News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Jose Luis Perez-Arias, 31, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on May 19, 2016, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Perez-Arias was arrested in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Update: Today, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Arnold Gerald Leto III with two counts of piloting a plane without a license. Leto was charged for flying a Cessna Citation turbojet aircraft from Santa Monica, California, to Phoenix, Arizona, on or about Jan. 30, 2015, and a Falcon...
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) yesterday joined Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) in signing H.R. 4923, the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act, a bipartisan bill support American manufacturers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Michael Toliver, age 40, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The City of Boston’s Director of the Office of Tourism, Sports and Entertainment was arrested this morning after a federal grand jury indicted him in connection with the extortion of a music festival production company.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Former Tukwila, Washington, Police Department (TPD) Officer Nicholas Hogan was charged today with using excessive force on a restrained arrestee on May 20, 2011, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes of the Western District of Washington.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: FARMINGTON - The details of the encounter are still debated. Young George Washington was in the secluded glen at sunrise on that May morning 262 years ago. The French troops, who were just waking, put up fifteen minutes of resistance. The skirmish sparked the French and Indian War, a war that spread...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Rayvon O. Archibald, a/k/a “P Money," “Keyvon M. Malone," “Keyvon Smith," and “Scoobie," age 26, of Boston, Massachusetts, today to 14 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for sex trafficking of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Vivian Rochelle Weakley, age 28, from Dubuque, Iowa, has been charged with one count of concealing a person from arrest and one count of obstruction of justice. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed on May 18, 2016, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Guild Mortgage Company (Guild) under the False Claims Act for improperly originating and underwriting mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), the Justice Department announced today. Guild is a mortgage lender headquartered in San Diego, California.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - At the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles introduced Justice Scholars to a class of seventh-grade students at Gerald R. Ford Academic Center, a Grand Rapids Public School. The new program was developed by U.S. Attorney Miles to expose students to the criminal justice system in a constructive way, while fostering positive connections between youth, law enforcement, and the broader legal community.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Put-in-Bay, Ohio -Throughout the 2016 season Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial will be implementing "100 days To Find Your Park" as part of our celebration of the Centennial of the National Park Service. Beginning with opening day May 21, 2016 the park will highlight an activity each day...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Myles Eugene Crandle, 33, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced today to 192 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Matthew Gust, 25, pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for setting fire to a Somali restaurant in Grand Forks, North Dakota, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers of the District of North Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the filing of a criminal complaint and arrests of Kimberly Carnell White, Jr. (27, Orlando) and James Romando Harris, II (28, Orlando) for possession of firearms by convicted felons. If convicted, each faces up to 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: Mark A. Green, 45, a citizen of Jamaica living in Statesboro, was sentenced earlier this week by Chief United States District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 11 years in prison for his role in a cocaine trafficking organization operating out of Evans, Tattnall, Camden and Bulloch Counties...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Pattie Sue Bradley, 43, of Cherokee, N.C. and an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for killing her husband, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger also sentenced Bradley to three years of supervised release following her prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Mexican citizen was sentenced to 30 months in prison for taking part in a conspiracy to transport and sell cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Cherri Barton was sentenced to 57 months in prison on charges involving a scheme to defraud several elderly victims and credit card issuers of more than $112,588 between August 2012 and May 2015. Barton called elderly individuals and told them their accounts were past due in order to obtain their identifying information and bank account information. She then used the information to purchase items, including gift cards.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Charges include mail fraud, tax fraud, and tranporting illegal aliens.
