News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: For More Than Two Years Conspirators Traveled From State to State Making Purchases Using Stolen Credit and Bank Card Information.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID E. RAYMOND, 74, of Glastonbury, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to structuring financial transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Armed Security Guards Employed to Protect the Drug Trafficking Operation at Medical Rehabilitation Clinic in Dallas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A former federal correctional officer and a federal inmate have been indicted for attempting to smuggle marijuana into a Memphis prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Maurice Lebron Davis, age 40, of Brooklyn, New York was sentenced to 19 years in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III today, as a result of his April 2015 conviction of eight counts of robbery or attempted robbery following a four day jury trial in Harrisburg.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Edgar Brito, 21, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced today to 128 months in prison for the armed robbery of approximately $100,000 in cell phones from numerous businesses throughout Hampton Roads. Co-conspirator Daren Artis, 20, of Chesapeake, was sentenced to 128 months in prison on Sept. 17, 2015, and co-conspirator Alexander Horst, 23, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced to 110 months in prison on Sept. 21, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Damien Piper, age 34, of Wilmington, Delaware, pled guilty today to violations of 18 U.S.C. § 666 (Theft of Public Funds). Piper, who will be sentenced on Feb. 2, 2016, by the Honorable...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A federal grand jury has returned a two-count indictment charging Sierra Danielle Messer, 21, of Newport, Tenn., with knowingly distributing and possessing child pornography involving prepubescent minors. This illegal conduct is alleged to have taken place in June and September 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: BRIMLEY, Mich. - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees at Pendills Creek National Fish Hatchery faced atmospheric, water, amputation and asbestos hazards while working in tanks and pits, a recent federal safety and health investigation found.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Defendants guilty on all counts following a two-week trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ezequiel Armas-Ortiz (Armas), 49, of Michoacán, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and to manufacturing and possessing with intent to distribute marijuana in connection with a large-scale cultivation operation in the Brush Creek drainage in the Sequoia National Forest in Tulare County, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Defendant, who Acted as a “Lookout" during One Robbery, and Five Co-Defendants are being Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that former Covan World Wide Moving, Inc., manager Ronald James Niemi, Jr., age 45, of Wesley Chapel, Florida, has been convicted of Mail Fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341, after a five-day trial in Columbia that concluded Monday. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., of Columbia presided over the trial and will sentence Niemi at a later date.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Fire managers from Rocky Mountain National Park plan to take advantage of upcoming wet or winter weather conditions to burn piles of slash generated from several fuels reduction projects and hazard tree removals. Slash from these projects has been cut and piled by park fire crews and contractors during the last two years and are now dry enough to burn.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Albert A. Firlie, age 67, of Severn, Maryland, today to 135 months in prison followed by supervised release for life for possessing child pornography. Judge Bredar enhanced Firlie’s sentence based upon a 1991 child abuse conviction in...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Ex-DEA Agent Used Undercover Status to Pocket More than $700,000 in Bitcoin, Strike Movie Deal with Twentieth Century Fox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Michigan man was sentenced in Federal Court in Anchorage for making numerous false statements, identity theft and engaging in a scheme to operate fake charitable organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States District Court Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Tryvell Powell, 34, of Fresno, today to 10 years and 10 months in prison for sex trafficking of a minor, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park fire management officials are planning a 600-acre prescribed burn in the Canadian Top project area adjacent to Cataloochee Valley in North Carolina. Weather permitting, burn operations could begin as early as Monday, Oct. 26, and may continue intermittently through early November. The burn unit is located on Bald Top and Jesse Ridge adjacent to the Little Cataloochee Trail between Davidson Branch and Mossy Branch.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2015
News Release: Terre Haute -United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler today announced charges against seven individuals involved in a methamphetamine conspiracy reaching from Indianapolis to Lawrenceville, Illinois.
