News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Jose Emmanuel Morales Rittingger, 29, appeared today before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin. The plea was announced by Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Dallas Division and U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: MEDIA ADVISORY. Title: “NFL Players Speak Up: First-Hand Experiences and Building Trust Between Communities and Police". What: Congressional forum to hear from NFL players about their own experiences and how they hope to improve relationships with minority communities and the police while supporting...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-MI) released the following statements after President Trump signed H. J. Res 37 into law. The resolution blocks the Obama administration’s flawed and unnecessary “blacklisting" rule under the Congressional Review Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced ISMIL GRAY JEFFERS, 23, of Henderson, NC to 140 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Jose Emmanuel Morales Rittingger, 29, appeared today before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lisa Benally, 37, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from Fort Defiance, Ariz., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to federal firearms and burglary charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: A federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida, today sentenced the owner and operator of a Florida-based telecommunications company to 75 months in prison and his co-conspirator, a resident of Bronx, New York to 36 months in prison in connection with a sophisticated global cellphone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts and “cloning" their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: Donald Hicklin, Mario Clinton and Justin Lee McCarver.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: Knoxville Man Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking Conspiracy and Related Drug Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman who was caught with heroin in 2016 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Ashley Dawn Smith, 24, entered her guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former Southbridge Middle School teacher was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with attempting to purchase live video sex shows involving Filipino children and to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: A Bellevue man who defrauded a small bank, Apple Inc., and various shippers of more than $3 million was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to five years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. MAZIAR REZAKHANI, 27, lived a lavish lifestyle in a Bellevue penthouse with luxury...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced ALHAJI BOYE, 46, of Raleigh to 9 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man who was part of a group selling heroin in Huntington in 2015 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Corey Lebron Blevins, 24, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Cresson, Pa. pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to a charge of conspiring to commit money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew J. Galvin (619) 546-9721.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), has scheduled a markup for 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 29, 2017, in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Edward Padilla, 56, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to embezzlement of union funds, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: Jefferson Area Victim Assistance Coalition to Host Community Day at Sprint Pavilion.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Francisco Javier Gutierrez-Alvarez, 33, Octavio Cabrera-Mayorquin, 28, and Guillermo Urenda-Bustos, 31 were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater following their guilty pleas in December 2016 to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
