News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell today sentenced Fortune Tyrone Hill (34, Daytona Beach) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute over 100 grams of cocaine base, commonly known as “crack" cocaine. He was sentenced as a career offender because he has at least two prior felony convictions. Hill was found guilty on Oct. 15, 2014, following a bench trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Joseph, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for distributing crack cocaine and illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A Springfield, Ill., woman, Alice M. Foss, 53, entered pleas of guilty today to all the charges against her related to her embezzlement of more than $400,000 from her former employer, a Springfield consulting and lobbying firm. Foss’s pleas followed three days of evidence presented by the government in Foss’s jury trial which began last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Senior U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell today sentenced Fortune Tyrone (34, Daytona Beach) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute over 100 grams of cocaine base, commonly known as “crack" cocaine. He was sentenced as a career offender because he has at least two prior felony convictions. Hill was found guilty on Oct. 15, 2014, following a bench trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ALYSSA JELLIFFE, 21, and CHRISTOPHER FOGLER, 29, both of West Haven, have been charged by criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Shrerod Terry, age 37, and Akram H. Muhammad, age 37, both of Atlanta, Georgia, were sentenced today in federal court in Greenville, for conspiracy to negotiate counterfeit checks, a violation of Title 18, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Owned and operated four H&R Block tax franchise stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Conspired To Carry Out Armed Attacks Against United States Military Personnel And Facilitated The Entry Of An American Citizen Into Al-Qaeda.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Little Prosecuted as Part of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Defendant Key Administrator for ‘Dark Web’ Site Distributing Drugs, Guns and Other Illegal Products.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - “Tonight the President set out a new test for sustained economic growth," Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that WESAM EL-HANAFI was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 15 years in prison for his extensive efforts to support al Qaeda - including...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Harrold, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Carl Spencer, a/k/a Carl Spence, a/k/a Barrington Antonio Stewart, a/k/a Clyde Crenshaw, 51, of Kingston, Jamaica national, who was convicted by a federal jury of illegal re-entry and aggravated identity theft, was sentenced to 66 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Angel Masdeu, age 52, of Estill, SC was sentenced in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for aggravated identify theft, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028A. United States District Judge Richard M. Gergel of Charleston sentenced Masdeu to 24 months imprisonment and one year of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Jan. 20, 2015, the last of 42 individuals charged in related methamphetamine manufacturing cases was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge. Tony Jerome Snyder, 37, of Mountain City, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 135 months in federal prison for conspiring...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: Washington - The National Park Service (NPS) will hold a public meeting to discuss proposed improvements to pedestrian access from the North Michigan Park neighborhood to the Fort Totten Metrorail Station. The open house format meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 2. Public comments will be accepted during the meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Korian Kenny Bascombe, age 31, of Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced late last week by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve 147 months (over 12 years) in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Tonda Click, 58, of Ashland, Kentucky, was sentenced to five years of federal probation.
