News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND- Acting United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson announced that Leroy Robinson, 39, of Hammond, Indiana was sentenced before Judge Rudy Lozano for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A grand jury sitting in Houston returned a 27-count superseding indictment against 25 Tri-City Bombers (TCB) gang members and associates in a conspiracy involving racketeering, drug distribution, money laundering, robbery and discharge of a firearm resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Benny T. Martinez, 37, of San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced this morning before Senior District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 180 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in December 2016, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 years imprisonment followed by 5 years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is recruiting teachers to participate in the Teacher-Ranger-Teacher (TRT) program this summer. The TRT program is a professional development opportunity for K-12 teachers to spend the summer acquiring new skills in experiential learning through a program...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This week paid homage to the important work of advancing the public health. From the opioid epidemic and drug overdoses to accelerating the cycle of discovering, developing, and delivering new cures and treatments, there’s been a lot to focus on for this year’s National Public Health Week (#NPHW).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Jose Marquez Escarcega, 29, of Woonsocket, today was sentenced yesterday to 60 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch; Rhode Island State Police Superintendent Ann C Assumpico; and Matthew J. Etre, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for New England.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after S&P Global Ratings released a new report.pdf) on the stability of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - Margaret Temponeras, 52, of Portsmouth, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, which she did through a pain clinic and dispensary.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Carlos Rafael Acosta-Joaquin, a/k/a “Kelvin Valle-Alicea," 31, of Portland, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 14 months in prison and two years of supervised release for misusing a social security number assigned to another person. On Oct. 26, 2016, the defendant was convicted after a three-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Richard Jerel Doyle, 32, of Brooklyn, Ohio, was sentenced to 100 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm when Columbus Police arrested him in March 2016. A U.S. District Court jury convicted Doyle following a two-day trial in September.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that ZHENGQUAN ZHANG, a/k/a “Zheng Quan Zhang," a/k/a “Jim Z.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee held three hearings this week ranging from cybersecurity in the health care sector to spectrum. During Tuesday’s hearings, #SubEnvironment members examined legislation that would improve the existing Brownfields Program and, in #SubOversight, members...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court on April 5, 2017, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced WILLIAM LACHLIAN ORMOND, III, 29, of Henderson, NC to 57 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: D’Shawn Turner, 32, of East St. Louis, was sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment on federal firearm charges, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By State Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and Todd Young (R-Ind.) introduced the Syrian War Crimes Accountability Act Friday to instruct the Secretary of State to report on war crimes, crimes against humanity, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - Holly Jean Cox, 43, of Citrus Springs, Florida, was arrested in Florida on Wednesday after being indicted on seven counts of obtaining controlled substances by fraud or deception, announced Acting United States Attorney A. Clark Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on April 6, 2017, Laura Berard, 55, of Burlington, Vermont was sentenced to 8 months in federal prison after her guilty plea to charges that she conspired to distribute heroin and cocaine base. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss also ordered that Berard serve three years of supervised release after her prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted eight defendants with charges ranging from soliciting and accepting bribes in connection with State of California construction contracts, to conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with a federal construction contract, and making...
