News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that former Williamsburg County Sheriff Michael L. Johnson, age 39, of Salters, South Carolina, and Lester L. Woods, age 49, of Columbia, South Carolina, were sentenced today for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, a violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Thomas Gregory Lilley, 36, of Fontana, California, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Benton to 14 years in prison for possessing with intent to distribute ½ ounce of highly pure methamphetamine (commonly known as "crystal" or "ice") and possessing a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, commended the Obama Administration’s continued commitment to improve federal property management. The new White House policy directives, the National Strategy for Real Property and the Reduce the Footprint, charge agencies to implement policies to improve property management, consolidate government office space, and dispose of unneeded buildings.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANDREA HOBGOOD, age 36, of Slidell, was sentenced today, having pled guilty to embezzlement of union funds. HOBGOOD had been a union’s office manager and, on more than 100 occasions, failed to deposit members’ dues payments into the union’s bank account and instead kept and spent the money for herself.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Eugenia A.P. Cowles, the Acting United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Kyle Tetreault, 24, of Vergennes, Vermont, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge William K. Sessions III, to 38 months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms. Tetreault was also sentenced to 3 years of supervised release following his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MOHAMMED ALAZZAM was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 78 months in prison, and to restitution in the amount of $36,195,000. ALAZZAM was sentenced for organizing and leading a conspiracy to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Alicia Tavagilone, 21, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was convicted in federal court today of selling oxycodone in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Fritch, TX -Superintendent Robert Maguire announced today that the National Park Service will be suspending boat launch fees for the next three years. Effective April 1, 2015, the visitors who launch boats at Lake Meredith NRA will no longer need to obtain a boat launch permit.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTHONY SABATO, 57, of West Haven, and MIGUEL JOEL ROMAN, 25, of Hartford, were arrested yesterday on federal narcotics and firearm offenses. SABATO and ROMAN are scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel in Bridgeport at 12:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - David Andres Perez-Pelaez, a/k/a Andres Zapata has been arraigned on federal charges of unlawfully exporting firearms and fraudulently shipping firearms to Medellin, Colombia, and possessing and disposing of stolen firearms, including a handgun stolen from the Clayton County Police Department. Perez-Pelaez was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 10, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA -- Fort Vancouver National Historic Site will join other units of the National Park Service, partners, and community organizations in a commemorative bell ringing in conjunction with the national "Bells across the Land: A Nation Remembers Appomattox" event at 12:15 p.m. PST on Thursday, April 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison today for illegally having a firearm, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, Cleveland Police Chief Calvin D. Williams and ATF Special Agent in Charge Donald Soranno. Malcolm L. Hoyle, 28, pleaded guilty ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: MEXICO CITY - Two Mexican men wanted for homicide in Mexico were removed March 19 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers in Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jaime Juan Alvarado, 36, of Roswell, N.M., pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, issued this statement following a joint address to Congress from His Excellency Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: House Leaders Release Working Summary Outlining Framework of Bipartisan SGR Agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James Hunt, Special Agent in (SAC) of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas Zugibe, Rockland County District Attorney, and Ed Day, Rockland County Executive, announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging 17 defendants with conspiring to distribute oxycodone and heroin in and around Rockland County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Mifflin County man has been sentenced for his involvement in passing counterfeit $100 Federal Reserve notes.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Good afternoon and welcome. Today, we continue our border series hearings with an examination of both the push and pull factors that led to the apprehension of more than 68,000 children and family units at the southwest border last year. During fiscal year 2014, U.S. Customs and Border Protection...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Salvatore J. Marcera, Jr., 54, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, was sentenced to three years probation by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Marcera also was ordered to pay restitution to Excellus BlueCross BlueShield in the amount of $1,965.71.
