News from July 2017

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: Responded to Law Enforcement Undercover; Sought Sex with Fictitious 5-year-old.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman who was caught selling heroin in January of this year pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Judy Kay Smith, 58, entered her guilty plea to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the return of a 25-count indictment charging John Pierre Mack III (25, Kissimmee, former member of the Florida National Guard), Ronnie Rolland Montgomery (28, Orlando), David Augusta Jones, III (26, Orlando), Dillon McDowell...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: Cobb County Police Department, FBI Arrest Bank Robber Wanted in Florida and Ohio.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - This year, 620,962 people came to the park in June, up 28% over visits from last year.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Rosalee Vavages, 55, of Sacaton, Ariz., a member of the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 63 months in prison. Vavegas had previously pleaded guilty to child abuse, likely to produce death or serious bodily injury. Previously, co-defendant...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A multiagency law enforcement operation in Washington’s tri-cities area targeting individuals intending to sexually exploit children resulted in the arrest of 26 suspects, including five individuals with access to children at risk of being abused.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Randy Flowers, 51, of Fresno, to two years and nine months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: Steve Butler, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, announced that Sam Wesley Conaway, 49, of Citronelle, was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for possession and transportation of child pornography. Conaway entered a guilty plea to both charges in March and was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Callie V.S. Granade.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Randy Flowers, 51, of Fresno, to two years and nine months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A former resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court, on July 7, 2017, to charges of bank robbery, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: FBI, Dawson Police Department Seeking Information on Armed Bank Robber.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 39, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to provide and conceal material support or resources to terrorists and one count of solicitation to commit a crime of violence.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman who was caught selling heroin in January of this year pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Judy Kay Smith, 58, entered her guilty plea to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Connie Su Moser, a/k/a “Vivian" and “Song Ye Hong," 64, of Lewisville, Texas, appeared this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle and pleaded guilty to charges related to the operation of the Doll House massage parlor in Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A senior member of a large-scale drug trafficking organization today admitted distributing heroin in Ocean and Monmouth Counties and elsewhere in New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Court Judge William H. Steele sentenced border patrol officer Frank Peter Salamone and his wife Heather Turner Salamone on July 6, 2017. They were both to serve a term of imprisonment of time served followed by 3 years of supervised release for the conspiracy to illegally import Methylphenidate (Ritalin) into the United States in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 963.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Jose Emmanuel Morales Rittingger, 29, was sentenced this morning before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 121 months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute more than 17,000 grams of heroin, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Today, Russell Tim Shen, 69, Andre Jorge Hernandez, 39, and Ernesto Esteve, 50, all from Miami, Florida, appeared before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to their roles in a marihuana distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Arnoldo Mendoza Lepez, 44, of Littlefield, Texas appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant, Jr. this afternoon and pled guilty to his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. and U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.