News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that Jahkeel Joseph, 23, resident of Anchorage, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to 16 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Joseph pleaded guilty on Oct. 11, 2016, to a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Superintendent Cicely Muldoon announced today that Point Reyes National Seashore is seeking applications for this summer's Youth Conservation Corps Program (YCC).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced the unsealing of a complaint charging FABRICE DIAZ, 24, with narcotics dealing that resulted in the overdose death of a 25-year-old man.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Late on Feb. 2, 2017, a federal jury convicted Philadelphia attorney James Michael Farrell, age 63, of Wenonah, New Jersey, of money laundering, witness tampering, and obstruction of official proceedings, related to his activities on behalf of members of an extensive drug trafficking operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Todd O. Sweet, 51, of Monroe County Illinois, was sentenced in federal court today to 100 months’ imprisonment, three years’ supervised release, and a $100 special assessment, following his plea of guilty to possession of a firearm by a felon in possession and possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Hameed Jide Bello, 38, of Fort Washington, Maryland, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Freddy Geovainni Mero Ancentales (36, Ecuador, South America) to 14 years in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), along with U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson (R-Ga), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) today praised action by President Donald Trump to preserve access to retirement planning for middle-income American families by halting the implementation of the Obama administration’s complex and burdensome “fiduciary rule.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Police Arrest Armed Defendant on Southeast Washington Sidewalk; Defendant Previously Was Convicted of Gun, Drug Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage woman was sentenced yesterday to 42 months in prison for conspiring to obtain stolen checks and then forging and negotiating the stolen checks at different banks and grocery stores in Anchorage.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Anthony Randolph, 30, of Binghamton, New York, pled guilty yesterday in federal court to engaging in a drug trafficking conspiracy and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and James Jewell, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A Salem man, who previously pled guilty to being part of a federal drug conspiracy, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant Corruptly Abused Her Position at Oakland International Airport And Conspired to Distribute Drugs Nationwide for Smuggling Ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Vyacheslav Khaimov pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business in connection with his role in an international cybercrime operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant Admitted Pimping a 16-Year-Old Girl in Wichita Falls and Dallas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Vyacheslav Khaimov pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business in connection with his role in an international cybercrime operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced that Mississippi corrections officer, Lawardrick Marsher, pleaded guilty today in federal court to beating an inmate in Mississippi’s Parchman prison. A second officer, Robert Sturdivant, pleaded guilty to helping conceal the beating of the inmate.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to reports that President Donald Trump and his Administration are preparing to roll back protections Congress enacted in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, as well as the “fiduciary rule " that was put in place to protect the retirement savings of American citizens...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Andrew C. Tillman, 32, of Belleville, IL was sentenced today to ten years of imprisonment for drug and firearms offenses, U.S. Attorney Donald S. Boyce for the Southern District of Illinois announced. On Oct. 27, 2016, Tillman pled guilty to three federal charges, namely possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
