News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Jan. 26, 2017, five defendants pleaded guilty before District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez to drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Dellana Magner, 23, and Kinia Blyden, 23, both of St. Thomas, pleaded guilty to possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney, Deborah R. Gilg, announced that on Jan. 26, 2017, Cole James Adams, 34, of Lincoln, was sentenced to a total of 18 years (216 months) in prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a substance containing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Five years of probation and fines make up sentence for PG&E’s violations of the National Gas Pipeline Safety Act and for Obstructing Agency Proceeding.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Emanuel L. Lutchman, 26, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), was sentenced to 20 years in prison and 50 years supervised released by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston announced today that three Beaumont men have been convicted by a jury following a three-day trial and lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - Terry Johnson, 43, of Hamilton Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 24 months in prison for health care fraud and money laundering in a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Sometimes old-school methods provide the best ways of studying cutting-edge tech and its effects on the modern world.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Three defendants were sentenced Tuesday for taking part in a real estate fraud scheme in which developers borrowed to build townhomes at Table Rock Lake, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lawson, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with illegally possessing a pipe bomb.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, following criticism from U.S. Senator Patty Murray, top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, the Trump Administration cited a “misunderstanding" and released a weekly public list of active investigations into potentially mishandled cases of sexual assault on college campuses, as the Department of Education has done for the last two years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, 44-year-old Sergio Heredia (aka “Keko," “Sobrino") of Piedras Negras, Mexico, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for trafficking hundreds of kilograms of cocaine announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph Arabit, Houston Division and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Mariyah Chernykh today pleaded guilty to federal immigration fraud charges and admitted entering into a sham marriage with Enrique Marquez Jr., who is facing charges of conspiring with the male shooter in the Dec. 2, 2015 attack in San Bernardino.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Pedro Hernandez-Perez, 48, of Guatemala, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Jan. 25, 2017, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Hernandez-Perez was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Jan. 25, 2017, Michael Antwain Modisett, 34, aka “MOE", from Minneapolis, Minnesota, was sentenced before US District Judge John R. Tunheim to serve a life sentence for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute and Distribution of Heroin. Modisett was found guilty following a five-day trial on Jan. 8, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today announced appointments of members to its citizen-based Southwest Resource Advisory Council, which advises the agency on public land management issues in Colorado. The Southwest RAC is composed of members with diverse interests and backgrounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Yesterday, a West Palm Beach jury convicted Brian Charles Tolley, 41, of Bedford, Virginia, of wire fraud, identity theft, aggravated identity theft, possession of counterfeit government seals with the intent to defraud, money laundering, making and subscribing false federal income tax returns, and failing to file federal income tax returns.
By State Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Six of the nineteen defendants charged in a gang-related racketeering and murder investigation, were sentenced this week in U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - On Jan. 10, 2017, the National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Regional Director signed the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Cape Lookout National Seashore’s Final Off-Road Vehicle Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (Final Plan). The Final Rule will be implemented following the plan's publication in the Federal Register.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Pedro Hernandez-Perez, 48, of Guatemala, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Jan. 25, 2017, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Hernandez-Perez was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was...
