenced to 97 months and 60 months in federal prison, respectively, for their roles in a scheme to smuggle three dozen grenades into Acuna, Mexico, announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge James Spero, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney MaryEllen Kresse, who is handling the case, stated that the defendant pled guilty to devising and executing schemes to defraud and to obtain money from individuals by misrepresenting the existence and success of investment opportunities in order to convince these victims to transfer...
By State Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: We are writing to request that you use existing authorities to respond to the continued escalation of human rights abuses in Burma. The Burmese government’s horrific treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority, in particular, demands a strong U.S. response. Since 2012, the persecution...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Florida Investment Advisor Pleads Guilty to Orchestrating $9 Million Investment Fraud Scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Fourteen years after its reported theft from a Paris museum, a Pablo Picasso painting will be returned to France. The repatriation of “La Coiffeusse" follows an investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) as a part of Operation Toile.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Charles Corey Michael, 32, of Charleston, West Virginia was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston to 27 months in prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Michael previously pled guilty to this charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. has sentenced three individuals for their roles in a conspiracy to commit stolen identity refund fraud in the Manatee County area between 2012 and 2013. Among those sentenced were Marcus Lowe (32, Tampa) to three years and six months’ imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Candice L. White, age 43, of Centennial, Colorado, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore to two counts of embezzlement by a bank officer or employee, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Special Inspector General of Troubled...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced LeslieFaviola-Alvarado22, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, to 56 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Media Advisory. Credentialing Procedures for Flight 93 National Memorial. Visitor Center Dedication and. Anniversary Memorial Service. ~ Media Credentialing Form Due By August 28 ~. FOR GUIDANCE AND PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY -. NOT FOR BROADCAST. WHAT:. Flight 93 Visitor Center Dedication. The dedication...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jonathan Ernesto Godoy, 25, of Frederick, Maryland, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges relating to his alleged involvement in two firebombings of the Loudoun County Department of Community Corrections (DCC) building. The charges include arson affecting interstate...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Wilmer Argueta, a/k/a “Chengo," age 23, of Hyattsville, Maryland, today to 188 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for robbing a Raytown, Mo., bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Two Providence men charged by way of federal criminal complaints appeared in U.S. District Court in Providence today in connection with an ongoing FBI investigation into an alleged large scale indoor marijuana growing operation inside a converted mill building at 725 Branch Avenue...
