News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tyron S. Jackson, age 28, of Rensselaer, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 46 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to unlawfully possessing a single bullet.
By State Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) sent a letter to President Obama asking him to halt any plans for new concessions to Iran during his final days in office. The letter, which comes amid reports...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico- Máximo Paredes-Suárez was indicted for bulk cash smuggling and providing false statements to federal officials, announced U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) are in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Bossier City woman was sentenced to 12 months in prison for fraudulently taking more than $90,000 in federal benefits that were payable to her deceased mother.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A Butler County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of sexual misconduct and ordered detained, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Damian Rivera-Melendez, 27, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of attempt to possess cocaine with intent to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to 26 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Court Chief Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to a series of embezzlement schemes totaling more than $1.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Massachusetts Resident Detained for Allegedly Enticing a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - An Arlington Heights man was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for receiving sexually explicit images of a ten-year-old girl with whom he communicated online.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Nov. 22, 2016 - Between 2014 and 2015, 10 of the nation’s 11 service sectors saw increases in revenue, according to statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 Service Annual Survey. The utilities sector was the only sector to show a decrease in revenue, declining by 4.7 percent in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Marco Bobo, 39, of Forrest City, Ark., was sentenced on Nov. 21, 2016, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 292 months in federal prison. Upon his release from prison, he will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for five years. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, Scott L. Thompson, 45, of Sesser, IL, was sentenced in federal court in Benton, Illinois, on his bankruptcy fraud conviction, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. The court sentenced Thompson to one year of probation and ordered...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Commercially valuable fish such as salmon, sablefish and rock sole make the pteropod a major part of their diet.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Phoenix, AZ - The National Park Service is welcoming the Peace Car and its driver, Peace Corps recruiter Sophia Ewing, to 12 NPS sites throughout Arizona. The trip celebrates the NPS Centennial and recognizes returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) who work or volunteer for the National Park Service. Ms. Ewing also plans to publicize opportunities for volunteerism in parks prior to and after Peace Corps service.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Damilola Solomon Ibiwoye and Olayinka Olaniyi, citizens of Nigeria living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, were extradited to the United States and arraigned in federal court in Atlanta on Nov. 18, 2016, in connection with a series of alleged “phishing scams" that targeted colleges and universities across the country, including the Georgia Institute of Technology (“Georgia Tech").
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: A leader of the Almighty Imperial Gangsters Nation pleaded guilty today to participating in a racketeering conspiracy involving murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault and narcotics distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A resident of Jamaica, West Indies, today admitted swindling elderly residents of the United States by falsely telling them they had won millions of dollars in Jamaican lotteries, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Robert Paschalis, 25, of Toledo, pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for beating an African-American stranger he saw on the street. Paschalis’s co-defendant, Charles Butler, pleaded guilty to the same crime on Nov. 9.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Yuma, Ariz.- The Bureau of Reclamation's Yuma Area Office (YAO) is conducting a "Shelter in Place" emergency readiness exercise on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016 at the Yuma Desalting Plant, located at 7301 Calle Agua Salada. The exercise will test the plant’s emergency readiness, evacuation and safety procedures...
