News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Court Chief Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Jay Kimberly Ponder on June 2, 2017 to serve a term of imprisonment of 120 months followed by 5 years of supervised release for the conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NICHOLAS MURPHY, 27, of Exeter, R.I., pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of traveling to engage in illegal sexual activity with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - James Kenny Crawley, 60, of Amarillo, Texas, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 97 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in February 2017 to one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, John Stuart Bruce, announced that today, Senior District Court Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced JONES TYLER MARTIN, of Hampton, South Carolina, and HAILEY TYKOSKI, of Wayne, Michigan, for their convictions in a fraudulent scheme...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: Watrous, NM: In 1863, as the Civil War raged on with campaigns and battles in the East, the U.S. Army in the Southwest would shift its attention away from the Confederate threat back to the Indian Wars. Nearly 154 years ago, Fort Union led the campaign of forced removal against the Mescalero Apache of...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, all 18 Democratic Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform ramped up their fight against the Trump Administration’s new policy of refusing to comply with any Democratic oversight requests by invoking the statutory “Seven Member Rule" in a letter to the...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement after joining President Donald J. Trump and Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao for the president’s announcement on principles for air traffic control and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reform.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Horace Garfield Tajah, 35, of Kingston, Jamaica, who was convicted of reentering the United States after a conviction for an aggravated felony, was sentenced to time served (four years) by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: FBI and San Diego Police Department Seek Assistance to Identify Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIELLE FAUX, 49, of Weston, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to two years of probation, the first six months of which FAUX must spend in home confinement, for obstruction and tax fraud offenses. Judge Underhill also ordered FAUX to perform 100 hours of community service and pay a $3,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Olathe man pleaded guilty Monday to stealing more than $8 million from a Turkish investor, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Gonzalez-Colon, 21, of Erie, Pennsylvania, who was convicted of carjacking and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, was sentenced to 144 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Carlos Piedra-Murillo (Piedra), 30, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to two years and one month in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana in connection with a large-scale cultivation operation that impacted a prehistoric...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 53-year-old Houston-area contractor has been sentenced in absentia for his role in a $16 million loan fraud scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A North Texas heroin trafficker arrested in July 2015 was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to more than 20 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Two men were arrested for allegedly trafficking nearly seven kilos of cocaine that were sent from the Dominican Republic to Boston on a commercial airline.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A California woman was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Miranda M. Du to 15 months in prison for making counterfeit $100 bills, then spending the counterfeit money at businesses in Northern Nevada, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Clayton Police Department (CPD) are seeking the public’s assistance in the recovery of five 5.56/.223 caliber rifles stolen on Nov. 23, 2016, during a burglary at Trigger Happy Guns, located at 227 E. Main Street in Clayton, N.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Leonard Nathaniel Peragine, Jr., has been sentenced to over 28 years in federal prison for using the Internet to entice a child for sexual activity, and for distributing and possessing child pornography as part of that enticement.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announced that up to $9 million in funding will be made available through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) to increase the nation’s energy independence by supporting the development of bioenergy feedstocks, biofuels, and biobased products.
