News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Standing Rock, South Dakota, woman convicted of Second Degree Murder was sentenced on Nov. 20, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: For Hobbs Act Robberies. SOUTH BEND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Nathan Kellogg, age 34, of Rolling Prairie, Indiana, was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for several robberies in St. Joseph and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Eighteen defendants have been charged by federal and state authorities in connection with a scheme to traffic in stolen credit card account numbers and to manufacture counterfeit credit cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Judge William H. Steele sentenced Pedro Quintero-Enriques, a.k.a. Miguel Angel Quintero, 37, from Michoacán, Mexico, to 108 months imprisonment for illegal reentry into the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: A man who sent threatening “tweets" on the Internet to United States Senator Joni K. Ernst was convicted by a jury today, after a one-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is seeking details from the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the United States Postal Service (USPS) about their efforts to stop illegal drugs from...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Fairbanks, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a Wiseman, Alaska, man was sentenced in federal court for threatening to assault federal officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Newark, N.J. - The former chief financial officer of a New Jersey orthopedic care provider today admitted stealing over $1 million from the company for his personal use, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - John R. Lausch, Jr., who served as a federal prosecutor in Chicago for more than a decade before entering private law practice, returned to government service today as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Larry June, 58, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 97 months in prison for his conviction on a voluntary manslaughter charge. June will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke has charged a former engineering professor at Virginia Tech in an indictment returned yesterday, United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: A Munroe Falls man was indicted in federal court after receiving shipments of a fentanyl analogue from China, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Guatemalan man, wanted by law enforcement authorities in his home country for killing a store owner, was removed Thursday by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Dr. Paul Biddle, 53, of Amherst, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with obtaining controlled substances through fraud and identity theft. The drug charges carry a maximum possible term of four years in prison, while the identity theft charges carry a maximum possible term of five years in prison.
By State Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement regarding the administration’s declaration that Burma’s military actions against the Rohingya are ethnic cleansing...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: An Akron man was indicted for possession of a sawed-off shotgun, transportation of explosive materials, and possession of a destructive device, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jose Garcia-Flores, a/k/a Moises Agular-Munoz, age 42, formerly a resident of Waldorf, Maryland, and a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty yesterday to transporting three Mexican citizens who had illegally crossed into the United States from Canada.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: EMINENCE, MO: Superintendent Larry Johnson announces that Alley Spring Campground will be temporarily closed due to a lack of water service. The temporary closure will be effective immediately so that the shower house and adjoining restrooms can be winterized against freezing temperatures.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that on Nov. 21, 2017, Michelle R. Schwab, 45, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 10 years (120 months) in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Following the prison term, Schwab will serve five years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that John Walker, Jr., 25, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of distribution of fentanyl and unlawful possession of a firearm by a person subject to an order of protection, was sentenced to 33 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
