News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a man from Texas was sentenced to 178 months in prison for bringing a minor to Shreveport to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: NASHVILLE - Tennesseans participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 11th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 30, 2016, turned in 21,229 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount far exceeded the largest amount collected statewide during the 10 previous Take-Back events.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Robert J. Rice, age 58, Carlisle, a Colonel in the U.S. Army stationed at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, was convicted of possession and receipt and distribution of child pornography over the internet. The five-day trial was held before U.S. District Court Chief Judge Christopher C. Conner in Harrisburg.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: GREAT FALLS - John Edmonston, 54, of Great Falls, was sentenced yesterday for conspiracy to defraud the United States. Edmonston, a civilian, and at least three other individuals (all enlisted in the United States Air Force) were part of a scheme to take equipment and tools from Malmstrom Air Force Base...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Hutchins, Texas, man, Servando Vega Cervantes, 25, was sentenced yesterday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 90 years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in February 2015 to an indictment charging three counts of production of child pornography involving four victims, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement expressing encouragement by the Department of Treasury’s actions to improve financial transparency and combat terrorist financing, corruption and tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Gerald Jamal Stanley, age 42, of North Charleston, SC, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. On Aug. 19, 2014, Stanley pled guilty to illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - North Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) eleventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day (NTBI) held on Saturday, April 30, 2016, turned in 15,449 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This amount is the highest total collected statewide of the ten previous Take-Back events.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Tariq Hicks, age 48, of Owings Mills, Maryland, pleaded guilty on May 2, 2016; and Eddie Carey, age 32; and Ishia Biff Cason, age 36, both of Baltimore, pleaded guilty on May 5, 2016, to bank fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft arising from a scheme to use stolen credit information of more than 200 victims to defraud financial institutions.
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Buffalo National River has seen some very happy events in the past week, beginning with the Archeology Hike from Buffalo Point to Indian Rockhouse last Saturday, April 30. Thirty visitors, traveling from as far away as Little Rock, Jonesboro, and Fayetteville traversed slippery rocks and in places a...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former Garden Grove resident pleaded not guilty this afternoon to federal charges of hacking into the computer system of Blue Stone Strategy Group - an Irvine-based company and the man’s former employer - and deleting files.
By Interior Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Reward offered and investigation underway to identify vandals at Devils Hole.
By State Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Terrorism, Missiles and Corruption: The Risks of Economic Engagement with Iran " on Thursday, May 12 at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a man from Texas was sentenced to 178 months in prison for bringing a minor to Shreveport to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - A 25-year-old woman from Abilene, Texas, Misty Dawn Kelley, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 30 years in federal prison, following her guilty plea in February 2016 to an indictment charging one count of production of child pornography and aiding and abetting, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Milson Reyes-Alvarez, of Honduras, was sentenced to time already served since his arrest on Feb. 10, 2016, following his guilty plea to illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported. Reyes-Alvarez’s...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- The results of the May 2016 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Guilty Verdicts Conclude Operation ‘Sudden Impact,’ which Led to Resolution of Six ‘Cold Case’ Murders and Convictions of nearly Two Dozen Gang Affiliates.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, announced that this past weekend’s National Prescription Take Back Day resulted in the collection and destruction of 17,785 pounds, or 8.8 tons, of expired, unused, and unwanted prescriptions...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2016
News Release: Losses to approximately 69 investors totaled in excess of $3.7 million.
