News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LUIS RIVERA GARCIA, age 27, a Cuban national residing in Florida, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M - Jessie Jesus Marquez, 37, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, was sentenced last week in federal court to 121 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on narcotics trafficking charges. The sentence was announced by Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Dr. Romie Earl Roland has been sentenced to ten years and ten months for conspiring to distribute Schedule II controlled substances by illegally prescribing prescription painkillers for no legitimate medical purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Shawn Ryan Goodfleisch, 38, of Pensacola, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison and will be required to register as a sex offender. A jury convicted Goodfleisch on Sept. 29, 2016, of receipt of child pornography and destruction of evidence to prevent seizure. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza sentenced Abdhullah Hamidullah, 43, to serve 40 years and 2 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release. Hamidullah pleaded guilty on June 17, 2016, to sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion and to enticing individuals to travel in interstate commerce for prostitution and transporting individuals in interstate commerce for prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Acting United States Attorney Brit Featherston announced today that four Southeast Texas men have been charged in a federal robbery conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Anthony Leroy Doctor, a/k/a “Amp," age 26, of Columbia, South Carolina was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment today after earlier pleading guilty in federal court to possession of a stolen firearm and ammunition, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Clark, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Randolph and Boone Counties, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that MICHAEL FERRARIE EUBANKS, age 57, of Atoka, Oklahoma, and HYDIE ROYLENE EUBANKS, age 58, of Atoka, Oklahoma, were found guilty, by a federal jury, for THEFT OF GOVERNMENT FUNDS, in violation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Company to Pay $9.5 Million for False Reporting of Safety Inspections and Clean Water Act Violations That Led to Explosion in Gulf of Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEVAUGHN WATSON, 23, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Ordered to pay $541,224.88 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment today charging MICHAEL LEDBETTER, 26, of Hartford, with one count of possession of ammunition by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Anthony Oby Loose, age 33, of Grand Rapids, Michigan was sentenced to twelve and a half years in prison for bank robbery. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney also ordered Loose to pay $20,458.73 in restitution.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today released an updated list of pilot, air traffic controller, law enforcement and citizen reports of potential encounters with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) - more popularly called “drones". The latest data cover February through September 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Hadd Mitchell McHenry, 41, of Sheridan, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on Feb. 17, 2017, for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. McHenry was arrested in Sheridan, Wyoming. He...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Abdulmagid Al Saadi, age 38, a citizen of Yemen, was sentenced today to 10 days in jail following his guilty plea to illegally entering the United States, a misdemeanor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Feb. 23, 2017, Aracelis N. Ayala a/k/a "Gordita" a/k/a "Fluff," 34, was found guilty by a federal jury of one count of Hobbs Act robbery, one count of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, and one count of robbery in the first degree, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: New Orleans Man Found to Be in Possession of in Excess of 500 Child Pornography Images and Videos.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Ryan Kyle pled guilty and has been sentenced in Pittsburgh to 36 months imprisonment, to run concurrently with the term of imprisonment imposed at Criminal No. 9241 of 2015, with credit for time served in state custody from Feb. 16, 2016, to April 20, 2016, followed by three years supervised release, on a charge of violating the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
