News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Two men who led a violent drug trafficking organization distributing meth, heroin and cocaine in the Seattle area were convicted April 28th of numerous counts of drug trafficking and one count of money laundering following a seven day jury trial, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. The jury deliberated...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Christopher Anthony Castillo, 32, of Clarksburg, was sentenced today to 240 months in prison after he admitted to receiving and distributing child pornography, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Anthony Quintana, 31, of Santa Fe, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 43 months in prison for attempting to rob the Wells Fargo Bank branch located at 545 West Cordova Rd. in Santa Fe, in April 2015. Quintana will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that a federal jury has convicted former District Attorney for the 22nd Judicial District, WALTER P. REED, age 69, and his son STEVEN P. REED, age 44, both of Covington.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident of East Pittsburgh, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. handed down lengthy prison terms to two cocaine traffickers for their involvement in a long-standing drug conspiracy, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Ricardo Rebollar, 27, of Mexico...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 38-year-old Corpus Christi man who worked as a Santa Claus impersonator has pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Reynaldo Ramirez was arrested on a criminal complaint Dec. 24, 2015.
By DOE Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As part of the Energy Department’s ongoing efforts to modernize the nation’s grid through the Grid Modernization Initiative, the Energy Department today announced $25 million in available funding through an effort called Enabling Extreme Real-Time Grid Integration of Solar Energy (ENERGISE) to help software developers, solar companies, and utilities accelerate the integration of solar energy into the grid.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on April 29, 2016, Richard Hogg, 56, Highland, IL, was sentenced on an Indictment charging him, in Count 1, with Distribution of Child Pornography; in Counts 2 and 3, with Receipt of Child Pornography;...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: FOREST GROVE, Ore. - Due to drilling work conducted by the Bureau of Reclamation traffic will be restricted to one lane and one direction across the crest of Scoggins Dam until July 1. Starting May 31, the southbound lane of West Shore Drive will be closed.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: In El Paso this morning, 40-year-old James Anderson, former El Paso Independent School District (EPISD) Assistant Superintendent-Secondary Schools Division, surrendered to federal agents after being indicted in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) by artificially inflating state...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Monroe County woman connected to a heroin trafficking ring that operated in Monroe County and elsewhere during 2012 through March 2015, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Today in Brooklyn federal court, Ringo Delcid, a member of the violent Predator Set street gang operating primarily in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, was sentenced to 130 months of imprisonment for conspiring to commit two Hobbs Act robberies and for the use of a firearm in connection with...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced David D’Amico, age 49, of Baltimore, today to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute at least 1,000 kilograms of marijuana and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Judge Titus also ordered D’Amico to pay a money judgment of $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Aric J. Stutler, 38, of Mount Clare, West Virginia, pled guilty in federal court in Clarksburg today to unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Convictions Part of First-Ever Prosecution of Mobile App Piracy Groups.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARK ANTHONY GOULDBOURNE, 42, of Hartford, Conn. and Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to nine months of imprisonment for making a false statement in a passport application.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Seamus Murphy, 34, of Milford, New Hampshire, was sentenced in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire for bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice. The Court imposed a term of 51 months imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and full restitution to the victim bank.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an eight-count indictment charging Emmanuel Guobadia, 41, formerly of Atlanta, Georgia, with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The wire fraud charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Butler county woman was sentenced Monday to five years on federal probation for stealing more than $1.2 million from Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. The Wichita-based company owns assisted living centers in Kansas and Missouri.
