News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr., announced that James Frederick Shelifoe, 43, of Baraga, Michigan, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 70 months’ imprisonment for distribution of cocaine. In addition to the prison term, Shelifoe was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release upon the completion of his term of incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 30, 2015, Joseph J. Valdez (age: 29) of Green Bay, Wisconsin, was sentenced by Chief District Judge William C. Griesbach to 15 years in federal prison for sexual exploitation of a child in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: Jesus Sandoval-Salvador, a/k/a “Miguel Sandoval-Salvador," 35, of Reading, PA, was charged yesterday by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about April 10, 2015, Sandoval-Salvador, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about February 6, 2007 and March 1, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Xavier Velvie McCarty, 22, of Muskegon, Michigan, was sentenced to seventy (70) months in federal prison for possessing firearms as a convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney imposed a three-year term of supervised release that will commence once McCarty is released from imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A man linked to one of the most notorious organized crime rings in Israel and who on his own operated “a vast international criminal conspiracy engaged in drug trafficking and money laundering" was sentenced today to 384 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. -July 31, 2015. Caleb Kesler, Chief Ranger, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 x227. Monarch Butterfly Volunteer Tagging Event. Rimrock, AZ -Montezuma Well, part of Montezuma Castle National Monument. The Southwest Monarch Study and the National Park Service would like to invite...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - The owner of a child placement agency in Houston has been charged and arrested in a four-count indictment alleging an adoption fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Simone Swenson, 40, of Houston, owned and operated Sans Pareil Center for Children and Family Services LLC, which was licensed to operate as both a foster care and child placement agency.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Draft Environmental Assessment for using Trinity Reservoir-stored water to supplement flows in the lower Klamath River to lessen the likelihood of a fish disease outbreak and a die-off of adult salmon during the late summer of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former employee of The Vacation Ownership Group LLC of Pleasantville, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for conspiring to defraud owners of timeshare properties by offering phony consulting services, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr., announced that Tommy Alan Cain, 62, a former resident of Kincheloe, Michigan, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 180 months’ imprisonment for sexual abuse of a minor. In addition to the prison term, Cain was also ordered to serve ten years of supervised release following the completion of his term of incarceration and to have no contact with the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jorge Salazar, age 57, of Georgia pleaded guilty on Wednesday, July 29, 2015, to wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated theft charges before United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Franklin J. Johnson, 32, and his wife, Deanna A. Johnson, both of Centralia, Illinois, pled guilty on July 30, 2015, to all charges brought against them in an indictment returned by a Federal Grand...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: Defendant Shot Victim Seven Times in the Back.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A man who flew into the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport under an assumed name in March 2014 is wanted in Michigan for the murder of his father-in-law, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Fall River man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for distribution and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced today that defendant QIONG LU PUA, a legal permanent resident of the United States, was found guilty, following a three day jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow today sentenced Keith Willie Reed, age 26, of Washington, D.C., and Tobias Richard Dyer, age 23, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, each to 20 years in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release, after they pleaded guilty to robbery and interstate transportation of stolen vehicles, in connection with an armored car robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: LAHAINA, HI - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released the following statement following the close of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations this week in Maui...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A man linked to one of the most notorious organized crime rings in Israel and who on his own operated “a vast international criminal conspiracy engaged in drug trafficking and money laundering" was sentenced today to 384 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Two men from Duncanville and Mesquite, both convicted felons, were convicted yesterday by a federal jury on an array of federal charges stemming from their armed robberies of several fast-food restaurants in the Dallas area in early 2014, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
