News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JEROME MOYE, 32, of Hamden, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 60 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three California men and a Minnesota company were charged in an indictment today in the Southern District of Ohio for their roles in a massive prescription drug diversion scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Perth Amboy, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for conspiring to distribute hundreds of grams of heroin throughout Monmouth and Ocean counties, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced today that LINDSEY DOOLEY, age 25, a resident of Wakefield, Louisiana, was sentenced after having previously pled guilty to misprision of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III, and United States Marshal William Berger announce the distribution of more than $2.4 million of criminally forfeited funds to 15 law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that STEPHEN ELLIS, age 52, a resident of New Orleans, was charged today in a four-count Indictment for violations of the Federal Gun Control Act, the Federal Controlled Substances Act, and for Assault.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Christopher Beets, 24, of Santa Rosa, California, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on May 5, 2015, for attempted production of child pornography. Beets was arrested in San Francisco, California. He received 300 months imprisonment, to be followed by a life term of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Justin D. Weese, of Albion, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to converting to his own use machinery belonging to the United States Federal Aviation Administration. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By State Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Wednesday, May 13 he will convene a Committee hearing to examine the persecution of religious minorities in the Middle East at the hands of ISIS. The hearing, entitled “Ancient Communities Under Attack: ISIS’s War on Religious Minorities, " will begin at 10 a.m.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: VALLEY FORGE, PA - The National Park Service has leased the Philander Chase Knox house and adjacent grounds to Valley Forge Park Events LLC for a ten year period.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Ugur Ulupinar, age 37, of Telluride, Colorado, pled guilty this week in Durango before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. West to filing false claims with the IRS, United States Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Gilbert R. Garza announced. Ulupinar is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 13, 2015 at 9:00 am.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK - Sanjay Ashani Williams, of Montego Bay, Jamaica, was found guilty on charges of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud or Mail Fraud, Conspiracy to Commit International Money Laundering, and thirty-five counts of Wire Fraud, after a six-and-a-half-day jury trial in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Alejandro Cabrera Charre, 23, was sentenced on Wednesday to 63 months in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. United States District Court Chief Judge Gregory K. Frizzell also sentenced Alejandro Charre to three years of supervised release following his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Shevron Percival, 25, pleaded guilty today in District Court on St. Croix to one count of Possession of Prison Contraband, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Good morning and welcome. The horrific displays of violence committed by the terrorist group ISIS, and their exhortations for their followers to do the same in the U.S., have rightly placed a spotlight back on the threat of terrorism to the homeland. The most recent of these cowardly acts occurred when...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a federal indictment charging Drew D. Manns, 31, of Elyria, with using the United States Postal Service to make threats with a white powdery substance, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: A former assistant band director was charged for his participation in an identity theft tax fraud scheme involving former Broward County students and other individuals’ personal identifying information (PII).
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Tomorrow, the United States Secret Service (USSS) and National Park Service (NPS) will begin implementing a series of new, temporary security enhancements and aesthetic improvements for the White House complex. These temporary measures are meant to satisfy security needs while a long-term solution is designed and implemented.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury has brought additional charge against Christopher Lee Cornell, 21, of Green Township, Ohio. In a superseding indictment returned in Cincinnati, he is now also charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Rain and Snow throughout Sierra predicted for today through this evening.
