News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Windsor, Conn. woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mass. in connection with her theft of over $250,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the ATF continue to combat gun trafficking in Atlanta, including eight federal cases involving 32 defendants prosecuted in the past four months. In particular, ATF reported a dramatic increase in thefts of firearms from federally licensed firearms dealers in Georgia, facilitating the trafficking of these illegally obtained guns to criminals within and outside the state.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Republican and Democratic members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce today introduced the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 1809). Sponsored by Rep. Jason Lewis (R-MN) and Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), the bipartisan legislation reauthorizes and reforms the Juvenile Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Today, an Ohio native living in Port St. Lucie, Florida pled guilty to using the internet to target and extort children through sexual exploitation (“sextortion") and pornographic offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - The Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announced a variety of drug and firearms charges in a 12 count Indictment. Named in the indictment are: Keith Miller, of Albion, Indiana; Brock Shellman, of Albion, Indiana and; Derek Jordan, of Wolcottville, Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas, Texas, man, Dequindrick Alexander, 22, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 184 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and General Aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign aims to educate GA pilots on the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Defendant known in fishing industry as “the Codfather".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Thomas J. Yazzie, Jr., 52, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Farmington, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an involuntary manslaughter charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: “The Streets Don’t Love Anybody," Defendant Realizes Too Late in Apology Letter; U.S. Attorney Recommends “Letter Should be Required Reading".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Marlin Webb Conspired to Defraud the FDA.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: MAR 30 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Phillip Stewart, 46, a citizen of Jamaica residing in Queens, N.Y., pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to one count of conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with intent to distribute, MDA and MDMA.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: This afternoon, 68-year-old former Eagle Pass City Manager Hector Chavez, Sr., admitted to lying to FBI agents during their investigation into a “pay-to-play" scheme involving Maverick County contracts, announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: This month, three defendants pled guilty in the Southern District of Florida in connection with their participation in a $4.4 million dollar federal prison sentencing scheme. The fraudulent scheme targeted federal inmates and their families in Miami-Dade County and elsewhere by promising them assistance...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: In El Paso, 41-year-old Joe Vito Venzor faces up to ten years in federal prison after admitting today to illegally accessing his former employer’s computer system and shutting it down announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Rodney Levon Davis, age 47, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, today to 121 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for robbery, and for using, brandishing, and discharging a firearm during the robbery of a fast food restaurant in Prince George’s County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge today sentenced a Park Forest man to 57 years in prison for leading a crew of armed robbers that targeted cell phone stores in the Chicago suburbs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Nikkos Hamlett (29, Brandon) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pay kickbacks in connection with a federal health care benefit program. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Workers removed more than 53,000 cubic meters of transuranic waste stored in an Idaho Site enclosure, creating space to safely treat other waste.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dedham man was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston for armed bank robbery.
