News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Stanley Hagan, Jr. (33, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography over the Internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervised release. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Bridget M. Rohde, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, today announced that Telephonics Corporation, based in Farmingdale, New York, has agreed to pay $4,250,000 to the United States to settle claims that Telephonics overbilled the federal government under certain contracts to provide vehicle-mounted counter-improvised explosive device systems (Warlock Systems) to the Army and multi-mode radar systems (LAMPS Systems) to the Navy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Hammond Grand Jury returned an indictment against Thomas Goralczyk, age 51, of Merrillville, Indiana on a federal bribery charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Christopher Gilcrest (34) of Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. Federal law prohibits a person convicted of a felony from possessing firearms or ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney and Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division announced today that Larry Mendoza, a former Revenue Agent of the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department, has pleaded guilty to Hobbs Act extortion charges in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury as a result of a federal jury trial in Aberdeen, South Dakota, beginning on Nov. 13, 2017, and concluding on Nov. 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Estimated up to 50 active skimmers at gas-pumps in greater Louisville during investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - In partnership with Southern Utah University, four artists have been selected to serve as the Park’s Artists-in-Residence throughout the 2018 season. The artists were selected from a large pool of applicants, representing a broad spectrum of styles. The artists and residency dates are as follows.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Brian Tremayne Porter, age 29, of Texarkana, Texas, was sentenced Nov. 15, 2017 to 100 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Texarkana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with Washington Potato Company, which operates the Freeze Pack vegetable processing plant located in Pasco, Washington. The agreement resolves the Department’s investigation into whether Washington Potato discriminated against work-authorized immigrants when verifying their employment authorization, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLOS ANARIBA, also known as Marvin Guillen, 27, a citizen of Honduras last residing in Stamford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to one count of reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal jury in Fresno today found Adam Alan Henry, 39, of Turlock, guilty of conspiring to sexually exploit a minor and receipt or distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Erin Nealy Cox has taken the oath of office to become the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Ms. Nealy Cox was nominated by President Donald Trump on Sept. 22, 2017 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 9, 2017. She took the oath of office from U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle. She succeeds John Parker who has been serving as the United States Attorney since December 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) quickly approved the first unmanned aircraft operation of its kind to help restore cellular service in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Jay Byron Wright, age 41, of the Calhoun State Prison in Morgan, Georgia, Christine Wright, age 24, of Windsor, South Carolina, and Barbara Lynn Clayton, age 43, also of Windsor, were charged in a one-count Indictment by a Grand Jury in Columbia for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, § 1349.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Miami business owners were found guilty Wednesday following an investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Newark’s Border Enforcement Security Taskforce with assistance from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Ephifanio Castillo-Pacheco, age 44, Isidro Camacho-Castillo, age 20, and Samuel Zepeda-Gonzalez, age 60, all of Galivants Ferry, SC, pled guilty in federal court in Florence, South Carolina. Castillo-Pacheco, Camacho-Castillo...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that CANDIDO VALADARES, also known as Candide Valadares, 57, of Norwalk, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to one count of filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Tarvinn Djuan Williams, 29, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 188 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in August 2017 to one count of production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 45-year-old San Angelo, Texas, man, Michael Doerr, who pleaded guilty in August 2017 to one count of receipt of a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 121 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
