News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for using a child victim to produce child pornography. Morgan Littleton, 33, of Independence, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Juan Geraldo Arredondo, 35, originally from Chihuahua, Mexico, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III, to one count of rioting in a federal correctional facility, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- John Wayne Martin, III, age 49, of Lexington, South Carolina; and Brodie Kale Sexton, age 37, of Columbia, South Carolina were both arraigned on a 4-count indictment in reference to a mail theft and forgery ring operating in the Midlands of South Carolina from July 2014 through...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal jury found Troy Stratos, 49, formerly of Los Angeles, guilty today of four counts of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering, in a scheme to defraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 156 months in prison for distributing heroin on behalf of a criminal street gang that used threats, intimidation and violence to maintain control of the illegal drug trade in Atlantic City, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Paxton Jeffrey Anderson, 44, of Montevideo, Minn., and Joseph John Plany, 42, of Hutto, Texas, were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton to eight years and four years in prison, respectively, and ordered to pay $3,270,425 in restitution. Anderson and Planey were convicted of multiple counts of bank fraud in June, 2014, after a three-week jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division; Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor; Raymond R. Parmer, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’(ICE) Homeland Security (HSI) ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Richard Cooper, 37, of Philadelphia, was indicted today on four counts of bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that Cooper robbed a TD Bank, located at 6635 Frankford Avenue, on April 11, 2015; alleges he robbed a Citizens Bank, located...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: (CONCORD, N.H. - Mohamed Alam, 62, of North Andover, Massachusetts, and Murshed Salam, 47, of Salem, New Hampshire, each pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama and the State of Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (Department) announced today that their offices have reached an agreement to permit people with mobility disabilities to use their motorized wheelchairs...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH. - A former resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 10 years imprisonment, followed by a lifetime supervised release, on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: ANNAPOLIS, MD -The Chesapeake Bay Office is one of 37 national parks selected to receive a 2015Active Trails grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks. Now in its seventh year, the Active Trails program supports healthy living by getting people out and active in national parks through projects that help restore, protect, and/or create land and water trails across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A 60-year old Cabell County man faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty today to failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Ronnie Alvin Howard, of Huntington, West Virginia, entered a guilty plea before Chief District Court Judge Robert C. Chambers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Theodore “Ted" J. Nelson, Jr., age 67, and his son, Steven A. Nelson, age 45, both of Letcher, South Dakota, were found guilty of tax crimes as a result of a federal jury trial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The trial commenced on May 5, 2015, and ended on May 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) issued the following statement urging the Senate to pass the USA Freedom Act of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Brick, New Jersey, member of a large-scale drug trafficking organization was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for distributing heroin in Ocean and Monmouth counties and elsewhere in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- A federal jury convicted Luke D. Brugnara today of mail fraud, wire fraud, false declarations to a court, escape, and contempt of court, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David Johnson and U.S. Marshal Don O’Keefe.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Caroline D. Ciraolo, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Tax Division, announced that MATTHEW LIBOUS was sentenced yesterday to six months in prison for failing to report income on...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that LESTER JOY, 34, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI, Ohio - Charles H. Sheehan III a/k/a “Duke Sheehan," 69, of Cumming, Georgia was sentenced to 36 months in prison for his role in a securities fraud scheme, in which a Cincinnati company lost $1 million in investment funds.
