News from April 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, the Ranking Member of the Finance Committee Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy Subcommittee, along with eleven Senate Democrats, today introduced a bill to protect Americans who receive Social Security from having their benefits garnished to pay outstanding federal debts, such as student loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Juan Armando Garcia-Paez, 38, of La Mirada, California, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on April 26, 2017, for conspiracy to distribute 32 pounds of methamphetamine. Garcia-Paez was arrested in Sundance, Wyoming. He received 120 months of imprisonment, to be followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, LAFAYETTE, MONROE, ALEXANDRIA, LAKE CHARLES, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook urges the public to discard unused prescription drugs this weekend at area collection sites during Drug Take Back Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Naum Morgovsky and Irina Morgovsky were charged today for their respective roles in an alleged scheme to export components for the production of night vision rifle scopes in violation of the Arms Export Control Act, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas, Texas, woman, Melissa Trevino, 23, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 210 months in federal prison for her involvement in an attempted kidnapping, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting U.S. Attorney John J. Farley announced that Michael Giles, 41, pleaded guilty today in the United States District Court to committing three bank robberies and attempting to rob a fourth bank. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 11, 2017. If the court accepts the terms of a plea agreement, Giles will be sentenced to ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley sentenced a Sacramento man to two years in prison and a Stockton man pleaded guilty in two separate cases of conspiracy to submit false claims against the United States, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., announced today that an Oldham County, Kentucky resident pleaded guilty in United States District Court this week, before Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, to charges including the possession, transportation and advertising of images containing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, Peter Steve Plesinger, 55, of Sahuarita, Ariz., and Stephen Edward Smith, 63, of Tucson, Ariz., were sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to 87 months and 102 months, respectively, in prison. Both men had previously pleaded guilty to exportation of munitions from...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Eastside Loco Salvatrucha (ESLS) clique in the metro Boston area, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to RICO conspiracy and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Thirteenth Annual Awards Ceremony Recognizes Outstanding Efforts During 2016 to Improve the Safety and Quality of Life for New Mexicans.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Juan Ramon Montoya-Martinez, 35, of El Salvador, who was convicted of unlawful reentry following deportation for an aggravated felony, was sentenced to seven months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The Court also ordered that the defendant be turned over to the Department of Homeland Security upon his release to be deported back to El Salvador.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Richard Petix, 32, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to making material false statements and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), along with Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI), reintroduced legislation aimed at reducing bullying and harassment that affects one in five students at colleges and universities across the country. The Tyler Clementi Higher...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: APR 27 - BOSTON - A Marshfield man was sentenced April 25 in federal court in Boston in connection with trafficking heroin and fentanyl in Marshfield, Taunton, and surrounding communities.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Mountain Flying: Experience and Training is Essential
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Richard K. Lai, a United States citizen, pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging him with two counts of wire fraud conspiracy in connection with his participation in multiple schemes to accept and pay bribes to soccer officials. Lai also pleaded guilty to one count of failing...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina-------United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Theodore Vitaliy Khleborod, age 28, and Ana Milena Barrero, age 24, have been arrested on federal charges of possession with the intent to distribute and distribution of U47700, a Schedule I controlled substance, conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute U47700, and using the U.S. Mail to facilitate a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Germaine D. Hill, age 39, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on April 5, 2017, by a federal grand jury on a firearms charge. The case was unsealed on April 26, 2017, following Hill’s arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Honduran national today admitted to kidnapping his former girlfriend in Kansas City, Missouri, and raping her while they traveled to New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
