News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on April 7, 2016, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment charging ELBERT LLORRENS, 23, and KYLE VALENTINE, 24, both of New Haven, with federal carjacking offenses.
By EPA Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today commended the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) announcement that it is taking additional steps to cut harmful methane emissions produced by the oil and gas industry. Methane is a potent contributor to climate change, with...
By US DOT Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: Inhofe Statement on EPA's Announcement on Methane Regulations
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Frederick Evans, 38, and LaShara Evans, 36, both of Rochester, NY, were charged by criminal complaint with sex trafficking with force, fraud or coercion and sex trafficking of a minor. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kentuckiana anesthesiologist Jaime Guerrero was sentenced to 100 months in prison, by United States District Judge Greg N. Stevens today, and according to the terms of a prior plea agreement, agreed to forfeit his license to practice medicine and real property owned by Guerrero Real Estate Investments, LLC. Further, Guerrero agreed to pay $827,000 in victim restitution to nine health care benefit programs announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 22-year-old Newton, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Kennedy “KJ" Harris, Jr. (22, Cocoa) with sex trafficking of a minor and child enticement. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Three men were sentenced today to federal prison for drug crimes, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin today announced the sentencing of CHERNO NJIE, 58, ALGIE BARROW, 43, and BANKA MANNEH, 43, PAPA FAAL, 47, for their roles in planning and executing an unsuccessful coup attempt to overthrow the government of The Gambia on Dec. 30, 2014. Three other members of the conspiracy were killed.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A jury returned a verdict Tuesday evening finding Kevin Carl Fortney, age 55, of Washington, Utah, guilty of making a false declaration before a court of the United States and making a false statement to a federal agent as a part of efforts to obstruct the administration of justice in a Securities and Exchange Commission case pending in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: Concord, N.H.-Emily Gray Rice, United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, today announced that Scott Lojko, 40, of Concord, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to a federal indictment charging him with bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Shane Lewis Vigil, 29, an enrolled member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation who resides in Dulce, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 71 months in prison for his assault conviction. Vigil will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that United States District Court Judge Steven J. McAuliffe sentenced Hector Bienvenido Mateo-Beltre to serve 51 months in federal prison. Mateo-Beltre previously had pleaded guilty to possession of with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that in Federal court on Monday, May 9, 2016, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced SherrY D. WILLIAMS, 43, of Greenville, North Carolina to 75 months imprisonment, 3 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $1,050,976...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Chambersburg man has pled guilty to conspiring to possess and distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that ROBERT TERRY BRUCE, 35, of Nashville, Tenn., pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 12-count superseding indictment charging Manuel Freire, a/k/a Barney, 34, and Jose Feliciano-Miranda, a/k/a Palomo, 35, both of Buffalo, NY, with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute...
By US DOT Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced steps to reduce harmful methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. These actions will help the U.S. meet President Obama's goal of cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by 40-45% by 2025.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Mara Morillo, 40, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, oxycodone and cocaine. Morillo appeared before United States District Court Judge Steven J. McAuliffe to enter her guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - A previously convicted sex offender, who moved from Georgia to Virginia without properly fulfilling the registration requirements for sex offenders, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon after previously pleading guilty.
