News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael R. Bush, age 48, of Fort Edward, New York, pled guilty today to three counts of receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Johnnie William Bateman, III, of Culpepper, Virginia, will be arraigned Tuesday after being indicted by a grand jury sitting in Martinsburg on March 21, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A New Hampshire company pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to trafficking counterfeit New England Patriots AFC Championship and Super Bowl t-shirts during the 2015 NFL playoffs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Sikeston, Missouri man, who previously admitted to travelling to Kentucky with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that MICHAEL HILARIO MARTINEZ, age 40, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 60 months probation, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $52,000.00 for EMBEZZLEMENT AND THEFT FROM INDIAN TRIBAL ORGANIZATION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1163 and 2.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: NISKAYUNA, N.Y. - EM and contractor AECOM finished removing all process equipment and tanks from Building H2 at the Separations Process Research Unit (SPRU) nuclear facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Westerville, Ohio, man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for his alleged role in a June 2016 armed robbery of a retail store in Orange, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: California Man convicted of Engaging in Child Exploitation Enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Virginia Return Preparer Indicted for Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Philadelphia - Cory D. Foster, 29, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Mark A. Kearney to a total of 714 months (59.5 years) in prison for three armed robberies of convenience stores and an armed carjacking. In May 2016, a jury convicted Foster of robbing at...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Calvin R. Patrick, 35, of Mount Morris, NY, pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Based on a prior conviction for possession of child pornography, the defendant faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Julio Santiago, age 23, from Holyoke, Massachusetts was sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute and to Distribute a Quantity of Heroin and Fentanyl in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU -- A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging Lorraine Yamauchi, 70, and Jiitsu Yamauchi, 64, residents of Honolulu, Hawaii, with five counts of filing false tax returns in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(1).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Socorro Field Office, in cooperation with the New Mexico State Land Office, plans to conduct a prescribed fire in east-central Catron County between April 17 and May 26, weather permitting. The goal is to burn between 15,000-20,000 acres of lands administered by the BLM and the New Mexico State Land Office. The target of the burn are limbs and branches created from tree thinning projects in thick pinon pine, juniper, and ponderosa pine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Watrous, NM: Ceran St. Vrain’s lasting impact on the Southwest can still be found in the trail ruts, old centers of trade, and mills he helped build and that still stand against the surrounding landscape as a monument to his legacy. From fur trapping and trading, he progressed to positions of business...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island Stephen G. Dambruch, and Harold H. Shaw, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Field Division, today announce the dismantling of a significant drug trafficking organization importing substantial quantities of heroin and cocaine shipped from Mexico via the Southwest border of the United States directly into Rhode Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Federal Grand Jury Indicts Kirby Cleveland on Charges Arising Out of Murder of Tribal Police Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: LizMarie Rivera-Torres, 24, and Anthony Ferris, 34, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were charged today by Indictment with conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors, and sex trafficking of minors, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a single-count indictment today against Dilesh Sharma, of Sacramento, charging him with attempted online enticement of a minor for sexual purposes, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A criminal complaint was filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charging Ayad Fatafta and Kifah Ghanimat, both approximately 39 years of age and from areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority, in connection with the Dec. 18, 2010, murder of Kristine Luken, a U.S. citizen, in Israel.
