News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Praepitcha Smatsorabudh, 41, of Arlington, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for running a multiyear scheme to defraud department stores across the country. Smatsorabudh was also sentenced to three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $403,250.81 in forfeiture and the same amount in restitution to her victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Levar Washington, age 37, inmate at United States Penitentiary, Allenwood (USP Allenwood), was indicted on Dec. 20, 2016, by a federal grand jury for assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of contraband.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that, yesterday, a Petersburg man was sentenced to federal prison for the transportation of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Wade Malloy, 62, of Stanley, N.C., and former pastor of a Huntersville area church, appeared in court today and pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, for stealing money from the church and its affiliated parochial school, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that William Bonilla, Jr., age 31, and William Davis, age 29, both inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution, Schuylkill, in Minersville, Pennsylvania (FCI Schuylkill), were indicted on Dec. 20, 2016, by a federal grand jury for conspiracy and attempt to obtain marijuana and synthetic marijuana in FCI Schuylkill.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Wade Malloy, 62, of Stanley, N.C., and former pastor of a Huntersville area church, appeared in court today and pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, for stealing money from the church and its affiliated parochial school, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County has been sentenced in federal court to 13 months imprisonment, restitution in the amount of $148,341.59 and five years supervised release on her conviction of bank fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Today, the Energy Department (DOE) announced $15 million, subject to appropriations, to support community-based projects to accelerate the adoption of advanced and alternative fuel vehicles and demonstrate energy efficient mobility systems including connected and autonomous vehicles as well as new transportation system models.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Three men pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with conducting an illegal gambling business.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE - U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha announced today that the District of Rhode Island collected $4,142,183.02 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, $3,603,251.74 was collected in criminal actions and $538,931.28 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: MISSOULA - Ian Scott Barclay, 29, of Deer Lodge Montana, was sentenced to 92 months in prison, 3 years supervised release, and a $200 special assessment by Chief United States District Court Judge Dana L. Christensen on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 for conspiring to distribute controlled substances-methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Dec. 20, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mitchell, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Kidnapping, Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer, and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that, yesterday, a Juneau man was sentenced to federal prison for the distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Mwashuma M. Sithole, 32, of Waterville, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release for selling counterfeit coins. He pleaded guilty to the crime on May 9, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment yesterday afternoon charging David A. Hickman, 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., with using fire to damage and destroy a building used in interstate commerce. Hickman is scheduled to be arraigned on the indictment on Jan. 3, 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: MIAMI - If Southern Chills, a Homestead-based contractor, had not ignored the construction industry's most dangerous hazard, Leonardo Javier Lopez-Montelo might be alive today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Delhi doctor was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison for issuing prescriptions for opiates to those without following proper procedures.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Today, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced up to $35 million in available funding to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing that are not significantly represented in EERE’s current portfolio.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Texas man pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
