News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of transporting poultry without inspection, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration; Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Cyrus Vance, Jr., the New York County District Attorney; and Thomas Zugibe, the Rockland County District Attorney, announced today the release of two public service announcements addressing the dangers of prescription drug abuse and how parents can keep their children safe.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that on Oct. 28, 2015, a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned a four-count indictment charging HUGO TEJEDA, 23, IVAN LERMA, also known as “Aurelia Llano" and “Miguel Cardona," 24, and VLADIMIR RODRIGUEZ-LARA, 35, all of Waterbury, with trafficking “black tar" heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Sebastian Gonzalez-Delgado, age 27, of Guanajuato, Mexico, and Jose Ramos, age 33, a native and citizen of Guatemala, were indicted separately yesterday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on charges of illegally re-entering the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lafayette man was sentenced Wednesday to 24 months in prison for possessing a stolen handgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A real estate attorney pleaded guilty today to participating in a far-reaching scheme to defraud banks and mortgage companies as part of a conspiracy involving sham “short" sales of numerous residential properties in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Improved methods of ensuring product quality, detecting foodborne pathogens and creating biobased fuels are among technological innovations arising from 75-years of scientific excellence at four Agricultural Research Service (ARS) regional utilization centers spread throughout the country. ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture 's (USDA) chief scientific research agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael T. Figueroa, Jr., 28, of Fairmont, West Virginia, was convicted of cocaine trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Defendant Ordered to Pay $324,239.00 in Restitution to Victims of her Criminal Conduct.
By State Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the recent attack on Camp Liberty...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: The Senate today kicks off debate on a major, bipartisan budget compromise. Here’s what this is all about: Fiscal battles in Congress come and go, but nothing should ever threaten America’s sterling economic reputation, which spans generations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that DAVID BENINCASA, 34, and SCOTT BENINCASA, 32, both of Danbury, waived their right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to federal tax offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Shawn LaSalle Harris, 37, of Norristown, PA, was charged today by Indictment with armed bank robbery and a weapons offense, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, on June 3, 2015, Harris held up the Bank of America branch at 420 Plymouth Road, in Plymouth Meeting, PA. He allegedly brandished and discharged a.380 caliber Ruger handgun.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Sustainable fisheries management policies have allowed America’s commercial and recreational fisheries to be powerful economic contributors, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) annual Fisheries of the United States report released today. The report also states that...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Jai Devon Lee, age 39, of Statesboro, Georgia, was convicted on Oct. 27, 2015 of identity theft, aggravated identity theft and fraud in connection with access devices following a two-day jury trial in Valdosta. Senior U.S. District Court Judge Hugh Lawson presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A leader of a Lawrence heroin trafficking organization that operated in Massachusetts and New York was sentenced today to 13 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - The Northwest Colorado Fire Management Unit plans to burn slash piles in several locations within the Bureau of Land Management’s Kremmling Field Office this winter.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A compliance officer with the Union City Community Development Agency (UCCDA) was indicted today for allegedly manipulating the contractor selection process for federally-funded residential rehabilitation and sidewalk replacement projects, causing losses of at least $250,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Oct. 29, 2015, Hassam Fayiz Abusharkh, age 36, of Urbandale, Iowa, appeared in federal court before Senior United States District Judge Robert W. Pratt and was sentenced to 80 months in federal prison for bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Abusharkh...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg returned an Indictment yesterday charging a Philadelphia man and a Linden, Pennsylvania woman with conspiracy to distribute and distribution of heroin in Loyalsock Township, Lycoming County.
