News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: David Robert Sutton, 55, who has connections to Wisconsin and New Jersey, pled guilty today to charges of possessing, receiving, and importing unregistered machine guns, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Sections 5861(d), (j), and (k).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: TALLAHASSEE - A federal grand jury returned an indictment, unsealed today, charging that correctional officers William J. Ray, 40, of Carrabelle, Florida, and Corry B. Fletcher, 43, of Bristol, Florida, conspired to violate the civil rights of a state inmate and deprived the inmate of constitutional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ernesto Flores, 43, of Hagerman, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to violating federal drug trafficking laws.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Rogers and Chairwoman Granger.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will address a Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa hearing that will examine the ballistic missile threat from Iran. The hearing is entitled “Iran’s Enduring Ballistic Missile Threat.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell on the implementation of Obamacare and the HHS fiscal year 2016 budget request.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: A convicted felon and methamphetamine user who possessed a firearm and ammunition within the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was sentenced today to eight years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that EDIN ANTONIO PLEITES-ZAMORA, age 24, a citizen of Honduras pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 22-year-old Palestine, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Mark Anthony Reyna, 26, from Skagit County, WA was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garr M. King to six years in federal prison, following his pleas of guilty to the theft of firearms from a federally-licensed firearms dealer and felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced FABIO HIROCHI INOUE, 40,of Anaheim, California, to 51 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments. INOUE previously pled guilty to these charges on May 13, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Thomas Carr, also known as “Tommy Love," 27, of New Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: An Ohio man was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for mailing threatening communications and threatening to damage or destroy a building with an explosive, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Kevin Whitely, 33, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 84 months in prison for distributing marijuana and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Woman Indicted and Arrested for Defrauding the Internal Revenue Service.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
Release: Ranking Member Peterson spoke in opposition to H.R. 2393, legislation to repeal mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) requirements for beef, pork and chicken.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: HONOLULU - Stronger safety measures may have saved the lives of two workers who died at a Pearl Harbor naval maintenance facility in December 2014 after being struck by a 7-ton buoy, which has led the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to order safety upgrades.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today introduced the Rare Cats and Canids Act of 2015 (H.R. 2697), which provides conservation resources to the Department of the Interior for cat and canine species listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - A married couple from Abilene, Texas, was sentenced today following their guilty pleas earlier this year to drug distribution and conspiracy charges, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Sean Ryan Hanich, 30, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 77 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered forfeiture in the amount of $20,000. Hanich pleaded guilty to the charge on Oct. 22, 2014.
