News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Two Abilene, Texas, men, who each pleaded guilty in February 2017 to one count of sexual exploitation of a child, were sentenced today to hefty federal prison sentences, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Fernando Cortez Cueves, 40, a Mexican national who was previously deported from the United States in 2007, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to illegal reentry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: FBI Investigates Agent-Involved Shooting in Albuquerque, Searches for Vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Defendant previously deported three times. BOSTON - A Honduran national pleaded guilty on Friday, June 16, 2017, in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after being deported. Elpi Diaz-Ramos, 27, pleaded guilty to illegal reentry of a deported alien before U.S. District...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Washington - The National Park Service will once again host the annual celebration of Independence Day on the National Mall, the nation’s most important civic space and home to more than a dozen memorials that commemorate great Americans and significant events in our nation’s history. Events on the National...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Pedro Jimenez-Rodriguez, 41, of Newport, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to possession with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more cocaine. According to a plea agreement filed in this matter, the government will recommend a term of imprisonment of 72 months when Jimenez-Rodriguez is sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., on Aug. 31, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - Bureau of Reclamation Upper Colorado Regional Director Brent Rhees and Reclamation Lower Colorado Regional Director Terrance J. Fulp have signed a Record of Decision (ROD) for the TransWest Express Transmission Project, approving the issuance of rights-of-use (ROU) for the Project on Reclamation lands in Utah and Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A former correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Institution at Aliceville pleaded guilty today to accepting $5,695 in bribes to smuggle contraband into the prison and lying about it to investigators, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton, and Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Robert A. Bourbon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: MONROE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Farmerville man pleaded guilty last week to possessing a sawed-off shotgun in his car.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: FBI’s North Shore Gang Task Force Seeks Young Bloods Fugitive.
By State Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Pedro Jimenez-Rodriguez, 41, of Newport, pled guilty in federal court in Providence today to possession with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more cocaine. According to a plea agreement filed in this matter, the government will recommend a term of imprisonment of 72 months when Jimenez-Rodriguez is sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., on Aug. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Zane Wetzel, 31, of Easton, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 1½ years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for possessing child pornography. Wetzel pleaded guilty on Dec. 28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kenneth Webb, 50, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an aggravated identity theft charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Lake City residents Latoshia Nicole Shade (41), James Terrence White (36), and Willie Lee Simmons, Jr. (31) have pleaded guilty to federal narcotics and firearms charges. Shade pleaded guilty to possessing ammunition...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - An 18-year-old male died while swimming at Lake Mead National Recreation Area June 17.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wheeling man was arraigned today on a charge of failing to update his sex offender registration after being indicted by a federal grand jury in Wheeling on June 6, 2017, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that a federal jury has convicted LIONEL ALLEN, age 24, JAWAN FORTIA, age 24, DEDRICK KEELEN, age 23, DELWIN McLAREN, age 24 and BRYAN SCOTT, age 23, all of New Orleans, following an eight-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Philippe Maurice, 50, a citizen of France, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to being an alien who was found in the United States after having been removed and deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Sean C. Hammond, 29, of Monroe, N.C. was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. to 72 months in prison on child pornography charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Hammond was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
