News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph J.M. Orabona (619) 546-7951 or Alexandra Foster (619) 546-6735.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A federal grand jury in Wilmington, Delaware, indicted a resident of Church Hill, Maryland, today on one count of attempting to transfer obscene materials to a minor, U.S. Attorney Charles M. Oberly III of the District of Delaware announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Northern California man who operated the Internet’s best-known “revenge porn" website was sentenced late this afternoon to 30 months in federal prison for hiring another man to hack into e-mail accounts to steal nude photos that were later posted on his website.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - Nine methamphetamine traffickers have been sentenced over a two-day period to prison terms ranging from one to 17.5 years, as a result of two related Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigations, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former lieutenant with the Miami-Dade Police Department, Internal Affairs, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a narcotics conspiracy, including purchasing six firearms for a drug trafficking organization and smuggling those weapons through security checkpoints at the Miami International Airport, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a one-count information was filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania charging Mark Marcoccia of Towanda, Pennsylvania with conspiracy to distribute bath salts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Luis Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, 37, and Jose Antonio Rosario Reyes, 55, both of the Dominican Republic, with local residences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, are charged in a four count indictment with conspiracy to distribute 1 kilogram or more of heroin, possession with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of AYOTOMIDE AJIFOWOBAJE, 29, to 110 months in prison for using the stolen identities of more than 450 victims to file false tax returns throughout the United States. AJIFOWOBAJE pleaded guilty on July 24, 2015, to conspiracy to defraud the United States and aggravated identity theft. He was sentenced yesterday before U.S. District Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOHN TOKOSH, age 54, of Pennsylvania, pled guilty today to an indictment charging him with conspiring to smuggle turtles out of the United States, violating the Lacey Act, and using a fictitious name and address in a mailing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - CHRISTOPHER DAVID SCHROEDER, Marthasville, Missouri, was charged in a criminal complaint alleging that he transported a minor from Ohio back to Missouri to engage in criminal sexual activity. He appeared for his initial appearance in federal court Wednesday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Defendant Arrested After Discovery of Videos.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service turns 100 years old in 2016 and wants everyone to celebrate! All national parks will waive their entrance fees on 16 special days in 2016.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) spoke with KNX 1070 NewsRadio Los Angeles about the fight against ISIS. Key excerpts are included below. You can listen to the audio HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Rafael Reyes, 33, of Boston, Massachusetts, appeared in United States District Court on Thursday and pled guilty to crimes involving the transportation of a minor in interstate commerce for prostitution, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Donald Feith.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Moab, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah Moab Field Office is moving group campsite reservations to Recreation.gov, including group campsites at Goose Island, Big Bend, Onion Creek, Dewey Bridge, Lone Mesa, Horsethief, Ledge, Ken’s Lake and Windwhistle campgrounds. Visitors who wish to make...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Secret Service Officer Indicted for Attempting to Send Obscene Images to a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Lindi D. Vickers, aged 39, of Bartow, Georgia, was sentenced today to serve forty-six (46) months in prison and pay restitution in the amount of $273,420.59 for misapplying bank customers’ funds, according to a statement made by Acting United States Attorney G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III. The sentence was handed down in Macon by the Honorable Leslie J. Abrams, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - Nine methamphetamine traffickers have been sentenced over a two-day period to prison terms ranging from one to 17.5 years, as a result of two related Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) investigations, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the International Atomic Energy Agency’s report on the Iran nuclear program...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Beckley man was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, to 10 years in federal prison for distribution of heroin, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Rhinelander Hernandez, 37, of Beckley, previously pleaded guilty in August 2015 to the federal drug charge.
