News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Michael Carlton Paiva, 30, of Norton Shores, was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment by Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker for his role in a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Priscilla Ann Ellis (52, Killeen, TX) guilty of murder-for-hire, retaliating against witnesses, and conspiring to create counterfeit securities. She faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced today that Brendan Theodore Coetzee, 29, of Johannesburg, South Africa was sentenced before District Court Judge Rudy Lozano for using interstate communications to illicit sexual conduct from a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Somerset, New Jersey, man was convicted by a federal jury today of accepting cash bribes and sex in exchange for providing employment authorization documents and concealing his employment of an undocumented immigrant at a hair salon he owned, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging former Florida House of Representatives member Dwayne L. Taylor (49, Daytona Beach) with nine counts of wire fraud. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each count. The indictment also notifies Taylor that the United States is seeking a money judgment in the amount of $62,834, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. has sentenced Francisco Heleno Jaramillo (40, Colombia, South America) to 15 years in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine on vessels subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. He pleaded guilty on Dec. 19, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DON MEEKER, 30, of West Haven, was arrested today on an indictment charging him with a carjacking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On March 2, 2017, a Federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against two agents from the Puerto Rico Treasury Department, (“Hacienda") charging them with one count of extortion and one count of accepting bribes in their role as agents for the Puerto Rico Treasury Department, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The investigation was led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; James J. Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Division of the DEA, Angel M. Melendez, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Bernandino Mercado, Jr., 50, of Nampa, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AURELLE HUCKABEE, 22, of Waterbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to one count of distribution of heroin. This matter stems from an ongoing statewide initiative targeting narcotics dealers who distribute heroin, fentanyl or opioids that cause death or serious injury to users.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today the results of a three-year investigation by local, state, and federal law enforcement into the large scale trafficking of methamphetamine in central Wisconsin. To date, 19 people have pleaded...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Ricardo Davis, 28, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced yesterday to serve 110 months (9 years and two months) in prison for his possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian. Davis had previously admitted that he fired the firearm, ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - Glacier National Park and the Glacier Institute are currently accepting applications for a “Discovering Glacier through Science and Culture" teacher workshop. Teachers will spend a week with other educators passionate about Glacier National Park and a shared interest in exposing students...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: FBI Statement on Decade Since the Disappearance of Robert A. Levinson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: He Will Serve Over Nine Years in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a White Horse, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury was sentenced on March 7, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Earlier this week, as part of numerous ongoing investigations being conducted by the ATF and FBI in partnership with local law enforcement, a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah charged the following 12 Savannah-area defendants with a variety of firearms offenses and violent crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: Ordered to Pay More Than Half a Million Dollars in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Thomas Cascio, 51, of Cheektowaga, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with bank robbery. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
