News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A man who trafficked a female minor for sex has been sentenced to 151 months in federal prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Richard Daniel Lord (58, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to receiving child sexual abuse videos over the Internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5, up to 20 years, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervision. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled. Lord has been in federal custody since his arrest on Sept. 30, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Joseph Goldman, age 35, of Baltimore has been charged by federal criminal complaint for possessing unregistered firearms and for making a firearm. Goldman had an initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas M. DiGirolamo in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, and was ordered to be detained pending a detention hearing scheduled for Jan. 3, 2017, at 10:30 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Joseph Goldman, age 35, of Baltimore has been charged by federal criminal complaint for possessing unregistered firearms and for making a firearm. Goldman had an initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas M. DiGirolamo in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, and was ordered to be detained pending a detention hearing scheduled for Jan. 3, 2017, at 10:30 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that, yesterday, an Anchorage man was sentenced by Chief District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 12 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine, and crack in Anchorage, to launder thousands of dollars in drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: FBI Searches for Unknown Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Betsy Steinfeld Jividen will serve as Acting United States Attorney beginning on Jan. 1, 2017, U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding was sentenced on Dec. 20, 2016, by U.S. Magistrate Judge William D. Gerdes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey auto dealer was charged today for allegedly defrauding more than 140 Russian citizens who were customers of his auto sales business, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As part of its continuing efforts to conserve habitat vital to healthy populations of the Greater Sage-Grouse in the West, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced the draft proposal to withdraw a subset of lands that are sage-grouse strongholds from future mining claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Dec. 20, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Richard Daniel Lord (58, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to receiving child sexual abuse videos over the Internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5, up to 20 years, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervision. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled. Lord has been in federal custody since his arrest on Sept. 30, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Valentine, Nebraska, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Dec. 12, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By State Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Obama Administration’s action to expel Russian intelligence officials and sanction Russia’s intelligence services...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Ricardo Miguel Mayo (49, Titusville) guilty of theft of government money and aggravated identity theft. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for the money theft, to be followed by 2 years’ imprisonment for the aggravated identity theft charge. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 16, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: ELY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Ely District has concluded the Eagle and Silver King Emergency Wild Horse Gather. The BLM gathered and removed 74 excess wild horses from public and private lands adjacent to U.S. Highway 93 and State Route 322 in and outside the Eagle and Silver King Herd Management Areas (HMAs) in eastern Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that D’Hati Coleman, 38, of New Haven, Connecticut was sentenced today by United States District Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. in Federal Court in Bangor to a 32-month term of imprisonment and a three-year term of supervised release for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Dec. 19, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an investigation is underway after an officer-involved shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 29, 2016
News Release: Jemez Springs, NM. - The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public comment on a proposal to designate “significant thermal features" within Valles Caldera National Preserve in accordance with the Geothermal Steam Act (30 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1028).
