News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Nicholas Rogers, 25, of Hooksett, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to being a felon in possession of firearms, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN EARL, 40, of North Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton in Bridgeport to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking prescription narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Edwin Fernandez, 37, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 300 months in prison for smuggling cocaine into the United States via Philadelphia International Airport. Fernandez pleaded guilty on January 5, 2015 to all six counts of the indictment including conspiracy to import five kilograms...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Following the arrest earlier today of August Davison, 26, of Bakersfield, an indictment has been unsealed charging him with maintaining a drug-involved premises, conspiracy, and manufacturing and distributing marijuana in the form of hashish oil.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - In an eighteen-count indictment unsealed today, six men were charged by a federal grand jury with aggravated identity theft, fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Following the arrest earlier today of August Davison, 26, of Bakersfield, an indictment has been unsealed charging him with maintaining a drug-involved premises, conspiracy, and manufacturing and distributing marijuana in the form of hashish oil, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the anniversary of the shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 by Russian-led forces: “A year ago, 298 innocent civilians on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: Defendant Security Guards Bribed as Part of Cheating Scheme.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: This week marks the 50th anniversary of signing of Older Americans Act into law
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: Cornell Oliver, 23, and Blake Wright, 25, both of Clarksville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today for their role in the murder of Raymond Caston, during a home-invasion robbery on Oct. 27, 2010, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee and Assistant Attorney General...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: MISSOULA - A federal judge sentenced Steven Vincent Sann, 61, of Stevensville, Montana, to two years in prison and one year of supervised release for orchestrating a nationwide scheme involving extra charges listed on land-line telephone bills. Sann was also ordered to forfeit $500,000, which he obtained...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: Release Date:Immediate. Contact:Lorenzo Vigil, e-mail us, 505-425-8025. Candlelight Tours: August 8, 2015. "The End of the Frontier 1876-1881". Watrous, NM: Fort Union National Monument announces its annual Candlelight Tours event on August 8, 2015. During this evening event visitors will be guided...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Colin Knight (54, Kissimmee) yesterday pleaded guilty to dealing in firearms without a license. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. Knight has also agreed to forfeit 32 firearms that he possessed or acquired during the commission of the offense. A sentencing date has not been set.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva will speak next Wednesday, July 22, at a Capitol Hill gathering of the San Carlos Apache Nation and other parties on his bill to reverse the unjust Resolution Copper land giveaway included in last year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). His bill, the Save Oak Flat Act, would cancel the mandated land swap that threatens the sacred Apache Leap site with environmental damage from nearby high-risk copper mining.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - George B. Lamonda, 44, of Santa Fe, N.M., was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Rodney Byrd and Reginald Byrd have pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit food stamp fraud. The defendants used a series of stores in the Atlanta area to unlawfully purchase over $5.7 million in vouchers of the Georgia Women, Infants and Children (“WIC") program and debit cards of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“SNAP").
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Glenn (64) and Kathryn (63) Jasen, both of Spring Hill, with wire fraud, a federal felony. If convicted, they each face a maximum of 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that Johnny Ray Johnson, 57, of Bath, Maine pleaded guilty on Tuesday in U.S. District Court to possession of firearms by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mark Hamlet, Special Agent in Charge of the Special Operations Division of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), today announced the unsealing of an indictment charging HAJI LAJAWARD, AMAL SAID SAID...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A New Hampshire man was charged with remotely hacking into the social media, email and online shopping accounts of almost a dozen minor females and threatening that he would delete, deface, and make purchases from the accounts unless the victims sent him sexually explicit photographs of themselves.
