News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Robert Lawrence Brown (32, Clermont) has pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe as a public official. He faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced yesterday that Damarcus Hennings, 24, Shaquata Hennings, 28, Arthur Clark, 27, Shahana Beaver, 23, and Janice Humphrey, 26, all of Buffalo, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography. David Albert, 50, of Springfield, was sentenced by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: New Jersey Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Westmoreland County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging Kevin G. Collins, 33, of Cleveland, with violations of the federal narcotics and firearm laws, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner and president of a dietary supplement manufacturing company in Flanders, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 40 months in prison for directing the sale of diluted and adulterated dietary ingredients and supplements sold by his company, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Help protect the native Hawaiian rainforest at the summit of Kīlauea by volunteering for “Stewardship at the Summit" programs in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, now through December 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, defendants Joel Díaz Rosario, Mitza Vázquez Meléndez, Marielexy Cestary Roland, and Carlos Calderón Díaz pled guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Bruce J. McGiverin to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Odessa, Mo., man who falsely claimed to be a Cherokee Indian was sentenced in federal court today for utilizing a fraudulent tribal identification card to sell his Indian artwork at fairs and on-line.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - KEENAN THOMAS and BRANDON FOSTER were sentenced to 188 months and 144 months, respectively, on charges involving their participation in the Oct. 16, 2014, theft of firearms from Allstar Pawn in Wentzville, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Midamar and ISA Admit to Conspiring to Commit Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A firearms trafficker, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of aiding and abetting the unlawful manufacturing of firearms, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Thursday Sept. 10, 2015 at 12PM ET, Members of Congress led by U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) in the Senate and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) in the House of Representatives, will introduce the Fair Chance Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation that gives formerly incarcerated people...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Kentucky woman caught with a large quantity of pills during a traffic stop in Huntington in 2014 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Karen Sue Fields, 45, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Huntington to possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and alprazolam.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani sentenced Frank McBride, age 29, of Scranton, to 110 months imprisonment. McBride pled guilty in March 2015 to bank robbery and attempted bank robbery, and Hobbs Act robbery (interference with commerce by threats or violence).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin R. Feldis announced today that a Palmer man has been sentenced by United States District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 84 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine while in possession of two firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: In response to requests from the public, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has extended the public comment period for a recently proposed rule that would update and replace Onshore Oil and Gas Order Number 3 (Order 3) until October 9, 2015.The BLM released the proposed rule (Onshore Oil and Gas Operations;...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Lebanon, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for a mail fraud scheme that involved the distribution of more than $1.2 million of synthetic marijuana, commonly referred to as K2, from a head shop in Lebanon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015
News Release: NEW YORK) - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Glenn Sorge, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s...
