News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Pablo Salgado-Cervantes, 25, a Mexican national illegally residing in Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 96 months and one day in prison for violating the Hobbs Act and federal firearms laws by brandishing a firearm during an armed robbery of a McDonald’s restaurant on Sept. 3, 2014. Salgado-Cervantes will be deported after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Houston has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction in McAllen federal court to conspiring to commit money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Alejandro Morales-Flores, 60, pleaded guilty April 16, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 19-year-old man from Houston has been handed a federal prison sentence following his conviction of importing methamphetamine into the U.S., announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jose Manuel Trevino Jr. pleaded guilty Nov. 24, 2014.
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 Wayne Sunderland, a/k/a “Sean Johnson," a/k/a “Thomas Butler -, " 32, of South Portland, Maine, was sentenced today in...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Today, a federal jury convicted former Florida State University (FSU) Assistant Professor of Finance, James S. Doran PhD, 40, of Boulder, Colorado, of embezzlement concerning a program receiving federal funds. The verdict was announced by Christopher P. Canova, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man who was shot by police officers pleaded guilty in federal court today to bank robbery and to using a firearm in an attempted carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Shawn Eugene Conrad (47), a transient found in Tampa, with failure to register as a sex offender. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today underscored the importance of innovation to lower energy costs and make energy more abundant and reliable. As she delivered remarks on the Senate Floor, Murkowski used her home state to demonstrate the substantial benefits of innovation, as many remote communities in Alaska are developing their natural resources to generate clean, renewable, and affordable energy.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today highlighted a newly published analysis of the significant economic benefits of a large swathe of public land in Northern Arizona he has proposed to protect as a new national monument. The analysis, conducted by BBC Research & Consulting on behalf...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Camelina is an herbaceous, yellow-flowering member of the mustard family whose oil-rich seed and cold tolerance has piqued the interest of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists for its potential as both a winter cover crop and biodiesel resource.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: FT. WORTH, Texas - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $509,180 civil penalty against Martinaire Aviation, LLC, of Addison, Texas, for allegedly violating the Hazardous Material Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney=s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane sentenced Devonte Betts, age 21, of Hummelstown, Pennsylvania to 6 years of incarceration today in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Betts pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance on June 15, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a White Sulphur Springs man pleaded guilty today to a drug charge in federal court Charleston, West Virginia. Darin Timothy Hoke, 21, admitted that on July 28, 2015, he distributed an oxymorphone pill to a confidential informant in White Sulphur Springs. Hoke further admitted that he distributed a total of over 600 oxymorphone pills, as well as 120 stamps of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest and charging by criminal complaint of Clayton Junior Thornburg (53, Luka, Mississippi) for attempted child enticement and transportation of child pornography. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Shannan Lee Winemiller (21, Orlando) guilty of knowingly aiming the beam of a laser pointer at a Southwest Boeing 737 aircraft and an Orange County Sheriff’s Office helicopter. Rolando Espinoza...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited three Austin, Texas-based employers involved in commercial real estate renovation for exposing workers to asbestos at a residential apartment construction worksite in San Antonio. After a May 29...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today the sentencing of Jared S. Fogle after being convicted of distributing and receiving child pornography and traveling in interstate commerce to engage in unlawful commercial sex acts with minors. Fogle, 38, of Zionsville, Indiana, was sentenced to 188 months (15 ½ years) in federal prison by U. S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt in federal court in Indianapolis.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: In Midland, two Odessa brothers convicted on federal drug and firearms charges earlier this year were sentenced to lengthy prison terms announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, El Paso Division, Ector County Sheriff Mark Donaldson and Odessa Police Chief Timothy Burton.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: McAllen, Texas - A naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Houston has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction in McAllen federal court to conspiring to commit money laundering, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Alejandro Morales-Flores, 60, pleaded guilty April 16, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Michael Sherman Morlang, age 26, of Payson with making a bomb threat to a hospital.
