News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Alexander Tovar, 26, and Miguel Valentin, 30, of Providence, have been sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for their participation in a heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy, that ended with the seizure of more than 486 grams of heroin and 462 grams of cocaine, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Bruce M. Foucart, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for New England.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Pat Tiberi (R-OH) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s comments on trade during the State of the Union address.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: In Midland, 33-year-old David Wayne Schroeder of Monahans, TX, faces up to ten years in federal prison for theft of approximately $58,000 worth of oil announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, woman convicted of two counts of Second Degree Murder was sentenced on Jan. 20, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: (BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Nate Brewer -, 34, of Blaine, Maine, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute bath salts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a federal grand jury returned a 16-count indictment against eight Anchorage-area individuals charging them with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, multiple counts of distribution of methamphetamine and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: FEDERAL CHARGES INCLUDE DISTRIBUTION OF HEROIN RESULTING IN DEATH.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Undrio Antwanne Roebuck, 43, of Shreveport, La., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a year and a day in federal prison for failing to comply with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) while residing in Hobbs, N.M. Roebuck will be on supervised release for five years after completing his prison sentence. He also will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident was sentenced to 61 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: MISSOULA - A former Hamilton man who concealed assets from a bankruptcy trustee and lied under oath during a bankruptcy deposition was sentenced today to four months imprisonment and four months home confinement by the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana. Timothy James Pulliam, a 67-year-old...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Deported Alien Returns to Southern Oregon and Continues Trafficking Heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: According to court records, between about January 2012 and June 2014, Brewer conspired with others in Aroostook County to obtain and distribute bath salts. Specifically, Brewer helped purchase bath salts from China for personal use and to sell to other conspirators. He also helped to raise money to place bulk orders for multiple conspirators in order to receive discounted pricing.
By State Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the Committee’s first hearing of the 114th Congress will examine the ongoing Iran nuclear negotiations. The hearing, entitled “Iran Nuclear Negotiations After the Second Extension: Where Are They Going?, " will begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Weatherford, Texas man has pleaded guilty in federal court to a mail fraud scheme in which he embezzled more than $930,000 from Herzog Contracting Corporation in St. Joseph, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - CESAR E. LEON, owner and operator of Cesar’s Tax Service in Enid, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty this week to making and subscribing a false 2009 tax return, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Indiana County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Anthony Lee Brown, 48, of Cincinnati, Ohio and Christopher Combs, 25, of Cincinnati, Ohio, with sex trafficking in an indictment returned in Cincinnati.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) sent a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen asking him to explain why the agency recently hired CGI Federal, the same contractor that bungled the rollout of Healthcare.gov. Upon sending the letter, Chairman Roskam issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Jan. 22, 2015, Shawn Daniel Starling Moore, age 25, formerly of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge James E. Gritzner to 72 months in prison for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Moore was also...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Angela M. Blythe, age 51, of Oakland, Maryland, on charges of conspiracy, bank fraud and making a false statement to a bank. The indictment was returned on Dec. 16, 2014, and unsealed today.
