News from November 2015
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: As the availability and sophistication of new aerial systems have proliferated, recent high-profile incidents have raised public safety concerns related to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones. As the Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Committee on...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: The Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Gregory Haanstad, announced today that the United States has reached a civil settlement agreement with Atlas Healthcare, Inc., and its owners, Deana Bajanen and Sheena Jones, for $435,000 pursuant to the federal False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former lieutenant with the Carroll County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Office has pleaded guilty to a civil rights violation for using a taser on a restrained pre-trial detainee, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III of the Western District of Tennessee, and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that NATHAN LEON STANLEY BENALLY-SAM, age 21, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 3 years of probation for PROVIDING CONTRABAND IN PRISON, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1791(a)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Lymon Prosecuted as Part of “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) published the following today on Medium.com (see the post HERE )...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Codefendant sentenced to seven years for being an accessory after the fact and arson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Wilson Santiago, 35, of Hartford, CT, Jose Pagan, 37, of Hartford, CT, and Samantha Partlow, 29, of Barre, VT, made initial appearances today in the United States District Court in Burlington, following their arrests for conspiracy to distribute heroin. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy temporarily detained all three people. Their detention hearings are set for next week.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: On Thursday, November 19th, at 10:00 a.m., the House and Senate conference committee to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will hold a second meeting in HVC-201 of the Capitol Visitor Center. At the conference committee’s next meeting, members are expected to consider amendments to the House-Senate proposed framework.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Clarence Shipley, age 27, of Baltimore, to 70 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a racketeering conspiracy in connection with Shipley’s participation in the UDH organization, which operates in the Cherry Hill section of Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Mexican national pleaded guilty Tuesday to re-entering the United States after removal.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a Mexican national residing in Madison, West Virginia, pleaded guilty today to a drug charge in federal court in Charleston. Leonel Vivian Castellanos, 28, from Vera Cruz, Mexico, pleaded guilty to distribution of methamphetamine, admitting that between May 12 and May 19, 2015, he distributed approximately 500 grams of methamphetamine to informants in Kanawha and Boone Counties.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today was named Chairman of the bicameral surface transportation bill conference committee. The conference committee, meeting today, is comprised of the Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate responsible for...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that John C. Barry, 69, of Portland, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to embezzlement and making false entries in credit union records.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: SAN DIEGO - The owner of a Glendale-based ride-sharing business pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal wire fraud charges, admitting that he illegally generated over $13 million in profits by selling more than 30,000 Apple iPhones fraudulently obtained from Verizon Wireless at substantially discounted prices.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today a renewed strategy for reducing and preventing violent crime in the Middle District of Pennsylvania focusing on the Harrisburg, York, Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport areas. Federal, state and local ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico was sentenced today to 19 years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to transport large amounts of narcotics to the Chicago area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that CHELBI GEORGE, age 42, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for POSSESSION OF A COUNTERFEIT OBLIGATION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 472.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 14 months in prison for possessing sexually explicit images of a 12-year old Pennsylvania girl with whom he had an online relationship, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Ronald C. Howard, Jr, a 45 year old resident of Theodore, Alabama was sentenced today to 8 months incarceration followed by three years of supervised release for possession of counterfeit currency.
