News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy announced today that Maikel Gonzalez, 20, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of heroin before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 24 year-old Houston man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction in the armed robbery of a Capital One Bank and for using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. A Houston federal jury convicted Trent Davis on Jan. 25, 2017, following two days of trial and approximately an hour of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Jeremiah Johnson was sentenced to 157 months imprisonment. Johnson’s sentencing followed entry of a February 2017 guilty plea to a charge of carjacking and use of a firearm during and in relation to a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL RICHO, 35, of Wallingford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to fraud and money laundering offenses in connection with a scheme to steal bitcoins in an online phishing scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 94 months prison for distributing and possessing images of child sexual abuse, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Anthony Erwin Jackson, Sr., 57, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas R. Rayes to 18 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Jackson had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for a two-year scheme in which he defrauded multiple victims who believed they were investing in businesses that offered a popular fitness training program, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: A man who sexually exploited a child was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL RICHO, 35, of Wallingford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to fraud and money laundering offenses in connection with a scheme to steal bitcoins in an online phishing scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Travis Ball has been sentenced to two years in prison for mailing hoax anthrax threats. Ball sent letters to the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (“LDS") threatening harm to members of each organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Ronald Lallatin, 60, of Boise, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 60 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release, and a $5,100 special assessment, for possession of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Lallatin pleaded guilty on March 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Republic, Mo., man and an Ava, Mo., woman were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to cash checks that were stolen from mailboxes.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) reiterated the need for comprehensive tax reform and highlighted his commitment to an integrative and transparent process in order to make the nation’s tax code simpler and fairer for all Americans.
By State Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Ivanka Trump at the State Department’s launch of the 2017 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Afterwards, he praised the Trump administration for its ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Garret Graves (R-LA) released the following statements regarding today’s proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rescind...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man pleaded guilty today to charges of international parental kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration today released the 2017 edition of Drugs of Abuse, A DEA Resource Guide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Jeremiah Johnson was sentenced to 157 months imprisonment. Johnson’s sentencing followed entry of a February 2017 guilty plea to a charge of carjacking and use of a firearm during and in relation to a...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement today on the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw 17 U.S. sites, including Virgin Islands National Park, from the United Nations World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) protected list.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: Terrence Deon Reames, aka Santos, 39, of Nashville, Tenn., formerly of Riverdale, Georgia, was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 24, 2017, on charges of operating a continuing criminal enterprise relating to the illegal importation and distribution of methylone and ethylone (Molly) announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
