News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: FBI and Eugene Police Arrest Bank Robbery Suspect.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Today, Ryan Zinke (pronounced Zink-EE) was confirmed and sworn in as the 52nd Secretary of the Interior. The Senate voted 68-31 to confirm Zinke the morning of March 1, 2017, and he was sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence at a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building later that evening. Zinke is the first Montanan to serve as a cabinet secretary and also the first U.S. Navy SEAL in the cabinet.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina-------United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Robert Mansfield, 60, of Ladson, South Carolina, has been arrested on federal charges of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute fentanyl. Mansfield made an initial appearance in federal court this afternoon and a detention hearing and preliminary hearing have been scheduled for 11 a.m. on March 3, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Michael Gerard Camphor, age 60, of Baltimore, to 27 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release on charges arising from the fraudulent purchase of four properties in Baltimore, using fraudulent loan documentation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LYLE KAMLET, a former teacher at a school in Mamaroneck, was sentenced yesterday by the Honorable Kenneth M. Karas to 39 months in prison for possessing child pornography.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today U. S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement after the Department of Justice declined in court filings to provide an update on ongoing litigation related to the Affordable...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to bank robbery, robbery affecting interstate commerce and a related firearm charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Dewayne Jeh Reion Leonta Bowie, 21, of Gulfport, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 87 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release on each of two counts for being an unlawful user of narcotics in possession of firearms, U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. Bowie was also ordered to pay a $6,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Cuidad de Tuxpan, Veracruz, was arrested on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, by Mexican and U.S. immigration officials in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, following an Indictment by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of fraud conspiracy, mail fraud and access device fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration is prepared for the start of the Spring Break travel period, which typically begins in late February and continues into April. TSA will screen approximately 62 million travelers at airports nationwide in March alone.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Gangsta Killa Bloods Gang Members and Associates Allegedly Trafficked Over 70 Firearms from Georgia to New York and Distributed Them Throughout the Metropolitan Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Six people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a drug conspiracy that resulted in the seizure of 17 kilograms of cocaine and more than $500,000 in cash, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Katrina Tiana Brown, 33, of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 60 months in prison for her conviction on a federal narcotics trafficking charge. She will be on supervised release for four years after completing her prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida- United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Shaka Smith (27, Orlando) guilty of possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 24, 2017, and he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. Smith was indicted on Sept. 28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced today that Jodia Campbell, 35, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of transporting individuals across state lines with intent that the individuals engage in illegal sex acts, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors have charged an Anniston Army Depot employee with stealing more than $175,000 worth of transmission oil coolers from the depot between 2013 and 2015, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Yaacov Yosef Deutsch, a/k/a Jakob Deutsch, 48, of Vienna, Austria, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with unlawful reentry of a removed alien and making a false statement to a federal officer. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years and $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One Pennsylvania resident and one New York resident have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of federal narcotics trafficking violations, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced today that Ryan Freeman, 27, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of bank robbery. Freeman was also sentenced to three years of supervised release, which will begin when he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2017
News Release: A Toledo man was indicted on charges of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation of a child after taking and advertising sexually explicit photos of a minor on the Internet and facilitating dozens of commercial sex acts, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
