News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ANGEL GUZMAN-RODRIGUEZ, age 28, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a five-week trial, a federal jury found Larry Bates; his two sons, Chuck and Robert Bates; and Kinsey Bates, the wife of Robert Bates, guilty on all counts set forth in an indictment that charged mail and wire fraud and conspiracy. The charges rose out of the defendants running a...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - Jamie Thomas, 29, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Federal Officials Close Investigation Into Death of Alton Sterling.
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - A Honduran man unlawfully present in the United States, who is wanted for the murder of two men in his home country, was removed from the United States Monday by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging GRACIANO BERMUDEZ-OCHOA, age 39, of Mexico, JUAN CARLOS CUANAS-PEDRO, age 30, of Mexico, ANTONIO LAMAS-RIOS, age 42, of Mexico...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Delaware Man Sentenced to 156 Months in Prison for Distribution of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter of the Western District of Louisiana yesterday issued prison sentences for three former officials of the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office (IPSO), including a former Lieutenant Colonel, for abuses of inmates, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III, announces that William Hampton Tedrick, age 34, from Madison County, Georgia, was sentenced on May 2, 2017 to serve 101 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The sentence was handed down by United States District Court Judge C. Ashley Royal in Athens, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Yesterday a federal jury convicted Cornell Pendleton, age 51, of the Gentilly neighborhood in New Orleans for his role in laundering money on behalf of heroin dealers in the New Orleans area, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge Stephen G. Azzam and Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that THERESA JO DAVIS, age 62, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 5 years probation for MONEY LAUNDERING CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(h).
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Stole $43,100 and threatened to kill bank employees, customers and an alleged child hostage.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for wire fraud and perjury in connection with a scheme to defraud DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. by falsely claiming that the company stole from him the characters and story for its animated movie Kung Fu Panda.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that FRANCIS RAMIREZ-VASQUEZ, age 31, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By US DOT Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Statement of. the Honorable Peter A. DeFazio. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing on. “Oversight of U.S. Airline Customer Service". May 2, 2017. Following the recent, highly publicized incident on United Airlines, I, together with several of my colleagues, requested a hearing on U.S.
By Commerce Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: May 3, 2017 - Data in this report are from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2006 to 2015 Annual Capital Expenditures Survey, which collects information on expenditures for new and used structures and equipment by all U.S. nonfarm businesses. In addition, it examines investment shares over time. The Capital Spending...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KIDUS WODAJO, age 24, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- The first phase (Phase A) of a $5 million repair project to the Crissy Field Promenade is nearing completion. Construction crews will begin to lay the new and improved trail surface on the eastern end of the promenade (Phase A) later this week and expect to reopen this popular trail section adjacent to East Beach by late May.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: A Guatemalan man was indicted for illegally reentering the United States, Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2017
News Release: Alleged criminal activity took place during a one year period while David Greenwell served as Bullitt County Sheriff.
