News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Federico Sanchez-Bello, 36, of Norristown, PA, was charged today by Indictment[1] with being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about September 4, 2016, Sanchez-Bello, a native and citizen of Mexico unlawfully in the United States, possessed a.45 caliber semi-automatic pistol.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Beaver, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of escape from federal custody, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On December 5, 2016, James Perin, age 66, and Mardeen Perin, age 62, of West Des Moines, Iowa, appeared before Chief United States Magistrate Judge Celeste F. Bremer and pleaded guilty to tax fraud charges arising out of their operation of Sully's Pub in 2013, announced United States...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in strong opposition to a resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Randal Gordon Paul, 47, of Albuquerque, with federal child pornography charges. Paul was detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno man who was found guilty by a jury for a 2013 bank robbery in south Reno and for killing a customer was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Miranda M. Du to life in prison on both counts and ordered that the counts run consecutive, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding committee approval of a resolution of advice and consent supporting Montenegro’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Representatives ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage woman pleaded guilty to federal charges for using personal information from former insurance clients to obtain money from banks under false pretenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: OXFORD - Wesley Scott Greene, 25, of Opelika, Alabama, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock in Aberdeen, Mississippi, today to serve 120 months in prison for child exploitation, and 120 months in prison for crossing state lines to engage in sexual activity with a minor. Greene will serve the two sentences concurrently.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Matthew Gage Burgett, 25, of Blackfoot, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to unlawful possession of destructive devices which Burgett designed for use as a weapon, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Burgett was indicted by a Pocatello grand jury on Oct. 27, 2015.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $218,700 civil penalty against Resorts World Aviation and Resorts World Bimini for allegedly flying passengers without an FAA air carrier certificate or with pilots who had not been trained and checked for commercial operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Carol Watts, age 44, of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, to conspiring to use stolen credit cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas -The last of three defendants convicted for their respective roles in the May 2013 murder of Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa in Southlake, Texas, Jesus Gerardo Ledezma-Cepeda, a/k/a “Chuy" and “Juan Ramos," was sentenced this morning by Senior U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means to two life sentences to be run concurrently in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Laverne Palmer, a/k/a Poogaloo, 26, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci to committing multiple bank robberies. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held an oversight hearing to examine decades of data manipulation at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), generally recognized as a preeminent scientific organization of the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE - Jose Vazquez-Barron, AKA Chepa, was sentenced yesterday to 210 months (17.5 years) in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. The sentence follows a guilty plea entered Aug. 15, 2016, in which Vasquez-Barron admitted he conspired to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted Sable Daniel, age 27, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for distribution of heroin and providing an inmate with contraband and Russell Whitmore, age 33, an inmate at United States Penitentiary, Canaan (USP Canaan), for possession of contraband by an inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Failed to disclose the death of her husband for eleven years.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Seven members of the New Jersey branch of the international street gang “La Mara Salvatrucha," (MS-13) have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a violent criminal enterprise that included murder, extortion, and plots to kill witnesses, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today.
