News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: Bludgeoned a Fellow Inmate, Who Had Testified in a Federal Criminal Trial, Using a Sock Filled with Batteries and Dominoes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Nitro man pleaded guilty today to a federal sex crime involving a minor, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Mark Anthony Levitt, 38, entered his guilty plea for using an app on his cell phone to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for throwing Molotov cocktails at the local congressional office of U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A jury today convicted Carol-Lisa Gutman, age 62, of Delmar, New York, of conducting a 15-year fraud scheme in which she received about $429,000 in federal disability benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, a Schedule I controlled substance, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: Investigation implicated four Chicago women in credit card scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Ben McCormack, age 31, Jamestown, New York and Jason William Thorne, age 36, also from New York, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Scranton in connection with a series of break-ins at federally-licensed gun stores in North Central Pennsylvania within the past month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Pittsburgh residents and a Michigan man have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charge of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and oxymorphone, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, a Schedule I controlled substance, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Duquesne, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of Possession with Intent to Distribute 100 grams or more of Heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Keyton Wayne Lieber, 37, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to the unlawful possession of a destructive device. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson issues the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Kia Jones, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 210 months in prison for possessing a firearm after a prior felony conviction and for conspiring to distribute at least five kilograms of cocaine in Western Pennsylvania, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that that a federal grand jury in Scranton has indicted Jamel Rosa, age 27, a federal inmate at the United States Penitentiary Schuylkill (“USP Schuylkill"), in Minersville with resisting and assaulting corrections officers during an incident on July 1, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Bufred Denetclaw, 53, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Sheep Springs, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 100 months in prison for his voluntary manslaughter conviction. Denetclaw will be on supervised release for three years following his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Federal authorities and Huntington Beach Police officers this morning arrested 20 defendants indicted by a grand jury on charges of participating in a long-running telemarketing scheme that targeted small businesses and charities by selling them toner products for printers and photocopiers at grossly inflated prices.
By State Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a hearing today on global efforts to defeat ISIS, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expressed concern that the Obama administration’s strategy is not adequate to the threat facing the United States from the terrorist group.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
Release: Kathy Formella, owner of the Chicago-area specialty foods company E. Formella & Sons, credits her company’s work with the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) for a tenfold increase in business. She says FAS support has helped her monitor consumer trends in other countries, research and assess market opportunities...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Task Force conducted law enforcement operations in the 3000 block of I Street N.E. in Auburn today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Pittsburgh residents and a Michigan man have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charge of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and oxymorphone, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
