News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Wakpala, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Southampton man was charged in U.S. District Court in Springfield today with child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and New Jersey State Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced the indictment of a doctor from Passaic County for selling prescriptions of Oxycodone to patients, including those he knew to be addicts and drug dealers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO - Pat Jarrett Helton, 43, of Amarillo, Texas, appeared in federal court yesterday and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to one count of convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Seth Shaver, 26, of Warrenton, pleaded guilty today to possession of an unregistered firearm.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the Committee will convene a hearing on Thursday, March 9 to look at Russia’s global efforts to undermine democratic states. The hearing, entitled “Undermining Democratic Institutions and Splintering NATO: Russian Disinformation Aims, " will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that LAWRENCE OBRACANIK pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams to one count of wire fraud for his theft of more than $5 million from the bank at which he worked (“Bank-1") through fraudulent wire transfers.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: Highway 140 remains only access to Yosemite Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Henry Quaysean Thomas, age 40, of Florence, pled guilty on Monday in federal court in Florence, to possession with intent to distribute marijuana and crack cocaine, a violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841(a)(1)...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced a variety of racketeering charges in an 18 count indictment against 4 members and associates of the “2500" street gang, with associations to the “Grit Gang", a street gang in Bloomington, Indiana. Named in the indictment are.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Byron Harold Peshlakai, 25, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an involuntary manslaughter charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 50-year-old Avery, Texas man has been convicted by a jury following a violent crime spree in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the need for an independent commission to investigate all Administration and campaign ties to Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Terrence D. Jackson, 31, Milwaukee, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 180 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute heroin. Jackson pled guilty to this offense on Nov. 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVON DAVIS pled guilty today to wire fraud charges in connection with a scheme to defraud prospective car buyers over the Internet. DAVIS pled before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa M. Smith in White Plains federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - One man and two women, all of South Texas, have been ordered to federal prison following their guilty pleas to charges of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Amit Chaudhry, 44, of Ashburn, was sentenced today to nine years in prison for his role and participation in a sophisticated and large-scale identity theft and credit card fraud conspiracy that resulted in a loss of over $25 million. Chaudhry was also ordered to pay $4.1 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: Defendant previously sentenced to five years in federal prison for nearly identical scam in 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK- Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Stephen G. Azzam, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced today that Dr. Richard Duane Johns, 49, of Little Rock, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone without an effective prescription. Dr. Johns was responsible for illegally distributing at least 39,000 pills, with a street value of more than $1,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Jose Hernandez Guerrero, age 38, of Pamplico, South Carolina, pled guilty on Monday in federal court in Florence, to Illegal Re-Entry into the United States, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a)(2).
