News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Chicago woman was sentenced today to six months of home incarceration, to be followed by three years of probation, for credit card fraud, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Christine Johnson, 26, previously entered her guilty plea to possession of 15 or more counterfeit...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: Detroit, MI - House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) today announced more than $2 million in federal funding for police departments in Detroit and Melvindale. The federal funding was allocated through the U.S. Department of Justice COPS Hiring Program (CHP) and will be used to hire law enforcement officers, and to enhance community policing and crime prevention efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a three-day trial, a federal jury found Jesse Davenport, aka Draco John Flama, 41, of Chico, guilty today of conspiracy to sexually exploit a child, two counts of receipt of child pornography, and one count of distribution of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. The trial was held before United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A jury has convicted a New Canton, Ill., man, Ralph David Hathaway, 47, for transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in illegal sexual activity and two counts of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. The jury deliberated for approximately one hour on Friday, Sept. 30, before returning the guilty verdicts on all counts. Senior U.S District Judge Richard Mills scheduled sentencing for Hathaway on Feb. 15, 2017.
By State Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) signed the END Wildlife Trafficking Act (H.R. 2494), which helps the United States and partner countries combat today’s unprecedented level of poaching and wildlife trafficking. Some of the world’s most iconic animals are killed on such a large...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA-Local law enforcement and the State of Iowa received Department of Justice grants designed to better serve the community, enhance transparency, and support prevention and intervention efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dalchimsky Begay, 26, an enrolled member of the Zuni Pueblo who resides in Rio Rancho, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a sexual abuse of a minor charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office Recognizes National Community Policing Week, Oct. 3-7, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Police departments in Wichita and Shawnee, Kan., have been chosen to receive Justice Department grants to pay for community policing officers, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said Monday.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will hold a public hearing for proposed amendments to the federal marketing order for hazelnuts grown in Oregon and Washington on Oct. 18, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. PT at the Holiday Inn Portland South, Wilsonville, Ore.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Rodney Walker, 46, of Atlanta, Georgia, who was convicted of wire fraud, was sentenced to 15 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to pay $ 175,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: FBI and the Reserve Township Police Department Seek the Public’s Assistance in Identifying Reserve Township Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A U.S. citizen who formerly resided in Turlock, California, and Auckland, New Zealand, was returned to the United States by Tonga and is expected to appear in court today to face federal investment fraud charges.
By State Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte's recent threat to slaughter three million people and invoking the policies of Hitler...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for Nevada, is pleased to announce that the U.S. Department of Justice recently announced grant awards of over $22 million to the State of Nevada to provide financial assistance and services to federal and state victims of crime during federal fiscal year 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Maurice L. Whyte, II, 23, of Columbus, Ohio pled guilty to transporting stolen goods across state lines, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN J. SIMON, JR., also known as “Buzzy Simon," 69, of Stafford Springs, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of mail fraud and one count of structuring currency transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Nelash Mohamed Das, age 24, a citizen of Bangladesh residing in Landover Hills, Maryland, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a foreign terrorist organization...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville has indicted six individuals on charges related to a series of violent armed robberies and a carjacking that occurred in Albemarle and Greene counties in recent months, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - David Ausborn Hiles, 49, of La Luz, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 70 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. Hiles was also ordered to forfeit 36 firearms and approximately 15,000 rounds of ammunition.
