News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that four defendants were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with operating a methamphetamine conspiracy in Livingston County, NY. Kurt Redance, 26, Kenneth Hoag, 55, both of Dansville, NY; Brandie Schumacher, 37, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Arlington man pleaded guilty today to willfully receiving a firearm while under indictment in Virginia state court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Abasi Akeem Smith (30, Orlando) to 21 years and 6 months in federal prison for assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon. Smith’s criminal history includes multiple drug-trafficking convictions, so he was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Weymouth woman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a fraud scheme in which she stole approximately $701,826 from her employer.
By State Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) joined Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual Days of Remembrance event at the Capitol. Chairman Royce was one of six members of Congress to light a memorial candle with Holocaust survivors.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged Antwan L. Hutchinson, 25, and Michael J. Favors, 24, both of Columbus, with the murders of two potential witnesses and the beating of a third witness in an indictment returned in Columbus.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Arlington man pleaded guilty today to willfully receiving a firearm while under indictment in Virginia state court.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- Releases from Buffalo Bill Dam to the Shoshone River are currently at 3,000 cubic feet per second (cfs). Based on current operating projections and the expectation of near record runoff, Buffalo Bill Reservoir will be lowered approximately eleven more feet to an elevation near 5,345 feet...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Windermere, Florida, man was sentenced today to 53 months in prison for using phony invoices to fraudulently obtain more than $1.5 million from a factoring company in Bergen County, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: TWIN FALLS, ID - Today, Idaho Fire Mitigation and Education Specialist Jennifer Myslivy was awarded the Bronze Smokey Bear Award during a ceremony held at the BLM Twin Falls District office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Luis Hernandez, 35, of Waterbury, Connecticut, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to distribution of heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Friday April 21, 2017, U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Yasmine Young, age 29, of Baltimore, Maryland to 66 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for bank fraud and narcotics conspiracy. Judge Russell also ordered Young to pay $326,487.11 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: A Chicago resident was sentenced to serve 85 months in prison for distribution of heroin and conspiracy to distribute heroin in the St. Louis metropolitan area, announced United States Attorney Donald S. Boyce for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Michelle Cho, an officer of Far East Construction Corporation (Far East) and other construction companies, was sentenced today to six months in prison and 24 months of supervised release on a federal charge of conspiring to commit wire fraud. Cho was also ordered to pay forfeiture in the amount of $169,166 and pay a criminal fine in the amount of $35,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES BUTLER, 24, of Montville, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of distribution of heroin.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD, Ill. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will recognize Workers' Memorial Day by participating in various events throughout the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Windermere, Florida, man was sentenced today to 53 months in prison for using phony invoices to fraudulently obtain more than $1.5 million from a factoring company in Bergen County, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By State Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: In today’s hearing, we’ll examine the crisis in Libya. I’d like to thank our witnesses for again appearing before the committee on this important issue.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that brothers Ali Ratib Daham, 40, and Abdulkareem Daham, 21, of Westbrook, Maine, were charged by indictment today in U.S. District Court with conspiracy to defraud and to commit offenses against the United States. In addition...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced the unsealing of a superseding indictment charging ANTHONY DODAJ, 46, and DUANE MARTINEZ, 44, with narcotics dealing that resulted in the heroin overdose death of a 41-year-old patient in a hospital rehabilitation clinic.
