News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: RUTLAND, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Alvin (a.k.a. “Baby"), 25, and Stephen (a.k.a. “MJ"), 25, both from Brooklyn, New York, were sentenced...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Frank Curtis, 35, formerly of Canaan, Maine, was sentenced today U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to 80 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine and oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: Defendant was One of 21 Individuals Charged as Result of 2013 Multi-Agency Investigation; Defendants Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Twelve Springfield-area men, nine of whom were arrested this morning, were charged in U.S. District Court in Springfield with drug distribution and firearms offenses.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed six members to serve on the Softwood Lumber Board. Members will serve a 3-year term of office beginning Jan. 1, 2016.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHARLES J. MOORE, former Chief Executive Officer of broker-dealer Crucible Capital, Inc. (“Crucible"), pled guilty today before United States District Judge Colleen McMahon to obstructing a regulatory examination.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Ronald Mays, 63, of Wilmington, Delaware, pleaded guilty today to three counts of attempted possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Mays worked for the Port of Wilmington in Delaware at the time. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Baylson scheduled a sentencing hearing for Feb. 11, 2016. Mays faces a possible advisory sentencing guideline range of 57 to 71 months in prison.

By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Nov. 9, 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former financial comptroller of a North Kansas City, Mo., business pleaded guilty in federal court today to a wire fraud scheme in which he embezzled more than $247,000 from his employer over five years.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two individuals were sentenced in federal court today for heroin and oxycodone trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jonathan Ernesto Godoy, 25, of Frederick, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to charges relating to a November 2012 arson at the Loudoun County Department of Community Corrections building.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: Program topics and presenters have been announced for this year's Perspectives Winter Speaker Series, offered free of charge on the second Tuesday of each month, November through April.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - According to an information and plea agreement filed today in U.S. District Court in Providence, Leon F. Tejada, 50, of Providence, operator of El Centro Multiservicios, LLC, a tax preparation service in Providence, has agreed to plead guilty to federal tax and wire fraud charges, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman was sentenced today in federal court in Huntington, West Virginia, to two years and nine months in federal prison for participating in a heroin distribution conspiracy in 2012 and 2013, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Pricilla Lee Dylan, 21, had previously entered a guilty plea to maintaining a residence for the purpose of distributing and using heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Allen Andre Brown, 36, of Portsmouth, was sentenced today to 222 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin. In connection with this conviction, Brown forfeited $3,365 in U.S. Currency, a para-ordnance.45 caliber semi-automatic pistol, ammunition, and is subject to a monetary judgment of $555,850.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Alvin Kinard (a.k.a. “Baby"), 25, and Stephen Morrison (a.k.a. “MJ"), 25, both from Brooklyn, New York, were sentenced by Chief Judge Christina Reiss in U.S. District Court in Burlington. Judge Reiss sentenced Kinard to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Mario Orlando Jude Serrano, 34, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 168 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: EL VADO, N.M. - The highway over El Vado Dam will be closed to traffic during daytime hours beginning November 12.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: McAllen, Texas - Two men have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, marijuana and conspiring to launder drug proceeds, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Ariana Shanae Parker, 24, of Martinsburg, was convicted of heroin trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.