News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced John David Stahlman (35, Longwood) to 24 years and 4 months in federal prison for attempting to persuade, induce, and entice a minor to engage in sexual activity. A federal jury found him guilty on May 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man today admitted to conspiring with others to sell crack cocaine and possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug conspiracy in Camden, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
Release: MILWAUKEE - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at General Mitchell International Airport (MKE) and other Wisconsin airports has deployed nearly two dozen Transportation Security Officers (TSO) to assist at Miami International Airport (MIA) in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following remarks for the record today at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing titled, ““Powering America: Defining Reliability in a Transforming Electricity Industry:"
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Project Safe Neighborhood Prosecution. Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Senior United States District Court Judge Callie V.S. Granade sentenced Domonic Marshall to 15 months in prison on Sept. 13, 2017. Marshall pled guilty on June 14...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Joshua Mellor (619) 546-9733 and Francis A. DiGiacco (619) 546-6771.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Bob Bennett, of Seaford, was sentenced today to 66 months in federal prison for possessing a gun and distributing heroin in Seaford. Bennett pled guilty in May to possession with intent to distribute heroin, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C), and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christopher Ridder, 46, of Albion, NY, pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography, before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Felicia Jordan, 27, of Concord, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gregory R. Lee, 52, of Columbus, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court today to production of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: PUT-IN-BAY, OHIO - From a distance, the larger than life image of Oliver Hazard Perry came alive last Wednesday under the artful brush strokes of celebrated barn painter Scott Hagan. Located on SR 105 just two miles west of Oak Harbor, the iconic image of Perry is hard to miss.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing , titled, “Nutrition Programs: Perspectives for the 2018 Farm Bill."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christopher Ridder, 46, of Albion, NY, pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography, before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Sept. 14, 2017, following a three-day trial, a federal jury convicted Lonnie Dale Spotted Bear, 73, of Twin Buttes, ND, on two Counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child, one Count of Attempted Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child, and one Count of Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division; Bridget G. Brennan, New York City's Special Narcotics Prosecutor; and New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill announced three arrests and the seizure of one and a half kilograms to three kilograms of pre-packaged individual dose glassine envelopes filled with suspected heroin laced with fentanyl across the street from P.S. 115 in Manhattan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that FELIPE RODRIGUEZ, also known as “Flip," 36, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for gun and drug offenses.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement - as prepared for delivery - at the hearing entitled “Nutrition Programs: Perspectives for the 2018 Farm Bill."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, Jose Ramon Flores-Villareal, 29, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bury to 37 months of imprisonment. Flores-Villareal previously pleaded guilty to acting as a scout in a narcotics smuggling conspiracy and assault on a federal officer.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, led by Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held its final scheduled hearing with doctors, hospitals, and patients on bipartisan steps Congress can take to stabilize the individual...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Miami, Florida - Acting United States Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg has established a Disaster Fraud Task Force within the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida (SDFL) to help combat fraud schemes that develop following Hurricane Irma. The U.S. Attorney’s Office protects...
