News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Federal and City officials gathered this afternoon at the City of Albuquerque’s Cerro Colorado Landfill to witness the destruction of drug paraphernalia valued at more than $220,000. The drug paraphernalia was seized and forfeited in connection with several federal investigations into synthetic cannabinoid trafficking occurring in “smoke shops" in New Mexico and west Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - Death Valley National Park rangers and California Highway Patrol rescued a stranded visitor in the park’s remote backcountry on Monday. The 27-year-old woman was stranded overnight in winter conditions after her vehicle become stuck in snow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Erie, Pa. -A former resident of Akron, Ohio, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal drug laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GRADY W. CLARK, III, age 38, of New Orleans, was indicted today for possession of child pornography.
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - An El Paso man faces between ten years and life in federal prison after a federal jury convicted him on multiple drug trafficking charges announced El Paso’s Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge, Will R. Glaspy, and United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - David Thomas, a/k/a “David Thompson", 23, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Gerald A. McHugh to 192 months in prison for his role orchestrating and executing four bank robberies over a two-month period from May through July 2015. The Court further ordered...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after FERC Commissioner Norman Bay announced that he would resign effective Feb. 3, 2017, rather than serve out his full term through June 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Neko Andre Tisdale, age 33, of North Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. United States District Judge Richard M. Gergel of Charleston sentenced Tisdale to ten years imprisonment, to be followed by two years’ supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Defendant Repeatedly Stabbed Victim in Mid-Day Attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Michael Bermudez, a/k/a Michael J. Morales, 35, of Cranston, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to trafficking heroin laced with fentanyl and trafficking cocaine, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Cranston Police Chief Colonel Michael J. Winquist, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has named a Jamaican man in an indictment that accuses him of supplying a Jet Blue flight attendant with nearly 60 pounds of cocaine that she attempted to smuggle on to a plane at Los Angeles International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Fallon Witherspoon, 27, Chicago, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to two years of probation for participating in a counterfeit gift card fraud scheme. Witherspoon pleaded guilty to this charge on November 4, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Port Allegany, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Judge Sentences Defendant to Serve Five Years Imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two former employees of IBC Bank in Laredo have been ordered to federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and ordered to pay more than $200,000 in restitution, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Antonieta De La Cruz, 36, and Anaiza Morales, 38, both of Laredo, pleaded guilty to the charges in December 2015 and February 2016, respectfully.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Timothy Donald Fialdini, 51, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty on Thursday to failure to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that John McNeill, 57, of Kenmore, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, was sentenced to 57 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Antonio Ballard Sentenced to 210 Months in Federal Prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS: The Mississippi Lignite Mining Company (MLMC), which manages Red Hills Mine, recently donated $50,000 to the Parkway to rehabilitate trails in the area. The Red Hills Mine operates east of the Natchez Trace Parkway (Parkway) near the Little Mountain overlook at the Jeff Busby campground.
