News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Phillip Jordan, 50, of Springfield, was indicted in U.S. District Court in Springfield on one count of failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today held a business meeting to approve a wide array of legislative proposals, including measures that would expand sportsmen’s access to federal lands and promote renewable hydropower. The committee also reported three Energy Department nominees and a nominee to lead the U.S. Geological Survey.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is investing $23.4 million in 75 projects across 31 states and the Western Pacific to expand distance learning and telemedicine opportunities in rural areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -- Carlos Pua Caudillo, 35, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 78 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Rashad Robertson, age 25, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to unlawful possession of Alprazolam, a prescription drug stolen during the looting on April 27, 2015 from the CVS Pharmacy located at 2509 Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore (CVS Pharmacy).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Steven Lesmeister, age 39, of Green Forest, Arkansas, was sentenced on three counts of Stalking. Lesmeister was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for count one and 60 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to a period of three years of probation on his conviction of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, ANTONIO DASHAWN PITT, 21, of Wilson, North Carolina, was sentenced before United States District Judge James C. Dever, III. PITT received 125 months imprisonment followed by a 4 year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: News Conference. Nov. 20, 2015. 2:30 p.m. U.S. Attorney’s Office, 445 Broadway, Albany, NY 12207. Second Floor. ALBANY, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, along with Andrew W. Vale, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Ronald...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Miami Field Office, Timothy Camus, Deputy Inspector General for Investigations, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that a federal jury in Jacksonville today found William Roland Baker (64, Jacksonville) guilty of two counts of possessing child pornography. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, up to 20 years, in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Pair Committed a String of Armed Robberies of Gas/Convenience Stores in DFW Metroplex in June 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: The Defendant and his Conspirators Used a Network of “Money Mule Accounts" to Retrieve the Stolen Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Fort Collins resident and former Front Range Community College student David Aaron Moscow, age 30, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Ordered to Pay $1.4 Million in Restitution.
By State Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement today after a bipartisan, veto-proof majority passed the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015 (H.R. 4038)...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Francis J. Ready -, 59, of Portland, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to armed bank robbery and using a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Aiding and Abetting was sentenced on Nov. 3, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: The charge arises out of a shooting that took place on Nov. 16, 2015 in the vicinity of Fore and Market Streets in Portland’s Old Port district. According to the complaint, Okot possessed a Springfield Armory USA Model SA XD-9 subcompact handgun that was recovered from a vehicle that he drove that day. Okot was prohibited from possessing the firearm because of a 2011 conviction for felony murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Stephen Voudouris, Sr., 60, of Newtown Square, PA was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison and six months home detention pursuant to his prior guilty plea to conspiracy, trafficking in counterfeit goods, smuggling counterfeit goods into the United States and wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
