News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal jury in Peoria, Illinois, found Nicole Eason guilty on two counts of kidnapping and one count of transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity with a minor, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney James A. Lewis of the Central District of Illinois and Special Agent in Charge Sean Cox of the FBI’s Springfield, Illinois, Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced thatRussell Gordon, 32, of Ansonia, Connecticut, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 13 years...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Michigan. Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. A Detroit man was indicted on Dec. 15, 2015, on charges of manufacturing and possessing destructive devices, which he strategically placed in his yard to protect his marijuana plants, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today the appointment of Kirk Sherriff as the new chief for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Fresno. Sherriff’s appointment follows the departure of long-time Fresno chief Mark Cullers who has been appointed by the Governor to serve as a Judge of the Superior Court for Fresno County.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DELRONE MOORE, age 38, of New Orleans, was charged in a four-count Indictment Dec. 18, 2015, by a federal grand jury for charges of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and heroin and other drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A 38-year-old Dallas resident, Rex Sistos, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 240 months in federal prison following his guilty plea to one count of transportation of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Horacio Sanchez-Lopez has been sentenced to one year and two months in federal prison for conspiring to manufacture, sell, and distribute counterfeit federal Permanent Resident and Social Security cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Washington County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of receipt of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, and a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: William Lester, 21, of Sandusky, was charged with receiving and distributing visual depictions of real minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -To kick off the new year and to celebrate the National Park Service's Centennial, Grand Canyon National Park is participating in the 127th Rose Parade Friday, Jan. 1, 2016. The theme for the 2016 Rose Parade- "Find Your Adventure"- is a nod to "Find Your Park," a public campaign to raise awareness and excitement for the NPS Centennial.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released proposed rules to better inform adult consumers of the health risks associated with indoor tanning, which is known to contribute to skin cancer, including melanoma. These new, critical safety measures will also prevent minors, ...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Senate today unanimously approved H.R. 1321, the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which was introduced earlier this year by Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI). The bipartisan legislation would begin the phase out of plastic microbeads from personal care products on July 1, 2017. H.R. 1321 passed the House on December 7. The bill now heads to President Obama for his signature.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie P. Grisanti, who is handling the case, stated that on June 4, 2013, a search warrant was executed at the defendant’s residence. Law enforcement officers seized computers, hard drives and other electronic items. A forensic analysis determined that Bordonard’s laptop computer contained more than 340 images and video files containing child pornography including graphic images and videos of children under the age of 12 years old.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 46 months’ imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A Rowlett, Texas, man, who admitted mailing hundreds of white-powder hoax letters, was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 37-year-old Corpus Christi man who worked as a Santa Claus impersonator has been charged in a criminal complaint alleging he distributed child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The complaint was filed today and alleges Reynaldo Ramirez distributed the child pornography via peer-to-peer software.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to the Comptroller General at the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the office to examine some issues about the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) activities in foreign drug inspections and foreign offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two U.S. citizens who reside in South Texas have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute large amounts of cocaine and money laundering, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Alfonso Mata, 55, and Abelino Garza, 36, of San Benito and McAllen, respectively, pleaded guilty Feb. 5, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that TED HAKEY, JR., 48, of Meriden, has been arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with intentionally damaging religious property, the Baitul Aman Mosque in Meriden.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Iowa Hospice, LLC, has agreed to pay $1,088,244.02 to resolve civil allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by submitting false bills to Medicare for hospice services.
