News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SEAN LONDON, 23, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Page, Ariz. - The Bureau of Reclamation will increase water releases from Glen Canyon Dam beginning on Monday, November 7, 2016 to support a high flow experiment (HFE) in partnership with the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey. This high flow experiment will...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal charges unsealed today accused 24 individuals of various drug offenses for allegedly using Amtrak trains to transport heroin and cocaine to Chicago from California.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the former owners of a money transmitter service business located in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, have been sentenced in federal court in Scranton by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Mailing Threatening Communications and Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Oct. 24, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Cristopher Cristea and David Corey Tolle were sentenced to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $1,724,158; and three years probation and restitution of $526,750, respectively, on charges involving the solicitation of investors with promises of large returns from mining activities. Instead, the money was used to pay personal expenses and repay earlier investors. Tolle was sentenced today. Cristea was sentenced last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal jury today delivered its verdicts against seven defendants charged with conspiracy, possession of firearms on federal property, and theft during the 41-day armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Jurors found Ammon Bundy, Shawna Cox, David Lee Fry, Jeff Wayne...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Dean Paul Stitz, 47, of Matthews, N.C. was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. to 121 months in prison on child pornography charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Stitz was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Stanislav Petkevichus, age 28, of Slingerlands, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Today, an indictment was unsealed charging a total of 61 individuals and entities for their alleged involvement in a transnational criminal organization that has victimized tens of thousands of persons in the United States through fraudulent schemes that have resulted in hundreds of millions...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Former Army National Guard Member Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Seven individuals are facing federal drug distribution charges following an extraordinary number of drug overdoses in July of this year, all in the Murfreesboro area, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Joining Rivera in announcing the charges at a Noon news conference...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - William Anthony Hoffa, 29, of Newport and Morristown, Tenn., was sentenced on Oct. 24, 2016, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 300 months in federal prison. Hoffa was also ordered to remain under supervised release by the U.S. Probation Office for the remainder of his life, comply with special sex offender conditions of supervised release, register with state sex offender registries, and pay $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Boca Raton, Florida, man today admitted his role in a computer hacking and identity theft scheme that generated $1.3 million in illegal profits by hijacking customer email accounts to send unsolicited “spam" emails, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Williamsport returned an indictment charging Tony A. Vonneida, age 62, of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, with sexual exploitation of a minor and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Conducted Unauthorized Intrusion into a Government Website.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces a 49-count criminal indictment for Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances, Continuing Criminal Enterprise, Money Laundering, and Firearm offenses arising out of a Title III wiretap investigation in Sampson County. The following defendants were indicted.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Dear Acting Director Brahm: I write regarding the recent death of a veteran admitted to a program run by the Veterans Assistance Foundation Inc. (VAF) and operating on the Tomah VAMC grounds. Since Sept. 26, 2016, my staff has been in contact with you, the VA Office of Inspector General (OIG), and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Abel Martin Farias, 30, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today to 26 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Farias’s sentence will run concurrent with a state sentence he is currently serving for forgery. Following his prison sentence, Farias will be placed on three years of supervised release. Farias was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 12, 2016 and entered his guilty plea on August 9, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Dean Paul Stitz, 47, of Matthews, N.C. was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. to 121 months in prison on child pornography charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Stitz was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
