News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - James Christopher Malcolm, 31, of Carmichael, was sentenced today to five years in prison for possessing abrin, a biological toxin; unlawful dealing in firearms; and possession and transfer of a machine gun, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative; Plea Agreement Requires 139 Month Prison Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Edwin Ferrer, age 42, of Schenectady, New York, was arraigned today on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and six rounds of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney MaryEllen Kresse, who handled the case, stated that the defendant, as owner of Electro-Dyn Choke Corporation in Niagara Falls, caused payroll checks to be issued to him and another individual and negotiated the payroll checks even though he knew there were insufficient funds in corporation’s account at M&T Bank to cover the checks. As a result of the defendant’s conduct, M&T Bank suffered a loss of $177,509.32.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 61-year-old man has been ordered to prison following his conviction of one count of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Dennis Ray Frank, of Edcouch, admitted he engaged in inappropriate conversations with a minor female and received a sexually graphic image via email on Nov. 30, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that HARRY ANDERSON, a.k.a. “Ace," 23, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - Dr. Michael Roger Chiarottino pleaded guilty in federal court in Oakland yesterday to distribution of oxycodone outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: According to Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joel L. Violanti and Wei Xiang, members of the Rounds Crew committed numerous acts of violence and narcotics trafficking on the East Side of Buffalo encompassing Broadway and several intersecting streets. Members of the gang guarded that territory and resorted to acts of violence to insure that no rival gang members or other individuals encroached upon their territory for any reason, including selling or distributing drugs.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Pilgrim's Pride Corp. Investigation site: 2045 Highway 244, Russellville, Alabama 35653. Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to the employer on March 07 for one repeated and one serious safety violation. Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: A Broward County resident was convicted today by a jury in federal court for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: A superseding indictment was unsealed today charging three doctors and seven other individuals with conspiracy to illegally distribute prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Senior United States District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger has sentenced Jeremy Chris Cartrette (39, Yulee) to five years and six months in federal prison for receiving child pornography over the Internet. He also was ordered to forfeit his computer media and, upon his release from prison, to serve a 15-year term of supervision and register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Jeremy Blanchard, 35, and Erik Pittman, 35, both of Memphis, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: New York Man Indicted for “Sextorting" a Minor in Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that HARRY ANDERSON, a.k.a. “Ace," 23, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: It's hardly a character flaw, but organic transistors-the kind envisioned for a host of flexible electronics devices-behave less than ideally, or at least not up to the standards set by their rigid, predictable silicon counterparts. When unrecognized, a new study finds, this disparity can lead to gross overestimates of charge-carrier mobility, a property key to the performance of electronic devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Benjamin Lloyd Fisher, 42, of Chesapeake, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for illegally receiving imported firearms, namely silencers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A federal grand jury in Wilmington, Delaware, indicted a New York man today on charges related to the production and distribution of child pornography and the use of threatening communications, announced U.S. Attorney Charles M. Oberly III of the District of Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: The Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today that Luke Xavier Lore, 48, formerly of Saint Louis, Missouri, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court in Benton, Illinois, on March 9, 2016. Lore had been convicted of two counts of Attempting to...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved its IANA transition and accountability proposal for submission to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
