News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that CHRISTOPHER DEAN JONES, a/k/a Snake, age 36, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM AND AMMUNITION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Man's Repeated Shouts Disrupted Proceedings. WASHINGTON - Rives M. Grogan, 50, of Mansfield, Texas, was sentenced today to 21 days of incarceration on a federal charge stemming from a disturbance that he caused on April 28, 2015, at the United States Supreme Court, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Four more individuals involved in an extensive a-PVP (alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution conspiracy centered in northeast Tennessee, southwest Virginia and western North Carolina have been sentenced to serve time in federal prison by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Court Judge.
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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Hicksville, New York, man today admitted his role in one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the Justice Department, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 13-count indictment today against Juan Carranza, 23; Jose Carranza-Pompa, 57; Lorenzo Carranza-Pompa, 48; and Maria Carranza, 44, all of Modesto, charging them with a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine; ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Obtains $100,000 Settlement in Lawsuit Against Wisconsin Mobile Home Park for Discriminating Against Families with Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Defendant 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: Tenth Minnesota Man Charged With Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program is awarding more than $8.4 million in grants and cooperative agreements, this year, to support conservation projects and scientific studies that benefit coral reef management across seven U.S. states and territories, the Caribbean and Micronesia.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Earlier today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, took to the Senate floor to highlight the work of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) that operates within the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Minneapolis, Minnesota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, and a Mobridge, South Dakota, woman convicted of Misprision of a Felony were sentenced on Nov. 30, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that CLINTON LAMONT CRAWLEY, age 38, of Grant, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM AND AMMUNITION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler today announced the sentencing of Russell Taylor, 44, Indianapolis. Taylor was sentenced to 27 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt after his conviction on 12 counts of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Production of Child Pornography was sentenced on Nov. 30, 2015, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announces that seven individuals were sentenced for their involvement in a methamphetamine distribution organization. All 7 were part of the same drug trafficking organization operating in Johnston, Wilson, and Wayne Counties. The organization called themselves “The Hill-Top Mafia" due to the close affiliation they have with methamphetamine, guns, and violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Carlos McKenzie, a/k/a Charles Williams, a/k/a General, 37, of Jamaica, who was convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, was sentenced to 132 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Projects Included the World Trade Center Towers, the Plaza Hotel Renovation, the Javits Convention Center Expansion and Renovation Project, and the Aqueduct Casino.
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 Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva’s bill (H.R. 1814) to permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) reached 200 bipartisan cosponsors today. LWCF is one of the nation’s most successful public land conservation programs, but Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) allowed...
