News from December 2016

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced William Warren, age 28, of Baltimore, today to 15 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after Warren pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for producing sexually explicit images of children with whom he communicated online.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: El Demandado Disparó una Ronda de Escopeta Hacia la Víctima y Gritó, “Vete…de Oildale".

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nicholas Graham, 45, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to bank robbery by use of a dangerous weapon before Chief U.S. District Judge Joseph P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 205,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Mississippi (ABM) gang was sentenced to life in prison for his participation in a variety of violent criminal acts, including racketeering conspiracy, murder, kidnapping, conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute and other related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Robert Lyle Bertram, 51, of Shelby, Alabama, was sentenced today to 46 months of imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Kristi K. DuBose for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The judge ordered that Bertram undergo 3 years of supervised release upon completing his term of imprisonment and pay a $100 mandatory special assessment.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Texas man pleaded guilty Thursday to trying to use a fake TWIC card to enter a Westlake plant.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: In celebration of the National Park Service Centennial birthday, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area hosted the Centennial Challenge Celebration on Saturday, Dec. 10, at Bandy Creek Visitor Center. To date, 125 participants had turned in their Centennial Challenge logs completing over...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Nicholas Young, 37, of Fairfax, who was formerly employed as a police officer with the Metro Transit Police Department, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and obstruction of justice.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: North Carolina Couple Sentenced to Prison for Tax and Bank Fraud Related to Their Online Business.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Blair Perez (619) 546-7963.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - A member of the Aryan Brotherhood of (ABM) gang was sentenced to life in prison for his participation in a variety of violent criminal acts, including racketeering conspiracy, murder, kidnapping, conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute and other related offenses.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Mark McLeod Wygant, 46, of Chico, pleaded guilty today to transportation of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Joseph Jennings, Jr., 36, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 24 years in prison for killing a man this year after breaking into his condominium in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that WILBERT CLARK, age 30, of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Fayette County man has been sentenced to 151 months for unlawfully possessing a large amount of methamphetamine with intent to distribute it throughout West Tennessee. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Six South Florida Law Enforcement Officers Graduate FBI National Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Jermaine Dory, age 25, of Woodbridge, Virginia, today to three years of probation including 50 hours of community service, for wire fraud arising from his federal felony conviction for a scheme to submit false documentation to the...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A total of nine people are in custody following law enforcement actions in multiple cities that began on Thursday involving a drug trafficking organization operating throughout South Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.