News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced today that James Edgerson, 39, of Dumas, was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for his role in a large-scale drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Federal and state authorities today arrested 37-year-old Selica Lacole Dawson (aka “Selica Granderson"), her husband, 44-year-old Roosevelt Granderson, II, and her mother, 52-year-old Brenda Dawson of Waxahachie, TX, on federal charges in connection with a scheme to collect over $258,000 federal benefits...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Justin Griffin, 28, of Cheektowaga, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine, was sentenced to 24 months Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that THOMPSON CHRISTOPHER KYLE MANDRELL, age 30, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, pled guilty to POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MATERIAL INVOLVING THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252(a)(4)(B) and 2252(b)(2), punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of attempt to obtain contraband in prison, and immediately was sentenced to 17 months in prison, consecutive to the current prison term he is serving, followed by three years’ supervised release, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Michael Ray Alford, 50, of Youngstown, Florida, was convicted yesterday afternoon in the U.S. District Court in Panama City of receipt and possession of child pornography after a two-day trial. Alford had been previously convicted in the Northern District of Florida of a child pornography offense in 2002. The verdict was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Rene Anthony Laureano, 31, of Roxbury, MA, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence today to 24 months in federal prison for trafficking a Massachusetts female to Rhode Island for the purpose of prostitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, all Democratic Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter to White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus requesting documents about the decision by White House officials to disregard longstanding security clearance protocols by allowing Senior...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Clark County grand jury indicted two individuals Wednesday on multiple felony state charges for their role in operating an immigration fraud scam out of Las Vegas, following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Nevada Attorney General’s Fraud Unit.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Richmond Joseph McDonald (40, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct. He faces a minimum mandatory term of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison; the sentencing hearing is scheduled for Sept. 28, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Kenneth A. Blanco, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, announced that MALCOLM HARRIS pled guilty to wire fraud and money laundering charges arising from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that THOMPSON CHRISTOPHER KYLE MANDRELL, age 30, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, pled guilty to POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MATERIAL INVOLVING THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252(a)(4)(B) and 2252(b)(2), punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Kevin Williams (a.k.a. “Capone"and “Cap"), 44, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford for Williams’ distribution of heroin in the Rutland area in October 2015. Williams previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Eleven defendants have been charged with laundering drug money to Mexico through metro-Atlanta area money remitters during a three-year long federal investigation focused on money laundering by money remittance businesses.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is calling on the State Department to take additional steps to cut down on waste after a recent report showed that the State Department routinely paid a contractor to oversee foreign assistance programs in Iraq without properly verifying the contractor’s claimed costs and expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILSON VASQUEZ, also known as “Will" and “Pancho," 44, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 151 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for heading a large heroin distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Clarksburg, West Virginia, man was convicted today of unlawful possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: A 49-year old man from Quebec, Canada, was arrested this morning on charges of committing an act of violence at an airport, announced Acting United States Attorney Daniel Lemisch. Lemisch was joined in the announcement by David P. Gelios, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Ways and Means Ranking Member Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., led 16 members of Congress calling on the executive branch not to use a secretive process for national security investigations into steel and aluminum imports.
