News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury today found Michael Anthony Conage (32, Port Orange) guilty of possessing hydromorphone with the intent to distribute it and possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon. Due to his extensive...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Defendant Planned to Sell Victim into Sex Slavery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: UPDATE. The guilty plea entered by defendant Kelvin Johnson was rejected by Chief U.S. District Judge Gina M. Groh on August 7, 2017. MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kelvin Johnson, of Baltimore, Maryland, was convicted today in federal court distributing heroin, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation announced that 11 projects were selected to receive $568,662 for Small-Scale Water Efficiency Projects, part of the WaterSMART grant program. The projects selected seek to conserve, better manage or make more efficient use of water supplies and are leveraging with local and state funding to support $1.15 million in efficiency improvements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On April 18, 2017, Elizabeth Ann Thayer, age 61, of Runnells, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Judge Stephanie M. Rose for concealing assets belonging to her bankruptcy estate, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. She was sentenced to 32 months of probation, ordered to complete community service, and to pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 38-year-old Gilmer, Texas woman has been sentenced to federal prison following a lengthy investigation into a synthetic drug operation in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Terrence J. McNeil, 24, of Akron, pleaded guilty to five counts of solicitation to commit a crime of violence and five counts of making threatening interstate communications involving his soliciting the murder of members of the U.S. military.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Ernest R. Cook, 58, of Bangor, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 130 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography and using the internet intending to view child pornography. He was also ordered to pay $16,500 in restitution. Cook pleaded guilty on Nov. 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Following a four-day trial before U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay, yesterday a federal jury convicted Victor Manuel Solorzano, 32, of Dallas, of five counts stemming from the Nov. 19, 2015 armed assault of two federal law enforcement officers in southwest Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former mayor of the City of Passaic, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for taking $110,000 in corrupt payments from developers doing business in the city, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: PITTSBUGH - Two Pittsburgh residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of distribution of Oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, and Amphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance, outside the usual course of professional practice, and health care fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ruben David Martinez, III, 29, of Truth or Consequences, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 39 months in prison for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges. Martinez will be on supervised release for three years following his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 105 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Democratic staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today issued a report detailing that costs for the Administration’s proposed concrete wall along the southern border could soar to nearly $70 billion-not including the significant costs and legal resources required for land acquisition. The report is based in part on documents and briefings provided by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Erie, Pa. - A former resident of Springfield Garden, New York has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months in jail and ordered to make restitution in the amount of $517,168.67 on her conviction of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Man Wanted for Murder in Hanover Added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today the winners of the United States Attorney’s Office 14th Annual Project Sentry Logo Contest. The winners are from the following schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced today that KEITH MIGUAL WILLIAMS, age 45, of Baton Rouge, has pled guilty before U.S. District Judge James J. Brady to five counts of interference with commerce by robbery, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1951(a)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Pell City contractor pleaded guilty today in federal court to explosives storage and record-keeping charges filed after his failed 2015 implosion of a 100-year-old smokestack ended with the structure collapsing on the track hoe he was using to complete the job.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury today found Michael Anthony Conage (32, Port Orange) guilty of possessing hydromorphone with the intent to distribute it and possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon. Due to his extensive ...
