News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Alexis Acosta-Guzman, 40, a Cuban citizen who was residing in McAllen, has been convicted of trafficking in access devices, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Lawrence Ray Bennett, Jr., 31, of Los Angeles, California, pleaded guilty in federal court in Bluefield, West Virginia, to conspiracy to distribute hydromorphone. Bennett admitted that from July 2014 to September 2015, he and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a man from Alabama was sentenced last week to 120 months in prison for transporting sexually explicit pictures of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Honduran national was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison for reentering the country after having been previously deported for committing an aggravated felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law. 10: 0 a.m. in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building. Hearing on: H.R. 3438, the “Require Evaluation before Implementing Executive Wishlists Act of 2015". H.R.2631, the “Regulatory Predictability for Business Growth ...
By State Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today issued the following statement in response to reports that a Washington-based Lebanese-American has been jailed by authorities in Iran...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resource Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement in response to an editorial in the Wall Street Journal.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Kenton Lloyd Flook, 45, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 84 months in prison followed by seven years of supervised release, for two counts of transfer of obscene materials to a minor, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Flook to forfeit computers and related property used in the commission of the offenses. Flook pleaded guilty to the charges on July 30, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: UPDATE. Following court rulings, the defendant's original conviction and sentence were vacated. Thereafter, Massaro pleaded guilty to conspiracy, money laundering and failure to return household goods in connection with defrauding 23 victims (instead of the original 52) of approximately $28,460. He was...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Jose Roberts, 63, of Martinsburg, was sentenced to 84 months in prison for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Preyed On Runaway Teen and Homeless Drug Addict.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, California - Raúl Canchola Farías, 40, residente de Pacoima, ha sido sentenciado hoy por el Juez del Distrito de Estados Unidos Anthony W. Ishii a 11 años y tres meses de prisión por posesión con el intento de distribuir metanfetamina, anunció el Procurador de los Estados Unidos Benjamín B. Wagner.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Sentences range from 4 to 12 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Defendant was Member of Oxycodone Trafficking Ring Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A 44-year-old Kansas man has been ordered to federal prison for transporting a minor across state lines with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Paul Francis Grimm, of Goddard, Kansas, pleaded guilty Nov. 4, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Jamar James (25, Ft. Myers) to four years and five months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on July 28, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two men from Berkeley County, West Virginia were sentenced for violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned indictments today charging Ceressa B. Patterson, 29, of Fairview, West Virginia, and Rose Munro, 53, of Wana, West Virginia, with stealing funds from the United States Postal Service, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
