News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on June 24, 2015, Justin King Nalls (age: 27) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court in Green Bay and pleaded guilty to a single count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Based on his prior record of violent felonies, Nalls qualifies as an Armed Career Criminal under federal law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. -- Adam Scott Mitchell, 31, of Appalachia, Va., was sentenced to serve 300 months in prison by the Honorable Leon Jordan, Senior U.S. District Judge. Mitchell pleaded guilty in January 2015 to a federal grand jury indictment charging him with the production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that IRA RICHARDS, a/k/a “Shyne," of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced yesterday in Manhattan federal court to 20 years in prison for conspiring to commit sex trafficking of a woman by force, fraud, and coercion...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CARLOS RAMIREZ-VASQUEZ, age 38, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of removed alien.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to today’s court decision upholding the provision of the Affordable Care Act that authorizes the payment of federal subsidies for the millions of Americans who receive health insurance through the federal exchange...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Bought and sold in excess of one kilogram of heroin in Portsmouth and Norfolk.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Belinda Burdette, 43, of Racine, WV., was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston to five years of probation for using a cell phone to traffic drugs. Burdette previously pled guilty in March admitting that she had used her...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: A Miami Gardens resident pled guilty today in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme involving personal identification information taken from the State of Florida Department of Children and Families database.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mark G. Peters, the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation (“DOI"), and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Anthony Curtis Beckley II, 34, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to possessing oxycodone with the intent to distribute. Beckley admitted that on October 7, 2013, he possessed over 200 oxycodone pills that he intended to sell.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: The first half of June has been filled with volunteer support at the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Volunteers have been busy, working on hiking, mountain biking and horse trails in both Kentucky and Tennessee. Volunteer activities over the past few weeks included volunteers helping...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DERRICK JOSEPH DURAN, age 28, a resident of Des Allemands, was charged today in a three-count Indictment with conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jameel Wilkes, also known as “Biggs," 36, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 127 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: A lot of Americans wonder if Congress can organize a two-car parade. When you look at 33 consecutive short-term patches for infrastructure funding, it sure seems like Congress can’t pave the parade route either.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest of Kevin Brian Darr (50, Bradenton) for transportation, receipt, and possession of child pornography. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
Release: Philadelphia, PA, June 25, 2015 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants are spending more of their benefits to make purchases at roadside farm stands, farmers markets and directly from local farmers than ever before. SNAP redemptions at those outlets in FY 14 totaled $18.8 million, a nearly six-fold increase since 2008. Agriculture Under Secretary Kevin Concannon will laud the increase during a visit today to Philadelphia’s Clark Park Farmers Market.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Shawn Robinson, 31, of Enola, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for a counterfeiting scheme involving sports jerseys. Robinson and his father, Neil Robinson, of Bensalem, PA, conspired to traffic in and illegally import counterfeit sports jerseys. Both...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Theron Vance, age 22, of Rogers, was sentenced to 100 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to Commit Kidnapping and one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: FARGO - Acting U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on June 24, 2015, Dewayne William Barth II, 30, Fargo, North Dakota, pled guilty before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to one count each of Production of Child Pornography, Receipt and Distribution of Child Pornography, and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Jacob B. Ross, 29, of Rittman, with intentionally damaging a protected computer, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
