News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Delenthegia "Del" Beard-Hawkins, 54, of East St. Louis, Illinois, pleaded guilty today to a Superseding Indictment which charges her and David L. Bradford in Count 3 with Transfer of a Firearm to...
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) hosted a bipartisan meeting with Ambassador Gérard Araud of the French Republic to discuss counter-extremism efforts and other important national security issues following the devastating terror attacks in Paris.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Shreveport man was sentenced to 71 months in prison for possessing three firearms and ammunition after being convicted of multiple felonies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jamie Boye, 33, of Portville, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiracy to commit securities fraud. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Carlos Gerardo Blanco, 25; Salvador Morales, 26; Jose Alejandro Jacobo, 23; Josefina Blanco, 23; Justin Alan Rivera, 20; and Henry Polin Morales III, 20 all residents of Bakersfield, charging them with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Brian Nettles, age 24, of Baltimore, today to 78 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DERRICK JOSEPH DURAN, age 29, of Des Allemands, pled guilty today to a three-count Indictment charging him with mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: In El Paso today, 44 year-old Blanca Arcelia Ramos Estrada, owner of Blanca and Sons Tax Service in El Paso, appeared before United States District Judge Kathleen Cardone and was sentenced to one year and a day in federal prison followed by 1 year of supervised release, ordered to pay $140,000 in restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Fernando Sanchez, 42, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was charged yesterday by Information with three counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. While employed as a bank manager at Fulton Bank in Lancaster, Sanchez fraudulently took approximately $99,105.09 from the bank account of the Manor Shopping Center Merchants Association.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - There are 1.2 million international students using an F (academic) or M (vocational) visa to study in the United States according to the latest "SEVIS by the Numbers," a quarterly report on international student trends prepared by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - United States District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews sentenced Edwin Hernandez, 46, of Wilmington, Del. to 18 months in prison followed by 4 years of supervised release, and Hector Hernandez, 37, of New Castle, Del., to 60 months in prison followed by 4 years of supervised release. Both men pled guilty yesterday to charges relating to the attempted distribution of a half-kilogram of cocaine in Wilmington, Del.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment today charging LARRY TALLEDO-TORREJON, 29, a citizen of Peru last residing in Stamford, with orchestrating a murder for hire scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident was sentenced to 102 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for operating a scheme to skim credit card numbers, manufacture counterfeit credit cards and file false federal income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, NY - Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. and Special Agent in Charge Adam S. Cohen of the FBI’s Buffalo Division announced today that Mufid Elfgeeh, 31, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today delivered the following remarks on the House Floor ahead of a vote on a package of tax breaks that will add $622 billion to the deficit and mostly benefit businesses at the expense of hardworking Americans...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Staff from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Philadelphia Field (PFD) distributed approximately 60 winter coats to the students of the Potter-Thomas Elementary School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft environmental assessment for the Lake Durango Water Pipeline Project.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: To say the Alaska Native village of Shishmaref is remote would be an understatement. The traditional Inupiat village sits on a barrier island about 20 miles below the Arctic Circle and the only way in or out is by boat or plane, which involves an hour-long flight from Nome. There’s only one paved road on the island; the rest of the streets are sand and most people get around on ATVs and dirt bikes, or in the winter, snowmobiles.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Four Cape Cod residents were charged in an indictment unseal today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with drug and money laundering offenses.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Dec. 17, 2015 BOS 2015-229. BOSTON - The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with Forever 21 Retail Inc. in which the fashion retailer commits to eliminate safety hazards at its Westfarms Mall store in Farmington, Connecticut, and pay $100,000 in penalties to the department's...
