News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that MINH QUANG PHAM, a/k/a “Amin," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 40 years in prison for his efforts in support of al Qaeda...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man whose computer had been seized in a separate and unrelated state investigation, has been sentenced in federal court for obtaining another computer and attempting to distribute child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: Boston - A 16-year veteran officer of the Lawrence Police Department was arrested last night in connection with attempting to use his position as a police officer to extort cocaine from a drug trafficker.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: Chief Administrative Deputy and Sheriff's Uncle Also Indicted.
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT -Glacier National Park, through NPS Centennial year funding from the Glacier National Park Conservancy, is implementing a pilot project to determine if a trained herding dog, "Gracie," will help to reduce human-wildlife interactions at Logan Pass this summer.
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Uncompahgre Field Office today announced the release of a draft plan for managing BLM-administered surface land and mineral estate in southwestern Colorado. The Draft Resource Management Plan Revision (RMP) features a wide range of alternatives reflecting...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Jeremy Lee Hughes (41, Brunswick, GA) has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with using the Internet to attempt to entice a person he believed to be a minor to engage in sexual activity. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison. Hughes is currently in custody on related state charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that JIMMY DON McCOY, JR., age 25, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and GREGORY McINTYRE, age 19, of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, pled guilty to STEALING FIREARMS FROM A FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENSED DEALER, in violation of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Christopher Bowen Balfrey (26, Tampa) to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for drug conspiracy, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The Court also forfeited a 2006 Cadillac Deville, a traceable proceed of the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - David James Lira, 39, of Roseville, pleaded guilty today to robbing five banks in Northern California, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: Jackson, TN - Ten residents of the Jackson area have been indicted for conspiring to distribute large quantities of highly pure methamphetamine throughout West Tennessee. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -Duane William Millar, age 59, of East Lansing, Michigan, appeared in federal court today to face charges that he possessed child pornography. The grand jury alleges in the two-count indictment that Millar possessed child pornography in an internet-based email account and that he possessed child pornography on various computers and media storage devices. If convicted of these charges, Millar faces up to twenty years in federal prison on each count.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: FBI Phoenix Seeks Suspect in Gas Station Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: On May 25, 2016, Leah A. Bean, 33, of Sparta, and Larry D. Rice, 27, of Percy, were sentenced on a methamphetamine offense, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney George C. Burgasser, who is handling the case, stated that between December 2010 and April 4, 2011, the defendant conspired with co-defendant Dennis Berard to distribute cocaine in the Buffalo area. On June 30, 2011, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Pacheco’s residence and recovered three handguns, ammunition and approximately $18,000 in cash.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that MINH QUANG PHAM, a/k/a “Amin," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 40 years in prison for his efforts in support of al Qaeda...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Justin Chamberlain, 28, of Chesterfield, was sentenced yesterday to 181 months in prison for four armed bank robberies. Chamberlain was also ordered to pay $54,308 in restitution to Wells Fargo Bank and $4,650 in restitution to Argent Federal Credit Union.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man whose computer had been seized in a separate and unrelated state investigation, has been sentenced in federal court for obtaining another computer and attempting to distribute child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: The owner and president of a Miami-area consulting and staffing company was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a $2.3 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714 and Patrick Hovakimian (619) 546-9718.
