News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ADONY NINA, the leader of a drug trafficking organization (the "Organization") that operated in the Bronx, was sentenced yesterday to life in prison for running the Organization and murdering Aisha Morales ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Robert Jerome Bond, 47, recently of Gardiner, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 1½ years in prison for theft of public money and an additional two years for aggravated identity theft. He was also ordered to pay $5,923 in restitution. The defendant pled guilty on October 8, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Iveran Dywon Magby, 42, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 151 months in prison for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Magby will be on supervised release for five years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Former U.S. State Department employee Michael C. Ford has been sentenced to four years, and nine months in prison for perpetrating a widespread, international e-mail phishing, computer hacking and cyberstalking scheme against hundreds of victims in the United States and abroad.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Ryan Sylvestre, a/k/a Fly, a/k/a Nature has been sentenced to three years, nine months in prison after a jury convicted him of bank fraud conspiracy, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft stemming from his role in a scheme that stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from banks across the Southeast.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Overland Park business owner has pleaded guilty to a federal tax charge. She agreed to pay $28,037 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Emmanuel Chaplain, age 26, of Omaha, Nebraska, was convicted after a jury trial. The jury found Chaplain guilty of seven counts of interference with commerce by means of robbery, three counts of using or possessing a firearm in furtherance of three...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner is pleased to announce the 2015 winner of the Eastern District of California Outstanding Investigator Award for the Sacramento division. This award is one of four awards presented annually to a law enforcement agency and an officer in each of the Sacramento and Fresno divisions of the Eastern District of California to recognize outstanding collaboration between federal, state and local law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Alyssa Crow, 27, of Wheeling, pled guilty today to heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 24-year-old Tobyhanna man was sentenced to 34 months in prison today by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, for trafficking in heroin in July-August 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two New Jersey men who were partners in a 29-month drug distribution conspiracy involving cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy and methylone were each sentenced to more than 18 years in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Bronx, New York, has been sentenced in federal court to 12 months plus 1 day in prison and ordered to make restitution in the amount of $51,363.00 on his conviction of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - William Upson, a/k/a Jamal, 34, and Todd Smith, a/k/a Tyrone Smith, 37, both of Philadelphia, PA, were charged today by Indictment with drug trafficking and weapons charges, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The charges include possession with intent to distribute controlled...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced that a Selby, Walworth County, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Exploitation of a Child and Distribution of Material Involving the Sexual Exploitation of Minors was sentenced on March 21, 2016, by U.S. District Court Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced Dupree Turner, 29, of Wilson, North Carolina, to a total of 130 months in prison and five years of supervised...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: In response to requests from the public, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has extended the public comment period until April 22, 2016, for the recently proposed Methane and Waste Prevention Rule, which would update 30-year-old regulations to reduce the wasteful release of natural gas into the atmosphere from oil and gas operations on public and American Indian lands.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the March 22 attacks in Brussels, Belgium...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Christopher Wood to Pay $2,000 Fine, More than $61,000 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Altoona, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
