News from December 2016
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 34), into law. Pallone was the lead House Democratic negotiator on this legislation, and worked closely with Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A drug distribution network that caused large amounts of heroin to be transported from Baltimore to Berkeley County has been dismantled after the federal indictment of eighteen people, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced this morning.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 34), into law. Pallone was the lead House Democratic negotiator on this legislation, and worked closely with Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tony Peebles, 30, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and RICO conspiracy, was sentenced to 295 months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal jury found a Ball man guilty of stealing more than $100,000 in Veterans Affairs benefits from a deceased woman’s bank account.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Davon Lymon, 35, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this afternoon to violating the federal firearms laws by unlawfully possessing a firearm on May 27, 2016. The charge to which Lymon entered a guilty plea today is Count 2 of a four-count superseding indictment charging Lymon with violating the federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Laguna Hills man was arrested this morning on charges that he used the internet to sell misbranded veterinary medications without a prescription.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Victim Was Left Badly Injured, Bleeding, Unable to Move.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATHANIEL SMITH, 29, of Aurora, Colorado, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA), House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), House Democratic Whip...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A native of Romania who was arrested in Spain and extradited to the United States was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to steal bank account information from thousands of customers by installing secret card-reading devices and pinhole cameras on ATMs throughout New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Florida, and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Scheme Participants Impersonated Federal Reserve Officials to Swindle Over $50 Million from Investors in the United States and Foreign Countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - James P. Griffin, 71, of Cazenovia, was sentenced today to 5 years imprisonment, ordered to pay a $2,300 special assessment and $2,153,530.93 in restitution announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, IRS Criminal Investigation, New York Field Office Acting Special Agent in Charge Kathy A. Enstrom, and FBI Albany Division Special Agent in Charge Andrew Vale.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that William Curtis Oliver, 52, of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, and formerly of Dougherty County, Georgia, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to failing to register as a sex offender. He was indicted on Oct. 14, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 31-year-old Corpus Christi man has been handed a significant sentence following his conviction of production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jesus Villalobos pleaded guilty Sept. 27, 2016, admitting he enticed an 11-year-old victim into sending him sexually explicit photographs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Dec. 12, 2016, Brandon Marquis Kelly, 31, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 96 months in prison for Felon in Possession of a Firearm, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Kelly was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA - A Lynchburg man faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty yesterday to a federal bankruptcy fraud charge, according to United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: NATCHEZ, MS - Beginning Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016, until further notice, the Mount Locust Site along the Natchez Trace Parkway begins winter operating hours. Hours of operation will be 9:00 am to 4:30 pm, Friday through Sunday and closed Monday through Thursday. This closure includes the historic home, restrooms, visitor contact station, and the grounds.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Apostle Islands NL- All NPS docks found at Little Sand Bay, both within the harbor and Hokenson dock, are closed due to ice on the docks, causing slippery and unsafe conditions. The docks are closed to both foot traffic and boat docking.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Two individuals pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with the sale of machineguns and handguns stolen from the U.S. Armey Reserve Center in Worcester.
