News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ERIC MALLORY, age 34, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to a two-count Indictment charging him with bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Kirk Baird, 42, from Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, has been charged with theft of mail matter by a postal employee. The charges are contained in an Indictment filed Jan. 18, 2017, in United States District Court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Joseph Anthony Harris (51, Lake City) today pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison for the drug offense, to be followed by a minimum mandatory sentence of 5 years, up to life, in federal prison for the firearm offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Daniel Anthony Garcia, age 28, of Pueblo, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve 37 months in federal prison for felon in possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and ATF Acting Special Agent in Charge Ron Humphries announced. Following ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Olayinka Ilumsa Sunmola, 33, of Lagos, Nigeria, was sentenced this morning to serve 324 months behind bars for an elaborate international romance scam he perpetrated from 2007 to 2014, U.S. Attorney Donald S. Boyce for the Southern District of Illinois announced today. Evidence presented in court showed...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Homer resident was sentenced Wednesday to 24 months in prison for failing to update his sex offender registration.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted Valentino Shine, Sr., 49, of Buffalo, NY, on charges of narcotics conspiracy, using and maintaining a drug-involved premises, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and commercial ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following a meeting today at the White House with President Trump and the leaders of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees regarding the Trump Administration’s interest in modernizing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico and advancing a strong bilateral trade agenda on behalf of the American people, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Mississippi Corrections Officers Plead Guilty to Inmate Assault and Cover-Up.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Indictment alleges fraud and kickbacks in connection with prescriptions for a powerful and highly-addictive fentanyl spray.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Group Trafficked Large Quantities of Meth from Texas into SW Virginia.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) today granted final approval for the design for a new White House fence, as proposed by the United States Secret Service (USSS) and National Park Service (NPS). With the NCPC approval, the USSS and the NPS will now proceed with construction documentation and contracting for the project.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that International Petroleum Corporation of Delaware (“IPC’) was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Gregory M. Sleet to a $1,300,000 fine and $2,200,000 restitution to the City of Wilmington for environmental crimes, including a conspiracy to violate the Clean Water Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) today released the following statements after the House voted to pass a resolution undoing an Obama Administration regulation that prohibits certain Americans who receive Social Security disability benefits from exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding Russia’s recent reescalation of violence in eastern Ukraine...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: 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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Feb. 2, 2017, District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced Samantha Joseph, 25, of St. Thomas, to three years and five months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Gomez also ordered Joseph to perform 400 hours of community service and pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: George Ronzell Fyke, 40, of Woodlawn, Tenn., was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Nashville, Tenn., for aggravated identity theft and stealing government funds, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Fyke was charged with five counts of aggravated identity theft and five counts of theft of government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Mehul Chandubhai Patel, a/k/a “Mike Patel," 31, of Battle Creek, Michigan, pled guilty today to lying to Labor Department investigators about the wages paid to his staff. The charges stem from Patel’s violation of minimum wage rules in connection with two hotels operated by him, in Battle Creek and Coldwater, Michigan.
