News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Mexican citizen was sentenced Monday to 24 months in prison for reentering the United States illegally on four separate occasions.
By State Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement regarding General Michael Flynn’s resignation as National Security Advisor...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Five Quincy, Ill., men made their respective initial appearances in federal court this morning on separate, unrelated drug and gun charges. A federal grand jury returned the indictments last week; however, the charges had remained sealed pending the defendants’ arrests and court appearances. Each defendant was given a trial date of April 4, 2017. The defendants charged include the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Check Casher Sentenced to Prison for Cashing Fraudulently Obtained Tax Refund Checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Marvin Songlin, age 32, of Myrtle Beach, SC, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Florence for his role in a bogus lottery scam that targeted elderly victims across the country. He had previously pled guilty on charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Orlando Deshun Mitchell, (aka “Stunna"), age 40, of Camden, was sentenced today to 140 months in federal prison followed by four (4) years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of More Than 28 Grams of Cocaine Base. The Honorable Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in El Dorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 28-year-old Silsbee, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Ryan J. Lebrun, 23, of Pawtucket, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence today to a three-count federal indictment charging him with possession and distribution of child pornography. According to court records, Lebrun, a registered sex offender, was previously convicted in Rhode Island state court in two unrelated child pornography cases. He faces between 15-40 years in federal prison when he is sentenced in May.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: In Austin today, federal authorities filed a criminal complaint charging 23-year-old Mexican National Hugo Baltazar-Ramirez with assaulting a federal deportation officer last week announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that KEITH YOUNG, also known as “Capo," “Bapo" and “Poncho," 27, of Hamden. pleaded guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to federal racketeering and money laundering offenses, and admitted that he participated in two murders in 2011.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM made significant progress reducing risk to workers and the environment by removing residual nuclear materials in several facilities in the Savannah River Site (SRS) F Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man charged with Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding pled guilty and was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2017, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Monroe woman pleaded guilty Monday to mail fraud for a scheme where she lied on U.S. Bankruptcy Court filings and insurance documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jacob Daniel Anthony, 22, of Weston, West Virginia, was sentenced to five years probation for possession of stolen firearms, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Sales, 34, of Mt. Airy, Maryland, was sentenced to four years probation for violating the Maryland Firearm Safety Act, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Kenton Buckner, Chief of Little Rock Police Department (LRPD), announced today the arrests...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kevin Peterson, age 33, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Feb. 13, 2017, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to participating in a conspiracy to distribute alpha-pvp, commonly known as “bath salts.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANK JENKINS, 23, pled guilty today before the Honorable John G. Koeltl to shooting and killing Rashaun Nicholson on or about Dec. 28, 2014, in furtherance of a narcotics distribution conspiracy. The charges to which JENKINS pled guilty are set forth in a seven-count superseding indictment (the “Indictment"), which was filed in December 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: Juvenile Sex Trafficker Wanted. Gary O’Neal Bell Being Sought for Facilitating Commercial Sex of a Minor. Update: Gary O’Neal Bell was arrested without incident on Feb. 16, 2017 by the Metropolitan Police Department (part of the Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation Task Force) with assistance...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Michelle Zimmerman, 28, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was convicted of racketeering, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
