News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A total of four people who were residing in Houston have been sentenced to federal prison for their respective roles related to the sex trafficking of minors, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal indictment unsealed today charges Nathan E. Hardwick IV and Asha R. Maurya with conspiracy, wire fraud, and related crimes in connection with Hardwick’s alleged theft of over $20 million from the attorney escrow accounts and operating accounts of Morris Hardwick Schneider and LandCastle...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - The last defendant to be sentenced in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in North Texas for two years was sentenced today to a lengthy federal prison sentence, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Jason Chaffetz requesting that he compel Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to produce documents relating to the Flint water crisis originally requested by Cummings and Rep. Brenda Lawrence in a letter on Jan. 29, 2016-a request Snyder has completely ignored to date.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: In a Related Criminal Proceeding, Construction Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Unlawful Practice of Hiring Illegal Aliens.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Walk in the footsteps of John Muir, right here in Martinez!.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Milton man faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty today to possession of over 600 images of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Mark Allen Angle, 47, entered his guilty plea in federal court to the child pornography crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that three importers and their owners - Ameri-Source International Inc., Ameri-Source Specialty Products Inc., Ameri-Source Holdings Inc., Ajay Goel and Thomas Diener - and a related importer, SMC Machining LLC, incorporated at Goel’s direction and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016, Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen A. Escobar received the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area’s national Outstanding Prosecutor Award today for her leadership in the prosecution of rural trespass marijuana growers for their environmental crimes, exposing...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Feb. 11, 2016, Thomas Alexander Davis, III, 40, of Anderson, Indiana, was found guilty of bank robbery following a four-day jury trial, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Davis was found guilty of committing a robbery at the US Bank in Muscatine on Nov. 28, 2012. A sentencing date will be set by Chief District Court Judge John A. Jarvey at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Saipan, CNMI - ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that U.S. District Court Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona sentenced Richard Sullivan Benavente, age 45, today, to the statutory maximum of 360 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for sexual exploitation of a child. The Court also ordered him to pay restitution to the two minor victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Francisco Calvillo, 52, a Mexican national illegally residing in El Paso, Texas, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 60 months in prison for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Calvillo will be deported following his term of incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Freeport resident was sentenced today in federal court on a federal tax fraud charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal Grand Jury in Harrisburg returned an indictment on Feb. 3, 2016 charging Dane Burnell Merritt, age 52, with possession of a firearm after having been previously convicted of a felony offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jestin White, 23, of Hobbs, N.M., pled guilty on Friday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to cocaine trafficking charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia -The Southside Parking Area near Thurmond, WV, in New River Gorge National River will be temporarily closed Tuesday, Feb. 23, through Friday, February 26 while National Park Service Fire Management staff burn woody debris in the area. Debris burning is a common method used...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A Kane County woman was convicted of witness tampering today for impeding a wide-ranging federal investigation into visa fraud and a sham marriage she had arranged for a Mongolian relative.
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on elections in the Central African Republic...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) “If You See Something, Say Something™” public awareness campaign and NASCAR today released two new Public Service Announcements (PSAs) and new campaign materials. The new PSAs, which feature Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr., will be on display this weekend at the Daytona 500 International Speedway.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 LAREDO, TEXAS—Today Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson delivered keynote remarks at the annual International Bridge Ceremony in Laredo, Texas. The event, also known as the “Abrazo Ceremony,” is part of a 119-year-old tradition to celebrate ...
