News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Wanted: 7th-12th Graders for Chasing the Dragon Poster Contest.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that WILSON MAURICIO OSORTO-ESTRADA, age 35, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a) & (b)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Crimes Took Place Over Three-Week Period in Summer of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: GREAT FALLS, MT - In an effort to combat the growing epidemic of prescription drug and heroin abuse, the FBI and DEA have released Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict, a documentary aimed at educating students and young adults about the dangers of addiction. The film focuses on educating...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requesting documents regarding flood recovery efforts and a death resulting from a possible faulty Mobile Home Unit (MHU).
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Thursday, March 2, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining FDA’s Generic Drug and Biosimilar User Fee Programs."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Sherri Hobson (619) 961-0287.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Earlier this week, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced a hearing for Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, on the international anti-doping system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Manuel Perez Gonzalez, 39, of Miami, was sentenced yesterday to 100 years in prison, by U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro, after having been convicted at trial of distribution, receipt and possession of child pornography. Gonzalez was also sentenced to 25 years of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jeffrey Scott Jones, age 36, of Orangeville, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for drug trafficking that resulted in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: DENVER - U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore sentenced former nurse Rocky Allen to serve 12 months in federal prison for felony criminal contempt of court, to run consecutive to his 78 month previous sentence, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer announced. Allen drove to Idaho prior to reporting to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida-United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Charles Clark has pleaded guilty to theft of government funds. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Two men from Mahoning County were charged in federal court with illegally importing anabolic steroids from China, U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon said.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: “A case of mistaken identity" may drive the plot of the latest spy film or crime novel, but it’s only a tale of trouble for geneticists, oncologists, drug manufacturers and others working with mouse cell lines, one of the most commonly used laboratory model systems for genetic research. Cell lines that...
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: Defendant Opened Fire on Public Street in Broad Daylight.
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: LUBBOCK, Texas - Christopher Lee Gonzalez, aka “Gonzo," 43, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 327 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in October 2016 to his role in a methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Brian Keith Jennings, Jr, 19, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio following a guilty plea to 2 counts of theft of firearms from a licensed firearm dealer.
