News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: A Puerto Rican man was sentenced to more than 21 years in prison for assaulting federal officers, failing to register as a sex offender and a firearms offense, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Two women from Lubbock, Texas, Crystal Ann Alaniz and Arleen Theres Keithley, appeared yesterday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant Jr., and pleaded guilty to their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 116,100 metric tons of soybean cake and meal for delivery to the Dominican Republic during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Timothy G. Rogan, 25, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to seven years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for robbing a sandwich shop with a rifle in Whitehall, Ohio on Nov. 12, 2015. Store employees grabbed the rifle during the robbery and took it away from Rogan.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Patrick Wadsworth, 47, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Sanostee, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 27 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on an assault charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Albert William Parsons, 47, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering, was sentenced today to 240 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: NOV 08 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Division and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Leda Giggey, 45, of Mars Hill, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to six years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute bath salts. The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge on March 7, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 10:30 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Disrupter Series: Self-Driving Cars."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: Camron Andrew Pete, Jr., 24, received a statutory maximum ten-year prison term after his April 25, 2016 guilty plea to possessing a firearm while an unlawful user of a controlled substance. At sentencing, Pete admitted he fired shots at an occupied residence in Dubuque in December 2015. Chief Judge Linda...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: Law enforcement seized over 300 grams of methamphetamine from a safe in defendant’s residence.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 10:30 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Disrupter Series: Self-Driving Cars."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that Diheim Young, age 32, of Brooklyn, New York was sentenced by Judge William K. Sessions, III, in federal court to twelve years in prison after pleading guilty to a conspiracy to distribute heroin and crack cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A Lubbock, Texas, man, Jonathan Lovato, 33, appeared yesterday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant Jr. and pleaded guilty to federal offenses stemming from his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: Company Agrees to Pay $7.2 Million Criminal Fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: Mother Sentenced to 120 Months in Prison, Son Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Involvement in $9.5 Million Pharmacy Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department filed a statement of interest today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia addressing the constitutionality of state policies that automatically suspend the driver’s licenses of those who fail to pay court fines or fees. The statement of interest...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno man has been sentenced to five years in prison, lifetime supervised release, and ordered to pay $1,500 in restitution for his guilty plea to receiving child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: 21 Senators, 67 Representatives File Amicus Brief, Urge Circuit Court to Block EPA and Corps of Engineers Attempt to Control Land and Water that Congress Left to State Authority
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - United States Attorney Daniel G. Bogden announced that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Carla Higginbotham is leading the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for today’s general elections. AUSA Higginbotham has been...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Albert William Parsons, 47, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering, was sentenced today to 240 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
