News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Maricela De La Torre Valadez, 49, of Mexico, pleaded guilty to using improperly another individual’s passport and was sentenced to time served by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Francisco Fernandez, a/k/a Joel Antonio Santana Arias, 43, of Lawrence, MA, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., today to possession with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. The cocaine was discovered inside Fernandez’s vehicle by a Rhode Island State Police trooper during a routine traffic stop in February 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALIYAH THERESA JULIATE DAVIS, also known as Theresa Juliate Sutherland, 36, of East Windsor, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for committing multiple federal offenses while awaiting incarceration after a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Houston, Texas man was arraigned today on an illegal firearm charge after being indicted by a federal grand jury in Wheeling on June 6, 2017, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal jury Monday convicted an Oklahoma man on child sex trafficking charges based on his role as a customer who used two children for commercial sex in October 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Khiry T. Aiken, 27, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of bank robbery, was sentenced to 71 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced Juan Penaloza-Ramirez (Penaloza), 46, a native and citizen of Michoacán, Mexico, residing in Taft, today to seven years and three months in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana that was grown at three separate marijuana cultivation sites in the Sequoia National Forest, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: A scent that petunias and snapdragons release to attract pollinators may be an environmentally friendly control for pests like the spotted wing drosophila fly (SWD) and the brown marmorated stink bug.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An Everett man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with selling a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: NEWARK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers separately arrested two aliens after they were released from the custody of Middlesex County. ICE previously lodged detainers on the two individuals while they were in the county’s custody, but the county failed to honor the requests.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Frank Wilson, 56, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to assisting in the preparation of false tax returns before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Spencer woman was sentenced today to six months in federal prison for defrauding the United Way, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Rhonda Kelley Conrad, 49, previously pleaded guilty to credit card fraud. She was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine and $10,684.99 in restitution to the United Way of Central West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jarad E. Hodes (619) 546-7432.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Johnnie Sharp, Jr. Named Special Agent in Charge of the Birmingham Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the former music director of a Springfield, Mo., church has been indicted by a federal grand jury for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - China’s National Narcotics Control Commission today announced scheduling controls against four new psychoactive substances/fentanyl-class substances - U-47700, MT-45, PMMA, and 4,4’ DMAR. The scheduling controls will take effect on July 1, 2017. This announcement is the culmination of ongoing collaboration between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Government of China, and reaffirms the shared commitment to countering illicit new psychoactive substances.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY -The Gros Ventre and the Moose-Wilson Roads have been affected by the recent precipitation, as well as continued snowmelt due to warmer temperatures. Park crews were able to complete minor repairs to a culvert on the Moose-Wilson Road today and the road is open. Plans continue for implementation of an alternating one-lane of traffic on the Gros Ventre Road as conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph J.M. Orabona (619) 546-7951.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 56-year-old North Texas man has pleaded guilty to committing perjury in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On June 19, 2017, Allen Carney, 30, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was sentenced to serve 240 months in prison by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice, Jr., U.S. District Judge. Following a March 2017 jury trial, Carney was convicted of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
