News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Howard James Clem IV, a/k/a “Jamie," age 34, of Pasadena, Maryland, today to nine years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and receive child pornography, and for receipt and possession of child pornography. Clem has been detained since his conviction by a federal jury on Jan. 28, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The United States Attorney’s Office, Justice Department’s Community Relations Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the City of Worcester sponsored a civil rights seminar today for law enforcement executives. District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. and nearly 100 other law enforcement executives from federal, state and local agencies attended the seminar which was hosted by the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: In Austin yesterday, 44-year-old Bertram, TX, resident Jimmy Don Hardin was sentenced to a total of 360-months in federal prison on firearms and drug trafficking charges announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Arleen Cifuentes, 32, of Riverside, California, was sentenced to 71 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Cifuentes to serve three years of supervised release, to pay $107,538.19 in restitution, and to forfeit $26,777.13 in cash proceeds of the charged offenses. Cifuentes pleaded guilty on Jan. 27, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang sentenced Christian Diamond Byrd, age 44, of Laurel, Maryland today to 15 years in prison followed by four years of supervised release for distribution of heroin. Judge Chuang also ordered Byrd to forfeit $440,000, as the proceeds of his drug distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A former chief of staff for a Chicago alderman was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for accepting a $7,500 cash bribe in exchange for obtaining the alderman’s letter of support for a license to sell alcohol in the alderman’s ward. The defendant, CURTIS V. THOMPSON, JR., 63, of Chicago...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MIGUEL TORRES, 45, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in Bridgeport to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for enticing a minor female to send him sexually explicit videos and pictures of herself.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Miguel A. Esperanza-Vazquez, 59, was arrested today after a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment on Tuesday charging him with two counts of wire fraud, one count of blackmail, one count of obtaining money under false pretenses, and one count of extortion, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III and representatives of several federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies are continuing the observance of National Missing Children's Day (May 25th) by convening in Tampa today to announce an expanded national child safety campaign. Originally created...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - A federal grand jury on Tuesday returned a four-count indictment against Nicholas Mena, 34, of St. Croix, charging him with two counts of production of child pornography, one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Mena was arrested on a criminal complaint on April 10, 2015 and has been detained pending trial. His arraignment is scheduled for June 4, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: The NOAA California Drought Service Assessment contains more than three dozen findings and recommendations which may lead to improved or more tailored data products and tools, such as weather forecasts, streamflow forecasts, seasonal predictions, and climate models. The report also examines NOAA’s coastal...
By US DOT Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below after the Obama Administration issued a final rule upholding clean water protections for the nation's interconnected wetlands, lakes, and small streams.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a felony Information was filed yesterday charging a Waynesboro man with six bank robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, and William J. Hochul Jr., United States Attorney, Western District of New York announced last night that Ricardo Garza, 52, of Houston, TX, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Joshua Starr, 29, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on federal weapon possession charges, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith. The Court imposed a term of fifteen months’ imprisonment, to be served consecutive to Starr’s current prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Texas woman was sentenced Tuesday to 60 months in federal prison for pretending to be pregnant and defrauding a Kansas couple who wanted to adopt her unborn twins, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOE Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders this week formally introduced bipartisan legislation to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act to help improve chemical safety and management. H.R. 2576, the TSCA Modernization Act, is sponsored by Environment and the Economy Subcommittee...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that Raheem Majeed, a/k/a “Mitch," age 30, of Columbia, South Carolina was sentenced yesterday to 151 months (12.5 years) imprisonment along with 8 years of supervised release to follow. Majeed plead guilty in February to conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - One member of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB) prison gang pleaded guilty today to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE - Alondra Nayali Torres-Sanchez was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, for distribution of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce Balzano.
