News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The mayor pro tem of Falfurrias has admitted she knowingly and intentionally aided and abetted an illegal gambling business operation in the state of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Leticia Hernandez Garza aka Letty Garza, 58, entered a guilty plea this morning.
By State Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a former Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today released the following statement regarding the kidnap and murder of Honduran LGBT rights leader René Martinez...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A former police officer has been ordered to federal prison for his conviction of lying to investigators in relation to an armored car robbery that occurred in Houston in 2013, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Joel Quezada, 33, of Humble, pleaded guilty Jan 11, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Kevin Millette, 44, of Alfred, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to 10 years in prison to be followed by seven years of supervised release for possessing child pornography. Millette pleaded guilty to the charge on Jan. 28, 2016. He was also ordered to pay a total of $39,000 in restitution to victims depicted in the images he possessed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A former police officer has been ordered to federal prison for his conviction of lying to investigators in relation to an armored car robbery that occurred in Houston in 2013, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Joel Quezada, 33, of Humble, pleaded guilty Jan 11, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH -- A resident of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud and copyright infringement, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A gang member who sold crack-cocaine for the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips pleaded guilty today to drug trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Pharmaceutical companies Genentech, Inc. and OSI Pharmaceuticals, LLC will pay $67 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. made misleading statements about the effectiveness of the drug Tarceva to treat non-small cell lung cancer. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: A member of a Mexican sex trafficking organization, Paulino Ramirez-Granados, has pleaded guilty to federal charges relating to the sex trafficking of a woman from October 2000 to December 2008. The guilty plea was entered before United States District Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto at the U.S. Courthouse in Brooklyn. When sentenced, Ramirez-Granados faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Criminal Information was filed in U.S. District Court in Scranton charging a Northampton County man with conspiring to unlawfully structure financial transactions.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: (Calumet, MI) Keweenaw National Historical Park will host a free guided Ghost Signs of Calumet tour on Saturday, June 11, 2016 as part of National Get Outdoors Day (GO Day).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Wilkinsburg, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute a quantity of cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Kansas man pleaded guilty today to six counts of exporting and attempting to export firearms illegally from the United States to individuals located in other countries, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall of the District of Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Thomas Vitanovitz, 32, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged by information today, with attempted extortion of an alleged drug dealer while working as a Philadelphia Police Officer, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Mark Bazemore, a/k/a Uncle Mark, age 31; and Michael Smith, Jr., ak/ka Mikey, Lil Mike and Mik, age 30, both of Baltimore, and Timothy Hurtt, a/k/a Uncle Tim and Tim, age 45, of Baltimore County, today for participating in a racketeering conspiracy and drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Dustin Scott Ross, 22, Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 52 months in prison for robbing the Arvest Bank on 4548 East 51st Street and the CVS Pharmacy on 4107 South Harvard Avenue, announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - Ten defendants in a multi-state narcotics trafficking conspiracy have been collectively sentenced to more than 590 months in federal prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentences today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Marcellus Ramone Freeman, a/k/a Derrick Relando Pitts, age 24, of Washington, D.C., today to 308 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for robbery, discharging a gun during a robbery and carjacking, in connection with an armored car robbery and a carjacking in which a victim was shot in the arm and head.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today welcomed recent action by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to both ease the procedural challenges doctors and patients must navigate when seeking access to investigational treatments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced Monday to life in federal prison for drug trafficking, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
