News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Jose Luis Martinez-Martinez, 41, of Desoto, Texas, made his initial appearance last week before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney on a complaint, unsealed today, charging possession with intent to distribute. The charging was announced jointly by Dallas Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, Clyde Shelley, Jr. and U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management recently announced new appointments and re-appointments of members to Idaho’s Boise District citizen-based Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advises the agency on public land management issues. The RACs are composed of members with diverse interests and backgrounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that United States District Judge Richard P. Conaboy sentenced Ronald J. Scheu, age 48, of Kunkletown, Pennsylvania, to three years of probation, including an eight-month term of home confinement, for distributing explosives without a license. Judge Conaboy also fined Scheu $1,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 54-year-old Kathy Suzanne DeBerry to five years of federal probation and on Thursday of last week sentenced 56-year-old Curtis Harold DeBerry to 24 months in federal prison for bankruptcy fraud announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. -- Jose Jaime Lopez, aka “JJ," 37, of the 800 block of West Penn St., Hoopeston, Ill., has been ordered to serve the rest of his life in federal prison for trafficking crystal meth and cocaine in Champaign, as announced by Patrick D. Hansen, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois. Lopez has been in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service since his federal arrest in January 2016. U.S. District Judge Colin S. Bruce sentenced Lopez on Feb. 17.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Provided Support for ISIS Terrorist Attack in Undercover FBI Operation.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will hold a
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jonathan Zampieri, age 34, formerly of Montpelier, pleaded guilty today in the United States District Court in Burlington to arson and robbery charges stemming from the fatal arson that occurred in Northfield in December...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man who operated a construction company that did work at construction projects at two military bases in New Jersey today admitted paying bribes and kickbacks to get the contracts, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement on new Department of Homeland Security memos outlining the Trump Administration’s mass deportation plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -David Edward Weatherholtz, age 57, of Berlin, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to two counts of producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Terrell Ray Antonio, 41, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M. Antonio will serve a 46-month term of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on an assault charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Octavio Acosta De La Torre, 43, of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bury to 33 months of imprisonment. De La Torre had previously pleaded guilty to false threats to persons and property using or affecting interstate commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Feb. 14, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Melisa A. Beyer (age: 37) of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The first count charges that between January 2007 and May 2014, she embezzled...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the immigration enforcement memos released by the Department of Homeland Security today...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a wild horse and burro adoption event in Abilene, Texas, March 3-4, 2017. The two-day event at the Expo Center of Taylor County will feature dozens of outstanding animals. The event will take place from noon - 6:00pm on Friday, March 3, and 8:00am - 10:00am on Saturday, March 4. The BLM will offer all animals for the minimum adoption fee of $125 (set by law).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The south Texas supplier of a Pittsburgh cocaine ring pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics and money laundering laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Colin S. Bruce has sentenced Jesse Guardiola, 43, of Grant Park, Ill., to serve 140 months (11 years, 8 months) in federal prison for five counts of illegal possession of a firearm by a felon. Guardiola has previously been identified by law enforcement as a member of the Latin Kings in Kankakee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago hotel developer was sentenced today to three years in prison for exploiting a federal visa program to fraudulently raise capital from Chinese nationals who were seeking residency in the United States.
