News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - United States Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced that 10 individuals are facing multiple federal drug charges for their involvement in a drug conspiracy operating in Union County. Nine of the 10 charged are in custody. A criminal indictment was returned on Feb. 17, 2016, and was unsealed in federal court following today’s arrests.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Treasury must do everything possible to stop the flow of terrorist finances through anonymous shell companies, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore. wrote to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the filing of a civil forfeiture complaint against a Roman marble peplophoros...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) met with President of Guatemala Jimmy Morales in Senator Carper’s Washington, D.C. office to discuss ongoing efforts to improve security and economic opportunities in Guatemala. President Morales was elected president of Guatemala in 2015. Last month, Senator Carper attended the inauguration of President Morales along with Vice President Biden.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KENNETH MIXON, age 31, of New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Akylle Murchison, 24, of Lewiston, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to nine years in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base (also known as crack cocaine) and possession with intent to distribute bk-MDEA (a bath salt). He pleaded guilty to the charges on May 27, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo.-The Bureau of Land Management’s Southwest Resource Advisory Council will meet Friday, Mar. 18, at the Ridgway County Fairground Building (22739 Hwy. 550) at 9:30 a.m.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Reservations for McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area riverfront camping will be available online beginning March 1 for the popular Ruby-Horsethief section of the Colorado River.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former worker at the DLA Distribution Center Susquehanna in New Cumberland was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on charges he had illegal and unwanted sexual contact with three co-workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Salah Eldean Sood, age 34, of Baltimore, today on charges arising from a scheme to open credit card accounts using the stolen identity information of elderly persons who were in Sood’s care at Holland Manor Eldercare, an assisted living facility in Towson, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler today presented a check for $1,110,559 to Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz in a ceremony held at the United States Attorney’s Office. The check represents proceeds of the forfeiture of funds obtained through seizure warrants executed in the investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Kelly Atkinson, 32, of Raleigh, N.C., who was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by U.S. District Judge, Richard J. Arcara. The defendant has also been ordered to pay $443,995 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding two upcoming hearings examining the water crisis in Flint, Michigan with local, state, and federal officials...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Tarkio R-1 High School student who brought a loaded semi-automatic pistol to school earlier this month, causing the school to be locked down, has been charged in federal court with illegally possessing two machine guns that were found at his residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Douglas Mejia-Romero, of Honduras, pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported to Honduras, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Chairman Jeff Denham (R-CA). Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials. Hearing on “Reauthorization of DOT’s Pipeline Safety Program". Feb. 25, 2016. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). Our hearing today will focus on the reauthorization of the Department of Transportation’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Following a five-day trial before United States District Court Judge William P. Dimitrouleas, a jury convicted two brothers of all seven counts in the indictment for their participation in an identity theft scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Derek Lamar Tompkins, age 20, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland today to 17 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for bank robbery and forcing a bank employee to accompany him without the employee’s consent; and to brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Judge Bredar also ordered Tompkins to pay restitution of $85,695.05.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) expressed his support for a right to try - allowing terminally ill patients access to drugs not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration to save their own lives - at a hearing Thursday of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Witnesses at the hearing on connecting patients to new and potential life-saving treatments spoke of their need for treatments and the barriers posed by the FDA.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that Francine Leon, 42, of Bryant, pled guilty to an Information charging her with conspiring to commit wire fraud. The charge relates to a conspiracy to fraudulently obtain United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) program funds intended to feed children in low income areas during the school year.
