News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - Justin Dixson, 42, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to sexual exploitation of a minor child, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Dixson was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on May 27, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Victor Morales, 30, of Allentown, PA, was charged yesterday by indictment with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, on June 12, 2015, Morales was in possession of a Smith & Wesson, Model SW40GVE, 40 caliber semi-automatic pistol, with a live round of.40 caliber ammunition in the chamber, and a magazine loaded with 13 live rounds of.40 caliber ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Member of Violent Mexico-based Drug Trafficking Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On Dec. 10, 2015, Delphine Corrine Morgan, 37, of Blackwater, Ariz. and a member of the Gila River Indian Community, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 92 months in prison, followed by a term of three years of supervised release. Morgan previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute less than 50 grams of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Johnson County man was sentenced Thursday to 210 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank T. Pimentel, who is handling the case, stated that on March 5, 2015, Customs and Border Protection officers in Memphis, Tennessee conducted a routine inspection of a package mailed from China and addressed to the defendant in Albion. The inspection revealed that the package...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department today announced up to $35 million in available funding to advance hydrogen and fuel cell technologies that will reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil and cut harmful carbon emissions. As part of the Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, this funding will accelerate...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Jacob Pabon, 19, and Lytic Fauntleroy, 19, both of Allentown, PA, were charged yesterday by indictment with robbery which interferes with interstate commerce, and using and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Jacob Pabon, 19, and Lytic Fauntleroy, 19, both of Allentown, PA, were charged yesterday by indictment with robbery which interferes with interstate commerce, and using and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - - Seventeen defendants were named in a federal criminal complaint alleging a criminal conspiracy to traffic heroin announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Andrew Toth.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tomas Jaramillo, 55, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court to submitting false and fraudulent claims to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Albuquerque. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Jaramillo will be sentenced to five years of probation and will be ordered to pay $11,439.90 in restitution to the VAMC as the victim of his crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Kenneth Brown, age 31, of Ephrata, Washington, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty on Sept. 3, 2015 to Distribution of Child Pornography. United States District Court Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Noto, who handled the case, stated that the couple harassed and intimidated witnesses in the federal prosecution of Mindy Konopski’s brother Jonathan Fernandes. He was convicted after a jury trial in August 2015 of multiple drug charges relating to the manufacture and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Michael Ryan Martin, 32, of Fairfax Station, was sentenced today to 144 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute heroin and oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - Carlos Beltran-Vega, 58, a Mexican national most currently living in Rigby, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill to 135 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Beltran-Vega pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 26, 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to break the Obama administration’s stonewall on providing information about its unlawful payments to insurance companies, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) recently wrote to Secretary...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following remarks on the House Floor ahead of a vote on the conference report to accompany H.R. 644, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: A 34 year old Detroit man was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for stealing tens of thousands of dollars in funds that had been collected on civil judgments, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2015
News Release: The former Cay Clubs Chief Executive Officer was convicted today after a five week trial.
