News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ERVIN SPOONER, a/k/a “Nerky," age 27; TRE CLEMENTS, age 24; and ROMALIS PARKER, a/k/a “Ro Ro," age 22, all residents of New Orleans, were sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to federal firearm and drug violations. U.S. District Judge Susie...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An attorney who prosecutors believe took at least $8 million in investment capital from clients and used the funds for personal expenses and luxury items pleaded guilty this morning to wire fraud and tax evasion charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Columbia, Mo., residents and three Compton, Calif., men were charged in federal court today in separate but related cases for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine following their arrests earlier this week, which resulted in a manhunt and the lockdown of a nearby elementary school.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Zachary Kramer, 22, of Bethesda, Maryland, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Richard J. Harley, age 71, of Shawnee on the Delaware, Pennsylvania was sentenced in Federal District Court in Wilkes-Barre to serve 12 years in prison by United States District Court Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Nov. 12, 2015, Naomi Jean Justice, 23, of Seymour, Tenn., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Knoxville, to using a pre-pubescent minor to produce child pornography. Sentencing has been set for 1:00 p.m., Mar. 31, 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By USDA Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Cross Country International LLC satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Made False Statements to Grand Jury During an Arson-Homicide Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph J.M. Orabona (619) 546-7951.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Allegedly prescribed opiate pain medications outside the course of professional medical practice and without a legitimate medical purpose.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Continuing its work on flu preparedness, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Nov. 19, 2015, at 10 a.m., in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “U.S. Public Health Preparedness for Seasonal Influenza: Has the Response Improved?"
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Vermont. Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015. The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Yves Bolduc, President of the Quebec cattle feed brokerage and manufacturing company, Meunerie Sawyerville, Inc., appeared Monday...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Antonio Moncada, Jr., 44, of Gillette, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Nov. 12, 2015, for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine and for possession of a firearm in furtherance...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - An Ellis County man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in federal prison on drug and gun charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for soliciting a girl to produce sexually explicit images and using Craigslist to advertise sexual encounters with the girl, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell T. Ippolito, Jr., who is handling the case, stated that Diaz fraudulently obtained the credit/debit card numbers of actual people and then encoded counterfeit cards with the information illegally obtained. The defendant then used the counterfeit cards to purchase merchandise...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA- On Nov. 10, 2015, Randy Mark Heinrichs, age 50, of Exira, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 70 months in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Heinrichs also will be required to serve a three-year term of supervised release following his release from imprisonment.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), RJ Produce Inc., operating in Pharr, Texas, posted a $100,000 surety bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, MICHAEL DEAN BILLINGS, 60, an attorney from Oklahoma City, pled guilty to traveling from Oklahoma City to Iquitos, Peru, between Jan. 1, 2011 and Feb. 21, 2013, to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a Peruvian girl under 18 years of age, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
