News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Derek Fields, 30, of South Bend, Indiana was found guilty, after a 3-day jury trial, of kidnapping, transmitting a ransom demand, discharging a weapon during a crime of violence and felon in possession ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A total of eight people are set to appear in federal court today in relation to a drug trafficking conspiracy involving cocaine and methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Houston Division, Special Agent in Charge, Joseph M. Arabit and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: President-elect Donald Trump has made two more troubling additions to his transition team. Frank Gaffney, founder of the hard-right Center for Security Policy, has spent two decades advancing conspiracy theories and anti-Muslim rhetoric. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is the chief architect of anti-immigrant measures in several states, including Arizona’s controversial and unconstitutional “show me your papers" bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: If you spend time in physics research circles, you may have heard of the big G controversy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., joined by Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Amy S. Hess, announced charges today against the current Ballard County Judge-Executive and former Ballard County Treasurer for executing a scheme that involved obtaining...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Four 18th Street gang members from Bergen County, New Jersey, and Rockland County, New York, were charged today with various offenses arising from their armed robbery of a Hawthorne, New Jersey, bar and the violent carjacking of a taxi that took place shortly afterwards, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) announced that she will continue serving as Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee when the 115th Congress convenes in January. Senator Murray was also elected today by the Democratic caucus to serve as Assistant Democratic Leader, the third-ranking position in Senate Democratic leadership.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Delbert William Lee, Jr., 44, of Worley, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to theft of mail matter, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Lee was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d'Alene on April 19, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Twelve men were charged as part of a scheme that used secret card-reading devices and pinhole cameras installed on PNC and Bank of America ATMs to steal at least $428,581, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman of the District of New Jersey and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Criminal Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gary John Bedoni, 60, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Fruitland, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 144 months in prison for his voluntary manslaughter conviction. Bedoni will be on supervised release for three years following his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. -George Mooneyham, 57, of Cosby, Tenn., was sentenced on Nov. 16, 2016, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 120 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man who was wounded in a shoot-out with police officers was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., woman was charged in federal court Wednesday with setting fires as diversions while she was shoplifting at three separate grocery stores, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Kyle Eugene Goddard, 28, of Plummer, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to theft of firearms from a licensed dealer’s inventory and possession of stolen firearms,U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Goddard was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d'Alene on Aug. 16, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that James J. Senior, 40, of Clinton, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 71 months in prison and three years of supervised release for pharmacy robbery. He was also ordered to pay restitution. Senior pleaded guilty on June 11, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former sales representative for AFLAC has been found guilty of federal fraud charges stemming from a scheme that bilked the insurance company out of $4 million with fake disability claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Oluwafemi Charles Igberase, a/k/a Charles John Nosa Akoda, age 54, of Bowie, Maryland, pleaded guilty on Nov. 15, 2016, to misusing a Social Security Account number to fraudulently obtain a medical license in Maryland.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) Superintendent Scott Tucker announced today that the National Park Service (NPS) has made the Platte River Mouth Restoration and Access Plan/Environmental Assessment (EA) available for public review and comment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: DAYTON, OHIO - James Edward Risner, III, 34, of New Carlisle, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 480 months in prison for production and distribution of child pornography.
