News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Memphis man who robbed a man at gunpoint and pointed his firearm at police officers has been convicted by a federal jury of felony firearm possession. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Robert A. Marangola and Everardo A. Rodriguez, who handled the case, stated that McKenzie and others obtained ecstasy tablets smuggled from Canada, which were then sold by multiple distributors in Rochester and other locations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas - In Austin this afternoon, 54-year-old Mexican businessman Francisco Colorado Cessa faces up to 20 years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of scheming to launder millions of dollars in Los Zetas drug distribution proceeds through purchasing, training, breeding and racing American...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Dec. 10, 2015, Ronnie Lee Helms 30, Acworth, Georgia, and Braden James Foley 28, Olympia Wash., have been indicted in the District of North Dakota, charging them with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of a controlled...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), along with Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), released the following statements after President Obama signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act (S. 1177), a bipartisan, bicameral bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Williamsport man was indicted today by a federal grand jury for heroin trafficking and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - Following a two day federal trial, a Montana jury found Ryan Anthony Cislo, most recently of Billings, guilty of being a felon in possession of firearms on Thursday. Judge Susan Watters presided over the trial. Sentencing has been set for March 23, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Randy D. Van Beek, 59, was sentenced Monday in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for receiving and possessing child pornography. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Van Beek to seventy-two (72) months of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal prison system. After his release from prison, Van Beek will serve a ten (10) year term of supervised release and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: The House of Representatives today unanimously passed a bipartisan bill to reauthorize and reform the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the STB in regulating the U.S. freight rail industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Dwayne Scott, age 55, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to copyright infringement in connection with his reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works, including movies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Second Degree Murder was sentenced on December 7, 2015, by United States District Judge Roberto Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney John E. Rogowski, who is handling the case, stated that Wrobel oversaw a “boiler room" scam in Barcelona, Spain. The scam conned investors in the United Kingdom and Canada into buying nearly worthless shares of restricted stock at severely inflated prices by telling buyers that...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas and David T. Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that on December 9, 2015, Steven Cuble, age 38, of Osceola, was sentenced to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former CEO and Managing Partner of a now-defunct South Carolina public charter operator were charged today with using fraudulent documents and “ghost" reservations to collect millions in passenger payments to which they were not entitled.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, and Luis Santiago, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Marsha C. Weisse (56, Tampa) today pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the Social Security Administration. If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000. In her plea agreement, Weisse also agreed to make full restitution to the Social Security Administration Program (SSA) or its designee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Edward Larry Kline II, age 50, of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania was sentenced today to 12 months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Yvette Kane in Harrisburg for attempted possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A southwest suburban doctor and his patient are facing federal drug charges for allegedly scheming to fraudulently prescribe and dispense thousands of Oxycodone and Adderall pills, authorities announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: On Dec. 11, 2015, in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the National Park Service (NPS) is beginning the preparation of an Environmental Assessment (EA) for Phase I of a Winter Habitat and Floodplain Enhancement Project on Lagunitas Creek. The project is proposed by the...
