News from March 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On March 6, 2017, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a superseding indictment against twelve defendants charged with various federal offenses, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The Drug Enforcement Administration is in charge of the investigation with the collaboration of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Puerto Rico Police Department.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: Nominee “will play a vital role in realigning the focus on patient-centered solutions.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: Virginia Woman Pleads Guilty to Filing False Tax Return and Using Customer IDs to Make Fraudulent Credit Card Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Philip Brown, 24 of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of RICO conspiracy, was sentenced to 240 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney released the following statement regarding yesterday’s fatal shooting of Houston Largo, a Police Officer with the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety, who was commissioned as a Special Federal Officer by the BIA’s Office of Justice Services.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
Release: MILWAUKEE -- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered a loaded firearm in a carry-on bag at Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport (MKE) this morning at a security screening checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. -- Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid has entered the judgment of conviction against a Peoria man, Demontae Bell, 34, for drug trafficking and gun offenses. Following a three-day bench trial last week before Judge Shadid, Bell was convicted on March 9, 2017, on two counts of distribution of cocaine, one count of possession of a firearm by a felon, and one count of possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Stephon Davis, age 20, who resided in Maine at the time of his arrest, was sentenced Thursday to five years’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, for his role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that stretched from Stroudsburg to New York to Maine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Young Hwa Jung, 57, of North Wales, PA, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for committing fraud against a government assistance program, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The defendant had been charged by criminal information with one count of conspiracy...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 120,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: Former Wells Fargo Branch Manager Convicted of Laundering Proceeds of Trademark Scam.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report concluding that 14 million Americans would lose health insurance coverage in 2018 if Republicans pass their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On March 6, 2017, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a superseding indictment against twelve defendants charged with various federal offenses, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The Drug Enforcement Administration is in charge of the investigation with the collaboration of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Puerto Rico Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two drug dealers pleaded guilty today to federal heroin crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Romeo Devon Marbury, 29, of Detroit, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin. In a separate prosecution, Miana Miller, 20, of Huntington, entered her guilty plea to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Nineteen defendants have been charged in federal court in connection with a multi-count indictment arising from their participation in a fraudulent telemarketing enterprise that often targeted elderly victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: FBI and Atlanta PD Continue Efforts to Locate Murder Suspect Dwight Lewis: Announce Reward of up to $10,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brandi Kern, 22, of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was convicted of heroin distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Carlos Piedra-Murillo (“Piedra"), 30, a native and citizen of Mexico, entered a guilty plea today to conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana in connection with a large-scale cultivation operation located in the Domeland Wilderness area in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced today that he will step down from his post on March 13, 2017. Mr. Bentley has tendered his resignation to President Donald J. Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
