News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Charlotte man is facing federal charges for illegally obtaining and attempting to smuggle and export munitions to Ghana, West Africa, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The nine count indictment against Richmond Akoto Attah, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Law Enforcement Seized 27 Firearms Hidden Inside Home Appliances and 3,500 Rounds of Ammunition Destined for Ghana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Ulibarri Prosecuted as Part of “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C.-House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement after President Obama signed into law the United States-Jordan Defense Cooperation Act (H.R. 907), legislation authored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: A former school teacher was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for possession of child pornography, said Carole Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced guilty verdicts in two separate gun-related trials that each concluded on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016. Antuan Rochelle Gaines, 36, of Little Rock was found guilty by a jury of being a felon in possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Attacks Took Place Near U Street Metro Station.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON - A 23-year-old Lexington man, who previously admitted to distributing child pornography images on the internet, has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Federal investigators examined Dasilva’s cellphone and also located a video of a child performing oral sex on Dasilva. Sexton admitted to being the person who took the video. Several online chats were also recovered from the cellphone in which Sexton and Dasilva graphically discussed engaging in sexual conduct with children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A coin and precious metals dealer and his company responsible for defrauding more than 380 customers of over $15 million were sentenced in federal court late Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 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 after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced plans to provide grants to two health centers in Flint, Michigan for additional lead testing and other services...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced today Tashimo Scatliffe, 33, to 120 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Gomez also ordered Scatliffe to pay a $100 special assessment and perform 400 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest of eight defendants on federal firearms and drug charges (see chart below). Penalties for the various offenses range from 5 to 40 years’ imprisonment. The arrests are the result of a violent crime initiative being jointly undertaken by the United States Attorney’s Office, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced the convictions of RHODA RENAE ROBERTSON, age 47, and LOUELLA ROBERTSON, age 68, both of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who pled guilty before U.S. District Judges Shelley Dick and John deGravelles, respectively, to theft of government funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641. RHODA ROBERTSON was convicted on Feb. 16, 2016. LOUELLA ROBERTSON was convicted on Feb. 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Thomas Watson to Serve 18 Months.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Two years ago this month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a document designed to help strengthen cybersecurity at organizations that manage critical national infrastructure such as banking and the energy supply. Produced after a year of intensive collaboration with industry, the Cybersecurity Framework is now a tool used by a wide variety of public and private companies and organizations, from retail chains to state governments.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Bossier City man was sentenced Wednesday to 77 months in prison for illegally possessing ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement with 360 Federal Credit Union to ensure equal access for individuals with disabilities at all 360 Federal Credit Union locations, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA").
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, along with Raymond R. Parmer, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New Orleans Field Division, announced today that Joshua Logan Thornton, age 32, of Wynne, was sentenced to 360 months or 30 years in federal prison for Sexual Exploitation of a Minor.
