News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - United States District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews sentenced Michael Nolting, age 25, of Newark, Delaware to 36 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Nolting had pled guilty to making false statements to a licensed firearms dealer in the acquisition of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOHNNY BAHAM, age 53, of Mandeville, entered a plea of guilty today to stealing the United States mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Ohio residents were arrested today after being indicted on Aug. 25, by a federal grand jury sitting in Dayton, Ohio, for conspiracy and tax-related crimes, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bruce M. Salad of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Clean Water Act. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for violating the Clean Water Act by filling in a wetlands area near Shoal Creek at the River Bend Development...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Maria Marcelina Cardoza-Burciaga, 39, a Mexican national, pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that a jury convicted DONALD JEROME PARKER, also known as “DP", 27, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, of two counts of distributing a quantity of cocaine base (crack) and two counts of distributing 28 grams or more of cocaine base (crack). The jury returned its verdict following a trial in federal court before Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: DETROIT - U.S. Attorneys and leaders of federal law enforcement agencies from across six states met in Detroit on Aug. 26, 2015, to share strategies to combat the heroin and prescription pill epidemic across the region.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Phillip A. Krehan, 32, currently of Addison, Maine, formerly of North Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of pharmacy robbery, was sentenced to time-served and three years of supervised release by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: DETROIT - U.S. Attorneys and leaders of federal law enforcement agencies from across six states met in Detroit on Aug. 26, 2015, to share strategies to combat the heroin and prescription pill epidemic across the region.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Kormahyah Karmue, 40, of Providence, was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison, having been convicted by a federal court jury of being the mastermind behind an arson-for-profit scheme to set fire to an occupied multi-family dwelling he owned in Providence in an effort to collect more than $725,000 in insurance payments.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Gulf of Alaska, Alaska - In the Gulf of Alaska, over 21,800 pounds (10.9 tons) of marine debris were removed from a total of 25 coastline miles across Wrangell-St. Elias Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park, and Katmai National Park and Preserve with help from numerous volunteers and cooperators.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RICKEY COLEMAN, age 26, of Meraux, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to one count of conspiring to falsify ATF records related to the purchase of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jeanette Driever, 38, of Grady, N.M., was sentenced today in Albuquerque, N.M., to 60 months in prison for her methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Driever will be on supervised release for five years after completing her prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: “The following named individual has been charged with a federal crime or crimes by the return of an indictment by the Grand Jury. A grand jury Indictment does not constitute evidence of guilt. A grand jury Indictment is a method of bringing formal charges against the defendant. A defendant is presumed...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two residents of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking of a child, and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The head of a Mexican drug trafficking organization (DTO) responsible for producing and distributing vast quantities of heroin into the United States was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr., announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Michigan. Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. United States Attorneys and leaders of federal law enforcement agencies from across six states met in Detroit on Aug. 26, 2015, to share strategies to combat the heroin and prescription pill epidemic...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2015
News Release: Member of Colombian Terrorist Organization Pleads Guilty to Hostage-Taking of U.S. Citizens.
