News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Nuevo Laredo man and a Laredo woman have entered guilty pleas for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic drugs via the World Trade Bridge, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Using a state-of-the-art microscopy technique, experimenters at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have witnessed a slow-motion, atomic-scale transformation of rust-iron oxide-back to pure iron metal, in all of its chemical steps.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service will be hosting two Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program (RTCA) information sessions.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - As it prepares for another busy summer season, the Bureau of Land Management is temporarily closing some boat launches at its Holter Lake and Hauser Lake recreation sites during annual dock installation and maintenance.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Kodiak Fresh Produce LLC.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Long-term Boone County heroin trafficking investigation has led to several convictions and prison sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Individual Previously Deported Four Times. BOSTON - A Honduran man pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston to being a previously deported alien present in the United States. Rumeni D. Romero, 32, a Honduran citizen, pleaded guilty to a one-count indictment of being a previously deported...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal jury has convicted Damarcus Donte Ivey, 35, of Charlotte, of Hobbs Act robbery and committing murder while using and possessing a firearm during and in furtherance of the robbery, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. presided over the two-week trial, which ended yesterday afternoon.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Washington - In a complaint filed on Jan. 21, 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) alleged that Felda Vegetable Farms Inc. (Felda Vegetable), of Felda, Fla. failed to make full payment promptly in the total amount of $232,347 to 6 sellers for multiple lots of produce in violation of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jose Maria Agustin, 43, a native and citizen of Mexico, most recently of Elba, NY, who pleaded guilty to reentry after deportation subsequent to an aggravated felony conviction, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on April 3, 2017, Johnathan Goodwin, 22, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to charges that he conspired to distribute heroin. U.S. District Court Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered that Goodwin serve three years of supervised release after his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Two Palm Beach County, Florida, residents pleaded guilty in federal court in West Palm Beach to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. ISIL is also known by the acronym ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham). Both defendants are U.S. citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Rocky Allen Resides, 27, of Xenia, Ohio, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today to time-served in U.S. District Court by Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison for unlawfully entering the United States without presenting himself at a border crossing point.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 37-year-old Mercedes resident has been ordered to federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute approximately 84 kilograms of cocaine, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Martin Perez pleaded guilty March 31, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that PETRONILA PERALTA, a/k/a “Petra," a former employee with the New York City Human Resources Administration (“HRA"), was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 90 months in prison for defrauding...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former resident of Alpine, New Jersey, today admitted defrauding investors out of more than $5 million, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio, 54-year-old Muhammad Jaffer Ali was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his leadership role in a synthetic marijuana distribution scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: DEL RIO, Texas - In Del Rio today, a federal judge sentenced 42-year-old Guillermo Rodriguez-Sanchez to 151 months in federal prison for importation of cocaine and heroin, announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; Homeland Security (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio Division; and, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Representatives Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) introduced H.R. 1873, the “Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act." The bipartisan bill, cosponsored by Reps. Bruce Westerman (R-AR), Jim Costa (D-CA), Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ), improves the safety and reliability of the electric grid on federal lands, and reduces the threat of catastrophic wildfires and costly electricity blackouts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: For Aggravated and Conspiracy to Commit Identity Fraud.
