News published on Federal Newswire in March 2016

News from March 2016


Local Postal Service Employee Pleads Guilty To Stealing From Mails

News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Sheila Fullmer, 60, of Caledonia, NY, who was convicted of engaging in theft during the course of performing her official government duties, was sentenced to 18 months probation by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.


New Orleans Man Pleads Guilty To Heroin Conspiracy

News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Antwine Smith, age 39, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, over one kilogram of heroin. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced the plea.


White Supremacists Indicted for Murdering Fellow Inmate at Beaumont Prison

News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today the indictment of two federal inmates charged with killing another inmate in the Eastern District of Texas.


Livestock Diversity: Storing Genes for the Future

News Release: The National Animal Germplasm Collection, part of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), is ensuring that our livestock genetic diversity doesn't disappear.


Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on Trade Agreement Implementation

News Release: I believe deeply in the benefits of trade. In America, trade-related jobs often pay better than non-trade jobs. And there are going to be a billion middle class consumers in the developing world in 2025 with money to spend on American-made goods. So it’s my view that we have to make things here, add value to them here, and ship them around the world.


Un Contrabandista De Inmigrantes Es Acusado De Secuestrar A Personas Que Buscaban Entrar En Los Estados Unidos Y De Defraudar A Sus Familias En Los Estados Unidos

News Release: Departamento de Justicia. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of California. PARA DIVULGACION INMEDIATA. Jueves, 3 de marzo de 2016. FRESNO, Calif. - Un gran jurado federal dictó una acusación formal de 10 cargos hoy contra Martín Carranza-Sánchez, 45 años de edad, y residente de México, acusándolo...


News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RICKY P. TEMPLET, age 53, of Mandeville, was indicted today for Theft of Government Funds and Aggravated Identity Theft.


News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Williamsport returned a 13-count superseding indictment on Feb. 11, 2016 charging 19 individuals with conspiracy to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and the opiate buprenorphine, known as Suboxone. The indictment was unsealed today following the arrests of the defendants.


Carmi Man Pleads Guilty To Four Counts Of Distributing Methamphetamine In White County

News Release: Bobby D. Morrill, Jr., 38, of Carmi, Illinois, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to an indictment charging him with four counts of distributing methamphetamine, announced James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The indictment, returned...


News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Oceanside man has pleaded guilty to launching repeated online attacks against a computer system operated by his former employer, a Rancho Dominguez-based manufacturer of precision laser and mechanical drilling equipment.


News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Santa Ana man was arrested this morning on federal charges of intentionally aiming a laser pointer at a law enforcement helicopter.


News Release: RICHMOND - Fernando Josue Chang-Monroy, 36, of Guatemala City, Guatemala, pleaded guilty today for his in role in an international drug trafficking conspiracy involving the use of United States registered aircraft purchased in the Eastern District of Virginia to transport 2,000 kilograms of cocaine in Central and South America.


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Oscar Garcia-Sanchez, a/k/a “Jose Luis Hernandez," 29, of San Antonio, TX, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Oct. 18, 2015, Garcia-Sanchez, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about July 27, 2009.


Brooklyn Man Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court In Connection With Advance Fee Scheme

News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that OCTAVIO LOMBARDO, a/k/a “Otto Lombardo," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to two years in prison for wire fraud stemming from his scheme to defraud small business owners of more than $1...


News Release: The National Park Service recovered a dead raccoon near the restroom at Sieur de Monts in Acadia National Park this week and confirmed that it was infected with rabies.


News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Stephen T. Callis, 47, of Richmond, pleaded guilty today to charges of coercion and enticement of a minor, and sex trafficking of children.


Delaware Cheese Company Pleads Guilty To Food Adulteration Charge

News Release: U.S. District Court Also Issues Permanent Injunction Against Company and Two Principals.


Anthony Bitterling Ordered To Pay $1,062,181 In Restitution

News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Anthony Bitterling, 42, of Winamac, Indiana, was sentenced before District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud.


ICE returns Stalin letter, Peter the Great decree and more to Russian Federation

News Release: MOSCOW - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) returned twenty-eight documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the Russian Federation. The documents were stolen from Russian State Archives and listed for sale by auction houses, art galleries...


KC Man Pleads Guilty to Throwing Molotov Cocktails at Congressional Office

News Release: Self-proclaimed Anarchist Faces 10 Years in Prison.