News from August 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the announcement of a Section 301 investigation into Chinese trade practices...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Peter Calvert-Cata, 21, a member and resident of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 48 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for his conviction on a sexual assault charge. He also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ramsey Jeries Farraj, 41, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for conspiring with his former business partner, Majed Bashir “Mike" Akroush, 49, also of Bakersfield, to structure $4,204,965 obtained from the sale of smokeable synthetic drugs, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian national was sentenced on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Steven Bennett, 47 of Los Angeles, California, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, and conspiracy to commit money laundering before Senior U.S. District William M. Skretny. The charges carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Aug. 11, 2017, Shawn Sidney Beu, 38, from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced heather Jean Reekrby United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 240 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: A Canadian man arrested at a park in Rocky River was charged in federal court with production of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the launch of the fourth Wood Stove Design Challenge in partnership with the Alliance for Green Heat (AGH). Teams from around the world will compete for up to $25,000 in prizes to design the next generation of residential biomass heaters capable of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Adam L. Braverman (619) 546-6717 and Fred A. Sheppard (619) 546-8237.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Shelby County woman to a probationary sentence of 2 years for accepting a bribe to deliver marijuana in the U.S. Mail as part of a conspiracy to distribute the drug, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, Houston Division, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Brian Monroe Lewis, 33, formerly of Brookhaven, Mississippi, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Rorn Sorn (34, St. Petersburg) to six years and five months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on April 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Jorge Guerrero-Torres (29, Orlando) to 40 years in federal prison for production and possession of child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the cellphone that he had used to commit the offense. A federal jury found Guerrero-Torres guilty on May 16, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Seattle, Washington, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution of quantities of 4-ANPP and furanyl fentanyl, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON PRAWL, also known as “Boots," 29, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 151 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking two minors to engage in sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CAREEM BENTLEY, also known as “C-Lows," 34, of Bridgeport, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 42 months in federal prison for lying to investigators in a 2016 interview following a stand-off between federal law enforcement officers and fugitive Orlando J. Collins, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man was sentenced today to 17 and a half years in federal prison for his role in a heroin conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Mark Steven Bush, Jr., 30, of Detroit, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: On Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, the body of Susan Bennett, a 61-year old climber from Bellingham who died on July 22, 2017 while descending the West Ridge of Forbidden Peak, was recovered by search and rescue personnel from North Cascades and Mount Rainier National Parks. Her body was located in a crevasse on the Forbidden Glacier, which required technical teams to recover.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina-------United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that a hearing for Theodore Vitaliy Khleborod, age 28, and Ana Milena Barrero, age 24, has been set for Thursday morning, Aug. 17, 2017, at 10:00 A.M. in the federal courthouse in Greenville. Khleborod and Barrero have been charged in a multi-count, superseding indictment with conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute numerous drugs, including fentanyl and U-47700.
