News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: An Akron man was charged in federal court related to failing to disclose his involvement in a military unit engaged in war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that RAMON L. KILLINGS, also known as “Blade," 39, of Bridgeport, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Amy Lynn Galloway, 45, of Cumberland, pleaded guilty today to charges related to running a bookkeeping fraud scheme that caused a loss of approximately $1.5 million over eight years from a Richmond residential development and construction company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jose Manuel Salazar Estrada, 38, of Mexico, pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States after a conviction for an aggravated felony before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jason Harrison, 23, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to methamphetamine trafficking charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Nicholas T. Billman, 20, of Flushing, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 264 months in prison for brandishing a machine gun while he robbed a general store in Freeport, Ohio on Oct. 22, 2015.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and #FlySafe, the general aviation (GA) group’s national safety campaign, aims to educate the GA community on the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Special Agent in Charge Robert Feldt, of the Social Security Administration, Office of Inspector General, announced today that Gary Lemond Shorter, age 61, of Little Rock, was sentenced federal prison for making a false statement to the Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Defendant used Role as Umpire to Groom and Molest Two Young Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, former New York State Senator John Sampson was sentenced to five years of incarceration following his conviction at trial of obstruction of justice in connection with his efforts to interfere with a federal criminal case against a close associate who had given...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 20 months in prison for bribing a doctor in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Dario Renteria-Garcia (41, Colombia, South America) to 18 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 States. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 24, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Willie Griffin, 27, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Jan. 18, 2017, Shawn James Franks Claytor, 27, a convicted felon from Nyssa, Oregon, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken to 45 months in federal prison for unlawful possession of a firearm. Upon his release from prison, Claytor will be on supervised release for three years.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following reports that Dr. David Houlihan, also known as “candy man" at the Tomah VA Medical Center in Tomah, Wis., permanently surrendered his license and registration...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today released a plan to identify gaps in the current National Park System to better inform future decision-makers of options that more fully represent the nation’s natural and cultural resources, and the experiences of all Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Gladstone, Mo., residents and a Kansas City, Mo., man have sentenced in federal court for their roles in conspiracies to pass fraudulent prescriptions and to steal thousands of oxycodone pills in a series of pharmacy robberies.
By State Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Reco Allen Jones a/k/a Bon Jovi, 29, of Nashville, Tenn., was sentenced yesterday to 16 years in prison, to be followed by three years supervised release, for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Jones pleaded guilty to these charges on Sept. 27, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Roger Wheaten Webb, 53, of Ashburn, pleaded guilty today to receipt of child pornography.
