News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Lance Crick (864) 282-2105.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jerome Grant, 36, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to 188 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today sent a letter to Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) urging him to call a hearing for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to testify on the future of the Interior Department, in light of the Trump administration’s proposed 12 percent budget cut, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man charged last month with sex trafficking a minor was indicted by a federal grand jury today on additional charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Nigel Michael Sandiford, a/k/a “Marvin H. Rogers," a/k/a “Cecil Price," age 43, of Columbia, plead guilty in federal court today to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Garald Bennett of Cass City, Michigan was sentenced on Monday, March 20, 2017, to one year and one day in custody for falsely certifying and marking cargo tanks as having passed hydrostatic pressure and wet fluorescent magnetic particle test as required by the Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Act, acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Philip Zodhiates, 61, of Waynesboro, Virginia, who was convicted by a federal jury of international parental kidnapping and conspiracy to commit international parental kidnapping, was sentenced to 36 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced a 13 count indictment charging RYAN RANDALL GILBERTSON, 41, founder of Dakota Plains, Inc., DOUGLAS VAUGHN HOSKINS, 48, and NICHOLAS HARRIS SHERMETA, 49, with wire fraud stemming from a complex stock manipulation scheme that resulted in the company...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Barry Cadden, the owner and head pharmacist of New England Compounding Center (NECC), was convicted today by a federal jury of racketeering and mail fraud in connection with the 2012 nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for producing and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi. - Kristopher Michael Brumfield, 38, of Ocean Springs, pled guilty on March 21, 2017 to one count of access with intent to view child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain and Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer, Jr. of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jesus Rodriguez, 32, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The guilty plea, which was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement, was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney, Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry of the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Bernalillo County Sheriff Manuel Gonzales, III.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Johnnie Spriggs, age 29, of Steelton, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to possess and possession with the intent to distribute heroin, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Timothy Madison, age 29, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possession of heroin with intent to distribute and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Norman W. Jefferson, age 51, of Greenville, South Carolina, and Roshaundra A. Griffin, age 46, of Anderson, South Carolina were sentenced today in federal court in Greenville, South Carolina, for Conspiracy to Possess...
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: Madison, Wis. - Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Pao Hang, 30, Menomonie, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 40 months in federal prison for selling methamphetamine. This term of imprisonment will be followed by five years of supervised release. Hang pleaded guilty to this offense on Jan. 12, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced today the unsealing of a 39-page federal indictment charging 18 defendants in Operation Dirty Bird, an extensive federal, state, and local investigation aimed at dismantling a large scale heroin trafficking network based in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H.: Elgid Guzman, 46, of Lawrence, Massachusetts was sentenced today to serve 87 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute fentanyl, announced Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2017
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service (NPS) is hiring up to five Visitor Service Assistants to help manage traffic and parking at the busiest locations in Acadia National Park this summer and fall. The NPS is piloting this program to help inform and develop the park’s Transportation Plan.
