News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: Defendant Approved Permits Prepared by His Own Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was filed today charging Jose Ramon Liriano-Compres, 53, of Philadelphia, PA, with one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin and three counts of distribution of heroin, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that it will host a second informational webinar on its proposed planning rule, which is part of the ongoing Planning 2.0 initiative aimed at improving the planning process.Continuing the BLM's longstanding tradition of working with communities and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Tracy Delong Fletcher, a/k/a “Sean Fletcher," “Sean Chappelle Fletcher" and “Benjamin Thomas," age 39, of New Carrollton, Maryland today to 44 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Charisma Royster, 25, of Lackawanna, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, crack cocaine before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jaelyn Delshaun Young, 20, of Starkville, Mississippi, pleaded guilty today in the Northern District of Mississippi to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that former DHS employee Gladys Waits, 36, of Little Rock, pled guilty to one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud and one count of receipt of a bribe in connection with USDA funds intended to feed children in low income areas during the school year and summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: Torres Prosecuted as Part of “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. revoked the U.S. citizenship of a man charged with concealing his criminal history on his naturalization application. Nick Annan, Special Agent in Charge of ICE/Homeland Security Investigations (ICE/HSI) in Georgia and the Carolinas joins U.S. Attorney Rose in making today’s announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Ynessa Brown and Thelonius Robertson today pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit tax fraud and aggravated identity theft. Each faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison for the conspiracy charge, to be followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A joint raid conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New York Drug Enforcement Task Force and the Federal Bureau of Investigation last night resulted in the discovery of a manufacturing facility and the seizure of at least 200 kilograms of synthetic cannabinoids, commonly...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: Thank you for that introduction, [U.S. Attorney] Kevin [Techau].
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: Defendant Stole Resume Information From Over 700,000 Customer Accounts Stored on a Competitor’s Database and Attempted to Sell Oilpro.com to the Same Company Whose Database He Had Hacked.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today the sentencing of a Hillsville man on a bank fraud charge and tax evasion charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - Today the United States Attorneys for the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa co-hosted with Iowa State University (ISU) and Drake University intellectual property and cybersecurity roundtables on both campuses. Two prominent subject matter experts from the Department of Justice (DOJ) provided their assessments of the cyber threats confronting American business interests and national security.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: Jury Convicts Iowa Man of Racially Motivated Hate Crime for Attacking an African-American Man.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: New York Man Arrested in Connection with Raid.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A South Carolina man was sentenced today to 52 months in prison for a firearms violation, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term handed down by U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr., Buster Marshall...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - Brothers Joel and Eric Andrews, former principal owners of Environmental Management of Illinois, Inc. (EMI), Springfield, Ill., were sentenced today to three years and two and one-half years, respectively, in federal prison for a scheme that defrauded the Illinois Environmental Protection...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that PAUL BENJAMIN STONE, age 34, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 87 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release for POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MATERIAL INVOLVING THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252(a)(4)(B) and 2252(b)(2).
