News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury indicted Adam Carson, 34, of Amherst, on bank robbery charges, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Haitian National Charged with International Narcotics and Money Laundering Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against the Wilmington Police Department (WPD) Corporals involved in the fatal shooting of 28-year-old paraplegic Jeremy McDole on Sept. 23, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) along with House Judiciary Committee Democrats, joined Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15), the Ranking Member of the CIA Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD-07), the Ranking ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney, Deborah R. Gilg, announced that on January 6, 2017, Tiffany Alice Wolfe, 33, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 10 years and three months (123 months) for her role in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a substance containing methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: A 28-year-old Seattle man was sentenced to two months in prison and three years of supervised release including six months of home confinement and 240 hours of community service for threatening former Congressman Jim McDermott, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. JASPER KILMER HILLMAN BELL made...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Szuhsiung Ho, aka Allen Ho, 66, a naturalized U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to unlawfully engage or participate in the production or development of special nuclear material outside the U.S., without the required authorization from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in violation of the Atomic Energy Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced that 43-year-old Khamdeng Sam Phanthourath, of Holland, was sentenced recently to 68 months in prison, following his conviction for possessing firearms and ammunition as a felon. He also received a $1,500 fine. A three-year term of supervised release will follow Phanthourath’s prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Two Canton men with prior homicide convictions were indicted on firearms and drug trafficking charges, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Dupree, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding was sentenced on January 4, 2017, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2017-The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the seven 2016 appointments to the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education and Economics (NAREEE) Advisory Board. The Advisory Board's 25 members are appointed for staggered three year terms with each representing a specific category of U.S. Agricultural stakeholders as outlined in the 2008 Food, Energy and Conservation Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: A Lisbon man was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for defrauding people out of more than $1 million and using the money to pay for luxury cars and expensive vacations, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John K. Cabrera, 35, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to over seven years in prison for distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney, announced that on January 4, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against a man involved in drug trafficking on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Joseph Komanekin, Jr. (age: 33) of Neopit. Count One of the indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Derek Lecompte, 26, agreed to plead guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield to three counts of sexual exploitation of a child. U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni scheduled sentencing for March 30, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following the release by Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and Rep. John Nygren of their report titled “Combating Opioid Abuse.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Shannon Lamont Jackson, 38, of Clovis, N.M., was sentenced yesterday to 77 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his heroin trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, a federal judge sentenced 25-year-old Christopher B. Evans to eight months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for pointing a laser in the flight path of a helicopter announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher B. Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Monday, January 9, at 3:00 p.m. ET, Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Reps. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) will host a bicameral press conference to discuss the Democrats’ call for an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate foreign interference in the 2016 election.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2017
News Release: Orlando - United States District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Angel Manuel Fontanez (32, Clermont) and his brother, Alexis Fontanez Nieves (29, Orlando), to 17 years and 2 months and 14 years in federal prison, respectively, for conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute heroin. Fontanez pleaded guilty on Oct. 12, 2016, and Nieves pleaded guilty on Oct. 21, 2016.
