News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that a Terre Haute man was sentenced for his role in producing and possessing child pornography. David Roberts, 50, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. -A federal grand jury in Portland has charged Mary Holden Ayala, 56, a longtime resident of Portland, with theft of over $800,000, money laundering and filing false personal tax returns. Ayala served as the President and Executive Director of Give Us This Day (GUTD), an Oregon state-licensed private foster care agency and residential program for hard-to-place foster youth, until its closing in September of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Police Arrest Armed Defendant on Southeast Washington Sidewalk; Defendant Previously Was Convicted of Gun, Drug Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - An Ohio woman, who conspired with an inmate at the United States Penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia (USP-Lee) to smuggle methamphetamine into USP-Lee, was sentenced yesterday, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that, a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned Indictments against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Pablo Martinez, 40, most recently of Portland, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to six months in prison and five years of supervised release for failure to register as a sex offender. He pled guilty on Jan. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of OMAR SHARIF BEASLEY, 39, for leading a multi-state heroin trafficking conspiracy. BEASLEY, who was charged along with 40 other co-defendants on May 20, 2015, pleaded guilty to Count 1 of the indictment. The defendant was sentenced today before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in United States District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury on Tuesday returned a four-count indictment alleging that two Rhode Island men sex trafficked a 17-year-old Rhode Island female at hotels in Warwick, R.I. and Queens, N.Y., and at locations in Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jerold “Rocco" Walker, 40, of Elmira, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, was sentenced to 12 years in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury in Albuquerque, N.M., returned an indictment yesterday afternoon charging Albuquerque resident Robert Arellano, 63, with 13 counts of violating the animal fighting prohibitions of the federal Animal Welfare Act, announced James D. Tierney, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Jeffrey H. Wood, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jerold “Rocco" Walker, 40, of Elmira, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, was sentenced to 12 years in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Michael Krauter, 51, Ladysmith, Wis., was sentenced on May 8 by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 20 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. This prison term is to be followed by a lifetime-period of supervised release. Krauter pleaded guilty to this charge on Jan. 18, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Fairmont, West Virginia woman was arraigned today in federal court following an indictment by a grand jury on May 2, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Gary Murl Beck, age 54, of Fallbrook, California, was sentenced today to 100 months in federal prison to run concurrent with any sentence in the state of California followed by three years...
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Bayfield, WI - The National Park Service (NPS) is pleased to announce that the temporary trail closures in place on Oak, Michigan, Stockton and Manitou Islands have been lifted.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A New Hampshire man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for trafficking in more than $350,000 in stolen retail gift cards.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Tyrone Goodrum, age 45, of Florence, has been sentenced to 46 months imprisonment for Conspiracy, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. He also was ordered to pay over $146,000 in restitution to the federal government. Goodrum...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Elijah Jones, age 30, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty yesterday to conspiring to distribute crack cocaine and heroin.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: One of the first three sea turtle nests in North Carolina was found at Cape Hatteras National Seashore on the morning of May 9, 2017. The nest is located at the north end of Avon Village and is the earliest documented Loggerhead sea turtle nest on the beaches of the Seashore since at least 2002.
