News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of stealing and possessing stolen goods from an interstate shipment, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Maurice Phillip Mitchell (32, Jacksonville) guilty of unlawfully possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony. Due to his status as an Armed Career Criminal, he faces a mandatory...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following President Trump’s nomination of Elaine Duke to be deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Eric Alexander Young, 37, of Bridgeport, Ohio, was convicted of cocaine distribution today, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: Construction crews began preparing the ground in early February for a structure that will include restrooms, drinking fountain, and a shaded assembly area. Work on the project is expected to be completed by the end of June 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today encouraged federal employees, contractors and other workers who have evidence or suspicions of wrongdoing, waste, fraud, abuse or issues of public safety to report it confidentially to the committee, promising to make every effort to protect those who come forward with information.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: Mitesh Patel, 36, of Media, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Superseding Indictment with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, money laundering conspiracy, and filing false tax returns, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Deshaun Lipscomb, age 24, of Bushkill, Pennsylvania, Pablo Martinez, age 27, and Orrett Campbell, age 37, both of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, were indicted on February 7, 2017, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: BISMARCK - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on February 6, 2017, Valentino William White, Jr., 33, New Town, ND, was sentenced before US District Chief Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve four years and nine months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, on a charge of domestic assault by a habitual offender. Judge Hovland also ordered White to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - James Benjamin Jones (34, Fort Myers) pleaded guilty today to two federal hate crimes for threatening two Muslim grocery stores in Fort Myers announced U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III and Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging OSCAR ARMANDO ARIAS, age 42, of Honduras, JUAN ANTONIO HERNANDEZ-RAMIREZ, age 27, of Mexico, BERNARDINO PATLAN-GONZALEZ, age...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tyrone Edward Wright, 46, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty today of committing three bank robberies during a 24-hour period, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Andrew Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Interim Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 54-year-old Houston man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Ohio resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of mail fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, 45, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced today to 360 months in prison. On March 17, 2016, Kareem was found guilty by a federal jury of conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (“ISIL"), a designated foreign terrorist organization;...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Weldon Malveau (41, Tampa) yesterday pleaded guilty to theft of government property. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Get out of the cold on Sunday, Feb. 12, Sunday, Feb. 19, Monday, Feb. 20, and Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Visitor Center for the screening of entertaining films that showcase the local region and various National Parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2017
News Release: A Mansfield couple was indicted on charges related to sexual exploitation of a child, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
