News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident was sentenced to 15 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr., for distributing contaminated cheese.
By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), the Committee’s Chairman, today welcomed the unanimous passage in the House of Representatives of their comprehensive legislation to impose new sanctions on supporters of Syria’s Assad Regime, encourage a negotiated end to the crisis, and kick off investigations into the eventual prosecutions of war criminals.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: NATCHEZ, MS - Beginning Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, until further notice, the Mount Locust Site along the Natchez Trace Parkway begins winter operating hours. Hours of operation will be 9:00 am to 4:30 pm, Wednesday through Sunday. The site will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays; this includes the historic home, restrooms, visitor contact station, and the grounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Appear.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Arnolvin Umanzor Velasquez, a member of the Brentwood Locos Salvatruchas (BLS) clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, was sentenced to 40 years in prison in connection with his...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Yesterday, a mother and her son from Sebring were sentenced to federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez in Fort Pierce, for conspiring to import Ecstasy from the Netherlands into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Nov. 15, 2016, Linda Lee Clark, 68, of Corydon, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 78 months in prison for embezzlement by a credit union employee, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Clark was ordered to serve five years of supervised release following her imprisonment and to pay $2,494,809.33 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Eight members of a drug conspiracy were arrested today on a twenty- nine count drug indictment filed in the Middle District of Georgia, Athens Division, announced United States Attorney G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tracey Beaver, 38, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Pinehill, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to involuntary manslaughter charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Nov. 14, 2016, U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced BGF leader Mark Bazemore, a/k/a Uncle Mark, age 31, of Baltimore, to life in prison for racketeering and drug conspiracies related to his Black Guerilla Family (BGF) gang activities. Judge Bredar sentenced Michael...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams, Sr., announced today that Christopher Ivor Mansfield, 38 of Tulsa, a disbarred Tulsa County probate attorney, pleaded guilty before Chief United States District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell to bank fraud and money laundering charges. Mansfield embezzled $587,000 from probate estate accounts according to an information filed on Sept. 29, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: David Haisten, 51, and Judy Haisten, 51, both of Irmo, South Carolina, were charged by Indictment, unsealed yesterday, with one count of conspiracy, six counts of violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, five counts of distributing misbranded animal drugs, and three counts of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Eight members of a drug conspiracy were arrested today on a twenty- nine count drug indictment filed in the Middle District of Georgia, Athens Division, announced United States Attorney G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Wounded Knee, South Dakota, man convicted of First Degree Burglary was sentenced on November 9, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today released the following statement in response to the news that President-elect Donald Trump has named Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon as White House Chief Strategist...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that three Eagle Butte, South Dakota, residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury for sixteen counts of Forgery and one count of Larceny.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, Anthony Kendall, 28, an inmate in custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), was sentenced by United States District Judge David L. Russell to serve an additional 15 years in a federal prison for assaulting a correctional officer, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mobridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault With a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, Assault Resulting in Substantial Injury to an Intimate Partner, and Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender.
