News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Amador Saldana, a 45-year-old Roma, Texas man has been sentenced to prison for federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit, and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Daniel James Crutchfield, age 27, from Myrtle Beach, SC, was sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for possession of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B)1326(a)(2). United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Urban Oshea, II, age 48, of Florence, SC and Madgelyn Kirton, age 31, of Myrtle Beach, SC, pled guilty in federal court in Florence, to Conspiracy to Manufacture and Pass Counterfeit Securities, a violation of Title 18...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York (“NYPD"), Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: A Miami-Dade resident was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, after he shot a man in front of a convenience store in Miami Gardens.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Monroe County, Kentucky physician was sentenced by Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, in U.S. District Court, yesterday to serve one year and one day in prison for prescribing pain medications outside the course of professional medical practice to five patients during a more than six year period, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas -Jeffrey Neal Cuddington, 38, formerly of San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 188 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in December 2016 to one count of receipt and distribution of a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that David E. Haskell, age 28, of DeKalb, Texas, was sentenced today to 100 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Texarkana.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Rasheed Abiodun Akanni, 42, a Nigerian national residing in Pawtucket, R.I., on Thursday was found guilty at trial by U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., of entering into a marriage with a U.S. citizen for the purpose of evading deportation, false statements to a federal officer...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: BERLIN, MARYLAND - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 2.3 Million visitors to Assateague Island National Seashore in 2016 spent $98.3 Million in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,300 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $112.2 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Rodolfo Sanchez-Marcia, age 47, from Conway, was sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Illegal re-entry into the United States, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a)(2). United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell of Florence sentenced Sanchez-Marcia to 15 months imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Nicholas Graziano, 53, of Melville, New York, and Stephen Graziano, 25, of Morgantown, West Virginia, were convicted of distributing synthetic marijuana, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: U.S./Israeli Man Charged in Connection with Threats to Jewish Community Centers, Conveying False Information, and Cyberstalking.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: DOVER, Del. - This afternoon, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, toured St. Jones Reserve, a component of the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve (DNERR). St. Jones Reserve conducts research on long-term weather changes and water quality, ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday requesting information about the status of the department’s Pandemic Influenza Plan.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: The contract for the Lake Crescent Highway Rehab Project was awarded to Strider Construction Company of Bellingham, WA on March 24, 2017. The award amount for the contract is $27,545,672.80. This project is being managed collaboratively by the Federal Highway Administration and the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Gulfport, Mississippi men were sentenced to prison today for charges related to preparing fraudulent tax returns, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain for the Southern District of Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A 35-year-old man, Brandon Ryan Blackstone, who admitted fraudulently representing the receipt of a military decoration for financial gain, has been sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn to serve 21 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 45-year-old Roma, Texas man has been sentenced to prison for federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Co-defendant Brandi Leonard has pled guilty to related charges and awaits sentencing.
