News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a former contracting official for the U.S. Army at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville to five months in prison and five months’ home confinement for filing a false income tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures the motion of super-tiny particles traversing distances almost unimaginably small-shorter than the diameter of a hydrogen atom, or less than one-millionth the width of a human hair. Not only...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: DEC 15 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Don Grace, 54, of Etna, Maine, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 15 years in prison and eight years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin. He pleaded guilty on May 4, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: A North Miami resident was sentenced to 47 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing 2,434 stolen identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BISMARCK - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Dec. 14, 2016, Derick Colin Wilkinson, 26, New Town, ND, was convicted by a federal jury on charges of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT LEES, a former senior executive of Universal Forest Products, Inc. (“UFP"), was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas to 50 months in prison for conspiracy, mail fraud, money laundering, and making false statements in a loan application. LEES was found guilty by a jury on May 20, 2016, after a seven-day trial before Judge Karas.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: TULE SPRINGS TO COMMEMORATE SECOND YEAR BY SIGNING AGREEMENT.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Michael Mathison, 26, of Selma, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia G.F. Peterman, III announced Rickey Goodwin, age 43, of Hamilton, Georgia was sentenced Dec. 12, 2016 to 212 months imprisonment for transportation of a minor by the Honorable Clay D. Land, United States District Court Judge, in Columbus, Georgia. Mr. Goodwin pled guilty to Count Four of the indictment on Aug. 3, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that GARRETT LEE RAYNOR, age 19, of Bixby, Oklahoma, and JOSHUA SCOTT COPPEDGE, age 19, of Glenpool, Oklahoma, each pled guilty to one count of ARSON, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 844(f)(1) and 2, punishable by not less than 5 years and not more than 20 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Khalid Fahide Carter, age 22, of Harrisburg, was convicted by a federal jury of distribution of crack cocaine, possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The three-day trial was held before Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner in Harrisburg.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: In September 2014, scientists from Oregon State University, NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, and University of North Carolina at Wilmington successfully forecast offsite link the eruption of Axial Seamount, a submarine volcano, seven months in advance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that HECTOR RAUL CINTRON, also known as “G" and “Big G," 22, of Hartford, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a U.S. citizen has been indicted on federal charges for his alleged role in a scheme to provide services to Iran which resulted in the unlawful distribution of approximately $1 billion United States dollars equivalent of Iranian...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Henry J. Flemister, age 26, of Steelton, Pennsylvania, and Kevin N. Bilheimer, age 57, of Yeagertown, Pennsylvania, were indicted on Dec. 14, 2016, by a federal grand jury for heroin and crack cocaine trafficking violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Davian Wilson a/k/a "Chaba", 22, of Choctaw, Mississippi, was found guilty of second degree murder today following a four-day trial in U.S. District Court, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze. The murder occurred in the Pearl River community of the Choctaw Indian Reservation near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Opens Investigations of Orange County, California, District Attorney’s Office and Sheriff’s Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - An employee of the United States Postal Service (USPS) was charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with purchasing and importing anabolic steroids.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced a 13 count indictment against Gregory Brown, 36, and Shakyia Bunch, 30, of Chicago, Illinois along with Jeneva Sutton, 31, of Michigan City, Indiana for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and unauthorized access device fraud.
