News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - David Morel, Jr., 31, of Derry, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty on Dec. 19, 2016, in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Lance Bradley Williams, aka “Crush, aka “Lil’ Crush", age 24, of Fort Smith, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison followed by five (5) years of supervised release and ordered to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A convicted sex offender from Long Beach has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of attempted sex trafficking of a child for allegedly responding to an online advertisement that offered sex with a 15-year-old girl in exchange for $200.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Six defendants, including owners, doctors, and an employee of sober homes and alcohol and drug addiction treatment centers were charged in a health care fraud scheme for filing fraudulent insurance claim forms and license applications and defrauding health care benefit programs.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Over the last year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has made great strides toward integrating unmanned aircraft - popularly called “drones" - into the nation’s airspace. The first big step took place last Dec. 21, when a new, web-based drone registration system went online.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Justin Bodnar, age 27, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Dec. 20, 2016, by a federal grand jury for intentionally accessing protected computers without authorization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Today Antonio Sanes Carmona, 45, of St. Croix, Virgin Islands, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge George Cannon, Jr., to possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. His sentencing is scheduled for April 20, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: DEC 21 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that that Tyshawn Welborn, also known as “Black," 38, of Bloomfield, Connecticut was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Justin Bodnar, age 27, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Dec. 20, 2016, by a federal grand jury for intentionally accessing protected computers without authorization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A former Drug Enforcement (DEA) task force officer/Mission Police Department investigator has been sentenced for his convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Houston Division, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that all five defendants involved in the burglary of the DaVita Dialysis Center in Rosebud, South Dakota, in January 2016 have now been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Angel M. Melendez, Special Agent In Charge of the New York Field Office of the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI") announced today the unsealing of a complaint charging LUIS DIAZ...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, applauded the U.S. Department of Education’s efforts to move forward quickly with a process to restore Pell Grant eligibility to students enrolled at the time Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute abruptly closed, as well as countless other students that were unable to complete their programs at schools that have shut down.
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 Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury was sentenced on Dec. 19, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. ‐ Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that the Western District of New York Office recovered in Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, $85,638,249 as a result of wide‐ranging efforts in criminal, civil and asset forfeiture cases. As a result, $5,307,448 was given to victims of crime...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that that TYSHAWN WELBORN, also known as “Black," 38, of Bloomfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine. WELBORN also was ordered to pay a $200,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eddie Allen, 27, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of RICO Conspiracy in connection with a deadly shooting, was sentenced to 121 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - John William Sturm, 54, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Conner to serve a total of 190 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in August 2016 to a three-count indictment charging firearm and drug distribution offenses, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Nyzhon N. Bell, 19, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was convicted of heroin distribution today, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2016
News Release: Using their advanced atomic clock to mimic other desirable quantum systems, JILA physicists have caused atoms in a gas to behave as if they possess unusual magnetic properties long sought in harder-to-study solid materials. Representing a novel “off-label" use for atomic clocks, the research could lead to the creation of new materials for applications such as “spintronic" devices and quantum computers.
