News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Arrest and Indictment Follow Defendant's Identification as Suspect Through DNA.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., entered a guilty plea in federal court in Johnstown to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: On March 11, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is offering a guided hike, featuring the “Characters of the Past" commemorating the colorful history of the Dripping Springs Natural Area. The hike will begin at 4:00 p.m. from the Dripping Springs Visitor Center and proceed for a mile and a half on Dripping Springs Trail.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that William David Hardin, Jr., 48, was sentenced today to twenty-four months of imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Judge Callie V. S. Granade for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The judge ordered that...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 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 8, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael Telford, age 47, of Cambridge, New York, was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: President and Mrs. Eisenhower chose wool carpeting in a gold color for much of their home. Interestingly, it was not installed wall-to-wall. Instead, the hardwood flooring was left exposed along the perimeter as if the carpet was an area rug. The gold color coordinated with the cream-colored wall paint in the living room, entrance hall, main stairs, second floor hallways, and back stairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident pled guilty, on Feb. 28, 2017, to committing six armed commercial robberies throughout Pinecrest, South Miami, and Coral Gables.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging eleven alleged members of a drug trafficking organization (DTO), with conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine. The indictment was returned on March 7, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry of the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), announced the arraignment this morning of four defendants in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., on methamphetamine and firearms charges arising from an investigation by the ATF that culminated on Feb. 9, 2017, with the seizure of 32-pounds of methamphetamine on Feb. 9, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry of the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), announced the arraignment this morning of four defendants in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., on methamphetamine and firearms charges arising from an investigation by the ATF that culminated on Feb. 9, 2017, with the seizure of 32-pounds of methamphetamine on Feb. 9, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David E. Rhoades, 36, of Goodlettsville, Tennessee, who was convicted of possession of a firearm as an unlawful user of a controlled substance, was sentenced to 15 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Debra Arno, 58, formerly of Amherst, NY, who was convicted of solicitation of interstate murder for hire, was sentenced to time served (21 months) by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Five new defendants have been charged in a superseding indictment unsealed today in federal court alleging a conspiracy to fence property stolen in other states, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief James C. Rovella, today announced the unsealing of a 31-count indictment charging 16 individuals with federal narcotics offenses related to the distribution of heroin and crack cocaine in Hartford. The indictment also charges four of the defendants with firearm and robbery offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont, a senior Democrat on the Oversight Committee and the Committee on Energy and Commerce, met with President Donald J. Trump and presented him with...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging ANGEL BRITO-ALVAREZ, age 32, of Mexico, ELEAZAR GUTIERREZ-TORRES, age 28, of Mexico, OSCAR GEOVANI OLIVERA-HERNANDEZ, age 23, of Honduras, and GILBERTO ORDUNO-BUSTAMANTE, age 38, of Mexico, with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON, Texas - A Conroe, Texas couple has pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud conspiracy in the Southern District of Texas, announced Eastern District of Texas Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury has handed down convictions against two Houston-area defendants on multiple counts to include conspiracy, bank fraud, false statements on credit applications, wire fraud and mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury deliberated for approximately seven hours before convicting Carlos Wydler, 45, and Leyla Wydler, 57, both of Houston,late yesterday in a trial that spanned four weeks.
