News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Three Miami Gardens residents, Talvet Johnson, 45, Demetrius Brown, 25, and Eric McKenzie, 25, were indicted on charges of selling crack cocaine. Brown is also charged with possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. A fourth Miami Gardens...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: On June 18, 2015, former Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worker, Oscar Odom was the featured guest for “Experience Your Park - A Day on the Trail," a special park event that showcased the work by Big South Fork’s Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) crews.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Wasilla man was sentenced on Thursday, June 25, 2015, in Federal Court in Anchorage before United States District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to 144 months (12 years) imprisonment and 17 years of Supervised Release for sexual exploitation of children: distributing child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Sarah R. Saldaña and U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) Director General Keith Bristow officially signed an agreement June 25 in London to provide information on the travel of convicted child sex offenders between the two countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Nicholas Mondragon, 32, of Pojoaque, N.M., was sentenced late yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a year and a day in prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition. Mondragon will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, 23, of Springfield, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to access a protected computer without authorization, and conspiracy to access a government computer without authorization. Muneeb Akhter also pleaded guilty to additional charges of accessing a protected computer without authorization, making a false statement, and obstructing justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Beckley, W.Va. - U. S. Attorney Booth Goodwin and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Special Agent in Charge Thomas Jankowski presented Wyoming County law enforcement agencies with over $200,000 in forfeited cash as a result of their participation in joint investigations with the IRS. The objective of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ERIC SALDARRIAGA, a private investigator in New York City, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to three months in prison. The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Sullivan. SALDARRIAGA pled guilty to conspiracy to commit computer hacking before Judge Sullivan on March 6, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: When measuring large volumes of relatively expensive liquids such as gasoline, beer, and milk, even small inaccuracies can mean large losses for companies and consumers. Now, dynamic measurements of these and other non-water liquids are addressed under a new international standard, thanks to the efforts of a multi-national technical committee led by NIST's Office of Weights and Measures (OWM).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Energy Department announced today that it has issued a final authorization for Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC’s Expansion Project (Sabine Pass) to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), along with 17 Republican Members of Congress, sent a letter to President Obama requesting the removal of Katherine Archuleta as Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Ms. Donna Seymour, OPM Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Samuel London has been sentenced to eight years and four months in federal prison for downloading child pornography. London’s computer contained thousands of files containing child pornography including images depicting the sexual abuse of infants and toddlers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: District Court Ruled That The Fruits Of FISA Surveillance Were Admissible In This Case.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $77,000 civil penalty against National Air Cargo Group Inc., of Orlando, Fla., for allegedly failing to comply with requirements for loading and securing heavy cargo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: AUSA Rachelle DesVaux Bedke (center) accepts Top Prosecutor Award from WIFLE Foundation, Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: Defendant also sent nude images of his genetalia to student.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - A Puyallup man responsible for making hash oil for an illegal marijuana edible operation was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 24 months in prison and three years’ supervised release. Seth M. Cleek, 22, was using highly flammable butane gas to make hash oil on May 20, 2014...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Brian Sorrentino, 36, of Newmarket, was sentenced on Thursday, June 25, 2015 in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on one count of possessing child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith. The Court imposed a term of 30 month’s imprisonment and five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DAVID MOREL, age 31, of New Orleans, was charged yesterday in a Bill of Information for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2015
News Release: COVINGTON - A Kenton County man has admitted to making child pornography images and videos available for download over the internet.
