News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Savannah, GA: Jeremy Emmanuel Grant and Desalshia Adrien Williams, both 26 and from Savannah,were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in an alleged conspiracy to engage in the sex trafficking of minors. The indictment alleges that from at least June 2014 to January 2015, Grant and Williams conspired to recruit, harbor, and transport minors to work as prostitutes in Savannah and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Glen Joseph, 45, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Superseding Indictment with making threats against the President of the United States, threats against law enforcement officers, and the interstate communication of threats, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Ross William Ulbricht, a/k/a “Dread Pirate Roberts," a/k/a “DPR," a/k/a “Silk Road," was found guilty yesterday on all seven counts in connection with his operation and ownership of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: “As the jury unanimously found, the give-and-take of the political process should not be the giving and taking of bribes, which is what Malcolm Smith and Vincent Tabone tried to make it. Smith gave, and Tabone took, a $25,000 cash bribe to permit Smith to run for New York City Mayor as a Republican.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven today sentenced Air Force Staff Sergeant Timothy Ray Oliver, II (36, Tampa) to 10 years in federal prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sex acts. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the computers and phone he had used while committing the offense. Oliver pleaded guilty on June 12, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Joe Chantharath, aka “Joe Psycho", aka “Psycho", age 32, of Springdale, Arkansas, was sentenced today on one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine. Chatharath was sentenced to 116 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Durbin, Cummings Introduce Legislation To Put Coordinated Federal Oversight Of For-Profit College Industry Into Law
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Canton, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Causing Introduction of Misbranded Drug into Interstate Commerce with Intent to Defraud, and Receipt and Offered Delivery of a Misbranded Drug.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Nicholas L. Thomas has been sentenced to serve three years and ten months for conspiring to commit bank fraud by submitting fraudulent loan applications to a local car dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Chazity Fluellen, 27, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of maintaining a drug involved premises, was sentenced to time served and two years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The judge also ordered the defendant to forfeit the residence at 23 10th Street in Buffalo and a Ford Explorer.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public nominations for open positions on its 31 Resource Advisory Councils (RACs), which advise the BLM on public land issues. As published in a notice in the Federal Register, the BLM will consider nominations until March 20. The BLM-Montana/Dakotas has vacancies...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Kenyen R. Brown, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama announced that Molly Perez, age 39, a resident of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced on February 5, 2015, by United States District Judge Kristi K. Dubose to 24 months imprisonment pursuant to her guilty plea to possessing a firearm ...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today introduced the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015. The legislation would increase access to public lands in Alaska and across the West for fishing, hunting, and recreational shooting, while advancing efforts to conserve our lands and waters.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Nixa, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. Michael Wunderlee, 41, of Nixa, was sentenced...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Maryland and their colleagues have found that two pathogens causing mysterious honey bee ailments are a problem not just in the spring, but they might pose a threat year-round. Ryan Schwarz and Jay Evans, entomologists with the Agricultural Research...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DENYS BENITEZ-FERNANDEZ, age 32, a citizen of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry into the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. Destry Marcotte, 48, of Belleville, Illinois, was sentenced to a total of seventy-eight months in federal prison, a fine of $25,000, and three years of supervised release, the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Derek Roberts, age 45, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit three armed robberies and using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. In total, Roberts admitted to acting as the gunman in four armed robberies.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: MADRID, Spain - Information developed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Attaché Office in Madrid and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) led to the dismantling of a child pornography ring operating throughout Spain.
