News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Offenders Charged with Firearms-Related Offenses and Narcotics Trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Anchorage- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today it will hold an oil and gas lease sale within the 22.1-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016 in Anchorage, Alaska. The Notice of Sale with details about the leasing opportunity was published in today’s Federal Register.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Charles Butler, 33, of Toledo, pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for beating an African-American stranger he saw on the street.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Carlos A. Brown, 46, of Suffolk, was sentenced today to 360 months in prison for distribution of heroin resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - Two residents of Erie, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government, theft of government property, aggravated identity theft and false claims against the United States, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, Brooklyn drug trafficker Shaun Taylor, also known as “S-Dot," was sentenced to ten life terms plus 50 years in prison. Following a three-week jury trial, Taylor was convicted on September 8, 2014, of all charges including murder for hire, drug-related murder, narcotics trafficking conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Carlos A. Brown, 46, of Suffolk, was sentenced today to 360 months in prison for distribution of heroin resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: FBI Agents Arrest Subject from the Recent Gulf Coast Bank & Trust Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Authorities have arrested 17 members and associates of the Wilmas street gang who are named in a federal racketeering indictment that alleges acts of murder, attempted murder, narcotics trafficking, robbery and witness intimidation - as well as a series of armed attacks on law enforcement officers dating back to 2008.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Having grown up on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, I have experienced numerous hardships, including housing shortages and poor quality of housing. I recall complaining as a young child and asking my mother why we had to put plastic on all the windows. She told me it kept us warm at night. With...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Miguel Rosenfeld, an agent for several of the most prominent telenovela writers throughout Latin America, pled guilty today before United States District Judge Jose E. Martinez in Miami, Florida to filing a false individual income tax return with the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS"), which substantially underreported his income for the tax year 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: (BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging nine defendants with crimes including racketeering, extortion, loansharking, illegal gambling, and drug trafficking. Eight of the defendants are under arrest, and one remains at large.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Phillip Lloyd, 57, of Clear Brook, pleaded guilty yesterday to making and submitting false labels for animal blood that was transported internationally.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Donna Byrd Talley, 54, of Yorktown, was convicted yesterday by a federal jury on charges of acquiring or obtaining a controlled substance, possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, and mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced today the sentencing of Telly Hankton and three members of the Hankton Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Salvatore Letizia, 40, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud and tax evasion before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, was sentenced to 41 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Queens, New York, man today admitted his role in a scheme to distribute controlled substance analogues, which are designer drugs that have chemical structures and hallucinogenic effects similar to Schedule I controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Monroe County man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that stretched from Stroudsburg to New York to the state of Maine, and to a forcing or coercing women into engaging in prostitution in northeastern Pennsylvania.
