News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Lewis Jones, of Waynesboro, Virginia, was sentenced today to 168 months incarceration for methamphetamine distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Due to potential tropical storm conditions, all visitor services and facilities at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial will be temporarily suspended starting at 12:00 pm on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Hate Crimes: A Conference on Law Enforcement and Civil Rights September 17 and 18.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Yankel Rosenthal Coello-the former Minister of Investment of Honduras, president of Honduran soccer club C.D. Marathón, and a prominent businessman - pled guilty to an offense involving providing financial services to significant Honduran drug trafficker.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: A leader of the Vice Lords street gang was sentenced today to 146 months for his role in various criminal gang-related activities, including the May 7, 2015, shooting of four people with an AK-47 assault rifle.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - As the summer season unofficially comes to a close this Labor Day weekend, visitors coming to Zion should expect crowded conditions and plan accordingly.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: PHILADEPHIA -An investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia led to the indictments of a former driver’s license examiner with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and a Philadelphia man Aug. 29, for conspiracy, bribery and other charges. The Social Security Administration’s Office of Inspector General assisted in the investigation with cooperation from PennDOT.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Labette County woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge of embezzling more than $213,000 from the bank where she worked, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE LIZARDO-OLEA, 30, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in Windham, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 15 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine and crack.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Obenson Cerulist (27, Sarasota) to 4 years and 11 months in federal prison for theft of government property. He pleaded guilty on April 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BYRON RIVERA, 27, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact of a Person Incapable of Consent was sentenced on Aug. 17, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Thomas J. Yazzie, Jr., 52, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Bloomfield, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 30 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his conviction on an involuntary manslaughter charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A Shinnston, West Virginia man was indicted by a federal grand jury of unlawful possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A former bank employee has pled guilty to embezzlement. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Darold Ray ZunieFeathers, 21, a member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his involuntary manslaughter conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: A former Assistant Director of the UAW Chrysler Department pleaded guilty today to committing violations of the Labor Management Relations Act, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that David Liverman, 33, of Raymond, New Hampshire was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison to be followed by lifetime supervised release for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Charles Novak, 29, of Queens, NY, who was convicted of theft of government money, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, Richard Ortega Elenes, Jr., 41, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 64 months in prison. Elenes had previously pleaded guilty to attempted bank robbery.
