News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that BRANDON RAY PARKER, age 41, of McAlester, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 78 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for POSSESSION OF CERTAIN MATERIAL INVOLVING THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2252(a)(4)(B) and 2252(b)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston felon pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Damian Means, 28, entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Detroit, Mich., men have pleaded guilty in federal court to robbing a Springfield, Mo., jewelry store.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault With a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 41-year-old Houston man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dexton Brunson, age 44, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, requested information from PTC Therapeutics, Inc. about the price they intend to charge for the brand name version of deflazacourt, a drug used to treat a deadly genetic muscle deterioration disorder. PTC recently purchased the medication from Marathon Pharmaceuticals.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler today announced the sentencing of an Indianapolis man for being an armed career criminal, having illegally possessed a firearm. John Foster, 48, Indianapolis, was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker in federal court.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs held an oversight hearing on the status of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) Restructuring Support Agreement (RSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that John Vercusky, age 39, a federal inmate, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani in Scranton, on March 21, 2017, to serve three months in prison for possessing contraband at the United States Penitentiary located in Schuylkill, Pennsylvania (“USP Schuylkill").
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Ruiz Leyva, 36, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to assaulting federal and local law enforcement officers. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Leyva will be sentenced to 82 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PETER SENESE, the Founding Director of the I CARE Foundation (“I CARE"), a purported non-profit organization allegedly dedicated to preventing child abduction and trafficking, was sentenced in Manhattan...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a former administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration to one year and a day in prison for crimes including engaging in a sex act with a Social Security beneficiary whose case he presided over, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, SSA-Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Margaret Jackson and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The former President of Telexfree, Inc., a global pyramid scheme disguised as an internet telecom company, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: He Sold a Forty Caliber Pistol and Ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A woman from Peru who came to the United States in 2005 on a visitor’s visa and stayed has been charged in federal court here with identity theft and document fraud, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that a federal jury this afternoon returned a verdict convicting Gregory Ramos, a/k/a Prospect, 25, of Buffalo, NY, of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Cipriano Anaya, 35, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 108 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges.
