News from March 2017
By State Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today lamented the humanitarian crisis in Syria and urged the U.S. to pursue accountability for war crimes as the conflict enters its seventh year. Leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that three individuals were recently sentenced after convictions for drug trafficking on the Mole Lake Indian Reservation in Forest County. The sentences were the result of guilty pleas by all three individuals in December 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: BLAST (Building Lasting Relationships Between Police and Community) Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Brandon Bob Lincoln, 30, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Breadsprings, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 37 months in prison for his involuntary manslaughter conviction. Lincoln will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 45-year-old woman has been indicted on multiple charges in a scheme to steal money from a local program funded with federal money designed to improve air quality in our area, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 43-year-old former Navasota resident has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of production and possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. John Allen Chumley pleaded guilty Sept. 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Richard Star Haggarty, 37, of Albright, West Virginia, was convicted in federal court today for unlawful possession of a firearm and methamphetamine distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Marco Antonio Ramirez Zuno, 32, of Cancun, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in relation to a timeshare resale fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On March 21, 2017, Dennis A. Bjorklund, age 52, from Coralville, Iowa, pled guilty to 11 counts of mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Each count carries a maximum potential penalty of not more than 20 years’ imprisonment, up to a $250,000 fine, a term of...
By State Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement after meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi...
By State Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: 1. On Oct. 20, 2015, a United States delegation and a Sint Maarten delegation representing the Kingdom of the Netherlands met and, through subsequent communications, reached agreement, ad referendum, on the text of an Air Transport Agreement between the United States of America and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in respect of Sint Maarten, Relating to Air Transport between Sint Maarten and the United States of America (the “Agreement") (Attached).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that GARY WAYNE WILDER, age 36, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment, and 4 years of supervised release for DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1), and 841(b)(1)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kirby Cleveland made his initial appearance in federal court this morning on a criminal complaint charging him with murder, announced Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, and Director Jesse Delmar of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety. Cleveland remains in custody pending a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing, both of which are scheduled for March 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Defendant is One of 34 Individuals Charged as Part of Investigation into Methamphetamine Trafficking on the Mescalero Apache Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, Angel M. Melendez, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration Customs (ICE) Homeland Security (HSI) New York, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: St. Croix, USVI B Ajani Plante, 26, pleaded guilty today in federal court on St. Croix to one count of interference with commerce by robbery and using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The executive director of the National Crime Victim Law Institute in Portland, Ore., will be the keynote speaker at a National Crime Victims’ Rights Week recognition ceremony on April 6 presented by One Place Metro Alabama Family Justice Center and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: FBI Violent Crimes Task Force/Atlanta PD Apprehend Home Invasion Suspect Demonte Savalas Mitchell.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM COSME, a/k/a “William Cosmo," was found guilty today in Manhattan federal court in connection with a scheme to defraud a Christian missionary school in South Korea of $5.5 million dollars. The jury convicted COSME on both counts with which he was charged following a one-week trial before U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska.
