News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ten individuals are facing heroin trafficking charges as the result of a DEA-led investigation targeting a heroin trafficking ring operating out of Sunland Park, N.M. The eight-month investigation concluded this morning after nine of the ten defendants had been arrested. U.S. Attorney Damon...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: 36 Individuals Charged with Federal Offenses During Past 15 Months.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Mikey Phang, 29, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment[1] with bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that the defendant robbed the PNC Bank branch located at 1849 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 29, 2016, and stole...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Western Pennsylvania residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy and wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. of the Western District of New York announced today that Jamie Boye, 34, of Jamestown, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, was sentenced to 18 months by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on July 13, Stefan Rease, age 20, of Hazleton, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Malachy Mannion in Scranton to 20 months’ imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - Two members of the Black Mob/Skanless Enterprise which consisted of two North Park-based criminal street gangs were convicted by a federal jury yesterday afternoon of participating in a racketeering enterprise involving sex trafficking of minors and adults as well as robbery and drug sales.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Nicholas County woman pleaded guilty today to escaping from a halfway house, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Nikki Doddrill, 30, of Summersville, entered her guilty plea to escaping from federal custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Ruben Cruz, 26, originally of Philadelphia, Mississippi, was sentenced on Tuesday, July 12, 2016, by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III, to 180 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for assault with intent to commit murder and the use of a firearm during a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Bruce Fowler, 60, of Watertown, New York, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Norman A. Mordue to a term of imprisonment of 1 year and 1 day to be followed by 3 years of supervised release for illegally possessing three (3) machinegun conversion devices, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian. The sentence followed his March 9, 2016 guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jeffrey Turns, 32, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty before the Honorable John E. Jones, III to committing two bank robberies and federal firearms violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Florence, South Carolina---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Shayne Harrison Smith, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment in federal court. In July of 2015, Smith pled guilty to Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Without question, the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks deserve our sympathy and our help. And, our Committee has worked to enact into law measures that attempt to provide some relief to these victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Damien Henry Thomas, age 37, of Langley Park, Maryland, today to 15 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute crack and powder cocaine, and for being a felon in possession of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Three members of a Grant County methamphetamine trafficking ring, including the ringleader, pled guilty late yesterday afternoon to methamphetamine trafficking charges. The three were part of a group of 12 defendants who were indicted in April 2015, as the result of an investigation that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: FBI Addresses Free Speech Versus Threatening Speech.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA- Kenneth Nesmith, 31, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 110 months in prison for his role in an illegal gun trafficking conspiracy as well as a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: I’d like to thank our witnesses for testifying today. Both of you have been great resources for this committee as we continue to develop and refine our policies towards Iran. So, thank you both for again appearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced today the arrest of BRANDON JONES, a/k/a “Brandon McGeer," a/k/a “Brandon Jones-McGeer,"...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Former New Jersey Transportation Commissioner Also Charged in Bribery Scheme.
