News from March 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report today reaffirming Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva’s (D-Ariz.) position that stronger oversight of offshore oil and gas development is critical to preventing another Deepwater Horizon-type disaster. The report states that the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is failing to meet key environmental stewardship and drilling oversight goals.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - The Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announces that Kenneth Frierson, 25, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before Chief District Court Judge Theresa Springmann following his guilty plea to count two of the indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that TERESA CHAGOLLA, age 55, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 70 months imprisonment, and 3 years of supervised release for DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1), and 841(b)(1)(C).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Rumaldo Varela Enriquez, 46, a Mexican national residing in Lovington, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 57 months in prison for his conviction on a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Enriquez will be deported after completing his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: From April 4th to 8th, 2017, Big Bend National Park plans to conduct prescribed burns along the Rio Grande. The park will be using prescribed fire to help restore the riparian areas between Talley and Gravel Pit, which includes Mariscal and San Vicente Canyons. During this time, access to Talley, La Clocha, and Gravel Pit campsites will be temporarily restricted.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - The DEA is alerting all citizens to drug overdose deaths tied to counterfeit pills laced with powerful opioid fentanyl. Manufactured by Mexican drug trafficking (DTOs) and sold as oxycodone on the illicit drug market, fentanyl is an opioid 100 times stronger than morphine. These counterfeit...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester business owner was arrested yesterday and charged in connection with using the proceeds of drug sales to purchase and renovate nine properties in Worcester County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - The Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announces that Fernando Guapo Garcia, 31, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before Chief District Court Judge Theresa Springmann following his guilty plea to count one of the indictment charging him with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced criminal charges against EVALDAS RIMASAUSKAS for orchestrating a fraudulent...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Marc T. Woodley., age 32, of Plattsburgh, New York, was sentenced today to 16 months in prison following his conviction for unlawfully possessing a shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Elise Ellis to 18 months in federal prison and 6 months’ home detention for conspiracy to commit tax fraud and aggravated identity theft. As part of her sentence, the Court also entered a joint and several money judgement in the amount of $221,000, representing the proceeds of the tax fraud conspiracy. Ellis pleaded guilty on Jan. 3, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Andrew Helsel, of Grand Rapids, was sentenced to 37 months’ incarceration and $612,431 in restitution. Helsel had previously pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud and one count of filing a false and fraudulent tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - The Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announces that Kenneth Frierson, 25, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before Chief District Court Judge Theresa Springmann following his guilty plea to count two of the indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Carla Webb Daniels, of Wheeling Island, West Virginia, was indicted today by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg for allegedly distributing heroin near two Ohio County schools, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Coby Cole Ditto, 21, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to serve a total of 168 months in federal prison for his role in committing several violent armed robberies in Dallas in 2015, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Beaver County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that GRIFFIN MICHAEL SKYLER TAYLOR, age 31, of Grand Terrace, California, was sentenced to 37 months imprisonment, and 3 years of supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - Marc Henry Johnson pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman to acting as an accessory after the fact to a narcotics offense. As alleged in the indictment to which Johnson pled guilty and the related criminal complaint, Johnson helped move an unresponsive woman’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -Belkis Soca-Fernandez, 47, and David Sosa-Baladron, 41, of Tampa, Florida, and Antonio Ramon Martinez-Lopez, 35, of Port Richey, Florida, were convicted in federal court after a seven-day jury trial of conspiracy to commit mail fraud related to a staged automobile accident ring...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Coby Cole Ditto, 21, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to serve a total of 168 months in federal prison for his role in committing several violent armed robberies in Dallas in 2015, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
