News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A federal jury in Corpus Christi has returned guilty verdicts against Edilberto Maso Diaz, 55, of Mesquite, on all counts as charged in a marijuana conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury deliberated for less than five hours today before convicted Diaz of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana and three separate counts of possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: A grand jury returned a three-count superseding indictment charging Ronnie L. Pratt, Jr., 20, with three counts of sex trafficking children, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that EDWARD ROBERT SALDANA II, age 30, of Muldrow, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2); POSSESSION...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Annapolis MD -- The National Park Service (NPS) and the Maryland Geocaching Society (MGS) announce a six-week collaboration designed to introduce geocaching participants to national parks and public lands in Maryland. Geocaching is an outdoor game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find a geocache container hidden at that location.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: An early morning attempt at an air recovery of the climber near Gibraltar Ledges encountered high and erratic winds on the upper mountain. Conditions prevented safe operations, shutting down operations for the day. Resources are being staged for recovery at the next opportunity, as weather permits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: DA Investigators Worked on Federal Task Forces to Combat Gang Violence and Mortgage Fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) praised the House for passing the Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission Act (H.R. 1831).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, John Capuano, a New York City school guidance counselor and teacher’s union representative, pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, to Transportation of Child Pornography in Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Today’s plea proceeding took place before United States Magistrate Judge Gary R. Brown. At sentencing, Capuano faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum of 20 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A Chicago businessman today pled guilty to fraudulently inducing two separate state agencies to issue separate, but nearly identical, grants to his not-for-profit entity. George E. Smith, 66, owned and operated Diversified Behavioral Comprehensive Care, a not-for-profit entity described...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Angel Rayas-Villasenor, of Mexico, was sentenced to time served after pleading guilty today to illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported. Rayas-Villasenor will be deported to Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that four gang members from the Frenchmen/Derbigny gang, or “FnD," were sentenced today for charges related to racketeering, narcotics, and crimes of violence. Among those violent crimes was the shooting of a second-line parade on Mother’s Day, May 12, 2013, in which twenty people suffered gunshot-related injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to three years in prison for fraudulently claiming nearly $140,000 in tax refunds, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, IRS-Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Dear Commissioner Koskinen: Last August, members of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee, including Chairman Roskam and Ranking Member Lewis, wrote the Department of the Treasury regarding Randy and Karen Sowers’ petition for the return of their funds seized by the IRS. We urged Treasury,...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service and "Find Your Park" by visiting Tumacácori National Historical Park during National Park Week, April 16 through 24. Entrance to the park is free all week.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The San Joaquin River Restoration Program has released a Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for a project to increase water deliveries, from 35 cubic feet per second to 55 cfs, to a California Department of Fish and Wildlife salmon conservation and research facility immediately downstream of Friant Dam, in Fresno County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Wei Xiang, who is handling the case, stated that, on two separate occasions in March 2016, federal law enforcement officials intercepted a package being shipped from Puerto Rico to a particular residence on the East Side of Buffalo. Each of the two packages contained approximately half a kilogram of cocaine. On March 25, 2016, the defendant accepted delivery of and left the residence with one of the packages, after which he was arrested.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two inmates at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, have been indicted today by a federal grand jury in Scranton for assaulting another inmate with a homemade weapon.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement today regarding the partisan subpoenas issued by Chairmen Fred Upton (R-MI) and Kevin Brady (R-TX), which compel the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The former pastor of a Louisville, Kentucky, parish, Stephen A. Pohl, 57, was sentenced today in United States District Court, by United States District Judge David J. Hale, to 33 months in prison followed by a life term of Supervised Release for violating federal child exploitation laws, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. There is no parole in the federal criminal justice system.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriquez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the arrest of KELVIN ACOSTA on five counts stemming from his sexual exploitation and enticement of minors, his possession and receipt of child pornography, and his extortion of victims for money and child pornography.
