News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - On Oct. 31, 2016, Verland Anthony Sabori, 35, of Laveen, Ariz., an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community, was sentenced by Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 65 months in federal prison, followed by a term of three years of supervised release. Sabori had previously pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Joshua Keziah, age 28, an inmate incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution in Frackville, Pennsylvania was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that David Wayne Henry was sentenced yesterday in federal court by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess for unlawful production of false identification documents, aggravated identity theft, and for being a felon in possession of firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced a temporary ban on campfires in the park’s backcountry effective immediately. Due to extremely dry weather conditions and the amount of fresh leaf litter on the ground, the potential for escaped fires to occur in the backcountry has dramatically increased. The fire restriction will be in effect until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Vincent Wilson, 24, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for assaulting a Deputy United States Marshal during an incident at a courthouse earlier this year, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Michael Hughes, U.S. Marshal for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H.: Today, United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice confirmed the formation of a Human Trafficking Task Force, which will receive federal grant funding to combat human trafficking in the state of New Hampshire. The grant funding is part of a nationwide effort by the Department of Justice to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: NOV 01 - CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Jorge Medina, 25, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, oxycodone and cocaine. Medina appeared before United States District Court Judge Steven J. McAuliffe to enter his guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SHAWN MILLER, also known as “White Boy Shawn," 32, of Hamden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 90 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and crack cocaine. Judge Meyer also ordered MILLER to pay a $2,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jedediah Waugh, age 43, of Farmington, was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison and ten (10) years of supervised release on one count of Receipt of Child Pornography. The sentencing hearing took place before the Honorable Timothy L. Brooks in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Daniel Burgess, 50, of Stowe, pleaded not guilty on Oct. 31, 2016 in United States District Court in Burlington to a charge of wire fraud. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released Burgess on conditions pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury sitting in Clarksburg, West Virginia, returned an indictment today charging Rollie C. Poynter, Jr., 50, of Grafton, West Virginia, with illegal possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Holts Summit, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: A former business manager of Local 657 of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) pleaded guilty today to stealing $1.7 million from Local 657 and related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Baden, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 37 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release on his conviction of mail fraud and filing false income tax returns, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Ely - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Ely District, Bristlecone Field Office is asking the public to review and provide comment on a proposal to expand the Robinson Mine located on private and public lands about seven miles west of Ely, Nev. The 30-day public comment period concludes Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Sedalia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and to illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H.: Today, United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice confirmed the formation of a Human Trafficking Task Force, which will receive federal grant funding to combat human trafficking in the state of New Hampshire. The grant funding is part of a nationwide effort by the Department of Justice to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Mother Accused of Strangling, Drowning, and Dismembering Newborn Baby.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Salleh Dubaishi, 40, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school. The charges carry a minimum penalty of one year in prison, a maximum of 40 years and a $2,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Aaron E. Olson, 42, of Rindge, New Hampshire, was ordered to pay $22,811,405.26 to the victims of a Ponzi scheme he operated from 2007 through 2012, reported United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
